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The Feb. 18, 2014 edition of The Louis-ville Cardinal contained an article entitled “IT accused of discrimination and financial mismanagement.” The article reported in-ternal complaints involving employment practices at the University’s IT Department. The article referred in part to Sherry Roark, the Assistant Director of IT Information Sys-tems who has served as the Interim Director of that department since September 2013. Roark previously filed a lawsuit against The Louisville Cardinal, claiming that certain statements in the article defamed her. Roark later voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit.

Through her attorney, Roark has request-ed a “correction” of the following statements that the article cited from the complaints: (1) that Roark is not qualified for her job; (2) that she has no leadership, technical or people skills; and (3) that she is a “hench-person” for Vice President of IT Dr. Priscilla Hancock.

Roark’s attorney wrote that the job de-scription for Roark’s position requires a Bachelor’s Degree and 10 or more years in related work experience and that Roark meets both of those requirements. The at-torney wrote that Roark has received fa-vorable job evaluations in her 20 years as an employee of the University’s IT Depart-ment, including favorable evaluations of her leadership, technical and people skills. Roark’s attorney also wrote that she has re-ceived extensive training in the field of In-formation Technology, including training in leadership, technology and people skills.

According to the attorney, the term “hench-person” incorrectly described Roark because it suggested that she has performed unpleasant, wrong or illegal tasks for Dr. Hancock, and there is no allegation that Roark actually engaged in any discrimina-tion or mismanagement on behalf of Dr. Hancock. The attorney also wrote that Roark was not involved in the IT depart-ment’s decision to use Oracle Managed Ser-vices and outsource a portion of PeopleSoft support to India.

Attorney for SherryRoark requests ‘correction’

U of L officials have announced a plan to increase security on the Belknap and Health Sciences campus-es in response to recent criminal activity. The main provision in the plan is the immediate addition of four security and four police officers to patrol both campuses.

According to U of L spokesman Mark Hebert, “Pa-trol concentration will be all over the two campuses but mainly next to the Ville Grill and the Cardinal Towne area on the Belknap campus.” The plan is set to cost $300,000.

In recent months, violent crimes such as a shoot-

ing near the HSC campus and a stabbing in Old Louisville have led to student concern for safety on campus. According to an email from the president’s leadership team, the university is currently experi-encing a spike in crime. The email cited a growth in heroin usage as a driver of the crime wave.

“The violent nature of recent crimes near campus (three) and on campus (one) caused increased con-cern among university leaders and U of L police, prompting the immediate, proactive measures,” said Hebert.

Attorney for Sherry Roark requests ‘correction’CRIME WAVE U of L TO STEP UP POLICE PRESENCE; HEROIN CITED AS CAUSE

HEROIN, PAGE 5IT SHOULDN’T TAKE A STABBING, PAGE 15

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Louisville’s men’s soccer team beat Duke 5-0 in Lynn Stadium on Saturday night in the squad’s first ever Atlantic Coast Conference game. The win im-proves U of L’s record to 2-1-1 overall.

After two quick goals within the first five min-utes, it was clear the Cardinals wanted to make a good first impression. Coming off of a loss to St.

Louis, and, prior to that, a tie with Cornell, the Car-dinals appeared to be refocused for conference play.

Senior midfielder Will Vitalis scored the first goal of the game, and his personal first goal since returning from the injury that sidelined him all of last season. A pivotal leader on this team, Vitalis helped set the tone in the preparation that led to this explosive bounce back.

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Location: Province ApartmentsIncident: Theft over $500 - autoDisposition: Report - closed, no further actionComment: A university student reported stolen property.

Location: Center Hall - parking lotIncident: Criminal mischief IIIDisposition: Report - open caseComment: A university student reported damage to property.

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Location: TARC bus stop trash can (next to Mi-nardi Hall)Incident: FireDisposition: Report - closed, no further actionComment: A university police officer reported a fire.

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Location: Music School - outsideIncident: Robbery IIDisposition: Report - open caseComment: A university student reported stolen property.

Location: School of EducationIncident: Theft over $500Disposition: Report - open caseComment: A university staff member report-ed stolen property.

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Location: 1704 S Floyd - grounds storage yardIncident: Theft under $500 - bicycleDisposition: Report - open caseComment: A university staff member report-ed stolen property.

Location: Jimmy John’s restaurant - Cardinal TowneIncident: Theft over $500 - from autoDisposition: Report - open caseComment: A non-affiliate reported stolen property.

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GE FirstBuild open for co-creationIt’s an adult-sized Legoland for creators. The GE FirstBuild Microfactory has only been

open for a month, but has already been the source of numerous creations. It sits on Brandeis Av-enue across the street from the softball stadium.

It allows anyone to submit an idea online, where it is voted on by the online communi-ty. If the idea gets enough votes, the designer can come in and build a prototype to test it out. Everyone else can still come in and build a pro-totype, but must bring in their own materials.

The factory is divided up into three parts: a showroom, a production room and a workshop-type room. The showroom has some recent prod-ucts set up for viewing, including a slide-out oven rack and a self-filling water pitcher. It also includes some hands-on activities that anyone can come in and play with, like 3D printers and 3D pens.

There is also a lounge area and a fully-working kitchen. In the production room, you can find any tool you would need, along with work benches all around the room. The work-shop area is where all the big machinery sits.

“It’s fun, you go in and there are three sections. The offices are box cars, there is funky art and it’s just dif-ferent.” said Phoebe Ward, who sits on U of L’s board.

“When the director was asked how he

hired the people, he found many of the peo-ple who left GE because they couldn’t stand corporate culture. They are very innovative and they work in box cars and water cars.”

The microfactory allows for co-creation with the use of the online community. The co-creation part of the website is set up like a Pinterest board where people from all around the world can go in and submit their ideas. Users can offer sug-gestions, comments, questions and more while voting on each idea. Right now they have a re-frigerator with Wi-Fi in it, and have opened it to the community to see what they can use it for.

“It’s beneficial for students because they can find out how to use prototyping machines and gain ex-perience as an engineer.” said Sam Ellis, Mechanical

Engineering masters student working at the micro-factory. “The engineers are willing to answer any-one’s questions so it helps promote STEM culture especially with high school and middle school kids.”

GE FirstBuild has also held events to get the community to engage more in the project and plans to hold more. The planned events include workshops, such as 3D printer workshops, Ras-berry Pi contests and more events with Wa-terStep. The events will be open to the public.

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The interior of the GE FirstBuild Microfactory.PHOTO BY LUBNA HINDI/ THE LOUIS-VILLE CARDINAL

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Seven hundred and eighty million people lack access to clean water – that’s over double the size of the US population.

WaterStep, a Louisville-based nonprofit organization, fights to re-duce this number. Their website fea-tures this statistic, along with many others, that force us to think twice about our five minute shower.

