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SGA Vote 2006
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candidates for this year's Student
Government Association election;
www.louisvillecardinal.com February 28, 2006 I Vol. 78, Issue 23
"When I was in high school we could buy similar cards, but they were never so useful as this one."
-Sarah Mitchell, sophomore Accounting major
Dish •• ng out discounts
Several
participating
businesses
U of L Bookstore
852-6679
1 Oo/o off 1 regularly
priced clothing item
Cheba Hut
947 Baxter Ave.
(502) "454-5507
Free large fountain
drink with purchase
of 8-inch sub & chips
CiCi's Pizza
5226 Dixie Hwy.
(502) 448-8885
Free soft drink with
purchase of adult
buffet
Cold Stone
Creamery
976 Baxter Ave.
(502) 569-7400
Free plain waffle
bowl with purchase
of'Love It' ice cream
or $3 off any ice
cream cake
Diamante Bar & Grill
2280 Bardstown Rd.
(502) 456-1705
20% off lunch
entrees
Papa John's Pizza
2336 S. Floyd St.
(502) 636-1112
Free large pizza with
purchase of large or
XL pizza at regular
menu price of equal
or lesser value,
expires 8/31/07
Quiznos Sub
Central Station
(502) 375-1400
1 Oo/o discount
Rocky Rococo Pizza
& Pasta
411 S. Fourth St.
(502) 595-7510
Get free super slice
and medium soda
with purchase of the
same
Matt Schauer I Louisville Cardinal
The 26 Louisville and Southern Indiana White Castle restaurants offer five hamburgers for $1.99 with the new Student Savings
Club discount card. The card is free for students, faculty and staff, and gets bearers a discount at 23 other businesses.
Area businesses offer
students, faculty, staff
savings with new card
BY SASHA WILLIAMS
NEWS EDITOR
news@louisvillecardinal.com
Students, faculty and staff at U
of L can now take advantage of free
discount cards, which are currently
redeemable at 24 local businesses rang­ing
from eye doctors and veterinarians
to restaurants.
"My personal favorite is Smoothie
King," said SGA Academic Vice Presi­dent
Alicia Paez, who began working
on the discount card project in the fall
of 2005, but said it didn't really come
together until this semester, when Col­legiate
Services got
involved.
Collegiate
Services is an
advertising and
marketing agen­cy
that offers
.schools around
the country the
opportunity to join their Student Sav­ings
Club program. When a school
joins the program, student representa­tives
submit a list of local businesses
where students would like to receive
discounts.
Paez polled students in her classes
and around campus about local busi­nesses
they frequent. Based off the
results of her poll, she compiled a list
of roughly 100 businesses to consider
for the discount card. She sent letters to
the majority of these businesses, asking
them to join the project.
"I asked every place on campus or
near campus," Paez said.
Collegiate Services also contacted
the businesses on the list, and so far 24
have signed on as members.
Lisa Dean, senior program manager
at Collegiate Services, said many busi­nesses
· sit out the first year but choose
to join the second year after they see
the results of the program. "Merchants
can join at any time," she said. "The
biggest motivation [for joining] is to
create ties between the community and
the school."
Individual businesses decide what
discounts they want to offer and pay
Collegiate Services an advertising and
marketing fee that covers promotion
and printing costs of the card.
"The program is always, and will al­ways
be 100 percent free to the school,"
Dean said.
U ofL will be one of the last schools
in the country to receive printed cards.
Most of the schools that receive dis­counts
through the club are online al­ready.
Students at these schools simply
show businesses their student IDs and
do not need to carry the actual discount
card. When the cards expire on Aug. 7,
2007, U ofL will convert to using the
online system only. Until then, students
must show the discount card at the time
of purchase, but can also visit the Web
site for an updated discount list.
Still, students are already realizing
the benefits of the card. "I think that
the cards are a good idea," said sopho­more
Sarah Mitchell. "When I was
in high school, we could buy similar
cards but they were never as useful as
this one."
Student Savings Club cards are
available at the Speed School, the
SGA office and the Belknap campus
bookstore.
Visit http:/ /www.studentsavings­club.
com for more information.
Courtesy Rowland Designs
A rendering of the Cressman Center, a
new art facility planned. for the corner
of First and Main Streets in downtown
Louisville, shows one of the building's
potential galleries. ·
Art programs
bound for
downtown
BY SHARON ScoTT
StaffWriter
entertainment@louisvillecardinal.com
The Department of Fine Arts and
the Allen R. Hite Art Institute at the
University of Louisville are branching
out across downtown Louisville with the
addition of two new facilities.
Since 2001, university fine arts fac­ulty
members have been re-orienting
their program: The department restruc­tured
its curriculum, added tenure-track
positions and has begun a dramatic
downtown expansion. .
At a press conference earlier this
month, Elizabeth and Frederick Cress­man
publicly announced a gift of $1
million for the Hire Institute to establish
an urban studio arts cei:uer. Elizabeth,
who received a Ph.D. in Art History
from U of L, said she and her husband
would like· to see art become a greater
part of daily life in Louisville.
Standing beside the Cressmans, Lou­isville
Mayor Jerry Abramson confirmed
Louisville's plans to house the facility
in a 12,000-square-foot space on the
corner of First and Main Streets rented
to the university at a rate of $1 per year
for 30 years.
The Cressman Center for Visual Arcs
will house downtown work, lecture and
exhibition space for University of Lou­isville
students. Windows at street level
will allow the public a view of art in the
making. Exhibition ares and an observa­tion
.lobby will be open to pedestrians
during business hours.
''Art is a process as well as a product,"
said Professor James Grubola, chair of
the Fine Arts department. "People will
have a better appreciation for the prod­uct
if they can see the process."
The Cressman Center will become
See CRESSMAN, page 15.