VOL. 58, NO. 26, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, APRIL2, 1987 10 PAGES AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Candidates share stances in SGA executive race
Clark vows to irnprove
lines of cornmur1ication
By TIM SANFORD
Cardinal News Editor
Opening the lines of communi­calion
and seeking off-campus
services for stude nts are two of
Greg Clark's pr·imary goals in his
quest for the Student Government
Association presidency.
Clark, currently SGA's director
o f stude nt/faculty re la tions, 5aid
he pla ns to establish monthly
"Walk the Campus Days" whe re
student government representa­tives
will make themselves avail­able
to hear the complaints and
comments of students.
He a lso intends to hold monthly
forums in the dormitories be­twePn
SGA officers and residents,
monthly open sessions at various
fraternities and sororities and a
monthly stude nt government
Open House.
"W~ want to touch people as
many times as we can," Clark
said. ".\t least four times a month
there will be some way for stu­dents
to get in contact with us or
for us to get in contact with t hem. I
can see the natural progression of
the type of ideas we' re going to
gel as the months go by."
Clark plans to continue the cur­rent
SGA administra tion's initia­tive
to go off campus for student
services-such as 25-cent TARC
discounts and the half-price stu­dent
ticket program with the Ken­tucky
Center for the Arts- by pro­viding
businesses with a student
workforce during Christmas and
summer breaks.
"These jobs are there every
year and they go to somebody," he
said. "If U of L student::; are qua l­ified
for them why shouldn't they
go to U of L students? If we start
early enough during the summer
and go talk to the Chamber of
Commer•ce and te ll them what
we're doing there would be an in­centive
to hi1·e the student since
the worlk force was shown to
them."
He said he would a lso like
to expand the current discount
program with the Kentucky Cen­ter
for the Arts to a cultura l pack­age
which would a llow stude nts to
a ttend one Louisville Ba llet per­formance,
one Kentucky Opera
performa nce and one Bach Soci­e
ty performance in an academic
year.
Cla rk a lso inte nds to seek out
pote ntial fi.nanciers and continue
research toward a student credit
union and trust fund .By imple­menting
these programs now he
believes studen t government can
even tually become self-sufficient,
while at the same time asst,;ting
needy stude nts with financial a id
by offering low-interest loans.
After assuming office, Clark
a lso plans to revamp the SGA of­fice
by including Work Study stu­dents
in the chain of command to
insure tha t someone in Student
Goverment is a lways avai !able to
a nswer questions.
Under his direction Clark said
SGA would continue to work for
the publication of the current fac­u
lty course evalua tions and also
Unlucky "13" bags
U of L studeJnt car
By TAMMY FREDETTE
Cardinal Correspondent
The number " 13" has tradition­a
lly been considered unlucky.
However, Belinda Conn, a 23-
year-o ld University of Louisville
communication major, proved
tradition wrong.
Conn's name was the thir teenth
n ame drawn for the grand prize of
a 1987 0 ldsmobile Derby Cala is,
during a drawing held by P epsico
a t J e fferson Ma ll. The new car
Conn won a lso happened to be
valued at $13,000.
[t a ll began S11nday, March 15,
when Conn and a friend decide d
to go shopping instead of going to
the zoo. "We had plans to go to the
zoo, but we decided to go shop­ping
instead because it was rain­ing,"
Conn said.
While walking fmm store to
s tore Conn said she stopped and
filled out o11e entry blank at the
Pepsi Cola Trading Booth. "We
le ft right after that and I really
didn't think any thing e lse about
it," she said.
After arriving home from
babys itting Ma rch 23, her mothe r
told her tha t Pepsico offtcials had
called. "I told my Mom tha t they
had a car for a grand prize in a
drawing I e nte re d, but that I had
probably won a frisbee." Conn
said. "But I called anyway."
Conn ealled and was told that
she had won a ca1·. "I was so ex­c
ited I fe ll off the bed and discon­nected
the phone," Conn said . "I
called right back and they gave
me a ll the information about the
car."
According to Conn, he r family
"went nuts" when they found
out. "My mom made phone calls to
a ll our re latives and my brother
brought h ome a bottle of cham­pagne,"
Conn said.
The morning after winning the
car, Conn said s he fe lt like she was
in a dream . "I woke up and went
downstairs," Conn said. "I said to
my mom a nd da d , 'I had a dream I
won a car,' and they said, 'you
did."'
After riding the bus and owning
run-down cars for four years,
Conn said winning this new car
has made h er life bette r. She gets
to use the garage at home instead
of parking on th e side of the street,
she has r eliab le tra nsportation
and now more guys take notice
when she drives past.