Mark Hogg, Founder and CEO of WaterStep, believes that Louisville is uniquely positioned to solve the world’s water crisis. He envisions a permanent working relationship be-tween WaterStep and the University of Louisville.

“Louisville is the water capital of the world,” says Hogg. “For well over 100 years (Louisville) has been a lead-er in innovations that are applicable to safe water and used globally.”

He lists the Louisville Water Com-pany, the Metro Sewer District, Gen-eral Electric, U of L and the Speed School of Engineering as great inno-vators in clean water.

Through a partnership with GE and the FirstBuild factory, Water-Step hopes to engage student inno-vators at U of L.

“We have not worked with U of L as an entity before,” says Hogg, “but with smaller groups at U of L.”

Last December, a group of stu-dents travelled to the Philippines after the devastating 2013 typhoon. Equipped with WaterStep filtration systems, the students helped provide clean water and hygiene education.

The University of Louisville’s chapter of Engineers Without Bor-ders, works closely with WaterStep as well.

“The goal of our organization is to help communities in need, and we found an organization in Lou-isville, WaterStep, that has similar goals specific to water,” says Michael Blum, treasurer of U of L’s chapter of EWB.

Mallory Allgeier, president of EWB, and three other EWB mem-bers travelled to Haiti with Wa-terStep and the American Water Works Association. WaterStep trained the volunteers in health and hygiene, Haitian culture and water purification.

“WaterStep is incredibly orga-nized and efficient when it comes to planning an international service trip,” says Allgeier.

WaterStep looks to increase stu-

dent involvement in solving the world’s clean water crisis.

Thad Druffel, a senior research engineer in solar energy conversion, has teamed up with Hogg to bring the Student Water Initiative to campus. They hosted an information session dinner at FirstBuild on Sep. 3.

“I think Thad was amazed that he would get so many applications, and I’m excited we are going to go through those,” says Hogg.

The Student Water Initiative hopes to draw students from a vari-ety of backgrounds – not just Speed School.

“Whether you’re working with

an engineering mind, an economics brain, or you’re an entrepreneur-ial thinker or you’re interested in healthcare – all of these elements are important to work as a team to tackle this great problem,” says Hogg.

Students recall very positive expe-riences with WaterStep and express an interest in the clean water crisis.

“It’s absolutely worthwhile to work with WaterStep,” says Allgeier. “I’ve never worked with such selfless people who have such a clear vision and focused goal on how to make the world a better place, simply by giving people their most basic need.”

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Major donor’s company gets contract on garage

NTS Realty Holdings will develop a new parking garage at The Nucleus. J.D. Nichols, a major U of L donor, is the chairperson of NTS.

The Nucleus, the university’s entrepreneurial management and consulting arm, was renamed the J.D. Nichols Campus for Innovation and Entre-preneurship over the summer. Nichols is now the chairman of the board at NTS, but formerly helped grow the company to its current size.

The parking garage will have 825 parking spaces and six levels. The structure will have a concrete and masonry façade with metal and glass accents, LED exterior lighting, glass-enclosed stair towers, electric vehicle-charging stations, bicycle storage, security cameras and entrance access control. Cars are expected to enter from Preston Street.

Louisville-based general contractor, Sullivan Cozart, and Louisville architectural firm, Tucker Booker Donhoff, were also chosen to work on the project.

Construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter and should take about a year to complete. Total development costs have not yet been deter-mined.

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The Grove receives Temporary Certificate of Occupancy, will be reinspected in October

The Cardinal obtained a copy of the property’s Temporary Certificate of Occupancy, which is dated Sept. 9, which was last Tuesday.

A Certificate of Occupancy is a document is-sued by Metro government that allows people the right to reside on a property. All residential lots are required to obtain such a permit. A Tempo-rary Certificate of Occupancy differs only in that it makes the property subject to a final review.

Jessica Wethington, public information spe-cialist for Develop Louisville, said that The Grove was granted an oral Temporary Certificate of Oc-cupancy on Aug. 22. This, together with the stick-ers the inspector placed on most of the buildings, constituted the city’s official approval for students to move into the structure. The only buildings that, according to the written certificate, were not approved for move-in were buildings 4 and 5.

U of L imposed a deadline of Sept. 8 for Cam-pus Crest to send the university a copy of the Temporary Certificate of Occupancy, among oth-er documents.

Campus Crest, The Grove’s parent company, released the following statement to the Cardinal,

regarding its response to the university’s request:“On Friday, September 5, 2014, Campus Crest

provided the University of Louisville a compre-hensive response to several requests on a range of topics, including the status of the approvals for occupancy by the City of Louisville. As indi-cated to the University, Campus Crest obtained all municipally-required approvals in advance of permitting residents to move into specific apart-ment units. Any updates or progress reports from Campus Crest to the University of Louisville re-garding this matter, or any others, will be provid-ed to the University as needed.”

While this “comprehensive response” did an-swer many of the university’s questions regarding the property, it still did not include the Tempo-rary Certificate of Occupancy. University spokes-person Mark Hebert was able to obtain the docu-ment on Sept. 9 through Metro Government.

According to the document, the property will need to be reinspected for a final time 30 days after the temporary certificate was issued. That would mean that The Grove will need to be com-pleted by Thursday, Oct. 9. But Wethington said that The Grove would be allowed to request a re-inspection when they felt that the structure was finished.

The University of Louisville has more stu-dents than ever biking to campus, which has led to a decrease in the availability of bike racks on campus.

The university installed new bike racks on the Health Sciences Campus and the Shelby Campus four years ago. In 2011, new racks were added to the Red Barn plaza and the SAC west entrance. Later, in the spring of 2012, three new large racks were installed at the north entrance of Louisville Hall and one covered rack at the west entrance of Threlkeld Hall.

Justin Mog, assistant to the provost for sus-tainability initiatives, said in August 2012, the Sustainability Council installed 66 new bike racks at various spots throughout the Belknap

campus, providing 432 spots. Mog also ac-knowledged that the university is aware of the problem, but the necessary funds are not avail-able to complete such a project.

“A good bike rack costs us about $1,000, but the installation is what raises the price to al-most double.”

Mog bikes to campus every day and said he does notice the problem.

“I still think the best thing to do would go to the SGA and bring the problem to their at-tention.”

Monali Haldankar, SGA president, said, “With anything which requires funding, we are more than happy to do so if we were able to do the research or obtain the research to make sure the problem exists and there wasn’t another creative avenue of solving the specific funding problem.”

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U of L TRUSTEES HEAR 2015 PLANThe Board of Trustees met Sep. 11 to discuss some revisions that were made to their goals for the 2014-2015 year. Some of the new goals include, adding the number of graduating masters students to measure educational excellence, raising more funding for can-cer research and engaging more in the community. Ramsey has already asked for $30 million for the can-cer initiative and stated willingness to raise $30 mil-lion more. As for the community engagement initia-tive, the Board of Trustees will be asking each unit on campus to have a diversity plan and a community engagement plan to increase the diversity in the uni-versity and the university’s role in the community. They plan to approve these decisions at the October meeting.

