Early last week, University of Louisville students across campus battled the frigid weather to compete in the 54th running of the Turkey Trot. The intramural 2.3 mile road race, the “Turkey Trot”, is a great tradition at U of L and is the oldest consecutively run road race in the state of Kentucky.

The athletic department is asking all fans to blackout for the game against Rutgers University. No, they haven’t come to the realization that getting blackout drunk is the only way to watch a 5-6 team play in sub freezing weather, instead they obviously know that black is the proper color to any funeral.

The rising cost of tuition will be the most important issue of tonight’s Student Government Association Student Body Address, according to President Brian Hoffman. “Today’s student should also be concerned about the University [of Louisville] keeping the welfare of students at the heart of all decisions,” Hoffman said.

For anyone who has ever spent any amount of time in the downtown area, it is nearly impossible to have escaped the phrase, “Excuse me, do you have a few dollars or some change you can spare?” Before that comes disclaimers of all types, something of a general apology, followed by justifications of anything from bus rides to something to eat.

Religious groups and parents alike are up in arms again as “The Golden Compass” makes its way into theaters this Christmas season. The uproar began after claims had been made that the author, Phillip Pullman, is an atheist. Pullman wrote a series of books entitled “His Dark Materials,” on which the film is based.

The large statue at the meeting of Second and Third streets is again under attack by a group of students at the University of Louisville. The monument is dedicated to “Our Confederate Dead,” and wherever Civil War history may arise, there is bound to be controversy. A number of students would like to see the statue removed because of all the negative connotations associated with the Confederate States of America, especially their legalized…

Before graduating in the spring, Brett Batchelor, a senior physics major, is leaving his impression on the University of Louisville and its Greek Life. Batchelor is president of the new Greek organization at U of L – the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Although Batchelor didn’t become involved in Greek Life until his junior year, he saw the U of L chapter of Phi Delta Theta as an “opportunity to start something different and guide an organization.

University of Louisville’s Chapter of UNICEF (The United Nations Children’s Fund) will be hosting what their president, law student Justin Clark, said he has never heard of any other college doing before. This Saturday, Dec. 1, he and his members will be hosting the 2007 Concert for Peace featuring Guest Speaker Nick Clooney, an operatic performance by soprano Caroline Worra and conductor Scott Voyles, a U of L alumnus.

To its supporters, it is a memorial to those who died. To its detractors, it is representative of hate and violence. These disagreements came to head when a group of about 30-35 protesters gathered near the Louisville Confederate Monument along Third Street on the University of Louisville’s Belknap campus last Tuesday.