A television shows success can often be attributed to how it is marketed to the sexes. Case in point: "Prison Break," Fox's successful action-adventure series, which airs Mondays from 8-9 p.m., and keeps audiences coming back for more. "Prison Break," which debuted in fall 2005, chronicles the story of two brothers, Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows.
Pictures of celebrities used to be images of impeccable beauty and glamour. There is nothing beautiful about emaciated stick figures whose lives and perfect appearances are crumbling to bits, though. Celebrity news has also drastically changed. It used to be that when celebrities had a drug addiction or eating disorder they would disappear while feigning an injury or something else to that effect, hoping not to draw attention to themselves.
With the Big Dance on the horizon and the fact that we will not be coming out with an issue next week due to Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis' favorite time of the year, I thought I would give everyone a little advice on how to pick the winning bracket.
The University of Louisville basketball team gave the senior class one last victory at Freedom Hall. The Cardinals, who celebrated Senior Day, beat Seton Hall University 86-71 in front of a sea of 19,712 fans clad in red. The senior class has seen the ups and downs of Louisville basketball.
It's a cold March morning, an gasoline rich smell fills the air, with the engine revving up to 8,000 rotations per minute. Tires squeal as the car lunges from the start and off in to the course. As the car dodges cones left and right it nicks one and sends it flying, then makes a hairpin turn as the driver experiences two times his body weight pressing against him.
Candidates for the 2007-08 Student Government Association offices squared off in heated debates Tuesday night in the Floyd Theatre.
Contrary to popular belief, college guys are scared of things, just like everyone else. Guys have very similar fears in life to girls, and while girls might wear their emotions on their sleeves more often, guys tend to internalize them. The typical college guy may seem aloof and uncaring most of the time and never afraid of anything.
A University of Louisville student reported being robbed at Bradley and Brandeis Avenues to the Louisville Metro Police Department, according to a crime alert from the U of L Department of Public Safety. At 2:15 a.m. on March 2, as the student was walking home she was knocked to the ground, by an unidentified man.
The University of Louisville track and field program competed in the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Ind. this past weekend. The two-day meet was one of six NCAA qualifying meets in the nation over the weekend and the last chance for the U of L athletes to qualify for the NCAA indoor championship.
Student government association elections, at least at this university, are irritating. And not just from this newspaper editor's point of view. They irk me as a student too. This year's candidates, just like those from last year and the year before, are unoriginal.
