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BACKEpic comeback victory saves men’s soccer season

For men’s soccer (7-5-1), Friday night’s 2-1, overtime, comeback victory over then second ranked Syracuse (12-2), was the most important moment of Louisville’s season.

When the Cardinals were losing 1-0 with less than 15 minutes le! in the game nobody knew what to do other than hold their breath. Good thing they did, because the Cardinals determina-tion to win would leave everyone in Lynn Stadium breathless.

“Coach and the team talked about how today is the point, when we look back a!er the season, this is the point that turned the season in the right di-

rection,” freshman mid"elder Tim Kubel recalled. “Coach was saying; ‘guys, you have to "ght for

everyone, for every loose ball, every tackle, every possession we have to give everything we have.’ I just can’t believe it. I am just so full of emotion because it was such an amazing game.”

A penalty kick Syracuse capitalized on in the 54th minute had the Cardinals trailing by one. In the 78th minute Kubel drew a PK that he was able to knock into the top-le! corner to tie the game at 1-1. #en in the 96th minute of sudden-death overtime, Kubel took a free kick from about 30-yards out that connected perfectly o$ the head of junior defender Jerry Ramirez to win the game and complete the comeback.

“It was a set piece, Tim Kubel took the set piece

and I just tried to sprint and beat the defender. It was just a perfect ball and I just had to tap it in and it went in,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez, a 20-year-old from Chihuahua, Mex-ico was a late substitute in the game. #e celebra-tion and energy on the "eld and in the stadium af-ter his game winner was instant and indescribable.

“It’s crazy, we go down but honestly, I was watching from the bench, and the team was "ght-ing. It was unfortunate that they scored the "rst one but we just kept "ghting and I’m just so proud of the guys to "ght through and get the tying goal,” Ramirez said.

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CAMPUS CRIME REPORTSOct. 14- Oct. 17

OCTOBER 14

Location: Bettie Johnson Hall bike rackIncident: Theft under $500 - bicycleDisposition: Report - Open caseComment: A university student reported stolen

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About a month after a student was stabbed near campus, plans for the proposed ‘L Trail’, a safe walkway for students, are beginning to come to-gether in the SGA safety committee.

President James Ramsey’s leader-ship team first announced plans for a walking path on campus called the ‘L Trail’ in a Sept. 9 email. The email defined the path as “safe walking ar-eas on our campuses that will be par-ticularly well-lit and patrolled to en-hance security.”

In the weeks following this an-nouncement, SGA Services Vice President Morgan Cooksey has worked with University of Louis-ville Police officers and SGA’s safety committee to create a plan for the ‘L Trail.’ Student representatives from the safety committee walked through campus with ULPD to identify areas of safety risks.

“As of now, we plan to have the ‘L Trail’ reach from Ekstrom Library, through the Life Sciences breezeway to the College of Business, across Third Street, extend past the Ville Grill to Kurz Hall, then finally reach and end at Bettie Johnson Hall and the Chevron Lot,” said Cooksey.

The safety committee found that this path was the most trafficked route after dark. The committee foresees the pathway from Ekstrom to the Chevron Lot as phase one. Phase two will extend to walkways between Ekstrom and Speed School and create a second ‘L Trail’ at HSC.

The current plan is to install brighter bulbs in existing light posts and build new, taller structures in the future. The safety committee also ad-vocates cutting back trees along the trail that may block these lights.

“I understand that sustainability is important,” said Cooksey. “We al-most have to choose the lights that might use a little bit more energy, but if they are brighter and safer for

students, it is a sacrifice.”SGA is modeling their plans for

the trail off of a similar initiative at the University of Kentucky, called the Cat’s Path. The Cat’s Path has been on UK’s campus since 2005. Ac-cording to UK’s Police Department website, police patrol the Cat’s Path in golf carts and on foot. The pave-ment of the path is also marked with blue paw prints.

Members of the safety committee contacted UK’s SGA about the long-term success of the Cat’s Path.

“They said initially, when it was first installed, it was more popular, and it has not really been up kept,” said Cooksey.

Cooksey said financial solutions like adding a line item to the budget or a having a contract with an outside funder would contribute to the long-term success of the trail. She is also working with ULPD to see how U of L can reallocate funds from the blue lights to the ‘L Trail’.

“In the past 10 years, (the blue lights) have been used a total of five times,” said Cooksey. “One sugges-tion ULPD has offered to us is tak-ing out the phones from those poles, because the maintenance of those phones is about $50,000 to $60,000 a year.”

Until there is further research about costs and funding, the plans for the ‘L Trail’ are tentative.

“We are still in the development stages, but students will hopefully see the completion of phase one on the Belknap campus by May,” said Cook-sey.

The ‘L Trail’ is one feature of the safety committee’s Student Safety Resolution. SGA also plans to bring students a user-friendly safety app, education about sexual assault pre-vention and better outreach about safety resources on campus.

The safety committee will present the Student Safety Resolution to the SGA Senate on Oct. 21.

MAP BY SIMON ISHAMThis map includes the tentative route of the ‘L Trail’

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U OF L NAMED MILITARY FRIENDLY SIX YEARS IN A ROWA publishing company that helps military veterans move into the civilian workforce has named U of L a military friendly school for 2015. Victory Media Inc. identifies the top 20 percent of U.S. colleges, universities and trade schools that do the most to recruit veterans and help them become successful students. U of L helps veterans and their families find financial aid, works with them to ensure they receive full transfer credit when they enter a school and helps them when they need to withdraw from or resume classes due to deployment. Veterans at U of L are also eligible for free job counseling and discounted childcare.

BELLE OF LOUISVILLE CELEBRATES BIRTHDAYThe Belle is the oldest operating Mississippi Riv-er-style steamboat in the world and celebrated its one hundreth birthday on Oct. 18. The week-long celebration brought thousands of people and 16 riverboats to Louisville. Budget cuts to the water-front threatened the festival, but Chairman Neville Blakemore says the community rallied to make it bigger and better. The Belle was built in 1914 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was originally named Idlewild. The Belle was named a National Historic Landmark on June 30, 1989.

HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?Sunny side up? Scrambled? Fertilized? How about frozen? Facebook and Apple are now paying for their female employees to be able to freeze their eggs. Facebook has already begun and Apple will start in January. Since having a time-consuming career and children can get in the way of having a family, these companies are allowing women the chance to put a hold on their fertility and have the eggs ready for when they want to have kids. The procedure costs add up to $10,000, and can include a $500 annual fee for storage.

