Category Archives: U of L

U of L trumps Harvard in LGBT studies

June 4, 2009 – 3:35 pm

Yesterday The New York Times reported that Harvard University was endowing a visiting professor in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies, a position the Ivy League giant believed was the first at an American college. But it turns out Harvard was wrong: The Associated Press pointed out that in fact the University of Louisville had the first [...]

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“The Thinker”

May 29, 2009 – 9:42 am

Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Thinker” on U of L’s campus will continue to be the color green instead of bronze. There are no funds set aside for its renovation in the operations budget portion of the university’s Master Plan.

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Updates from the “Being Seen and Being Green” forum

April 20, 2009 – 9:27 pm

The “Being Seen and Being Green” forum at the Speed Art Museum on Friday, April 17 had three speakers: Dan Jones of 21st Century Parks, U of L Provost Shirley Willihnganz and wHY principle architect Kulapat Yantrasast (wHY is doing the Speed’s expansion).
Jones told the audience that 21st Century Parks (www.21parks.org) is “The finest urban [...]

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Art attack!

April 5, 2009 – 11:08 pm

 
Sculptor Ed Hamilton will be at U of L’s Cressman Center for Visual Art, 100 E. Main St., on Wednesday, April 8 at 6:30 p.m. This will be his first time experimenting with hot glass. Free and open to the public. Call 852-0288 or visit www.art.louisville.edu/cressman_center.html for more information.
 
 

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Lunchbox: Meet the Cheneys

November 13, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Eat it: Fallout at the University of Louisville over the mandatory student meal plan being forced on students was the genesis of a nice piece in the student newspaper, The Cardinal, on how other students across North American universities are facing the same issue. Meanwhile, the U of L students’ opposition to the food plan is growing.
Patrick’s U of [...]

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Uh oh U of L

November 6, 2008 – 1:12 pm

Patrick Henry Hughes, perhaps the second-most recognizable face of U of L athletic-related activities (Ricky baby!), is all kinds of pissed about new-ish Pep Band rules that effectively ban him from participating. It all centers on U of L’s decision a couple years ago to move the Pep Band under the umbrella of the Athletic [...]

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U of L ‘outraged’ over records release @ PageOneKY

September 29, 2008 – 7:25 pm

Via a press release issued this morning, University of Louisville Provost Shirley Willihnganz says she is outraged over the leaking of university information about a degree program and a student’s academic career posted on a local blog.The story, published on PageOneKY, was about another questionable degree awarded by the university’s School of Education & Human [...]

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