"The thing that's funny, " Conn
sa id . "No one ever looked at me
when I was in those run-down
junky ca1rs, now they see a girl in a
brand n•ew car and sta rt yelling
Devine stresses plans
for fiscal independence
GREG CLARK
work with instructors to develop
SGA's own evaluation instrument
with questions more pertinent to
students. Clark hopes to have
such an evaluation in place by De­cember
so the forms could be col­lected
during the 1987-88
academic year and be available to
students by the fall of 1988.
"Some professors would be
more inclined to (agree with) an
evaluation if the evaluation re­flected
what they want," he said.
"We need an evaluation form that
asks how many text books did you
have to read, how many tests did
you have to take and ho\ . mF.ny
Continued on Page 2
By M. NORMANJACOBSON
Cardinal Managing Editor
Doug De vine, candidate for the
1987 Student Government Associ­ation
presidency at the Univer::,ily
of Louisville, said he "sometimes
feels like SGA is rearranging the
deck chairs on The Titanic."
Devine, currently execu tive
vice president of SGA, said recent
trends in higher education have
him worried about the financial
stability - and even the very exis­tence-
of future student govern­ments.
Devine said he built his
platform around addressing these
conce rns.
The major points of Devin e's
platform a re: move SGA to finan­cial
stability, improve academic
ad vising procedures, achievl:!
better campus cohesiveness and
involvement, make Homecoming
the center of Louisville, and edu­cate,
involve and encourage the
non-tra d itional student. .
In addition, Devine said most of
his programs a re designed to com­bat
high attrition, another im­mediate
concern he sees. ''The
administration knows what's com­ing
- they're preparing for attri­tion,
budget cuts, drops in enroll­ment.
I see this as a p ivotal year
for student government because
I've never heard anyone else talk
a bout the things I'm talking about,
"Senatorial candidates vow to boost in­volvement"
F or details of the SGA senate
races see story Page 3.
S taff photo by Mark Lynch
B elinda Conn, a U of L communication major, recen tly won a new
Oldsmobile in a drawing held at the Pepsi Cola Trading Pos t.
and flirting."
According to Conn, winning a
new car could not have come at a
better time. "I plan on moving out
afte r I gra duate in Augus t," Conn
said. "Ha ving a d e pendable car
was a big concern, but now it's
not. I'm sure glad it rained that
day. If I went to the zoo this proba­bly
would have never happene d. "
Dreams that come true, like
Conn's, do have their bad sides.
Altho ugh Conn won a new car, re­a
lity creeped in when she had to
pay $604 in taxes in orde r to c la im
her p rize.
(that is) planning short-, int(' r­mcdiate-
and long-term goals."
In moving toward lirrancial
stability, Devine plans to llnish im­plementing
a student c redit union
which would eventually enable
SGA to provide stude n ts low-cost
loans, provide lower interest rates
on those loans and provide
academic credit and practical ex­pe
rie nce t.o members and work­ers.
Devine and his slate also p lan to
implemen•t a P eer Academic Ad­vising
Center in which up­pe
rclassmen would orient
freshmen and sophomores to the
professional schools. Devine also
plans to move s p ring semester fi­na
ls out of De rby Week .
Another· of Devine's major plat­form
objectives is a routine recog­nized
student organization fo rum.
Devine plans to gather the leaders
ofU ofL's :student groups together
for roundtable discussions of stu­de
nt issues and SGA policy mat­ters.
Devine said he hopes for 50
pe rcent participation from the
RSOs in thie first year.
Devine's platform also includes
various student/faculty events and
the expansion of Family Day in an
effort to gain input from students
about how SGA should better
serve them. "SGA doesn't have
more credibility because they're
missing their target (the stu­dents),"
hre said. "It's like an Eas­ter
Egg hunt - if the egg could
talk and tell you where it was, it
would be easy. The thing is. the
egg can talk in this case, it's just a
DOUG DEVINE
matter of are you listening m· is
there too much noise around
you?''
Devine said he thinks another
reason involvement ts low on cam­pus
is because students lack rec­ognition
of the traditions of U of L.
He plans to form a task fo r·ce to se­cu•
·e a more visible parade route.
adopt a theme, and e ncourage the
Interfraternity Council to move
Greek Week back to Homecoming
Week.
Devine said he plans to involve
the non-traditional student by
making services and ·facilities
more available to them. He said he
will also work with the Career
P lanning Office and other Un iver­sity
officials to enable non-tradi­tional
students to compete for
now-exclusive scholarships. ··we
Continued on Page 2
H~Lmmond in race
for Hayes St. post
By KE:NNETH HARDIN
Cardinali Ass itant News Editor
If offered the presidency at
another insitution, Dr. Edward H.
Hammond!, University of Louis­ville
vice president for student af­fairs,
may soon be leaving U of L.
Hammond has been selected as
one of two finalists in a presiden­tial
search by Fort Hayes State
University in Fort Hayes, Kan.
Hammond! and a second candi­date
for the post, whose identity is
undisclosed, will meet with the
Board in Kansas City April 17.
