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Women's lacrosse is a relatively new concept to the University of Louisville, but head coach Kellie Young has been around the sport for years. On April 21, 2005, U of L announced that it would be adding women's lacrosse as its 23rd varsity sport. This spring Young will lead the team into its first official season in the Big East.
Will Baumgardner has his hands full of activities and a mouth full of chicken. A junior business major with a minor in biology, Baumgardner is president of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, a swim coach for the USA Swimming Team Cardinal Aquatics and the Men of Prevention, Education and Advocacy on Campus and in the Community Coordinator with the PEACC Center at the University of Louisville.
When the University of Louisville and West Virginia University met the last two seasons, the Big East Championship and a trip to a Bowl Championship Series game was on the line. This year, the Cards may need to win just to get to a bowl. With three games remaining, U of L needs one more victory to become bowl eligible.
The University of Louisville has become a cultural school with its own marks of diversity. On Friday, the Spanish section of the Classic and Modern Language Department held it's annual "Living La Vida Loca: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage" event. This was its seventh year running, the event highlighted an overall appreciation of the Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially Mexico and Spain.
University of Louisville senior forward Juan Palacios may be hurt physically, but his spirits remain undamaged. "There's not much we can do. The ligaments have to heal themselves and I just have to keep my muscles strong," Palacios said. That seems to be a common sentence for the communication major from Columbia, who has been fighting injuries since he has arrived to play for the Cardinals.
Since 2005, students who choose to pay their tuition online with a credit card must pay processing fees, which can range anywhere from $15 to $50. Previously, the University of Louisville absorbed the cost of such transactions, but two years ago the Board of Trustees voted to pass the cost on to students.
If there is such thing as the "Ultimate Karate Jokes" book, chances are University of Louisville junior English major Destin Hudson has heard every single one 10 times. What's not a joke are Hudson's major accomplishments in karate. At the age of 22, he's already competed in the Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Association World Championships three times and approximately 30 regional tournaments across the U.
Today, voters from Pikeville to Paducah will be casting their ballots in several statewide match-ups. The Governor, Attorney General, State Auditor and Secretaries of State, Agriculture and Treasury will all be decided by the voters of Kentucky. This campaign season's themes have been constant since July.
Before director Ridley Scott ("Alien," "Gladiator") directed "American Gangster," he must have taken a visual inventory of the most popular gangster, drug lord and mafia movies. His film shows the rise and somewhat fall of Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), an untouchable and very rich heroine dealer in 1970s Harlem.
