University of Louisville, like many other institutions, has its fair share of pluses and minuses. But we are here to show that for each positive, there is a negative. We as a staff and students can relate and feel your pain.
This Sunday's matchup of the University of Louisville and Western Kentucky University men's basketball teams in Nashville will see many Card fans trekking down Interstate 65 to enjoy a game at the end of the Thanksgiving holiday.
"I'm really excited to go to the WKU game," said Ben Henry, a junior bioengineering major.
The Province has come to the University of Louisville, and it has brought a swimming pool, private bridge, theater, and a club house.
The Province has been planned and constructed for more than a year and in the fall of 2009, this new luxury student living space will be open to students. The new facility has not come without a cost, however. Stevenson Hall, built in 1959, may become a casualty residence hall.
It's quite amazing how colleges will nickel and dime students for everything.
But here's something even more astonishing: out-of-state students who are admitted to University of Louisville's School of Dentistry program are required to sign on as out-of-state students for the full four years. Even if they uproot their family or only themselves from say New Mexico, and live in Louisville the full four years, they are required to remain classified as out-of-state students for their whole stay.
The Central Station shopping center is a familiar site to any University of Louisville student taking the Black Loop down Central Avenue on weekday mornings. The complex contains a Kroger, Starbucks, Beef O' Brady's and many other businesses. However, 14,000 square feet of space remains un-rented.
Faulkner Real Estate, the company responsible for Central Station, is working to fill these vacancies and is soliciting input from students on how to do it. During the Oct. 7 SGA Senate meeting, a representative from Faulkner discussed how to best fill these empty spots in the complex.
For senior Student Government Association athletic director Trevor Joelson, the new "Nest" initiative is a chance for students to assert their identity in regards to student spirit.
"We want students to make the nest their own," Joelson said.
Eight months ago, the University of Louisville men's basketball took a hard fought loss to North Carolina. Just eight months later, the Cardinals are ready to hit the hardwood again, perhaps even better than the year before.
Peeking through the six-inch crease between the elevator doors at Unitas Tower on Wednesday, freshman Tyler Turner waits patiently as a rescue crew attempts to keep the doors ajar.
With an ax in hand, a member of the Louisville Fire & Rescue squad grabs Turner's hand and helps him down out of the elevator and onto the first floor lobby of the freshman residence hall at the University of Louisville.
For about the twelfth time today my wireless Internet refuses to connect.
"ULSECURE connection has been cancelled," my computer informs me. This is something that has become a daily routine. Again, I attempt to connect to the Internet. (I get connected) after ten minutes of waiting and screaming countless words of profanity. In reality, this just adds to the list of things that I have gotten for my tuition money at U of L: a bunch of things that don't work so well.