APPLE PAYS U2 $100 MILLION FOR NEW ALBUMIf you’re an iTunes user, it’s likely that the newest U2 album is already on your device. During their iPhone 6 event, Apple announced the plan to place the U2 album on all devices with an iTunes account. Apple bought the album from U2 and gave it away to users as a gift. The event also featured the announcement of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch. Apple also announced Apple Pay, which will allow customers to access their payment information from their phone.

SCOTLAND AWAITS INDEPENDENCE VOTEScotland heads to the polls on Thursday to vote if they want to secede or stay a part of the UK. It has been with the UK, which includes England and Wales, for over 300 years, but is seeking its independence. This move towards becoming independent started in 2011, with supporters arguing that Scotland now has the proper resources and economic power to be independent. The British government is promising new powers for Scotland in areas including taxes, spending and welfare if it votes to stay, but the pos-sibility for an independence vote remains.

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IN THE NEWSWhat you missed while you

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Obama on ISIL

“We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.”

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1. American forces will conduct airstrikes while the Iraqi forces go on the offensive.

2. 475 service members will be sent to Iraq to aid the Iraqis.3. In two weeks, the president will attempt to mobilize the

international community at the UN Security Council.4. Additional humanitarian assistance will be provided to

the victims of ISIL and their attacks.

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CRIME, FROM COVERSGA urges action on safety

According to Hebert, ULPD is more focused on the violent nature of the recent crimes.

“The number of crimes is about the same as previous years, but the violence attached to them is what spiked concern from police, uni-versity leaders and the campus community in general,” said Herbert.

The university has also provided informa-tion on crime prevention, and is set to begin a safety communication campaign.

The Student Government Association played an active role in the security increase by advocating on behalf of students for more safety initiatives.

According to the email, “(SGA) and the (ULPD) are identifying ‘L-Trail’ safe walking areas on our campuses that will be particularly well-lit and patrolled to enhance security along these routes.” It is unknown when these trails will be implemented.

On Tues. Sept. 9, the Student Senate passed a safety resolution urging further action on se-curity issues.

According to the resolution, the Student Sen-

ate “compels the Executive Branch to engage in discussions with relevant community partners, such as affiliated housing, Public Works and the LMPD, in an effort to address safety con-cerns near the Belknap and HSC campuses that fall outside the university’s immediate control.”

The SGA Safety Committee, which was formed at the beginning of the school year, has been charged with naming the areas near campus which have the most security concerns. The SGA will then present a further action plan by Sept. 23.

At this time, there are no specific plans for more increases in security, but administration officials will keep considering new initiatives as needed.

“U of L administration, in conjunction with ULPD, is constantly looking at campus security to make sure it meets one fundamental goal – keeping students, faculty, staff and visitors safe,” said Hebert. “The Belknap and Health Science Center campuses are safe and we will do what takes, now and in the future, to make sure they remain safe.”

Sept. 10, President Barack Obama delivered an address to the people of the US about how the country would deal with ISIL. Here are the key points of his speech.

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Volleyball suffers 3-1 loss to KentuckyNOAH ALLISONNALLISON@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

Following the loss to Kentucky, the Cards went on the road and defeated Arizona State and Morehead State but have most recently lost to Northern Illinois. PHOTO BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE CARDINAL

Louisville volleyball (5-4) suffered a 3-1 defeat at the hands of UK on Sept. 9. Despite a record crowd of over 5,800 fans in KFC Yum! Center, the Cards were not able to overcome 16-ranked Kentucky.

“I’m really disappointed right now, because I think things started to slide last week. After we get a big win against Min-nesota, I don’t think we practiced well enough. Hats off to Kentucky; they did a great job, and they are a well-coached team, and they put us in position to look like we were out of sorts tonight,” head coach Anne Kordes said.

“I know our kids are competing, and I know they are working hard, and I appre-ciate that about them, but when it comes down to execution and being tactical in a match, we lost it tonight. It’s disappoint-ing, and it’s not going to fly.”

By the end of the match, Kentucky had eight blocks to Louisville’s four, 77 digs to Louisville’s 58 and 67 kills to Louisville’s 50.

After a back-and-forth first set that went the way of UK, Louisville was able to come out and dominate the second set for their only win of the night. From that point on, despite the fight U of L put up, many of UK’s points came with ease. The Wildcats took advantage of lofty balls the Cards returned and easily defended U of L’s attempted kills.

“We just kind of clinched up, got ner-vous and started putting the ball right in the places where they can dig; we weren’t aggressive at all with our swings,” Kordes said.

Sophomore outside hitter, Maya Mc-Clendon, led the Cards in kills with 16 and was second in digs with 14.

“I put a lot of stock in what Maya Mc-Clendon can do because she is a phenom-enal kid, and I am so glad she is on this team. But we are trying to get her to carry a heck of a lot of the weight on this team, and when she goes away for a couple points, we can’t afford it. She is one of those kids that really can carry a team. I think for her, she has to understand the responsibility of what she can do,” Kordes said.

McClendon was one of the few Cards that were able to take the fight to the oth-er side of the net, but inconsistent passing led for too basic of an attack to stunt the Wildcats’ defense.

“We are one dimensional, and we can’t pass; they know where we are go-ing to go. They know we are going to go to Maya, they know we are going to go

to the pins, and that makes it an easy way to set up for defense,” junior setter Katie George said.

With eight new players on the 15-woman roster, the Cards are still ad-justing and learning to play as a team.

“We just didn’t make enough plays on our end defensively. We certainly had our opportunities, but it comes down to making the most of those opportunities. We had a pretty good game plan going in; it’s just executing and being able to keep some composure when you are strug-gling offensively to be able to create some offensive opportunities out of your de-fense,” assistant coach Lee Maes said.

Of the most basic problems the Cards faced was their inability to serve away from the libero, the consummate de-fender in the game of volleyball. The easy returns made for easy attacks for UK, and U of L’s poor passing led to a stagnant of-fensive threat for Kentucky to feast on.

The Cards are currently on a two-week road trip before returning home on Sept. 26 for their first ACC match against Boston College.

“We showed that we have a lot of work to do,” George stated. “We have to mature as volleyball players and as a team. That definitely has to happen before we go into ACC play. We want to be able to com-pete for the ACC title, and what we just did here tonight, that’s not going to cut it.”

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Louisville legend, Darrell Griffith

is once again teaming up with The

Healthy Hoops Kentucky Coalition

on Sept. 20, to offer a free asthma

awareness event for children from

ages 7-13. The event will be held in

Moore Traditional High School from

10:30 am to 3:30 pm. The workshops,

that range from asthma screenings to

basketball drills, are free and open to

the public, and registration remains

open through Sept. 19.

