"It was a somber moment to realize Kentucky wouldn't make it to space that day," said Chris Gleim, a senior computer engineering and computer science major and part of the U of L KySat team. Graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Louisville Speed School worked to design the orbital satellite for Space Express, part of the KySat program, along with students from other Kentucky universities.

When a student, parent or alum visits the University of Louisville Web site, it is one of the first things seen-a face of a student from U of L. With one click, the user is taken to a video of the featured student, detailing everything from their daily routine, to highlighting events like Welcome Weekend and Homecoming.

Students gathered in the Red Barn Thursday to e-mail their state senators and state representatives, urging them to not raise tuition. Michael Walz, senior business management major, was one of the students who e-mailed his legislators. "I've written the President before, but not a legislator.

The University of Louisville pep band has come a long way, but there is still work to be done. As I sat in Conseco Field House watching the Cardinals take on Purdue University, I remember catching a glimpse of the two pep bands. Purdue's student pep band was on their feet cheering on the Boilermakers, while our geriatric version, was sitting down waiting for their next opportunity to play something from VH1's list of Awesomely Bad songs.

This spring the Speed Art Museum will become one of only four museums in the U.S. to house the exhibit "Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from London's Victoria and Albert Museum." This fascinating exhibit includes 35 masterpieces from the Renaissance and Medieval Ages the pinnacle of which is an actual journal of famed painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.

Junior Louisville linebacker Lamar Myles has declared himself eligible for the June NFL draft and has signed with an agent. Myles was named second team All Big-East and led the Cardinals in tackles this past season with 128. "The time is right for me to move on to the NFL," Myles said in a statement on 790 WKRD.

When Jeff Walz accepted the head coaching position for the University of Louisville women's basketball program, he had intentions of building up what was left behind for him. The decision to coach the Cardinals was an easy one for Walz. "I coached at [the University of] Maryland for the last five years, had the opportunity to win a national championship and this is home," Walz said.

Dare to be great. For years these four words have been seen on flyers, in Orange Bowl commercials and on highway signs branding the University of Louisville and ringing in the ears of perspective applicants and researchers around the nation. But this brand will not be around for much longer.

A quilt seems simple. It's one of the most common pieces of art in an American home and has potentially become a standard possession that may not receive the respect that matches the talent and amount of time put into its creation. For two centuries Americans have been creating quilts and during that time-span, American quilters from an array of economic levels have produced a variety of patterns, materials and colors so individualized and intriguing that they have produced a following of collectors and scholars.

This past week Gov. Steve Beshear requested that all state universities devise a budget for the 2008-09 year cutting 12 percent, while requiring a 3 percent cut during the remainder of the 2007-08 year. Beshear walked into a financial debacle when he took over as governor, but cutting our legs off at the knees cannot possibly be the answer. In an e-mail sent out on his behalf, University of Louisville President Dr. James R. Ramsey said that at this time a hiring freeze would be one solution to fixing U of L's budget for the remainder of the 2007-08 year. However, the 2008-09 year will see budget cuts unsurpassed in recent years, setting us back funding wise, according to Ramsey, to 2001.