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the louisville cardinal vol. xliii, no. 14 university of louisville, louisville, kentucky 40208 january 21, 1972
College-town Crusade
Students to spread the vote
By FRANK LEIDERMANN
and CAROLYN YETI'ER
Cardinal Staff Writers
Students throughout Kentucky
will converge onto UL's campus
next Sunday to participate in the
Kentucky Student Association's
(KSA) New Student Vote con­ference.
The gathering will kick off a
statewide student registration
drive which must be completed
before May in order for voters to
take part in the November elec­tion.
Carroll keynote
The conference will feature
two workshops and a keynote ad­dress
by Lt. Governor Julian
Carroll.
Gary Crawford, an attomey
who works with the Student Vote
Center of this region, will con­duct
a workshop on voter regis­tration
techniques.
Jack Reeves, a University of
Kentucky professor, will lead a
group exploring the delegate se­lection
process of the national
parties' conventions.
The conference will vlelcome
high school and college students,
as well as representatives from
minority and special interest
groups, such the Women's Caucus
and the League of Women Voters.
Room 38 of the UC Building
has been chosen as the coordinat­ing
office for the KSA student
vote project.
Glenn Price ( A&S), a member
of the planning group, said that
the drive will be aimed primarily
at the campus vote.
Many cities, especially "college
towns" in which the students out­number
the local citizenry, are
refusing to register students who
live on campus but are from
out of town.
Price said that he would like to
see the coordinating committee
"beat the system, because as it
stands, the system is against col­lege
students."
He said that most college towns,
such as Lexington, are against the
liberal trends injected by college
students in their communities.
"The students are counted
when congressional districts are
set up, but they can't vote in
these districts," explained Price.
Both Common Cause and the
American Civil Liberties Union
are working to correct this con­dition,
he added.
Recently the courts have ruled
that registrars could not ask col­lege
students any more questions
than they ask other local resi­dents.
The KSA conference will start
at 8:30 a.m. and continue through­out
the day in Bigelow Hall.
notice
The Student Board of Publica­tions
is accepting applications for
the positions of editor-in-chief of
the Thoroughbred and the Cardi­nal.
Candidates must submit a letter
of application which includes bio­graphical
data and any journal­istic
or writing experience for
high school or college publica­tions.
In addition to the letter, can­didates
should submit either an
editorial or a story on a current
campus event.
Deadline information will be
published in the Cardinal next
week. The positions are open to
any student in the university.
Applications should be mailed
to Dean Warren Jones, Room 206,
Administration Building.
-Photograph by Michael Brohm
Squirrel Lady
As the "little old birdwoman" of "Mary Poppins" feeds the
doves on the steps of St. Paul's in London, so an anonymous lady
t?·eats UL's family of squirrels to a mid-winter treat of peanuts
in back of Gardiner Hall.
Streaking Cardinals stir hoop hysteria
By BILL DOOLITTLE
Cardinal Sports Editor
It's back. The days of basket­ball
hysteria and national rank­ings
have returned to Louisville.
This year's UL Cardinals have
won eleven straight and climbed
to fifth in the nation.
If you grew up in Lima, Peru
or Tuscaloosa, Alabama or some
such provincial outpost, Hoop
Fever might seem a little strange.
But not in Kentucky. There just
isn't any explanation for why
grown men will drive a beat-up
'64 Chrysler convertible with
120,000 miles on it-whose name
is Leroy-to a basketball game
in Peoria, Illinoi~r Talla-hassee,
Florida-or Wichita, Kan­sas.
What causes this? It's just
basketball. Those places are along
the road to MVC or greater
championships. At UL we've been
down that road many times.
There have been a lot of dark
days in River City when we
didn't get there.
It takes about twenty-four
hours for a UL fan to regain op­timism
and begin to dream of
next year.
And so, here we go again.
Back in November fans showed
up for the opening day of prac­tice.
Only a few, because hope
had dwindled among reasonable
people. Only the really crazy peo-ple
were there.
But they saw something they
liked-Denny Crum's coaching.
They told their friends and more
people started coming.
Then the season began and
Florida- of the SEC! -ugh!­ouch!
- knocked us off. The
nightmare of losing to teams that
weren't any good was back.
UNbelievable
A few hardy fans hung on.
They really didn't expect much
but - unbelievable - Kansas
fell on the road and Alabama and
SMU were creamed and the
Cards headed off for New York
City.
Surviving a bunch of phony
publicity, UL beat Syracuse and
obliterated St. Peter's.
Denny Crum's superb coaching
was paying off. A switch to a
zone defense ruined Fordham, a
team which hit eight of their first
nine shots and had a big bunch
of Bronx bellowers behind them.
Ron Thomas and Jim Price
shared the MVP trophy and did
a victory dance and there was
joy again.
It was no longer impossible
that Louisville could be good.
Old fans burned up the phone
lines the night that the UPI
ranked UL sixth in the nation.
Still on the road, UL visited
Cincinnati and Dayton who fell
before packed houses.
It was time for the real thing.
No more tournaments with pub­licity
stunts-no more Alabamas
and Bellarmin~this was seri­ous.
And Bradley was ready. They
played as well as a team could
play and still got beat. (story
page 8)
Believable
Joe Stowell, the Bradley coach
-a great coach-was proud of
his team but knew something we
all were afraid to believe. "They
played like they're number five
in the country. They're just good."
Before, we all wanted to be
good, but nobody believed. Now
we do, says senior Mike Lawhon.
So tomorrow night the Cards
go to Drake. And maybe they'll
lose, but Denny Crum knows, and
they all know that they can win
-tomorrow night or next week,
or next month. They can win and
they will win, and that's what
we've been waiting for.
Horn honking
UL fans received their first
taste of majcw tourn4ment vic­tory
tlr.is season wken the Cardir­nals
captured the Holiday Festir­val
in Madison Square Garden
over Christmas. Dennis Salinger
rook the trip to tke Garden to
cheer through his bull 1wrn as
tk6 Cards defeated FOTdham
UniverBity in tk6 final game.