Living outside the great Commonwealth of Kentucky for much of my life, the Kentucky Derby was about the only time Louisville crossed the radar of my attention span. For one Saturday in May, everyone from Miami to Las Vegas can offer a supremely confident...
The Brown and Williamson Club at the University of Louisville was filled to capacity on Friday, April 9 as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech sponsored by the McConnell Center.
It started with Oprah Winfrey. (Well, everything usually does.) She exposed them on her talk show and allowed the world to see their homes, which were overwhelmingly cluttered with more items than ever imaginable. These people see the mounds of what...
Outside the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, April 8, students silently held signs showing their support for Karen Britt, a professor who was not recommended for tenure by Provost Shirley Willihnganz. Inside, more students lined the walls, wearing black as a...
When sophomore nursing major Gina Perronie made the decision to enroll in PSYC 363, an honors life-span developmental psychology class, she had no idea that she was registering for an additional commitment outside of the classroom. After registering...
For the University of Louisville baseball team, off to its best start in school history, it's easy to find heroes. While the offensive explosion of junior third baseman Phil Wunderlich and the shut-down relief of junior pitcher Neil Holland have given the
It was once said that there is nothing new under the sun. In today's music industry, this concept is a continuing problem. Whether it be the young teenage girl pretending her crush is Romeo, the grainy-voiced rock star lamenting the one that got away, or the...
What makes a good teacher? Many schools today would argue that it is test scores or pass/fail ratios. Some students might argue that the amount of homework assigned plays a large part. In the end, the answer is simple. The marks of good teachers are the impacts...
Texting while driving is dumb. Passing unjust laws is dumber.
A just law must be applied equally to a population and must not discriminate. The texting ban that recently passed the Kentucky Senate, as part of Senate Bill 23, is...
