A new pedestrian crosswalk was recently added by the University of Louisville to beef up the safety for students crossing one of the busiest roadways on campus Eastern Parkway. The new crosswalk was added at the corner of Third Street and Eastern Parkway, which is the first of many modifications to be made in the area over the next year.
If music-lovers ever want to experience something totally 'funky fresh,' they should not miss Chin Chin. This Brooklyn band has a funky sound that is completely retro, but still rock-related. Their style can be deemed a "blast from the past" with their old school influences, but their reinterpretation and musical spin is still fresh and mainstream.
Problems with senator accountability persist even as the 2006-07 academic year draws to a close. At an SGA executive board meeting March 28 addressing the firing of two senators and punishment of three others over poor attendance, too few board members showed up to meet quorum.
Speaking on issues ranging from the Montgomery bus protest to hurricane Katrina, Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP and a civil right's leader, delivered a lecture celebrating the opening of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice on April 4. Hundreds turned out at the Brown & Williamson Club at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium to listen to Bond's speech, entitled "2007: A Race Odyssey.
The University of Louisville softball team garnered a trio of victories this past week, improving their record to 22-16 and 5-1 in the Big East. They defeated Indiana University on Wednesday evening, 1-0 and followed with a doubleheader sweep against the University of South Florida, squeaking by 3-2 and 5-4.
Students will be randomly selected this week to provide feedback about the University of Louisville's Quality Enhancement Plan on critical thinking. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is scheduled to be on Belknap campus today and tomorrow as part of U of L's accreditation process.
College students change their major up to seven times over the course of their academic careers, or so the saying goes. To combat multiple major
University of Louisville sophomore business major Nicole Reiter has a secret identity; in fact, she has several. This is due to her work as an understudy for the Baxter Avenue's midnight showing of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." The Baxter's "Rocky Horror" production is a unique show, staged at midnight the last Saturday of every month, played on the screen, while actors perform the whole script on a stage in the front of the theatre.
Topics like massive increases in carbon dioxide emissions, the melting of the polar ice caps and the indiscriminate use of non-renewable resources may not be what college students talk about over morning coffee at the library. But maybe it should be. It is becoming a common belief that global warming is real, and it is a problem that will continually get worse if nothing is done to resolve it.
The University of Louisville baseball team has had a few early tests this year. But the biggest test comes tomorrow, when the University of Kentucky travels to Louisville for an in-state rivalry showdown. UK will come in as one of the top-15 teams in the nation, and the Cardinals, who lost a 3-1 nail biter to UK last year, are playing their best ball of the season, arguably.