“Healthy Hoops is a day of edu-

cation for parents and for their

kids with asthma,

to learn how to

play sports with

asthma. We make

sure they are tak-

ing their proper

meds and proper

inhalants, and the

parents are getting

educated, because

they need to know

more than the

kids so that they

can have the ca-

pacity to let them

know what they

are doing right or

wrong,” Griffith

described. “If you

don’t do the right

things and try to

play sports, asth-

ma can be detri-

mental to you, and we want to make

sure that they can have a healthy life

and do everything that people with-

out asthma can do.”

Asthma is the most common

childhood chronic disease. As com-

mon as it is to hear about growing

up, it can hinder a child’s ability to

live a fully healthy childhood. Asth-

ma is the third leading cause of hos-

pitalization among children, and

as of 2007, more than 700 children

living in Jefferson County, KY were

identified as asthmatic.

Healthy Hoops has been put-

ting on this event for the past seven

years, and Griffith has been involved

since day one.

“Mostly they learn about the dif-

ferent inhalants they can take and

the importance of not missing their

medication,” Griffith said. “The par-

ents will learn the warning signs,

because they have to be prepared to

react if their children have an asth-

matic attack. The training with the

doctors from U of L and the volun-

teers from different doctors’ associa-

tions around do a good job of letting

the parents know if they are good to

go.”

At the Healthy Hoops event, chil-

dren participate in a full day of health

awareness, ranging from impor-

tant asthma screenings to getting to

learn the fundamentals of basketball

through various drills conducted by

the likes of Griffith and volunteers

alike.

“We just teach them a lot of fun

drills that they can interact and

have fun with. The

proper way to make

a chest pass, bounce

pass, dribbling,

shooting, pretty

basic skills, but it

comes in handy if

you don’t know,”

Griffith said.

Griffith’s in-

volvement is state-

ment enough of the

prevalence of this

event and raising

asthma awareness.

Born and raised

in Louisville,

Griffith was the

number one rated

high school player

in the country com-

ing out of Male

High School in

1976.

He turned down contract offers to

play professional basketball right out

of high school, and instead, commit-

ted to Denny Crum and the Univer-

sity of Louisville. The six-foot-four

guard went on to play four years at

U of L, winning the school its first

National Championship his senior

year in 1980.

Griffith also went on to be Lou-

isville’s all-time leading scorer. His

48-inch vertical jump went hand in

hand with his all-time nickname,

“Dr. Dunkenstein.” Griffith went on

to be drafted by the Utah Jazz where

he averaged 16.5 points per game in

his 11-year career in the NBA.

The ultimate ambassador for U of

L, Griffith understands the impor-

tance of growing up healthy and be-

ing able to participate in sports and,

most importantly in Louisville, be-

ing able to participate in basketball.

“I just liked the game, liked

the challenges of putting the ball

through the hole. I grew up a foot-

ball fan and then one day my dad put

up a basketball goal on the back of

our garage and everything changed

for me,” Griffith recalled of his child-

hood days.

“Basketball is everything to this

city; it’s our sports backbone, and

it’s what unifies everybody from

all walks of life. You come and you

cheer for your high school team;

you cheer for the University of Lou-

isville. Sport plays a major part in

people’s lives and especially in this

community.”

Griffith could easily stay in his

Bat Cave and live a calm retired life

away from the attention that flocks

to him, but that’s not ‘Griff’. Griffith

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Louisville legend Darrell Griffith is teaming up with Healthy Hoops KY on Sept. 20 for a free asthma awareness event. Registration remains open up until the day before the event. PHOTO COURTESY / HEALTHY HOOPS KY

“A lot of kids with asthma don’t think that they can play sports. This is an opportunity to let the parents know that they

can play sports if you do the things required, which

is the first part of Healthy Hoops.”

-Darrell Griffith

is the ultimate Louisville ambassador

and does not shy away from the busy

life of using his status and good char-

acter to promote a positive living en-

vironment in The Ville.

While he can’t save the world and

didn’t spare any backboards in his

day, Griffith does what he can and

keeps it one event at a time.

Registration for The Healthy

Hoops activity is still open, and any

person with an affiliation of an asth-

matic child can, and is recommended

to, sign up.

“A lot of kids with asthma don’t

think that they can play sports,”

Griffith said. “This is an opportuni-

ty to let the parents know that they

can play sports if you do the things

required, which is the first part of

Healthy Hoops.”

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Gorgui Dieng carries Senegal in FIBA World Cup JUSTIN STEPHENSONSPORTS@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

Former U of L basketball player, Gorgui Dieng, centered above, competed in the FIBA World Cup this past month for his home country of Sen-egal. Dieng was the third leading rebounder in the whole cup with his 10.7 per-game average. PHOTO / FIBA.COM

Dieng is a famous name in Louisville that was often pronounced, ‘Dang!’ after he made an emphatic dunk, crucial re-bound or ferociously blocked a shot into the third row. This nickname also fol-lowed his silky smooth, 12-foot jumpers swishing through the bottom of the net, and it also occurred regularly throughout his prolific performance in Louisville’s championship run through the NCAA tournament.

No matter how you said his name, it meant ‘Good’ in the colloquial language of Louisville basketball.

Former U of L basketball center Gor-gui Dieng averaged 9.1 rebounds per game and 2.6 blocked shots per game, and he set the single season record for blocked shots during his three-year career playing for Rick Pitino and the University of Lou-isville.

His legend inspired the ring of his name through the Yum! Center’s rafters many times in his day, and now, with his prolific performance in the FIBA world cup, the entire world is joining in.

As the time comes to prove himself in the NBA this upcoming season, this char-ismatic center from Senegal is using his newfound leverage to do the one thing that he has always preached.

“I want to go back home and give back,” Dieng said in a 2013 interview with Card Chronicle.

Averaging 16 points and 10.7 rebounds per game in the FIBA World Cup, Dieng has done just that. Relying heavily on Di-eng’s contribution, Senegal, a nation that FIBA had picked as the third worst team in the World Cup, was able to make it out of the group stages and advance to the knockout round where they fell to Spain.

Dieng’s dynamic 27 point, eight re-bound performance carried Senegal to

an extraordinary 77-75 upset over Croa-tia. A perennial, international basketball powerhouse, Croatia got introduced first hand to the big-game play Dieng carries onto the big stage.

Drafted in the first round by the Min-nesota Timberwolves, Dieng’s world cup performance has inspired confidence in his NBA coach Flip Saunders, who will rotate Dieng with starting center, Nikoa Pekovic, next season.

Many basketball analysts point to Di-eng’s dominant defense, 2.6 blocks per game last season and his work ethic as positive signs for his professional future.

