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Vol. 61, No. 4 LOUISVILlE, KENTUCKY 12 PAGES SEPTEMBER 13, 1990 AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
University resolves Black
Student Alliance demands
By JOHN OR BERSON
Staff Writcr
Racial tension at !he University of
l..oui ville reached a boiling point last
fall following allegations of racial har­assment
in aU ofL dorm.
As a resull of lhese allegations, the
Black Swdent Alliance submilled de­mands
10 U of L President Donald C.
Swain calling for changes in U of L
housing and rewording of harrassment
policies. Six laSk forces later, the ad­minislr.
ltion answered the demands in
leucrs 10 recogniz.ed swdent organiza­tion
presidents June 28, 1990.
The issues concerned a variety of areas
related 10 Univer ity housing, including
training of resident assistants in U of L
donns and renaming some U ofL facili­ties.
"1lle residence hall was renamed
immediately after !he incident hap­pened,"
Rhodes said. "1lle other issues
have laken some time, but !hey have
been addressed during lhe last few
months."
rename the street because it is in the
jurisdiction of the city of Louisville."
The more serious demands concern­ing
training of resident assistants and
improvements to dorm facilities were
acted upon by the Office of Resident
Administration.
"The housing people have held sev­eral
training sessions f<r their staff 10
heighten awareness of racial problems
in the dorms," Rhodes said. "In addition
10 the training, the number of minority
resident assistants has risen 10 about 36
percent." Sixteen of the 44 R.A.'s are
black.
"I sec the change as being positive
because we have addressed the diversity
within our campus," said Fred Rhodes,
assistam vice president for srudemlife.
"The demands for the most part have
been resolved."
In addition 10 changing Panhellenic
dorm 10 West Hall, U of L administra­IOrs
changed lhe name of the Confeder­ate
Apanments 10 University Tower
Apanments in accordance with the BS A
demands. However, a demand that
couldn't be resolved was changing !he
name of Confederate Place.
According 10 Lorry Owsley, vice
president for administration, "We found
out that we didn't have the authority 10
"We have conducted training work­shops
for all of our personnel," said Pam
Curtis, assistant director of residence .
administration. "We had outside people
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STAFF PHOTO BY HARRY SANDERS
A&S PICNIC: Students crowd the Humanities Quadrangle for free food and drinks, music and
a chance to socialize between classes Sept. 7. The picnic was sponsored by the College of Arts and
Sciences.
U of L evening students want same benefits
By ELIZABETH HAMMOND
Contributing Writer
Traditionally, universities revolve
around day srudcnts with offices, scrv­icesandcampusrestaurantsopcnonly
during the daylight hour. Evening
students are not seen as the lifeblood
of a university.
However, with increasing numbers
of swdents attending the University
of Louisville at non·traditional times
- nights and weekends- admini­stration
and many evening swdents
said their dissotisfaction with Uni-versity
practices need to be considered.
Junior Greg Rhule, an evening siU­dent,
said there are many discrepancies
in the way day and evening srudents are
treated, even though they pay the same
for ruition.
"A big problem for evening students
is that only a few selected majors are
offered. I wanl to major in environ­mental
geography but it's simply not of­fered
to me as an evening srudenl. There
isn't much of a class selection; students
lake what they can get," Rhule said.
Belinda Wyss, assistant director of
special srudent services, estimated !he
Members of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity bash-a car as part of rush
week Aug. 26 to Aug. 31 .
ratio of day to evening swdcnts is 50:50.
The same amount of students are in the
classroom in the evenings as !here are in
!he daytimes, according to Wyss's cal­culations.
Demographics show the number of
under-21 students is declining, while
adult and minority swdents are increas­ing,
reflecting a trend at many universi­ties,
according to the Kentucky Stale
Data Center of the Urban Research In­stitute
at U of L.
Many evening students said other
problems exisL
Students interviewed commented that
academic advisers arc only acces­sible
to day-time students much of
the year because they keep regular
office hours except during registra­tion.
Considering most evening sru­dents
work in the day, they can have
no academic counciling without
missing work, the students said.
Student Government Association
President Holly Everett said an an­swer
to this problem simply is having
academic advisers available 10 eve-
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Group organizes events
focusing on gun control
By ANITA-CAROL MONEY
Staff Writer
A year ago Joseph Wesbeckerenlered
the Standard Gravure plant where he
Jdlled eight people and wounded 12.
The memory of that day, SepL 14, is a
vivid reminder to the members of Ken­tuckians
Against Assault Weapons.
The local group was f!X'med shortly
after the shooting and will sponsor an
assortment of activities designed to use
the anniversary as a day of remembrance
and education.
Information booths will be set up in
three downtown locations, including a
site near 1lle Courier-Journal and Stan­dard
Gravure plant. A free concert will
be held in Willow Park in the Cherokee
Triangleat7:30 p.m., which will feawre
country performers Mickey and Bill
Clark along with the rock group Big
Wheel.
