A common dilemma many students face when beginning their college careers out of high school is figuring out how to stay in shape while adjusting to a new schedule.
The Student Activities Center’s fitness center offers a variety of different activities to help keep students in shape, including an accessible weight room stocked with treadmills, free and machine weight systems and other cardiovascular equipment.
“In the Louisville Metropolitan area, this [SAC] is one of the best facilities around,” Ken Carey, gym employee, said. “The vast array of equipment and stuff that this facility has here along with the facilities at the Crawford and Humana, it can’t be beat.”
The SAC is open weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is free with an active student ID.
The SAC fitness center also provides five racquetball courts, two squash courts and complete locker room facilities along with four multi-purpose gym floors which are used for basketball, volleyball and badminton.
“It offers pretty much everything you want,” Greg Welsh, junior nursing major, said. “They have a gym, basketball courts, racquetball and they’re always open when you need them to be so it’s pretty convenient.”
For those looking to keep themselves occupied in some competitive form or just looking for a way to blow off some steam without all the sweat, the Cardinal Corner might be the answer. Also located in the SAC, the Cardinal Corner provides an assortment of free games for students to compete in, including pool, ping-pong, air hockey and foosball.
The Ralph Wright Natatorium, located on the corner of Warnock Ave. and Floyd St., is one for the newest facilities on campus and allows students a chance to swim in an Olympic-size pool. The Natatorium is also home to the U of L’s men’s and women’s swim teams and is complete with an eight-lane, 50 meter competition pool with depth ranging from four feet, six inches to 18 feet.
“It’s really a great facility,” Matt Blanford, graduate student and lifeguard, said. “It’s brand new and I think students are surprised when they find out that it’s even here and they’re allowed to use it for free.”
The Natatorium is open from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and is also open at various times on weekends.
The Humana Gym is another facility available for students looking to work out. Located on Bradley Ave. and Eastern Pkwy., the Humana Gym offers complete weight and cardiovascular rooms, dry heat saunas and gym floors are available when not used for club practices. Free for students, the Humana Gym is open from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
U of L also offers a variety of different sports clubs and intramural league sports which provide students looking for a more structured plan to help maintain a healthy lifestyle, a solid solution while satisfying their competitive juices.
With clubs like badminton, fencing, gymnastics and many others, students are given the opportunity to compete while receiving a chance to learn a new sport or continuing to play a familiar one. There are also many different intramural league sports students can play including football, basketball, and soccer.
Of all the foolish axioms of American political discourse, perhaps the most foolish is "if you don't vote, you can't complain." The ignorance of this statement is painful on several levels. Legally, it is clear in the constitution that one's first amendment rights of free speech, petition and assembly are not dependent on one's voting habits. Practically, a prohibition on speaking out based on negligence in suffrage excludes important voices.
Q: What political position are you running for and why? -The Louisville Cardinal
A: I am running for the U.S. Senate because I want to continue to represent Kentucky's values in our nation's capital. As one of only two Kentuckians to ever serve as a party leader in the U.S. Senate, I have a unique opportunity to influence nearly every piece of legislation that crosses the Senate floor and improve it on behalf of the Kentuckians I serve.
For University of Louisville Belknap students, the required meal plan starting fall 2009 is as follows: 4All students living in on-campus residence halls without kitchens will have a $1,165 meal plan. 4All students living in on-campus residence halls with kitchens will have a $745 meal plan. 4All full-time undergraduate students on the Belknap campus will have a $250 meal plan.
Communication is based on mutual accountability. There are so many fingers pointing within the U of L Belknap community, that a middle finger had to appear.
Q: What political position are you running for and why? -The Louisville Cardinal
A: I'm running for Congress and I think it's important that this community has strong independent leadership that can help move us forward to prepare for the future. We have to compete against Indianapolis, Nashville and St. Louis.
U of L is trying to pull a fast one over students, as most of the people I've talked to hadn't even heard of the plan. This continued disrespect toward commuters (most of the student body) will result in more transfers to University of Kentucky and Jefferson Community & Technical College. Sodexo is not even an American company. It's a French multinational
After reading the article, "Keeping the Faith," in the Oct. 7 issue, I was left with a horrible taste in my mouth. This article was simply a tribute to religion and didn't contain any meaningful content. The position taken by the author was one of an evangelist, paying excessive time and tribute to religious groups and the backwards ideologies they espouse. Though, admittedly, this was an article focusing on Recognized Student Organizations on campus, the one "secularist" was in support of religion in his only quote. I would hope that this is a quote taken out of context, or perhaps the entirety of the rest of the interview got lost. I do not believe that an objective look at religion can provide you with the idea that it is helpful to society.
"We have all of these different segments of the population, and some of them do overlap in some ways, but many of them are their own little staunch group. That is what is so tough." -Rudy Spencer, President, University of Louisville Student Government Association
Face it; there are so many layers to people: race, sexuality, religious beliefs, gender and so on.
Recently, Darfur's genocide has been publicized on TV and in newspapers, making citizens aware of the crisis occurring in Darfur, Sudan. Hundreds of thousands of lives have already been lost, while others have been injured and raped. China has been helping provide Darfur with the weapons that are being used in this massacre. In the midst of all the killings, one cannot help but wonder what exactly the United States government is actually doing in order to help stop the tragedies from continuing.
Transferring anything isn't easy. People don't look forward to transferring data, jobs or to a different city. And people don't look forward to transferring colleges. But transferring to the University of Louisville from Northern Kentucky University (in my case) was more cumbersome than transferring PC documents to a Mac. In the end, U of L put me behind two full years from graduation.