“Dieng is athletic and a good passer out of the high post; it will be fun to see him develop with the Timberwolves,” sports guru John Schumann said. Schumann is the authority who invented the NBA power rankings.

Heading into his second year in the NBA, Dieng is ready to make a jump in

playing time and contribution.“His versatility has propelled him from

being an afterthought role player to a po-tential full-time starter,” NBA columnist Zach Buckley said of Dieng.

After nabbing three double-doubles and probing the paint in NBA summer play, Dieng seems to have left off where he started. His increased presence in the league has come with an increased com-mitment to his original mission of giving back to his native homeland.

Through his work with Basketball Without Borders, the international orga-nization which inspired him and several other players like Luc Mbah a Moute and Joel Embiid to achieve their basketball dreams, Dieng continues to help others achieve theirs.

Only time will tell of the success in store for Gorgui Dieng, but his play in the World Cup is tell tale that he is giv-ing it all he’s got.

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Men’s soccer introduces Duke to goals, wins 5-0

The men’s soccer team started ACC play with a 5-0 win over Duke. PHOTOS BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE CARDINAL

FROM SOCCER, COVER

“During practice, we had a lot more intent this week … I think we went out there and did what we needed to do,” Vitalis said.

Midfielder Ben Strong says the concentration behind the intent was all in the offensive pressure.

“We pressured them hard all game. We talked about making hard runs and getting behind them … Our main goal was to come out the first ten minutes and get a quick goal. We did a great job of that, coming out hard.”

Strong had two of the five goals of the night, the latter of which was a result of exactly what the team discussed all week prior to the game: making sharp runs to the goal. Moving forward, Strong pre-dicts the focus to stay the same.

“[We need to work on] just mov-ing the ball, moving the ball and finding the spaces. Like I said be-fore, we got behind them a lot to-day and put them under pressure, and we need to continue to do that.” Head Coach Ken Lola agrees.

“It was the intent in front of the

goal of just being more focused and finishing off plays. The last two games, we did everything but finish off the plays.”

Although the offensive effort shined, the defense created little to no opportunity for the Blue Devils to get inside the box. Duke had ten shots total, only four of which Lou-isville keeper, Joachim Ball, had to save. Coach Lola’s defensive strat-egy going into the game was, once again, all about putting on the nec-essary heat.

“For us, it centers all on pres-sure. If we can get around the ball and re-pressure, especially once the ball is turned over, then we have a good chance to get it back early. I felt we did a good job of that again. I thought in the first half, once we got up a couple of goals, there were mo-ments when we allowed them free service, and because the guys were athletic and big up top, it caused some pressure for us.”

The 5-0 victory was certainly an encouraging first glimpse into ACC play, and only the season will tell if the first impression will be a lasting one.

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Big-time commits round off top-notch recruiting classesALEX THOMAS SPORTS@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

The past two weeks have been promising for U of L athletics, par-ticularly on the recruiting trail. In that time, the football and men’s and women’s basketball teams have all secured commits from major prospects.

Men’s BasketballRick Pitino finalized his class

of 2015 last Thursday night when five-star shooting guard, Antonio Blakeney, verbally committed to the Cards.

Blakeney was in town over the Labor Day weekend and attended the home opener football game against Miami. A few days later, he contacted Coach Pitino and let him know he would be playing for the Cardinals.

Blakeney is considered one of the best shooting guards in his class, and he is known for both his athleticism and being a big time scorer. He joins Louisville’s other commits, Deng Adel, Raymond Spaulding and Donovan Mitchell, making this arguably Rick Pitino’s best class at U of L.

Scout.com currently has Lou-isville’s class ranked number one overall and Blakeney as the 21 overall prospect. Blakeney had of-fers from several other programs including Kentucky and North Carolina.

Women’s BasketballThe women’s basketball team

also was able to pick up a key com-mit when highly touted prospect, Asia Durr, committed to the Car-dinals. Durr is the number one rat-ed recruit in the class of 2015 and gives Jeff Walz one of the best re-cruiting classes in the nation.

Durr was a key member for Team USA this summer when they won the gold medal at the FIBA World Championships. She chose the Cardinals over powerhouse programs such as Baylor, Duke, Maryland, Notre Dame and Con-necticut.

The Cardinals now have four commits, including five-star guard Brianna Jones and four-star pros-pects Taja Cole and Erin DeGrate. All four players are ranked in the top 60 of their class, according

to ESPN, with Durr, Jones and Cole ranked in the top 20. Louis-ville joins UConn as the only two schools with three top 20 players.

FootballIn addition to having early on-

field success, Bobby Petrino has also made good impressions on the recruiting trail. In the past two weeks, Louisville football has picked up four commits vaulting the class to a rank of 27, according to Rivals.com, just ahead of archri-val UK.

The first commit came before the season even started, from four-star quarterback Lamar Jackson. Jackson is a mobile quarterback who is known for both his athleti-cism and his big arm.

This addition makes quarter-back a very secure position for the Cards, as Jackson is added to an already deep group. Although he’s committed to Louisville, Jackson will still take a visit to Nebraska later this month.

Shortly after Louisville beat Mi-ami, the Cards picked up their 16th commit, Trey Smith, the son of former NFL wide receiver Jimmy Smith.

Smith played mostly running back at the high school level and switched to quarterback for his se-nior season. It is unknown what position he will play in college, as some are projecting him to be a wide receiver. Smith is ranked as a three-star player, according to Scout.com.

The next week, Louisville re-ceived a commitment from two-star wide receiver Paul Harris.

Harris started out at Tennessee, where he only caught one pass dur-ing five games. He then transferred to Iowa Western, a junior college, and after the 2014 season, he will be eligible to play at U of L for two seasons.

Finally, the Cards landed Amon-te Caban, a three-star linebacker from Alabama.

Ranked as the 12th best middle linebacker in his class, Caban had offers from other programs such as Clemson, South Carolina, Ten-nessee and Oklahoma. Caban is a powerful linebacker who is known for both his physical play and ath-leticism.

Pitino’s incoming class is currently ranked the top recruiting class in the nation. PHOTO BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

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Ever envision yourself as a hard-hitting, dirt-digging journalist? A social media-savvy showstopper? A silver-tongued restaurant reviewer? Any seasoned communication professional will tell you that it’s half about what you know, and half about who you know.

Luckily, a new media conference coming to U of L this week will help you get both the knowledge you need to succeed in this industry, and the connections you need to get the work you need.

The Louisville Media Institute, organized by The Louisville Cardinal and the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, will be taking over the Chao Auditorium from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 20.

“When we concocted LMI we polled students and professional journalists in the region about what journalism skills are must-have in 2014. We have the answers,” said Ralph Merkel, a communication professor and one of the organizers of the conference. “LMI is dirt-cheap and presents a calvalcade of high-profile experts whom students will truly adore.”