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U of L President James Ramsey discussed the challenges facing the university in a cam-pus forum to update the faculty on the prog-ress of the University of the 21st Century Initiative. The Floyd Theater was less than half full of faculty and staff for the event.

According to Ramsey, U of L is being held accountable by the Council on Postsecondary Education and Board of Trustees and is on a trajectory to increase academic standards. He followed many of the themes used in his state of the university address and shared statistics on six-year graduation rate and ACT scores, which are becoming a common sight at similar U of L forums and events. However, he said, this trajectory is not without economic chal-lenges.

“It has not been easy and it is not going to get any easier,” said Ramsey. “I do not see a very bright horizon in terms of state appro-priations.”

State funding has seen a significant decrease

in recent years, causing the university to look to capital campaigns, research funding, higher tuition and intellectual property rights. Ac-cording to Ramsey, higher education may even see another cut on top of the one passed by the 2014 Ky. General Assembly.

“We could take another cut this year,” he said. “We are not very high on the pecking order when it comes to public policy.”

The evnt also discussed carious pilot pro-grams, such as the GE FirstBuild microfactory and the Belknap Research Park.

“This is about multidisciplinary co-cre-ation,” said Speed School dean Neville Pinto, discussing how the way products are manu-factured has completely changed thanks to developments such as 3D printing.

At the close of the event, faculty members were given the opportunity to ask questions or express concerns.

Most of the concerns were shared by Arts and Sciences professors, who were worried about funding for their scholarship, speci!-cally in the less-funded arts areas.

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As U of L enters the ACC, peer pressure is being placed upon the university to increase its academic standards. One of the major ele-ments of this is the six-year graduation rate.

According to U of L’s preliminary data, the six-year graduation rate for 2014 is 53.6 per-cent, which is a 23.5 percent increase from the 1998 reporting year. U of L has also gone from having the lowest graduation rate among Ken-tucky public schools to being second highest.

“Post quantitative indicators would show up as the low end of the ACC schools,” said U of L President James Ramsey. “Still, those same indicators would show we have made tremen-dous progress over time - our goal is to contin-ue to make progress and in fact, several of the ACC schools are what we call our aspirational peers.”

Dale Billingsley, vice provost for under-graduate affairs, credits this growth to initia-tives such as the flight plan, welcome week and on-campus housing requirements.

However, retention is still an issue at U of L, despite these initiatives.

“The biggest drop for us is after the first year,” he said. “Something about college does not fit into their lives very well.”

According to Billingsley, only one in three students who do not return respond to exit in-terviews.

“The ones who do respond will say that they had academic problems, that they had financial problems or that they had personal problems,”

he said.He said that the first two problems are easy

to determine, while the last one can vary great-ly.

“In general, students who come in with a major in mind, and are admitted to the aca-demic unit where that major is offered, tend to stay at school more than students who come into school without a major,” said Billingsley.

The flight plan was designed to encourage students to come in with a plan.

“That’s what flight plan was meant to do,” he said.

Billingsley also mentioned that going for-ward, advising will develop new tools to help students create a flight plan

“The kind of information we can get by looking at the whole database of grades and student performance, will probably tell us that if you think you are going to be a history ma-jor and you got a C minus in history 101, the chances of you finishing that degree are very low,” said Billingsley. “That’s a ways down the way.”

This method, called predictive analytics, will one day help students make advising choices based on statistical data.

Going forward, the university will continue to focus on raising retention rates to the state goal of 60 percent.

“A lot of students are not concerned about retention,” said Billingsley. “This is really a concern for the university partly because the state looks at it.”

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Ramsey looks to the future in forum

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The U of L Free Store has now been open for one year, and although the room itself resembles a closet, the ideas behind it are global. The Free Store, founded on principles of sus-tainability, seeks to provide sustain-able solutions on U of L’s campus.

“Sustainability is a great way to avoid waste in landfills,” said Justin Mog, assistant provost for sustain-ability initiatives.

The store, found in the basement of Unitas Tower, intends to do just that.

“There are so many clothes in this world already, and I know there is something in that free store that can fit me, that can look good and can fit any occasion,” said co-founder Laura Krauser. “A lot of times the most sus-tainable decisions you can make are extremely financially feasible, which is a great reason why the free store exists.”

“School is expensive, and many students find themselves in desperate situations, so having the free store is one way of keeping U of L affordable and accessible,” said Mog.

In addition to carrying clothing, books and dinnerware, the free store recently added non-perishable goods to the growing inventory of items.

“We work with U of L Housing in many different ways, but one of them is with this initiative of non-perishable foods, because they had two or three reports of students that were struggling to keep food on the table,” said Krauser

Due to different meal plan ar-rangements, some students are un-able to financially adjust. “It is off and on-campus students,” she said.

As the weather changes, and win-ter approaches, the free store initia-tives will be important to many U of L students. Besides providing a place to obtain items, the free store also ac-cepts donations.

“Our free store donation hours are the same time as the shop hours, which is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays,” said Krauser. “We most recently just invested in a bin to keep outside of the free store, so that peo-ple can donate all the time, just so it is more accessible for people to do-nate.”

Looking to the future, possible space will be opening in the old gym in the Student Activities Center, which could allow for more space and better accessibility to the store.

However, the more immediate need is more volunteer staff.

“Right now we only have five peo-ple, and could really benefit from a few extra people,” said Krauser.

Mog also expressed hope for fu-ture staff initiatives.

“It would be nice to see a possible work-study program take over and help evolve the free store,” said Mog.

The store is considered to be a point of pride for the Sustainability Initiative on campus,

“Of course, I am thrilled that U of L students have taken the initiative to start a free store,” said Mog.

Two weeks ago, the Ville Grill re-ceived a failing grade from the Lou-isville Metro Health Department due to numerous minor issues. Employ-ees left personal belongings behind the serving line, and log books detail-ing machine records were left blank during closed periods. The blank re-cords were seen as incomplete.

After the C rating, students be-came worried about the quality of the food, which most believed was not high quality to begin with, after rumors spread about incorrect food handling practices. A week later, an-other inspection was performed and the Ville Grill received an A with a score of 100 percent.

“We were relieved the C score was not due to food handling practices.” said Sodexo Marketing and Sustain-ability Coordinator Charlie Cla-baugh. “We reviewed all of the audits and safety guidelines and made sure all of our supervisors were re-certi-fied in order to be ready for this in-

spection.”The Ville Grill also received a C

during last year’s inspection, their only other C. This was the result of a low-temperature dish washing machine. According to Sodexo, ev-ery other grade received by the Ville Grill was an A.

Some students refused to visit the Ville Grill when it had a C and are not convinced by the newly awarded A. Since the Ville Grill is one of few dining options on campus that accept meal swipes, it remained a popular food destination for most students.