Mike Campbell, who was shot six
times by Wesbccker, will picket with his
friends, family, and supporters in front
of Senator Mitch McConnell's office at
1 :30 p.m. McConnell voted against a
bill that would outlaw assault weapons
on lhe national level.
According to K.A.A.W., Americans
will experience more violence during
the nextyearthaneverbefore. The group
said more than 20,000 Americans will
die from gunshot wounds - more than
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Cardinals roll to 68-0 victory over Murray State
By JODY DEMLING
Staff Writer
Beer, hot dog , soft drinks and lots of points
v.ere on the menu for !he University of Louis­vllle's
home opening game against the Murray
State Racers Sept. 9.
The ards routed the R ccrs by a basketball­hk
68.0 re Ul theu fii'St victoriou home
opener smcc defeaung Western Kenrucky. 45-6,
back in the I 986 season.
Head coach Howard Schnellenberger said his
team went into the Murray State conte ttasting a
vic lOry to kick !he home season off right and that
is exactly what the team gOL
statement to say we were pleased with lhe per­formance
of our football team today."
Schnellenberger said the margin of victory,
which was !he largest for !he Louisville program
in 35 years, was not supposed to be an embar­rasmentto
the Racer program.
"We have been in the same position as they are
in right now," he said. "When they can't make a
frrst down or protect their punter it makes it
difficult to stay in the game."
1lle victory was theftrStshut-out for the Cards
since Oct. 16, 1982 when !hey beat the Univer­sity
of Richmond 35.0.
Coincidentally, the largest amount of points
scored in a game when the Cardinals were in·
volved was in I 932 when Murray State defeated
them 105-0.
Cardinal defensive end Milce Aores said the
amountofpointsscoredandlheamountofpoints
given up by !he team are indicative of what's to
come from the Cards.
"It shuts some people up, it proves a point,"
Aores said. "We plan 10 do that every game.
We're not going to give up more than three points
a game."
Aores said before the contest !he defense told
quarterback Browning Nagle what needed in
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New dean promises to bring
national recognition to Law
School, diversify curriculum
By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER
Staff Writer
Pledging to spearhead a
"drive for national recogni­tion,"
!he University of Lou­isville
School of Law's new
dean, Donald L. Burnett,
welcomed law swdents back
to school Sept. 10 at a picnic
held in front of Grawe meyer
Hall.
Burneu, a former Appellate Coun
judge and president of the Idaho State
Bar Association, told swdents he ex­peelS
the School of Law to enable them
to graduate with a "broad and invigorat­ing
intelleclllal experience ... with the
skills to do well and the virwe to do
good."
The new dean, who took office in
July, said his unusual, professionally­oriented
background will be an asset f<r
the school in its quest to become"anout­ward-
loolting law school, wilil a na­tional
focus."
B umettsaid achieving national promi­nence
will not be easy.
"The law school is currently perceived
as a regional school with potential, not
yet fully realized, to become a national
school," he said.
Two main components of his strategy
to realize that pocential are the implem­entation
of more pragmatic curricula
and !he founding of the Center for Pro­fessionalism
in Public Suvice.
Some students attending !he picnic
expressed enthusiasm for Burnett's
proposals.
"There should be more practical ex-perience
offered (at the law school)."
said third-ycar srudentCherie
King. "More real-life stuff ..
. not the way-out exams that
will never happen in a million
years."
Burneu said legal educa­tion
is steering toward more
practical curriculum nation­wide,
and he plans to focus on
such at U of Las well.
"What this means." he said,
"is that as students are exposed to par­ticular
subjects, such as contracts, they
will do the things that lawyers do in that
subject, such as drafting the contract."
Increased attention will be placed on
legal writing programs as well, he said.
"We are embarking upon an ambi­tious
revision of (our) legal writing
program."
As part of the practical emphasis on
legal education, Burnett said he plans to
implement a program where law sill­dents
can do pro bono work under lhe
supervision of faculty members.
The law school will also increase its
offering of interdisciplinary courses,
Burneu said. "In the next few years, I
anticipate !he law school offering a vastly
increased number of classes in law and
health care, in law and business, law and
public affairs and other areas," he said.
The diverse incoming class will need
suchnewprograms,accordingtoamemo
Burnell sent to various University offi­cials.
This year's I 73 students were
selected from l ,258 applicants.
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"We went into this game very emotional,"
Schnellenbergcr said. "It would be an under-
However, !he amount of poir:ts scored was
well away from !he record number of points put
on the board by the 1913 Cardinal squad when
they demolished Washington, Tenn., 100-0. Page 3 Fullback Ralph Dawkins rushes whh the blllllnthe Sept. 8 game against Murray State.
Music School
dean retires after
19 years
College football
set to undergo
changes