Sessions will include:Ѩ� Features writing and reviewingѨ� Investigative journalismѨ� Multimedia journalismѨ� Social mediaѨ� Local politics and governmentѨ� Data journalism

Speakers will include:Ѩ� Toni Konz and Chris Otts of

WDRBѨ� U of L graduates Lyndsey

Gilpin and Conner Forrest of CBS Interactive

Ѩ� Jennifer Day and Christopher Borrelli of the Chicago Tribune

Ѩ� Mark Wert of the Cincinnati Enquirer

Ѩ� Taylor Dungjen of The Toledo Blade

Ѩ� John Boel of WAVE 3Ѩ� Brendan McCarthy of the Kentucky

Center for Investigative ReportingѨ� Scott Jennings of RunSwitch

PRѨ� Neil Budde of The Courier-

Journal

The conference is also sponsored by The McConnell Center and U of L’s communication department.

For more information about the conference, or to attend LMI, visit Louisvillemediainstitute.org/register-online

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Nearly 2500 miles: the distance Juan David Lopez Nieto traveled to reach his destination in Louisville, Ky. Lopez Nieto was a national swimmer in Bogota, Colombia before coming to the University of Louisville’s swim team as a freshman in 2011. Not only did he have to continue swimming fast in order to keep his scholarship, but he was also expected to deal with certain variables, which, for most Americans, are second nature.

As an international student, while preparing to enter in to America, you are told the basics. You need to take your SAT and ACT, even though you have no idea what the words “sat” and “act” have to do with getting into college. You will also need to determine your cumulative GPA, something that many other countries such as Canada do not use in the grading system. Lastly, make sure you pack all your necessities you wish to bring with you over to Louisville — any clothes, wall decorations and small kitchen supplies that you want to pack.

Try fitting those into your luggage without going over the 50-pound limit. You are then told anything and everything else can be bought once you settle in to your dorms.

What your parents and future coaches fail to mention is that, going to another country with only a bag on your back and a duffle bag in your hand isn’t nearly enough to sustain you, even for just the first night. You need sheets to cover your bed, towels to shower and a dresser for your clothes. These are things you could bring with you if you lived somewhere where driving to college is an option. For someone like Juan, though, a drive to and from home was nonexistent.

Aside from all the basic, smaller struggles of being an international student, Juan struggles with certain differences while trying to live an American life. One of his main struggles is connecting with his family and friends from home.

“I think the hardest part is being so far away from family and friends is not being able to communicate properly,” Lopez Nieto said. Family, especially within Hispanic culture, is very important. Family time is especially treasured, and when a son,

brother or friend leaves to another country for four years, it can place a lot of stress on the relationships. Not everyone can call their parents or friends when they’re having a bad day. International students usually do not have the financial means to support their $30 phone calls per week. This leaves them with the choice to Skype or FaceTime — glitchier options.

On top of having difficulty communicating with family and friends, the reasons why you want to talk to them in the first place can also be new. Juan was accustomed to 60 to 70-degree weather year-round until arriving to the United States. The weather was a difficult change for this swimmer. He had never experienced such cold.

“I was not prepared at all for below zero,” Lopez Nieto said. “No one told me or warned me that it ever got this cold.” Mind you, some international students, such as myself, come from colder areas than Kentucky, but for those coming “up North,” snow and cold are a whole new concept.

The life of a foreigner is exciting at times. Meeting new people from all around the world, learning a new language, a new political system and realizing how different our world is can be an unforgettable experience.

At the same time, the challenges we face are not your ordinary stressors, such as test taking and late-night coffee runs, but are instead sometimes feelings of loneliness and isolation.

So, the next time you see one of us on campus, give us a friendly smile or a heart-warming hello, because you just might be emulating the family and comfort we miss so dearly.

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Recently graduated student George Livingston has as solution to all of your breakfast problems, whether lack of skill, or lack of time. His solution is a breakfast delivery company called BizzyBee.

People argue breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and yet according to the Huffington Post, 31 million Americans still skip breakfast every morning.

Livingston and partner Eric Schieman hope to launch the business in October and will be waiting to take your

order as early as 5 a.m.Livingston explained there

will be a trained cook who will prepare the meals every morning. Those meals will range from savory to sweet. Items such as Livingston’s favorite, the French toast sandwich, which features two thick-cut French toast slices with fried eggs and bacon in between, will fill the menu.

Another highlight off their soon-to-be-released menu is the stuffed cinnamon roll. The customer can choose between a variety of ingredients such as apples, raisins and pecans to have hand-stuffed and then baked into their cinnamon

roll. Buyers can even choose to stuff a cinnamon rolls with eggs and bacon, for the more adventurous breakfast enthusiast.

Livingston also shared that the idea for this business actually started as a class project. BizzyBee was born in an entrepreneurship class, where it was one of the six group projects.

Breakfast was one of the first meals Livingston learned to cook, and is still his favorite meal of the day.

As the business grows, he hopes to begin using local produce and ingredients to support the community. He

also hopes to support job-seeking students. Livingston said he is looking for other students to come work for him.

“Maleficent” does a good job at taking an older Disney villain and turning her into a heroine. For those who are unaware, “Maleficent” is the live-action prequel to Disney’s animated classic “Sleeping Beauty.” It follows the story from the perspective of the original’s antagonist, a mysterious witch named Maleficent, who almost randomly puts a curse on poor Aurora. This time, there is a method to her madness.

Angelina Jolie puts on an excellent performance as the famed character, being able to bring the terror seen from the original as well as a humor and energy that makes the new adaptation fun to watch. While the other cast members are good, they are all eclipsed by Jolie. However, I

will give the portrayal of the king by Sharlto Copley of “District 9” fame an honorable mention for depicting a man who slowly loses his mind. Otherwise the casting is decent, including some notable child actors.

The movie centers around the origins of Maleficent and the reason for her grudge against the king. The movie does a great job at making Maleficent human. Villain origin stories are hard to do but this movie pulls it off magnificently.The story eventually gets a little predictable but it is made up for by the fact that it is still fun to watch. It definitely improves on the original movie, which was boring, aside from some interesting animation and a intriguing villain.

Visually speaking, the movie has a very distinct look. It clearly is paying

homage to the stories of Grimm, which pays off. It brings the story to life in vivid detail, whether in the majesty and dread of the forest or the size and scale of the castle.

If there is some criticism that I do have, it is that it does a little too much in terms of rewriting the source material. To be fair, some of the elements are great, such as the rather humorously confused Prince Phillip and inept three fairies.

Others are, at times, a little too in-your-face or go a step too far. While the movie has stunning CGI, it can get a little tiring and loses its novelty. The movie seems to be out of place in terms of tone. After leaving the theater, I remember someone asking “who put Lord of the Rings in my Disney?” And while I do not think that is

necessarily a bad thing, it is a little odd that the two are mixed.