“It has not killed me yet.” said John Francisco, freshman bioengineering major. “I am pretty comfortable with it since I watch them make my food.”

According to U of L Dining, they hold student health as a priority over anything else and understand that most students depend on them as a food source.

“We want feedback. We have Facebook, Twitter and comment cards.” said Clabaugh. “We are al-ways looking for suggestions on how to make the dining services better.”

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Know Your Cardinals: Lotta Kahlert NOAH [email protected]

Field Hockey’s sophomore midfielder contributes to a historic season If you watched Lotta Kahlert play

field hockey, you would think she was

strictly business and honestly a little

bit intimidating. She scored the Cards’

first goal of the year just two minutes

into the season opener against St. Lou-

is. Her six goals have helped the Cards

kick in the ACC’s door en route to

their current 11-4 record.

But the truth is the sophomore from

Hamburg, Germany is just a happy-

go-lucky, down to earth sweetheart

who happens to be a very skilled player

on a very good team.

“I started playing when I was ten,

which in Germany is pretty late. A lot

of people start playing when they’re

like four because there are field hockey

families who give them their sticks be-

fore they can even run. I came in pretty

late because nobody plays field hockey

in my family,” Kahlert explains. “My

best friend basically dragged me to

practice one time and I just liked it so

I stayed.”

You’ll come to learn that Kahlert

doesn’t stress on too many

things. She does what makes

sense and does what feels right.

She started her athletic career

much later in life than most

division one athletes, but she

wasn’t worried about making

a career out of field hockey.

She just wanted to have fun.

“When I was younger,

I was like basically a boy. I

would just play soccer with

the guys all afternoon, but I

never actually joined a club

in anything even though I

would run around and play so

many sports. So that was the first

time I actually had the ambition to

start something in a club. I liked

the girls and just had fun.

“Plus, we only practiced

twice during the week and

had games on the week-

end. So it was very relaxed,

you just go there, see your

friends and hang out, it’s really nice,”

Kahlert said with a humorous

grin.

It was around the age of 15

in the German champion-

ships that Kahlert became

aware of her knack for

the game and that others

took notice of her. But

without breaking char-

acter, it was in true Lotta

fashion.

“My team in Ham-

burg, we weren’t one of

the best clubs even in

our city, so we were al-

ways the underdogs in

everything. The first

time we made it

into the German

championships

we ended up

winning the

game that

we really were

not supposed to

win, like at all, I don’t

know how we did it. And then we

made it to the elite eight and won that

game too and we were like completely

confused, it was funny. We were com-

pletely the underdog team and nobody

knew how we did it, it was actually re-

ally cute looking back on it.

“After that run I ended up getting

selected to the state team for my age

group and the age group above me. I

don’t even know how that happened,

because I was always just like chilling, I

don’t know, it just happened.”

Despite her modesty, Kahlert

earned all her accolades. The natural

goal scorer has risen to her coaching

staff’s challenge of hard work and de-

termination. As a role player her fresh-

man year, Kahlert scored one goal and

made three assists. This year many of

her goals have gone unassisted, given

her natural knack for slicing up de-

fenses. But the youthful spirit and skill

Kahlert brought to Louisville almost

never made it here at all, if it weren’t

for the last minute push U of L made

in recruiting her.

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“They were literally like, ‘You can come this weekend.’ And I was like, ‘Wait, you’re paying me to fly over to America, where I have never been before in my life, just to hang out on your campus, buy me food and then send me away again?’ They were like, ‘Yeah.’ So I said, Sure I’ll do that.’ It was so funny. It was at the end of May, which is so late, nobody commits that late. They did a really good job recruiting, they were all over it.” Kahlert acknowledged.

Kahlert had offers from the top field hockey schools in the nation, including Northwestern, Virginia and North Carolina. But when it came down to choosing her school it wasn’t just com-ing into a powerhouse and keeping the tradition that intrigued her, it was creating a powerhouse and building tradition.

“At that time Louisville was ranked about 25 or 27 in the country. I thought that was a cool thing because you could still make it to a higher ranking, you know, underdog. I didn’t want to go to number one, it was weird. When I saw that I got offers from other teams that were re-ally good, it just didn’t really appeal to me to go to the number one or number five team at that time.”

Kahlert sure does have some foresight. Her freshman year, the Cardinals went 15-4 and made it to as high a ranking as 14. Despite the success, the Cards entered this season over-looked by many. But, after making it to as high as a number five ranking and beating multiple top 15 teams, including number one UNC, it’s clear Kahlert’s mission to help Louisville climb the national ladder is being achieved.

Kahlert alone is hardly the key to Louisville’s success though. She is one of eight players to score at least three goals and is one of four play-ers to score at least six.

“This year we have a lot of goal scorers, its not just a few people who score all the time. We don’t have stars on the team. We obviously have players that work their butts off every single game and our seniors are amazing but everyone

Sophomore midfielder Lotta Kahlert hails from Hamburg, Germany. The Hamburger has been an important part of field hockey’s success, defeating multiple ranked teams en route to their cur-rent 15-4 record. PHOTOS BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

else is too. We have this super high work rate and we all work for each other, which makes the difference,” Kahlert explains.

“Other teams have stars that they depend on and when scouting them we find their key play-ers to take care of. But we always think what would they do for our team, can they say key players? Because what defines us is we are a team, it’s not like we have our superstars that just dribble through everyone for these amazing goals, we just work hard for every one.”

Despite Kahlert’s positive, seemingly carefree attitude, it is clear that she cares about her team and Louisville.

Last year, despite suffering but one confer-ence loss and going 15-4, Louisville field hockey did not make the NCAA tournament. With only 16 entries to the tournament you truly have to earn it to make it in. This year, Kahlert and the Louisville Cardinals aren’t going to let anybody say they didn’t earn it.

“Last year we got kicked out basically as the one team that didn’t make it. We were just sit-ting there watching in the locker room and our name didn’t show up. Team names popped up and it was just: not us, not us, not us and then it was over. We all sat there staring at the screen and it was just the worst feeling,” Kahlert de-scribed.

“We could have gotten in but it just didn’t happen. We basically didn’t take enough care of what we were doing in the regular season. We have to value every single game we play and this year we have been trying to do that. See the importance of every single opponent, of the St. Louis’ and UNC’s, and just have the same men-tality going against everybody.” Kahlert has scored six goals on the season.

Kahlert is spirited as she jumps into goalkeeper Sydney King’s arms to celebrate a victory over then top 15 ranked Michigan.

