Tate Luckey

U of L’s Independent Student Newspaper

U of L’s Independent Student Newspaper

By Tate Luckey and Vinny Porco Where were you this solar eclipse? Those who went eclipsin’ — “‘clipsed up”, so to speak — had varying opinions here in Louisville. Some say it was underwhelming. One U of L senior called it “overrated”. Sophomore Rosie Sparks disagreed. She instead said it “slayed”. Some just flat out didn’t like

By Eleanor Ferguson The U of L African American Theater Program (AATP) put on “The Gem of the Ocean,” in the Belknap Playhouse. It is directed by Shona Tucker and written by August Wilson. The AATP was founded in 1993 and is the first and only accredited graduate program in African American Theatre in the nation. The

By Tate Luckey It's election season, and that means that it's time for another year of voting for your representatives in the University of Louisville Student Government Association (SGA). The student representatives work directly with their respective college's dean and upper-level faculty to serve as a mouthpiece for student concerns. During the Campus Issues Forum held on

By Tate Luckey University of Louisville President Kim Schatzel issued a statement Monday morning endorsing support of Kentucky college campuses’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. She joins Council on Postsecondary Education President Dr. Aaron Thompson. Her statement comes just five days after the University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto openly opposed anti-diversity legislation making its way

By Tate Luckey It's been about a week since a pipe burst in the School of Music, flooding the third floor of the Comstock Concert Hall on the Belknap Campus. Colt Howell, a senior who works at the front desk of the School of Music, was training a new employee on the night of the incident. It

By Tate Luckey Louisville Athletics announced Wednesday that student-athletes can now sell officially licensed merchandise via the Louisville NIL Store. Athletes on the site have a "digital locker room" featuring a collection of personalized merchandise ranging from graphic tees to comfort hoodies. Customers can shop either by sport or by a specific athlete. A June 2022 trustees

By Hayley Benson President Biden and Vice President Harris released a blueprint on June 24th, 2022 for addressing the maternal mortality rate. In the Refinery29 episode of The Terrifying Threat to Pregnant Black Women & Their Babies, medical professionals stated that

By Sarah DeGeorge For the first four Thursdays of November, 21c Museum Hotel is offering free guided art tours of “Fragile Figures: Beings and Time.” Locals and travelers alike should take advantage of the opportunity to get a deeper look at the exhibit before it ends next month. Curated by Museum Director Alice Gray Stites, the exhibit

By Tate Luckey Homecoming King and Queen voting is now open for all students and closes on October 16th at 11:45 p.m. As of Friday, 825 students have voted. Students can pick their top 3 choices via Engage. The top 5 candidates will be announced during the Cardinal Cookout at the Red Barn Plaza on

By Tate Luckey Despite the warm weather, students and staff in need of a flu shot are finally able to get a vaccine just in time for the advent of flu season. Below is the chart for when injections are available at each campus. According to Dr. Phillip Bressoud, the executive director of Campus Health Services, the

By Tate Luckey With the help of Boston firm Sasaki, U of L has unveiled its first renderings of a 20-year campus "master plan". The master plan is designed to "incorporate building conditions assessments, space utilization analyses, physical site analyses, and input from the UofL community to provide a comprehensive vision for development, landscape and open

By Tate Luckey Denny Crum, who over the course of three decades led the University of Louisville basketball program to six Final Fours, two national championships, and a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction in 1994, died last Tuesday. He was 86 years old. His visitation and funeral were held at Southeast Christian Church on Monday;

By Tate Luckey and Anthony Riley With a time of 2:01:57, Mage, ridden by Venezuelan jockey Javier Castellano and trained by Gustavo Delgado, is the winner of the 149th Kentucky Derby. After a ten-day stretch that was riddled with a total of seven horse deaths and five

By Tate Luckey The University of Louisville released a statement Sunday morning stating they are investigating an incident of animal cruelty done by an off-campus J. B. Speed School of Engineering student.  The videos- found on Reddit- involve harm to baby chicks, including being air fried and hung from the ceiling. In videos on the student's

By Tate Luckey Pending approval by the U of L Board of Trustees, Dayna Touron, UNC Greensboro associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and psychology professor, is set to become the new dean of the U of L College of Arts & Sciences. Her tenure begins July 1st, replacing interim dean David Owen;

By Tate Luckey In a bit of surprise to the U of L community, executive vice president and provost Dr. Lori Stewart Gonzalez is set to serve as the 23rd President of Ohio University, effective July 1. This comes after being named a finalist a few weeks prior. She is set to be the

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By Tate Luckey and Joe Wilson On Feb. 27 the University of Louisville released a statement addressing their awareness of two incidents in which "transgender students were treated in a way that did not uphold our commitment as a community of care." Among the universal scrutiny in comments, many were unaware of what exactly led to