The lights in Comstock Hall lowered on Sept. 10, as Jason Crafton, David Ball and Richard Masters took the stage. Crafton played trumpet, Ball played trombone and euphonium and Masters played the piano for the concert.

Crafton, a professor of trumpet at Virginia Tech University, performed as a guest artist, per the request of Mark J. Lynn, a professor of trumpet at U of L. He also worked with

students in one-on-one practice sessions, lectured in classes and played the free recital.

Lynn, Crafton and Jason Doebel, a trumpet professor at the University of Kentucky, attended a university in Northern Texas, where they became friends. Lynn asked Crafton to visit U of L for a day and play a concert that night.

The trio played two standard pieces, or musical numbers that are commonly played at concerts, as well as three contemporary pieces, two of

which were world premieres. The two premieres were “Exigencies,” written by Kent Holliday, and “Trio” for trumpet, trombone and piano. The two standard pieces were “Divertimento” for trumpet, trombone and piano, by Boris Blacher and “Cousins” by H.L. Clarke. The performers also played Eric Lyon’s “Grand Duo” during the hour-long concert.

The concert had a very casual feel to it, despite the tailored suits Crafton and Ball wore. Before each piece, one

of the three would talk about it as if he were talking to his friends, not an audience.

The performers seemed to enjoy themselves while playing, shooting smiling glances at one another, even though there were only around 40 people in the audience.

After every piece, the artists disappeared backstage, and while it was not clear what they were doing, you could hear muffled discourse and jovial laughter trickle out to the audience.

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You’ve more than likely seen it on television advertisements, your boyfriend’s laptop or a sports television network and online website: fantasy football.

Fantasy football is the perfect opportunity for football fans to create their own leagues with friends, assembling their own fantasy teams of the best professional football players. Participants play weekly head-to-head games against each other to see who can score the most points based on your players’ performance on football Sunday to be climatically-crowned as the fantasy football champion at the end of the regular season.

It is a gentleman’s game fueled by the competitive spirit of football fans everywhere, but ultimately it’s much more than that. Fantasy football not only builds rivalries, but destroys friendships, stirs within you this nail-biting anxiety every Sunday during game time and lights a fire of burning pride in those who walk away from their league victorious, which in some cases results in winning prize money from competitors.

On a much larger scale, fantasy football has now shaped the football world in a substantial way by giving fans an opportunity to experience the game at a personal level.

Introducing the CommishYou can call me the Commish. I’m

currently going on my seventh year playing fantasy football as well as commissioning my own league with co-workers and friends. I can talk all day about the years I’ve outsmarted my friends on draft day — resulting in me taking their money at the end of the season — but first and foremost, I want to explain to you what it takes to be a fantasy football commissioner.

As a fantasy football commissioner, you first have to set up a league. You start with creating your league on Espn.com/ffl or Nfl.com/fantasyfootball and selecting the number of teams you want to compete against. Whether it is eight teams or fourteen, it is essential to have enough to add a certain level of competitiveness, depending on the experience of your fellow team

owners, to draft the best players for your team. The more teams you have, ultimately the more competitive your draft and your league are. Also, being the commissioner, you are in charge of setting all the league’s rules as far as scheduling, scoring, draft time, location and so forth. The league is your own, so you are free to make it anyway you choose, or you can just stick to the basics and use ESPN’s standard scoring which I have used all my years of being commissioner. It’s easy and efficient, and calculates all your players’ stats week to week, auto-correcting every statistical mistake it may make. You can also make it even more competitive by charging an entry fee for every team owner in your league. Therefore, you’ll have an enormous pot of money that will be awarded to the eventual league champion. So once you finished setting up your league and have all your former friends who are now your competitors, it’s time for the moment of truth that separates the men from the boys: the draft.

The DraftThis is where those months of

preparation pay off. Flash back to the last week in June when you first opened those fresh pages of a brand new fantasy football magazine and instantly are overwhelmed by the undeniable truth that the football season is only a summer away.

In short, the draft is sixteen intense rounds of equipping your team with the best available player for every pick. You can do an online draft on the league’s homepage, or make it even more entertaining by having an offline draft where you and all the other team owners come together at a set location to hold the draft itself. The inevitable groans you’ll hear when someone chooses the player they wanted, as well as the unanimous ridicule you give someone who tries to draft a player who has already been drafted makes an offline draft worthwhile.

The very last thing you want to do is go into a draft unprepared. A cheat sheet of ESPN’s top 200 players and your very own, customized, big board of desired players filled with their statistical history and trends you discovered from your months of research and analysis should be

enough to lead you to a successful draft.

All Drafters Should Know: 1. Draft running backs early and

often. Due to the frequent injuries and in today’s pass-happy NFL and running back committee-styled offenses, running backs are the scarcest position. Therefore they are the Holy Grail and backbone of your team.

2. Be the first, if not, the last to draft your QB. Having Peyton Manning as your quarterback is nice, but anyone else outside of the elite three consisting of him, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers is worth grabbing later on in your draft.

3. Realize every pick matters. Your team will be built on your starting lineup and your bench players, so highly successful drafters are well-prepared, no matter what round it is..

4. Trust your gut feeling. Above all else, go with what you know to be true rather than relying on what you heard on ESPN or having a conversation with a friend. The truth always lies within the stats and trends because numbers never lie.

These aren’t all guarantees, but if there were a book of commandments for having a successful draft, I can guarantee all four of them would be in there.

The TeamOkay, so now you have your

team, which I hope consists of a well-balanced starting lineup from top to bottom. When I say lineup, I mean your starting lineup that you will compete week-to-week. It will consist of a quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, a tight end, a defense or special teams unit, a kicker and a flex position which is open for a running back, tight end, or a wide receiver. The rest of your players fall in your bench and will be called upon when one of your starters has a bye week or an injury.

After evaluating your team, it’s always fun to get creative with your team name. A team name typically contains one of your player’s names within it, along with a catching and funny slogan or pop culture reference. (i.e. Wide Receiver Calvin Johnson + Alvin and the Chipmunks = Calvin and the Chipmunks)

The Football SeasonNow with the league all set up, the

draft completed and your starting lineups all set, all that’s left is for the regular season to begin. Throughout the season, it’s wise to make waiver acquisitions (picking up undrafted players that are not owned by a team owner within the league) as well as making trades between other owners along the way to sustain a strong and winning team. The truth is injuries are inevitable and players may not meet expectations. So it is absolutely crucial to stay up to date with everything going on in the NFL, such as injuries, trades, depth chart changes and so forth, as well as listening to fantasy football experts that actually get paid to give their opinions on based on highly intensive research and analytics. Typically the playoffs for your fantasy football league are played in the last weeks of the regular season. The best teams with the best record of wins and losses through the first 14 weeks go head to head in a playoff-seeding bracket until one is finally crowned the champion at the end of the regular season.