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2-1 come-from-behind victory over No. 2 Syracuse COMEBACK, FROM COVER

“That’s the worst moment, when you are down 1-0, but you know, it just shows the character that this team has. We lost our way a little bit but I think this is going to be the first step of the great things coming, so I really trust this team moving forward,” he said.

After making a splash in the ACC and reaching a number five overall ranking everything turned south. Louisville went on a four game los-ing streak in which the Cardinal’s were outscored 9-3.

A gritty, home game 2-1 victory over Florida Gulf Coast ended the losing streak but put no one in Card Nation at ease.

It was now or never to really turn the season back on the track that the 6-1-1 Cardinals were on. The vic-tory was a testament to the determi-nation of the Cardinals to get back to U of L soccer and take fate into their own hands.

“We had been talking all these past two weeks about what we had to look like, making sure that re-gardless of the results we are a team that is willing to fight, compete, play for each other and persevere all the way down to the last whistle and I thought that was the best part of to-night,” head coach Ken Lolla said.

“The penalty that they got was a little bit soft and unfortunately but I thought we carried the game from that point. I thought we earned the penalty on the other end and certain-

“It just feels really good man, all your teammates, you practice with them almost every day and just to get to celebrate like that is just amazing. I’m so thankful.” -- Ramirez on his game winning goal.

Freshman midfielder Tim Kubel, above, never gave up on his team. Losing 1-0, Kubel drew a penalty kick in the 78th minute that he connected on to tie the game. His set piece in overtime ended up being the game winning assist. PHOTOS BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

ly at the end of the game I thought we did enough to win it. In all of that, how we did it, I thought was most important. If somebody came out, and we didn’t have Louisville on the chest tonight, they would have seen us play and said, ‘That’s Louisville.’

This victory turns the Cards’ sea-son around. It could be the thing that

brings back conversations of a po-tential national championship run.

“It does a lot, but we just have to keep fighting. We just have to come back to training and continue be-cause this is going to give us a lot of momentum. We just have to be fo-cused, keep our feet on the ground and just keep fighting,” Ramirez said.

Considering the team effort it took to win, it is still worth men-tioning the individual responsibility freshman Tim Kubel took on. Not only in the comeback but through-out the losing streak as well. Of the three goals scored over the losing streak Kubel had two. When a push needed to be made against Syracuse, Kubel made it happen with the game tying goal in regulation and the un-believable, game-winning assist in over-time.

“His experience is wonderful, his savvy, his understanding of the game, he’s dangerous. Whether its serving balls or striking balls on goal, he’s been very valuable,” Lolla said.

The 21-year-old from Stuttgart, Germany has played in high levels of competition before but has never been a part of such a team as this.

“The first two games we lost, we

played really well, we had our oppor-tunities but we just missed on scoring goals. I always knew the potential of the team and I knew the potential of the coaching staff. The mentality of the practices the last two weeks was unbelievable, everyone was forced to give their best and more and that is the most important part,” Kubel ex-claimed. “Scoring the goal in over-time was like a dream. The fans, the atmosphere is a big compliment to all the fans, it was tremendous. In my whole career I’ve never seen some-thing like that, it was amazing; I can’t describe it.”

For Louisville, this win may prove to be a historic part of not only their season, but for the soccer program.

“Tonight was hard fought and had some grit to it,” Lolla said. “I think right now, in the season, where we are, you have to find ways to win games. It may not be the prettiest but I’m proud of our guys for how they went about doing it and what they did to get the result. It was one of those moments for Lynn Stadium. As we continue to build the pro-gram, I think it’s a special moment.”

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Eight weeks in, figure out your football teamSAM [email protected]

After a 30-18 victory over N.C. State

on Saturday, Louisville (6-2) heads into a

bye week bowl eligible, with two thirds

of the season complete.

Coming into the season, the Cardi-

nal offense was an expected strength

with the return of offensive mastermind

Bobby Petrino paired with an impres-

sive spring game by quarterback Will

Gardner.

So far, the offense and quarter-

back play have both been inconsistent.

Through eight games, Louisville is aver-

aging 30.9 points per game and a pedes-

trian 370 yards of total offense.

Petrino’s potentially pass heavy of-

fense hasn’t been able to generate chunks

of yards through the air this season, av-

eraging just 226 passing yards per game.

Gardner and freshman Reggie Bon-

nafon have shared time at quarterback,

but both have fought through growing

pains.

Against N.C. State, Gardner complet-

ed 21 of 36 passes for 203 yards and two

touchdowns.

Petrino was pleased with Gardner’s

performance on Saturday. The sopho-

more’s completion percentage sits at

57.3 percent and he has an impressive

11:2 touchdown to interception ratio.

“He did some real good things. He

got us in the end zone, particularly right

before the half, which was great to see,”

Petrino said. “We left a few out there. I

think we missed a couple early where we

had chances for big plays or touchdowns.

But he was good on the sidelines and he

did a good job of being into the game.”

After Gardner’s knee injury against

Florida International University, Bon-

nafon started three consecutive games,

but was replaced by Gardner in the sec-

ond half at Clemson.

Bonnafon helped to lead the Cardi-

nals to two conference victories against

Wake Forest and Syracuse. The fresh-

man has thrown for 593 yards and two

touchdowns while completing 54 per-

cent of his passes.

He appeared several times against

N.C. State in a power run package, rush-

ing for 13 yards on two carries.

The quarterbacks will have their top

target back with the return of DeVante

Parker. The senior wide receiver broke

a bone in his foot two weeks before the

start of the regular season and has been

working his way back ever since.

In his season debut, Parker tied his

career high of nine receptions good for

132 yards.

“It obviously makes us a lot better.

When you get one-on-one coverage,

and you’ve got a guy that everyone be-

lieves in. And he’ll win and catch the

ball,” Petrino said.

“When I talk to him he says he’s good

and that he is ready to go. He had over

100 yards tonight so he’s getting there,”

Gardner said. “I expect to see bigger

things in the future.”

With the inconsistent quarterback

play, the offense has relied on a strong

stable of running backs to carry the

workload.

Michael Dyer ran for 173 yards on

24 carries against N.C. State, the fourth

Cardinal ball carrier to reach the 100-

yard mark in a game this season.

Dominique Brown ran for 143 yards

against Miami and then L.J. Scott fol-

lowed it up with 126 yards the next week

against Murray State. Brandon Radcliff

proved to be a workhorse against Wake

Forest and Syracuse, rushing for 129 and

110 yards respectively.

