As the University of Louisville strains under its current budget crisis, some administrators have refused to allow student jobs onto the chopping block. According to Graduate Student Council President Tim Brauch, as well as law students, Brandeis Law School Dean Jim Chen has been taking money out of his own salary to continue funding student positions such as law library research assistants and tutors for first year law students.

In the past week, University of Louisville students have received three separate "Crime Alerts" in their e-mail inboxes informing them of recent crimes which have occurred on campus. Each one of these e-mails described a person being accosted and robbed at gun or knifepoint on or near campus late at night.

For University of Louisville President Dr. James R. Ramsey, this is no longer the institution it was ten years ago. The new strategic plan, Victory 2020, is set on making sure the same can be said 12 years in the future. The university recently finished a draft of the plan and will present it to the Board of Trustees at their April meeting, the date of which is yet to be determined.

Ben Franklin said in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. I'll take death. I didn't start my taxes until I saw the calendar had changed from March to April and I realized I had only two weeks to complete them. I use one of the few free tax services online, so I am pretty much alone when doing my taxes and since paying for college is a burden I bear alone, I should also be able to complete my taxes.

In light of the men, women and children who have lost, and continue to lose, their lives to genocide, I found the recent deceptively-named "Genocide Awareness Project" manipulative and appalling. I was also appalled on behalf of my eyes, which can never un-see the graphic images which were so large that no amount of warning signs could keep anyone with business on campus from viewing them.

Last week, the Genocide Awareness Project visited our campus at the invitation of the Recognized Student Organization, Louisville Cards for Life. The Genocide Awareness Project involves comparing the aborted human fetuses to horrific acts in history such as the lynching African Americans and the devastation of the Holocaust.

For top basketball recruits, the 'It' that is happening here is Rick Pitino. The University of Louisville draws some of the best players in the nation because it offers a coach who prepares them for a professional career and prime time opportunity that gets more airtime than McDreamy singing on American Idol.

As a freshman at the University of Louisville in 1985, Andrea Lane "wasn't really into music at the time." A French major turned singer and songwriter now residing in Los Angeles and pursuing her solo career, Lane has lived in California, New York and France but her roots are in Louisville.

Normally during March, college basketball players are worried about boxing out. Now, thanks to an ESPN telecast last Friday they have to be worried about being boxed in. Rob Parker, a Detroit Free Press sports columnist, and regular guest on ESPN's 'First and 10' was asked the question of who would be a better NBA player, University of North Carolina junior forward Tyler Hansbrough or UCLA freshman forward Kevin Love.

I cannot agree more with Darren McVey's recent column regarding the 'gay agenda' at the University of Louisville.? When our actions are governed not by an external sense of right and wrong handed down from One far wiser than us, but rather by a sense of "live and let live," we see the results in the decay of our society.