The Debrief

Alright, so there was your brief summary of everything you need to know about fantasy football and being a commissioner. And remember, it’s not too late to join a league or create your own on Espn.com/ffl or Nfl.com/fantasyfootball. I’ll be giving regular analyses of every game and matchup throughout the season, as well as giving you my best and most helpful tips and advice to ensure your success for the rest of the NFL season. So tis’ the season to all of you jolly fantasy football fans everywhere, and wish you nothing but the best for your fantasy football success this season!

Hey ballas: The Commish explains fantasy footballALAN BRANCHNEWS@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

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Outfits of the week

Out of boredom, Olivia Cooley sat down on a sunny day and wrote a letter to a friend. This may seem like a simple task, but in today’s fast-paced world, traditional letter writing has become one of the least-used mediums of communication. College students typically have less free time and less money to spend, meaning “snail mail” isn’t a top priority for this demographic.

In a survey of students of a 400-level communication class with a subject focus on social media, over half of the respondents believe personal letter writing will die out within the next 10 years. Out of the same pool, 85 percent said they care about the system. It appears a multitude of students predict the end is drawing near for letters, with or without their feelings involved.

Lisa Hagan, senior anthropology major, doesn’t believe mail will go extinct due to those without access to modern technologies, along with those who prefer handwritten letters. In reality, the possibility of this communication medium dying out persists.

“If it were to die out, which

I do not believe will happen,” Hagan said, “I feel that society as a whole will become even more detached and self-involved than it currently is, if that is even possible.”

Chad Stephens, a biochemistry major, reminisced on his past experiences with snail mail. “As a child, receiving personal mail was absolutely one of the most exciting things,” he said.

Today’s focus concentrates on getting tasks done using more efficient and less time-consuming methods. Personal communication, through paper mail, used to be a commonality, but today it is viewed as a novelty, as a result of newer, faster forms of connecting with people. Fewer people are willing to wait a week or longer for mail, when there are a multitude of instantaneous forms of contacting people. Fewer children get to experience the excitement of receiving a card or letter as Stephens once did, due to the decline of this practice.

In the survey, the most preferred communication medium, with friends and family, was talking face to face, followed by texting. Cooley agrees with these results. “I do love letter writing, but I prefer face to face contact overall,” she said. “If someone

isn’t present, letters or phone calls are my next option. Since I’ve come to college, I’ve been emailing a lot as well.”

Approximately 57 percent of students, who participated in the survey, found that once they began their college career, they received fewer personal letters.

“If I were to receive a handwritten letter, I would most definitely reply with a handwritten letter and a phone call to thank the person,” Hagan said. She and other students respond similarly, by combining multiple forms of communication in their reply.

Stephens had a different motive for writing, focusing on initially sending letters instead of participating

solely as a respondent. He takes advantage of the mailing system for furthering his education instead of personal communication. “At this point, any letter I write is most likely a letter for my research project to attain funds or for some research or study program,” Stephens said.

Although some students hold onto the traditional form of communicating through personal letters, the majority of college-age adults have moved on to internet-centered, fast-paced mediums. Even so, those forms don’t reveal handwriting, an irreplaceable, individualistic aspect of a letter. But letter writing isn’t dead yet, although it may soon be.

Snail mail: Too sluggish for modern society?NATALIE MURPHYNEWS@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

Andrew Smith, a freshman, says he gravitates towards pieces that look more vintage, and is most influenced by the 80’s and 90’s.

Freshman Sydney Gomes says scarves are her go-to accessory because they can pull together an entire outfit.

First-year MA English student, Joanna Englert, adds a cozy cardigan to her outfit to suit the chilly weather.

Rama Sanders keeps things low-key with jeans, Sperrys and a graphic hoodie.

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OPINION | SEPT. 16, 2014

LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

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While crime continues to rise in

and around the University of Louis-

ville community, students are begin-

ning to feel less safe than ever when

simply walking across campus at the

wrong hour of the day, or in-less-

than-perfect lighting. Students’ safe-

ty should have been a priority years

ago, with measures being taken to

protect us before the present crime

wave rolled in.

Should we compile the outrageous

number of Rave alerts, which stu-

dents have received in the past three

months, this sudden increase in po-

lice presence seems alarmingly late

and disturbingly unproductive.

If it required a student to be

stabbed, in order to get the attention

of university administration, what

does that say about the importance

of the students who did not receive

injuries? Safety should not be so

generalized, that an actual threat of

death is the only thing that makes the

university act.

While the university assures stu-

dents that they are taking all possible

precautions, and that our well-being

is of the utmost importance, we sim-

ply aren’t buying it. There has been

a spike of crime in the past year and

the university’s delay in action speaks

much louder than their after-the-fact

response.

Kenneth Brown, U of L assistant

chief of police, seems to be under

the impression that a rise in heroin

could very well be a part of the rise

in crime. This assertion seems mis-

informed when we look at the types

of crime reports that have come in.

Instead, this seems to be a scape-

goat for the fact that our university

seems to have higher priorities than

safety.

Our safety is not only question-

able on the Belknap campus, but

also in student neighborhoods,

communities around campus and

simply the walk to and from our

homes . We need a police force that

will proactively protect and serve

our student body, instead of one

that waits for an incident to happen

in order to come in for cleanup.

Editorial: It shouldn’t take a stabbing for U of L to ramp up security

You’ve heard of Facebook, Twit-

ter and Instagram, but have you

heard of Yik Yak yet? Yik Yak is the

latest form of social media that has

caught on quickly. Yik Yak is es-

sentially a virtual news feed where

people can like or dislike what other

people post, but here’s the catch:

people can only post anonymously.

Because of this key difference,

between Yik Yak and other popular

forms of social media, some psychia-

trists are calling it the most danger-

ous form of social media that they

have ever seen.

A person can post derogatory

statements such as “For all you men,

yoga pants season is upon us!” and

“Yoga pants are God’s gift to the

earth” without having any obvious

ties to the post. It seems as though

mostly men are using the app since

there are so many derogatory posts

about women on it.

Some people will even post about

complete strangers, and other peo-

ple around them can read the post,

since the app works by location, and

make the connection about who the

post is talking about. This is danger-

ous because it can make someone

paranoid that at any given moment

they are being talked about on Yik

Yak.

Even if they see a post that is ob-

viously about them, they will be un-

able to tell who posted it, which in a

sense makes them feel like the world

is against them.

Despite these dangers, Yik Yak

can also be a fun source of social

media. Light-hearted posts such as

“Reading Yik Yak like it’s the daily

paper” can bring a smile to someone

that needed it.

It can also build a sense of com-

munity when people are Yik Yak-

king about the same topic such as

tailgating before a game. People also

talk about events going on around

campus and where you can find

them.

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PHOTO COURTESY / YIK YAK

| OPINION16 SEPT. 16, 2014

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