“I think the thing I’ve always felt about

college football is the running backs are

the guys that take all the hits and they’re

the guys that get nicked up and you need

to have a good stable of them,” Petrino

said. “Brandon Radcliff, he couldn’t go in

the second half. He’s been battling a turf

toe and it really got sore so he couldn’t

even go back in there of kickoff return in

the second half.

“L.J.’s battled an ankle. Dom’s battled

an ankle. So you’ve just got to keep work-

ing them. They understand that they go

to practice, practice hard and, if they get

hot, we’re going to give them the ball.”

Despite returning 121 career starts on

the offensive line, the unit has struggled

at times during the year, pre-snap pen-

alties and miscommunications have

plagued the line throughout the season.

Though all the blame cannot be

placed on the offensive line, Louisville

quarterbacks have already been sacked

26 times through eight games this year,

totaling last season’s amount over a 13

game schedule.

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Different players have been shuffled to different spots during the year while a few new faces have debuted too.

Jake Smith, John Miller and Jamon Brown have started every game this season, but Ryan Mack, Skylar Lacy, Aaron Epps and Tobiah Hughley have also started alongside of them.

Epps made his first career start Sat-urday against N.C. State.

“I was excited for Aaron (Epps). He’s worked extremely hard. I think he did a good job when you look at the way we protected the quarterback for the most part, and we got our run-ning game going better,” Petrino said. “He’s a guy that works extremely hard in practices. Always has a positive at-titude, and it’s good to see him come in and have success.”

Heading into the final four games, Petrino admits the offense still needs to improve to give the team a chance to win tough games.

“We’re just a work in progress. We’re trying to get where we’re better. It’s fun to see us be better out there and feel more comfortable with mixing things up and calling plays and doing that,” Petrino said. “But we still have a long way to go to get where we need to be.”

With the offensive’s struggles, the

Cardinal defense has carried the team through the first eight games.

Todd Grantham’s 3-4 defensive scheme has frustrated opposing of-fenses and vaulted Louisville to a na-tionally ranked defense.

The defense is holding teams to 14.6 points per game and went 17 quarters without allowing an offensive touch-down.

The run defense has been phenom-enal, holding opponents to just 68.8 yards per game and 2.3 yards per carry.

Lorenzo Mauldin, the face of the Cardinal defense has not disappointed after deciding to return for his senior year. Moving to linebacker, Mauldin has shown his versatility while re-maining productive. Through eight games, he has six sacks, 11.5 tackles for a loss and 35 total tackles.

Linebackers Keith Kelsey and James Burgess sit first and third on the team in tackles respectively. The two have combined for 95 tackles, six sacks and 12 tackles for a loss.

Going into the year, the second-ary was the biggest concern, but now, Louisville has one of the best back-ends in the country.

Redshirt sophomore safety, Gerod Holliman, leads the nation with eight interceptions to go along with his 24

tackles.“As long as I know Hollman is be-

hind me, it just gives me more com-fort. Some plays I just tell him to back me up and as my teammate he respects that standpoint and what I can bring to the game,” junior cornerback Charles Gaines said. “He tells me to do my thing, and we both make plays. I love what he’s doing.”

James Sample, a transfer from Washington, is the team’s second lead-ing tackler with 47 tackles. The junior safety also has three interceptions.

“James (Sample) is a good player. He’s a good football player, and we’re really happy that he’s here. I think he got here in the last part of July. And since he’s been here, his maturity, the way he learns and studies is some-thing you don’t see out of a guy that just gets here,” Petrino said. “I think he made a huge difference in our defense the minute he walked in the door just because of the way he approached the meetings and approached practice, and how quickly he learned. But he can run and tackle, and he does a good job of playing the ball.”

With the return of safety Jermaine Reve, who missed all of spring and summer workouts with a torn ACL, Terrell Floyd can move back to cor-

nerback and play the position along-side of Gaines.

The defense will be tested in the fi-nal weeks of the season against proven quarterbacks like Jameis Winston and Everett Golson.

Special teams have had their set-backs throughout the year, including a dropped punt by James Quick late in the fourth quarter against Virginia and also allowing a punt return touchdown after the opening series at Clemson.

Eli Rogers returned a punt 47 yards against N.C. State and Quick had a 24-yard return early in the year.

Corvin Lamb, who recently tore his ACL and will miss the remainder of the year returned a kick 97 yards for a touchdown against Miami in the opening week.

John Wallace has connected on 11 of 14 field goals, including a career long of 51 yards against Syracuse.

Louisville will face the meat of their schedule in the final four games, facing Florida State at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium October 30, then their final conference game of the year with a road trip to Boston College, followed by a game at Notre Dame after a bye week. The season comes to a close at home against rival Kentucky on Thanksgiving weekend.

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PHOTOS BY JACQUELINE KELLY / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

PHOTO BY LAUREL SLAUGHTER / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

Freshman Maeghan Woodruff styles a lightweight sweater from Forever 21 with leggings, a denim shirt and sweater weather appropriate boots.

English major Louise Atherton opts for her mother’s oversized cardigan from the 80’s. She adds polka dot denim, a floral scarf and red slip-ons for a slightly quirky feel.

Sampson loves his job — something most people can’t say. Of course, Sampson is not like most people. In fact, he is not a person at all. He is the University of Louisville Police Department’s drug dog, but he is not like most drug dogs.

Just hearing the words “drug dog” can strike up images of an aggressive German shepherd cinching down on a victim’s arm. Outside of having similar tasks as other drug dogs, Sampson bears no resemblance to the military type of drug dog. Often found in jovial spirit, friendly and energetic Sampson is a 2-year-old chocolate lab rescue. As Dion Dodson, Sampson’s handler, points out, “Sampson was selected for his non-aggressive attributes,” which is reassuring since he frequently mingles with students.

Once Dodson brings Sampson into the ULPD conference room, he jubilantly identifies David James, ULPD operations commander, and begins licking his hand until he pats him on the head. Obviously familiar with Sampson, James cracks a grin while Sampson tries to do a few circles within the confines of the close space of the room. After a few minutes pass he notices a visitor, cuts across the room, gives him a few sniffs and starts licking his hand.

Although it is easy to get caught up in Sampson’s joyful spirit, he does have a job at U of L: to detect drugs.

“Sampson is trained on marijuana, methamphetamines, cocaine and heroin,” explained Dodson. “He’s strongest on marijuana. Of course, it’s the one that has the most pungent odor of those things.”

There are limitations to what Sampson can detect. Just after the beginning of the fall semester, Dodson and Sampson responded to a call in Miller Hall.

“It obviously was where someone had been smoking,” Dodson said. “Well, the dogs don’t pick up on smoke, they don’t detect marijuana smoke, but the odor of the plant itself.

