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.
This week, a letter will be released to graduate students at the University of Louisville concerning the investigation into former College of Education and Human Development Dean Robert Felner. Felner is currently being investigated for allegedly misappropriating $694,000 in federal grant money. The university has also formed a committee to investigate the awarding of a Ph.D. to former U of L graduate student John Deasy, who reportedly only studied for nine credit hours at U of L.
All my life, I've dreamed about sitting amongst the "Cameron Crazies" at Duke University. It's hard not to be a little jealous. Every time I watch a Duke game on television, the students look like they are having the time of their lives and are actually having an impact on the game's results.
Last week marked the first meeting of a new University of Louisville initiative to improve school spirit.
The aptly named "Nest" initiative has been formed through a three way partnership between the U of L Athletics Department, the Student Government Association and the University President's Office. The purpose of the effort, according to their most recent agenda, is to "promote school spirit through the student body for all of the university's athletic endeavors.
Childhood stories were easy to understand and digest with midnight sweets and milk, however, once adulthood hits the fairy-tale, hunky-dory, happy ending tales sometimes take a turn for the worse. The University of Louisville's African American Theatre Program is aware of a story's importance so much that they will be dealing with these social issues in their upcoming play titled, "The Story." "Stories unify people and their personal experiences," said Frances Lewis, a junior theatre arts major. "The audience will have to write their own ending to the story, just like in life."
The University of Louisville men's and women's cross country teams will compete in their first and only home meet of the 2008 season on Saturday in the Greater Louisville Classic at Tom Sawyer Park. Coming off a pair of team and individual sweeps to start the season, the Cards will be looking to defend their house in the event hosted by the Greater Louisville Sports Commission.
Justine Landi, junior outside hitter, was surprised when the University of Louisville volleyball team was picked to finish No.1 in the preseason Big East coaches' poll. Eight of the 15 Big East conference coaches picked Louisville to finish on top. "We were surprised because St. Johns has done so well before and they're actually right behind us," Landi said. "It will be a battle. We're a fighting team and I think we can do it. I think we will get exactly what we were predicted to be."
It was only two years ago that Doug Beaumont and Victor Anderson were high school seniors competing against each other for the Kentucky Mr. Football award. Now the two are University of Louisville teammates looking to resurrect an offense many once viewed as being one of the most prolific in the nation just a few seasons ago. "We were always good friends, even back in high school," Anderson, freshman running back, said. "But we always knew we had to watch out for No. 25 when we played Male [High School]. We used to text each other here and there. It was fun back then." Beaumont, a sophomore wide receiver, had similar feelings on the relationship between the two.
With the smells of funnel cakes and hot dogs floating in the air, freshman Amber Burns and her team have all the essentials for the perfect race.
Matching University of Louisville uniforms – with plastic helmets included – running shoes and a bed.
A bed?
Bed racing was introduced this Saturday at the 5th annual Block Party, held on U of L's Belknap campus, kicking off a three-week long medley of Homecoming events, ranging from foam parties to a semi-formal dance.
In a local Louisville park, a crowd stands seemingly caught in a subconscious energy. Forgetting the scent of kerosene in the air, the night seems darker than normal compared to the spinning balls of fire and the man dancing within them. While this may sound like an excerpt from a science fiction story, this display is one viewed by many U of L students and spectators around Louisville.