The board is expected to make an
appointment by the end of the
month.
Hammond said if the Fort
Hayes State post is offered to him,
he will ac:cepl it provided he is
given adequate compen sation.
Hammond said that he finds the
Fort Hayes State post particularly
appealing because of oppor­tunities
fo1r growth and develop­ment
at the institution.
"I have grown to love the people
I work with at U ofL and J will not
leave what I have here just for the
sake of leaving," he said. "But I do
see the opportunity to deve lop a
unique academic niche for Fort
Hayes in its state and give it a defi­nite
focus i1n its misson."
This is the second lime in the
last year Hammond has b ... en con­s
idered in a presidential search.
This fall he was named as a finalist
in a similar search at East Carolina
State University.
Whe n Hammond arrived at U of
Lin 1976 he stated that in len years
he hoped to attain the presidency
of a university. Hammond said
that he is now ready to move on
with this can~er strategy.
"Over the last e leven years I've
enjoyed my work here at U of L ,.
but now I fee l that at this time I • ..
need to move on with my career
objectives,'' he satd. "Eleven
years ago I set my sights on a uni­versity
presidency, and now I be­lieve
it is in my best interests to
make that move."
Hammond said several factors
have contributed to his decision to
actively seek a presid ency, includ­ing
the finalization of plans for a
new student activities center.
"When I first cam to U of L, the
student center was the last major
project on my timeta ble," he said.
''I'm basica ly a task-oriented per­son
•· . and with the plans being
drawn up I would feel more com­fortablt'
leaving the University
knowing that I had accomplished
what I had set out to do."
INSIDE
Issues and an s wers. The Cardi­n
al endorses a SGA presidential
candidate and outlines the
m ajor goals of both tick ets .
Tyranny blasted
by Nobel winner
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S l!oot tlu~ birdie. Freshman ace
proves to be gol f team 's
s trongest link on the links.
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Leave it to Cleaver. U of L pro­fessor
to discuss the paran ormal
in down-to-eartlt lecture.
News Updates
Editorials ....
Letters to tile Editor
S ports ......... .
A fterclass . .... .. .. .
Classi fleds and person als
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CORRECTION
A story in the March 6 edition of
the Cardinal gave an inccorrect lo­cation
for a public reading by
Sovie t poet Yevgeni Ye v­tushe
nko. Y evtushenko will read
from his works on Tuesday, April
7, in the School of Bu siness Au­ditorium.
By IPAUL JOHNSON
Cardin al Correspondent
Human rights a ctivist and 1980
Nobe l Peace Prize winner Adolfo
P e rez Esquivel spoke to a Univer­sity
of Louisville audience of some
80 people in the Bingham
Huma nities Building, Monday, on
his work, goals and achievements.
"Many of the dictatorships in
Latin America have changed to
constitution al governments,"
P erez Esq u ivel said, "but many of
the problems of the people re­main."
One-time sculptor and profes­sor
of art and art history in Argen­tina,
Perez Esquive l founded the
"Ser viciCI Paz Y J usticio" (the
Peace and Justice Service) in
1974. Thre organization, which he
now di1·ects, is dedica ted to
human l'ights throughout South
Ame rica.
In 197ir he was imprison ed and
tortured for about 14 months by
the military government of Argen­tina
for his activities. The govern­ment
of Argentina has called him
an effectively-used puppe t of both
leftists and various terrorist or­ganizations.
Perez Esquivel said that the
many of the recently created con­stitutiona
l governme nts in the re-gion
are a sham. He terms these
governments the "democradura",
a term roughly transla ted as
democra tic dic tatorship.
The military dicta torships
which had ruled and supposedly
stepped down out of power had
me r e ly stepped behind the seat of
power , thus nothing ha d really
cha nged.
"In Peru whe r e a con s titutional
gove rnme nt e xists, but human
rights abuses continue, tney have
wha t are called 'emergency
zones' where the Civil Judicial
System has been s upe rsed ed by
milita ry authority," Perez Es­quive
l said.
"There ha ve been prison mas­sacres
in which the civil govern­ment
does not have power. A
number of times Garcia (Alan Gar­cia
P e rez, president of Per~) has
tried to remove military comman­der
s and has been overruled by
the military."
Audience membe rs commented
on Perez Esquivel's speech . "A lot
of wha t he (Perez Esquive l) said is
true," remarked a Guatemalan
exchange student, who wishe d to
remain a nonymous for fear of
political repercussions . He said
that while the democratic govern­ment
may be a front, oeople in his
Continued on Back Page
Staff photo by Mark Lynch
Spring surprise
Mike MacDonald rides off into the sudden snow
storm that hit Louisville last Monday, drojfJping
nine inches of snow on the city. Roads remained
clear, however, and no classes were canceled.