“It’s an oddball that can pick up on the smoke odor itself. Then it might just be the fact that it’s smoke not just marijuana smoke.”

Much of the reason Sampson can smell specific odors is due to the

training he received while attending Kentucky Lab Rescue in Winchester, Kentucky. According to Dodson, drug detection dogs are selected based whether or not they have a strong ball drive. “They love to chase a ball, so they are actually very good for narcotics detection,” Dodson explained.

During a regular working shift, Dodson will make several stops, generally in a high-profile area on campus, to throw a tennis ball with Sampson. Although throwing a ball can seem more like a leisurely activity, it serves an important function for Sampson. From the very beginning of Sampson’s training he learns to associate the tennis ball with the smell of drugs.

The process begins with the canine being brought into a room with multiple boxes on a wall. One of the boxes will contain drugs. That box will have a tennis ball attached to a rope hanging from it, which will catch the attention of the drug dog. The dog will go after the ball, while someone holding the rope will pull the ball into the box, fighting for the ball will cause the dog to shove his nose into the box and get a full whiff of the drug. After they have mastered sniffing for the drugs without a tennis ball, they progress to being able to indicate the location of drugs.

Sampson’s indicator is to sit down. “He’s actually a passive dog and sits. Now the interesting thing about him is, if narcotics are somewhere they should be easily found, in a cabinet or something of that sort, he’ll usually put his nose right on it, take a couple of steps back and sit down. Well, if he doesn’t get his reward fast enough, he’ll bark.” The reward: his ball.

While being able to detect drugs is his main task, he does have other jobs to perform, such as public relations. As many first year students are aware, Sampson made an appearance at the Blue Light Special during Welcome Week. Before the demonstration, drugs are hidden on the stage, then once Sampson is “cut loose” he sniffs around until he locates the drugs and

sits down.“Everyone’s like (makes a gasping

sound) Wow!” Dodson said. “At freshman orientation day, we sat at the activities center at Strickler and it was like a rock concert. Everybody wanted to come up and shake hands. So he was pretty popular that day.”

Besides being popular and good at drug detection, it’s clear why the University decided to purchase Sampson. Earlier this semester, U of L President James Ramsey sent out a newsletter alerting staff and the student body about campus safety.

“We are seeing a spike in crime right now - much of it driven by the huge growth in heroin usage not only around our campus but throughout our community and the state, and both the U of L Police department and Louisville Metro Police are aggressively working to apprehend the criminals,” Ramsey said.

“You know, there’s a little PR involved, I think,” Dodson said. In light of the recent drug-related crimes committed around campus, especially the drug-induced death of cheerleader Danielle Cogswell in July, as well as the growing pains the University is experiencing due to major expansions in neighboring areas, Sampson embodies a representation of student safety.

“You know, it’s not that we necessarily need to catch somebody,” James said. “As long as we’re preventing people from bringing drugs to campus simply by his presence, then that’s a good thing.”

Outfits ofthe week:Sweater weather

Sampson sniffs out campus contrabandLUCAS [email protected]

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Fantasy football fantasies

For the kids: Trivia night raises money

Going into week seven of the NFL season, I want to share my boldest predictions. You might think they are preposterous and you might deem my credibility in fantasy football worthless, but what would fantasy football be without your own fantasy outcome?

Prediction One: Mark Ingram will eclipse 1,000 rushing yards this season.

Before injuring his thumb in week two against Cleveland, Ingram looked like he was finally reaching his first round potential averaging six yards per carry and leading the league. After missing a month of football, Ingram now says he’s healthy and ready for his breakout year. Even with running backs Khiry Robinson and Pierre Thomas taking away touches, I believe the Saints will rely heavily on Ingram.

Prediction Two: DeMarco Murray will break the single

season rushing record.

After tying with NFL great Jim Brown for most consecutive games, with more than 100 yards rushing and a touchdown, DeMarco Murray looks poised to break Erik Dickerson’s 30-year NFL record for most rushing yards in a season. Murray averages 19.3 points per week and leads all running backs in fantasy football points. After dismantling the Seattle Seahawk’s defense with 146 total yards and a touchdown, this player is capable of the title.

Prediction Three: Andrew Luck will break the record of most passing yards in a season.

Luck leads all quarterbacks in almost every passing statistical category and is on the verge of a record-setting season, surpassing the unfathomable passing record held by soon-to-be Hall of Famer Peyton Manning. On top of that, the Indianapolis Colts are leading the AFC South division and tied second in wins for the AFC conference.

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Mia Jessica Ross is Louisville’s own Aussie runner. Born and raised in Longford, Victoria Australia, Ross is a freshman runner recruited to compete for the track and cross country teams. As excited as she is to run collegiately in the United States, the transition was far from an easy one.

Mia grew up with a supportive mom who encouraged her to participate in any sport that caught her eye. Mia has always been an athlete. After swimming and gymnastics she finally felt a calling to running.

“As a runner, I really want to be here for the long run,” Ross said. “I love competing and personal bests are an amazing feeling, but my main focus is to stay fit, healthy, injury free, happy and slowly keep chipping away one year at a time.”

After deciding where she wanted to attend university, Mia began the application process, which, to her surprise, was complicated.

“Thinking everything was official back in March was a huge mistake,” she said. “We soon realized that the NCAA is very strict towards its guidelines and what should have been an easy process turned into months and months of hard work. Everything takes time and it was time that I needed most.”

The NCAA soon informed her

some of the classes she took over in Australia were only seen as electives in the United States, thus making her ineligible.

She quickly had to take three mandatory classes in a period of six weeks. This meant that she had 12 exams and over 200 assignments to complete before resubmitting her paperwork.

Finally, after completing all the credits needed, Mia resubmitted her papers to the NCAA and was accepted. “I eventually received my Visa, booked my flight for the next day and I was off,” she said. “One long, painful, rushed process.”

Three flights later, totaling a gruesome 20 hours in air, Ross landed in Louisville. Upon arrival, five weeks late into the semester, Ross needed to jump right into her studies and athletic training.

“My first day after I arrived was a huge rush because I had to get registered here at U of L,” she said.

It has now been seven weeks in America and Ross has begun to adapt. One of the main changes is the food. “It’s a huge change, coming from a healthy eating family it has been really hard to eat correctly. There are some options on campus but it’s a struggle to find appropriate meals to refuel an athlete’s body,” Ross explained.

Despite all the chaos, Ross had to go through in order to arrive here, she always has a smile on her face.

At 6 p.m. Wednesday, a crowd of eager participants and spectators clambered into the Red Barn to compete in team-based trivia competitions for Camp Quality, a year-round camp dedicated to serving children afflicted with cancer.

