The Jazz Factory is a virtual diamond in the rough in Louisville's nighttime entertainment scene. Despite being touted by the Courier-Journal as "Louisville's premiere venue for live jazz," this great downtown music spot is still relatively unknown on campus.
Public schools currently seem more like entangled structures that only get more snarled in itself as time goes on. There are so many ways of looking at this peculiar situation and so many differing ideas on what can be done. However, with any system that has lasted for decades, changes need to be easy and swift to be implemented with success.
Two of the most powerful legislators in the nation shared a stage at the University of Louisville yesterday when Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Harry Reid visited on behalf of the McConnell Center. The Nevada democrat presented to a packed house in Bigelow Hall yesterday at 8 a.m. Despite the early-morning appointment, students and faculty eagerly anticipated this historic event for U of L.
Autumn has officially begun, and the fall semester is in full swing at the University of Louisville. So what do freshmen have to say about college now that they have had half a semester to think about it? "College is nothing like what other people said it would be.
Hip hop began in the late 1960s on New York City's crowded sidewalks, alleys and subways. Inner city youth circled the flat cardboard boxes to begin what is now compared to traditional African dance, "break-dancing." These youth would "spit" their political rhymes of cultural expression and proclamations for justice or would widely show off their powerful break-dancing moves over a blasting boom box.
Hidden behind a mask, anonymity allows students to be whoever they want to be. On Oct. 4, 73 students gathered in the Red Barn adjacent to the Student Activities Center to participate in U of L's first Dark Masquerade Ball sponsored by Dancing with the Cards.
The dorms on the University of Louisville campus are co-ed, allowing girls and boys to live in the same housing residence. Although the two sexes are separated, the use of community bathrooms and small living quarters promotes interaction between the sexes.
The University of Louisville swimming and diving team is poised to have a big season this year. On Saturday at 11 a.m., the team will open their season against the University of Tennessee at the Ralph Wright Natatorium. The Cardinals have been training hard in preparation for this season in which they will look to advance further than any other swimming and diving team U of L has ever produced.
For all you Beatles fans, imagine yourself as Lucy sitting in the sky with diamonds. Cellophane flowers and newspaper taxis surround you; are you anywhere near the multidimensional realm of the musical film, "Across the Universe"? Based on the songbook of pop-culture icons, The Beatles, this concept combines dozens of their tunes to create nothing less than a work of art.
When radio host Don Imus uttered his now infamous comment last year about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, former University of Louisville basketball star Lancaster Gordon understood how the women felt. While Gordon was a guard under U of L head coach Denny Crum from 1980-1984, a commentator made a similar remark: "[Crum] has a good team, but their collective IQ is 40.
