Students nowadays have available to them vast resources to accommodate their every whim; however, the vast majority of students abuse these resources. Students are told to check their GroupWise accounts, check their schedules, and go to Ulink. Technology has made it easy to skip class: send an e-mail to your professor "claiming" that you're sick, when in fact you just didn't feel like going, due in large part to your negligent attitude pertaining to commitments, but for the most part because lecture notes were posted on Blackboard.

Victor Maksimcuk lost his doubles point against Virginia Tech University. Then he adjusted. Maksimcuk beat the Hokies' Yoann Re in a singles match to get the University of Louisville's men's tennis team a fifth point in a 5-2 win. He has spent the better part of his college career adjusting.

In a recent message to the student body, University of Louisville President Dr. James R. Ramsey expounded on the effect Gov. Steve Beshear's budget cuts will have on the university. Obviously, the administration must prioritize and streamline. The advances the university has made in becoming a research-based institution cannot be reversed.

In an election reminiscent of hanging chads and defunct voting machines from the 2000 U.S. presidential election, the Student Government Association race was decided before students left the campus for spring break, but not with everyone's vote. The preliminary results left only President-elect Rudy Spencer with a confirmed position, and the three remaining races to have run off votes as no one candidate obtained more than 40 percent of the vote.

The WLCV studio in the Student Activity Center has become a common fixture of campus life for most students. However, few may be aware of the station's humble beginnings in a Stevenson Hall dorm room in 1967. When Richard Sweetland transferred to the University of Louisville from State University of New York in Morrisville, he said he was surprised to find that the school lacked a radio station.

The Big East men's basketball tournament was held this past week at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The University of Louisville Cardinals could not keep from falling into another Pitt; the University of Pittsburgh Panthers that is. The Cards lost to the Panthers 76-69 in overtime last Thursday.

University of Louisville junior thrower Jere' Summers said she did not have high expectations when she started college. "When I came to college I thought I was going to be bad," Summers said. Thankfully for U of L, Summers was wrong. Summers, along with senior thrower ZeNai Savage, give the U of L women's track and field team one of the best throwing combinations in the country.

PlasmaCare, Inc. of Cincinnati has begun discussions concerning a long-term lease that would bring a blood bank, able to serve an average of 1,200 donors per week, to the corner of Fourth St. at Industry Rd. The notion of a new bank has received some negative feedback from some in the community.

Demetrius Gray sat in the Multi-purpose room of the University of Louisville's Student Activities Center last Thursday to observe the Student Government Associations annual election debate. Unfortunately, he was sorely lacking in company. The debate, which featured 27 candidates running in the current election, had about eight to 10 non-candidate affiliated students in attendance, something that according to Gray, vice president of the Association of Black Students, was very disappointing.

There are many names on the Student Government Association ballot, and some students may be uneducated about many of the positions. Sana Abhari, candidate for senator in the University of Louisville College of Arts and Sciences, stressed the important role that an election can play in getting students involved on a college campus.