The event was hosted by Honor Students Council, which concerns itself with providing events encouraging honors students to build community.

The competition was structured into six themed rounds of 10 questions. Each question in the first five rounds was worth one point and in the last round, each was worth five. The first question, “What company did Verizon pay an undisclosed

amount of money to in order to use the trademarked name ‘droid’ for their phone?” set the night into motion and the teams, seated around tables, listened intently as the quizmaster questioned them on everything from Hall and Oates to Olympians. The speaker was calm and the participants remained politely quiet, using playful banter to cut the silence.

Answers were imbued onto an answer card after the teams quietly, but anxiously, convened. The answers were then collected, scored, tallied and reported after each round. The top three teams were “The Dolly Partons” with 80 points, “The Little Bobs” with 85 points and “Isreali Hot” with 86 points.

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Mia Rossoutruns her goals

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10. 13. 14Nearly Naked Mile

10. 14. 14Wear Red to be Fed

10. 15. 14Spirit Games

10. 16. 14Homecoming Talent Show

10. 17. 14Homecoming Parade

Home Sweet Homecoming:An overview of Homecoming Week eventsEIMAN [email protected]

PHOTOS COURTESY / U OF L SAB & CONOR SHEA

The Nearly Naked Mile Run was held on Oct. 13. There were eight teams, consisting of different organizations on campus, although, anyone who donated an article of clothing could participate in the run through campus. The clothes collected would later be delivered to the Salvation Army. This event debuted last year, when SAB member Drew Shever first added it

to Spirit Week.“We take all precautions for

safety,” Shever said. “It’s more about the charitable aspect than the competition.”

Participants didn’t have to strip down completely unless they wanted to. Rules stated, “bathing suit areas must be covered.” For those unwilling to bare all, SAB recommended wearing a costume for fun.

Sophomores Shelby Dockery

and Tiffany Chea showed up in matching tutus, ready to walk around campus with their sorority.

“I like this tradition,” Dockery said. “In a way, it promotes self confidence. But you can also wear clothes if you want.”

“It’s also a good stress relief after midterms,” Chea added. As the first event, the Nearly Naked Mile did a great job getting students excited about the upcoming game, despite a looming tornado watch.

Students were encouraged to wear red, not only to show support for their favorite team, but to get free food at the Red Barn. The menu consisted of hotdogs, hamburgers

and veggie burgers. Over 700 people showed up, marking it as one of the biggest turnouts of the week. The volunteers, mostly students in SAB, worked hard to make sure everything went smoothly and everyone was fed. The homecoming

court’s Top Five men and women were also announced at the event: Jared Simpson, Kene Onyekwuluje, Alex Dotsey, Lorenzo Mauldin, Tra Taylor, Allie Funk, Katie George, Katy Ashby, Kristi Knop and Ruthie Wooten.

The Spirit Games were held in the old SAC gym. The same eight teams that participated in the Nearly Naked Mile played in the games as

well. The games consisted of a hula hoop race, egg toss, three-legged race and a few others. The winning team was the Kappa Sigma, Chi Omega and Triangle team.

Sophomore Ben Taussig, also a member of SAB, recalled the Spirit

Games as being his favorite memory from this year’s Homecoming week.

“I was really impressed with the turnout,” he said. “There was a lot of energy and everyone was really into it.”

The talent show took place in the SAC Multipurpose Room. It was the highly anticipated talent show, with eight acts.

“I can’t wait to watch it. My excitement has been building up all week,” senior Grant McKenzie

said. He was one of the 450 attendees who came to watch the talent show — a very large crowd, despite other campus events occurring at the same time.

Junior Todd Lucas and freshman Alex Detenber showed up to support their friend, Tombo Owen. Owen was the only act that wasn’t a musical number. Instead,

he opted for a ribbon dance, which received much praise from attendees.

“That was spectacular,” Taussig said, recalling the event.

The winner of the talent show Kappa Delta sorority, with their performance of ‘She Will Be Loved’ with Sigma Chi fraternity.

University of Louisville presented a homecoming parade — the first one in fifteen years. It took place on Cardinal Boulevard. The marching band led the parade, followed by the Louisville Ladybirds, the football players and several floats decorated and celebrated

by different campus organizations.Student Activities Board member

Erin O’Riordan was very happy with the turnout for homecoming week this year and anticipates better things for the future.

“We think [of the events] by reaching out ahead of time, so we can see a better turnout next year,” O’Riordan said. “Most of the events are annual but we are always looking

for ways to make it better.”Drew Shever reminded everyone

that the events are centered around the students. “We try to get the student body involved,” he said. “We want the students to be the center of attention and to increase service in the community.”

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Lawlapalooza, an annual music event at Phoenix Hill Tavern, featured eight bands on Oct. 16. Each band had to have at least one practicing attorney, law student or professor at Brandeis School of Law.

The event started in 2005, and was originally called Battle of the Legal Bands. It was a fundraiser for Brandeis School of Law’s Samuel L. Greenebaum Public Service Program. The fundraiser was intended to grow on an initial gift by the Louisville-Jefferson County Women Lawyers Association, a gift given in memory of Ellen Ewing. As the event grew, the name changed to a more iconic “Lawlapalooza.”

The event is a 21-and-up event, with a different theme every year. This year, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Beatle mania, the theme was “A Brandeis Night”: a play on words on the hit Beatles movie, “A Hard Day’s Night.” Each band had to play at least one Beatles song, but some of the bands decided to truly immerse themselves in the theme and played an entire set of the Beatles’ hits. Typically, each band played a repertoire of various classic rock hits. Some of the favorites

were an energetic rendition of “Take on Me” performed by Irrational Basses and a Queen medley of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen” and “Fat Bottomed Girls.”

All the bands were there for fun, none getting paid and for most of the bands this is the only gig they will play for the entire year.

The band who brought in the most donations received a small trophy. “All the donations go to the Judge Ellen B. Ewing Fund,” event planner James Becker said, “which provides up to $4,000 in summer fellowship funding for a University of Louisville law student to gain valuable practice experience while helping underserved populations by working at the Louisville Legal Aid Society in the areas of family law, domestic violence, spouse abuse and HIV/AIDS.”

Lawyers lay tracks at Lawlapalooza

ELT models strut for empowerment

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PHOTOS BY SEILER SMITH / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

PHOTOS BY GALEN DEMUS / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

Models showcased Louisville’s J. Noir and Bowling Green’s Wolves Premium alongside Purple Kurls from Houston, Texas at the Empowering Ladies Together fashion show. Musician Tatiyana Dean and Braxton preformed “Let It Go.” The student dance group Shades of Movement and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. showcased their dance moves.

