As a kid, senior exercise science and sports medicine major Janelle Avila played numerous sports. Her original ambition wasn't field hockey, but to play college basketball under Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee. Field hockey was just a sport to keep her in shape for basketball.
After three hours of deliberation at last Tuesday's Student Government Association meeting, the Senate passed a resolution to allocate $10,000 to the Association of Black Students for the 2007-08 school year. After this year, funds for all University of Louisville diversity groups will come from a new "Diversity Fund," comprised of a combination of several groups' funds.
After fulfilling the 11 objectives set forth in its 1997 plan, the Challenge for Excellence, the University of Louisville is formulating a strategic plan for 2020 to set its policies and goals for the next decade and beyond. Drafted by a steering committee that met with officials ranging from Student Government Association President Brian Hoffman to state legislators to Louisville mayor Jerry Abramson, it comes with much community involvement and anticipation following the success of the previous long-term plan at U of L.
Looking for something different to do this weekend? Craving a movie that doesn't involve awkward sports humor or guys in spandex? Then students should check out the unique offerings being shown at Louisville's Apex theaters. The Baxter Theater on Bardstown Rd.
The Kentucky Derby, "Keep Louisville Weird," Ear X-tacy, mint juleps, Heine-Brothers, University of Louisville athletics...These are just a few of the symbols featured in Louisville culture. Many people take this vibrant city for granted, overlooking all the beauty, culture, art, history, and entertainment it has to offer.
As the chimes of wedding bells fade away and wedding season comes to a close after a superstitious bout with lucky dates and times, college students start to ask, how young is too young? Parents are notorious for refusing to let their children go, even when they there are anchored into adulthood approaching their mid-twenties.
Time to clear off the Solo cups and beer cans! The ping-pong table is returning to its heyday in the world of underground table tennis, as portrayed in the new sports-comedy, "Balls of Fury." Enter Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler), a child ping-pong prodigy. Randy learns the brutal pressures of being a professional athlete when he loses both his father and the national ping-pong title of '88.
Kentucky's largest metropolitan university will seek to take the lead for the growing number of cities in the commonwealth. The University of Louisville, in a partnership with the Kentucky League of Cities and NewCities, is planning an Urban Solutions Center to help budding cities with infrastructure, housing, education and diversity issues, according to U of L Provost Dr.
Some University of Louisville students are taking full advantage of study abroad opportunities such as, the Semester at Sea program, which is sponsored by the Institute for Shipboard Education through the University of Pittsburgh. The program will set sail with more than 600 students on board.
Head Coach Rex Ecarma knows a lot when it comes to recruiting, and the 2007 men's tennis class is proof. Freshmen Simon Childs, Austen Childs, Alejandro Calligari and Viktor Maksimcuk have already been compared to U of L men's basketball recruiting class of Edgar Sosa, Jerry Smith, Derrick Caracter and Earl Clark.