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The past two years at the Universi-ty of Louisville I have heard countless students complaining about the late night food options on campus.

As a student at U of L, it is very likely you have had many late nights studying. The majority of students in college are not going to bed at midnight. Most are up into the early hours of the morning. If you are one of the many students who stay up late a fair amount of the time, then you have most likely noticed the lack of late night food options on campus. The latest any restaurant on campus is open is Papa Johns until 2 a.m. Unless you are a huge fan of regularly eating pizza, this is most likely a problem for you.

Almost all of the school admin-istrators would argue that opening up one of two more restaurants is way too costly for the university to handle. Let’s say you hire two work-ers per restaurant, both at minimum

wage, both working shifts from 12 to 8 am. It would be $696 per week that the restaurant would owe to the employees. After the course of a 16 week semester, it would be $11,136 per restaurant in employee fees alone. Next up is the cost of food for the res-taurants.

According to Melynda Dahl, a manager of 17 years at a local Subway, most fast food restaurants pay around $4,000 every two weeks bringing in new inventory. Over the course of a 16 week semester, this is $32 thou-sand in food costs. Without taking into account equipment and operat-ing costs it is roughly around $43,136 per semester for a fast food restaurant on campus to stay in business.

So would the sales of a restaurant cover the operating cost and would the campus be able to turn a profit? Suppose the restaurant has a slow night and only makes about $300 in sales over the course of eight hours. Over the course of a 16 week se-mester, with said restaurant being

open six days a week, the restau-rant would make around $28,800 in sales.

Of course this is on the low end because most nights the restau-rant would make substantially more in sales than $300. After subtracting employee wages and inventory costs from the sales costs, the business would be losing $14,256.

Clearly, the costs of keeping restaurants open late on campus greatly outweigh the profits. Senior Joel Thomas of-fered an idea to the problem.

“Obviously, looking at the big pic-ture, we cannot afford to keep restau-rants on campus open 24/7. However, my suggestion would be for the school to try and do it for one week and see what happens. If they turn a profit, then continue on with it. I think the school will be surprised at how many students will take advantage of the hours.” Joel could most definitely be right. Students could flock to the res-taurants and the school could end up turning a substantial profit.

However, the administrators of our school are “big picture” people. If the administrators see that, in theory, they would lose $14,256 by keeping

some restaurants open 24/7, they will not even consider it. Unfortunately students, it looks as if Papa Johns will be the only late night option for you. Of course, there could be a possible solution out there somewhere. How-ever, it is highly unlikely that there is a solution to a $14,256 problem. My suggestion would be if you have a meal plan to go to bed sooner and wake up early for some Ville Grill breakfast. If you live off campus, then go buy groceries and eat at home. If neither of the options work for you, I would recommend coming up with a solution to the $14,256 problem and contacting President James Ramsey immediately.

Where are they now: Late night food options on campus

SIMON ISHAM/ THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

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Dear Freshmen: Forget what you didn’t learn in high schoolAs mid-terms engulf you and

homework piles up in a mocking sort of pile, the sort that begin to tilt as they tower, you’re probably realiz-ing what you missed out on in high school. I’m not talking about the par-ties (they weren’t that cool anyway), the proms (you can dress up and dance much more cost efficiently) but the knowledge. Yep, the knowledge.

My first year of college really taught me how little high school had. It had prepared me for little more than competitive, standardized test-ing and writing a full paper in func-tional MLA format. It seemed like the best things I learned in high school were more likely things that couldn’t be used much further.

Having been on the road a little lon-ger, I have come to realize that while high school was full of memorization and brand name clothes, I actually graduated with more knowledge than a mild understanding of mathematics and a semi-coherent understanding of American history.

Number one on my list of lessons learned: How to be good at being bad. High school was meant for push-ing the boundaries and finding and abusing any and all loopholes avail-able. I learned how to get the extra mile while only being offered an inch. How to boil the water without letting it spill over on the stove that was our ever-heated, hormone guided adoles-cence.

The real lesson, though, wasn’t that I learned how to go to the party with-out getting chastised, but that I would push, pull and fight to be able to do what I wanted. I realized what was important, if only at the time, and I fought for that. Now, years later, I have realized how easily this trans-lates to my life as a college student. Instead of the extra hour of curfew or

the all-nighter at a friend’s, I am left pushing the boundaries of what I can-not do.

To achieve, we must push at barri-ers that prevent our rising. We have to keep our eyes ahead and set on goals and check points that will move us forward and motivate us positively. We never learned how to be good at being bad, but instead how to be good at what we were passionate about (as misguided and illogical as it may have been).

Paired perfectly is our second les-son: Talking the good talk. To be good at being bad, it was a complete necessity to know what to say, when to say it and how it should be said. It was essential to say, not simply what we thought was wanted from us, but that which was most convincingly honest.

You may think this means telling the boss what he wants to hear or giving an entirely believable excuse to a professor. Wrong, err, fire alarm. Talking the good talk means know-ing when to open your mouth or oth-erwise. As graduation looms closer and closer, I can look back and assure you that the way I have spoken to my bosses and professors has always been appropriately. I never share what shouldn’t be shared and I attempt to listen more than I speak.

Talking the good talk means learn-ing how communication works. How to develop trust and an honorable reputation, how to insert yourself into conversation (live or continuing) and how to champion and appropriately represent yourself through language and communication. Knowledge like this can save your career.

The real lesson, though, is one you are probably discovering as we speak. It would be labeled: Eliminating white space. This lesson originates from the keen ability of high school seniors to fill essay space, short answer blanks

and those last few pages. You all know what I’m talking about.

Filling the excess taught me much more than how to restate an idea five ways or just how far I could push my light understanding of the effects of Webster’s dictionary on developing America. It showed me what I knew, what I knew well and what I didn’t have a clue about. And, happily, this is the best place to be.

Learning to eliminate the white space didn’t mean just knowing how to twist language. It meant know-ing what you did know and build-ing on that, no matter how ludicrous

it might be. When you have a firm foundation, you can build a strong fortress. With the firm, if unattract-ive, foundation of knowledge from high school, you now know the style of knowledge you want, but lack, and you can build it all.

My parents used to say that the squeaky wheel gets the grease and I think that’s right. Once you identify what you do and don’t know, then you can begin learning what is neces-sary. High school may have taught us much more than we thought.

TYLER [email protected]

PHOTO BY SIMON ISHAM/ THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

october 21, 2014: volume 89, no. 8

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