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SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
WHAT'S INSIDE
NEWS
Senator slated for
visit to Louisville
U.S. Sen. Barak Obama (D.-Ill.) will help
kick off this year's Louisville-Jefferson
County Democratic campaign season.
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FEATURES
Corlege dating
Maintaining relatiohships during
school can be a challenge, but keeping
your sweetheart by your side also has
its benefits.
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SPORTS
Tennis team set for
Big East matches
Men's line-up plays at Southern
Intercollegiate Championships in
Athens, Ga.
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CHALLENGE FOR EXCELLENCE
Mamamia!
They're going to spell U ofL in
Teams prepare
to piece together
school monogram
By Chris Brown
The Louisville Cardinal
Your mom always told you not to play
with your food.
Well, Mom, things have changed.
This Friday at noon, three 11-member
teams, one made of University of Louisville
students, one of staff and one of faculty,
will gather at the Belknap oval, and race to
sec who can piece their share of 130 Papa
John's pizzas into 11-meter-tal] outlines of
the school's monogram letters.
The event, "Spell U of L...in Pizza," is
part of a campus-wide party celebrating the
closing days of the "Challenge for Excel­lence,"
a 1 0-year, 11-goal plan for the uni­versity
launched in 1998.
"The university is on the verge of meet­ing
all of irs Challenge goals more than a
year ahead of schedule," said U of L Presi­dent
James Ramsey. "Now it's time to ac­knowledge
the hard work of all the people
who helped."
Papa John's, the pizza company for
which U of Ls football stadium is named,
is donating rhe pizza for the race. "It's our
way of congratulating U of L for doing such
a great job on meeting its strategic plan,"
said Tish Muldoon, director of public rela­tions
for Papa John's International Inc.
U of L Director of Media Re!lations Denise Fitzpatrick talked with Julie Soule
(left) of the President's oft1ce last Friday on the Belknap Oval lawn. The two
are among several univers;ity and SGA officials planning this Friday's picnic
and pizza challenge.
BY THE NUMIBERS "Papa John's main ingredient is qual­ity,"
Muldoon said. 'Md U of Cs mission
is quality as well."
The frame, designed by Speed School's
Rapid Prototyping Center, is being built
by Owings Patterns, a Georgetown, Ind.,
small business that specializes in creative
signmaking. "Some businesses might think
twice about taking on a project like this,
but we like challenges and we're big fans of
U of L, so we really wanted to do this," said
company owner Bob Owings.
Find out what will! it take
to fill an 11-meter-tall U
of L logo with Papa John's
pizza.
1/3 The portion of the U of L monogram each
team must fill with pizza on Friday.
Officials from the university and from
Papa Johns advise against eating the pizza
used in rhe race. Instead, the university is
also offering a free picnic meal provided
by Kroger from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
1he event and is open to all faculty, staff
and students; and shuttles will run between
HSC and Belknap Campus from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. the day of the event. "We hope
every member of the U of L family will
stop by, have lunch on us and enjoy the
fun," Ramsey said.
3 The number of teams - one made of stu­dents,
one of staff and one of faculty - par­ticipating
in the event.
11
130
The height in meters each letter in the U of L
monoqram would reach if stood upright.
Among the door prizes the university
plans to award at the event will be six iPods,
including two full-size 30Gb versions, two
2Gb Nanos and two 1Gb Shuffles; gift cer- 150
The number of pizzas Speed School of En­gineering
planners say it will take to fi ll the
monoqram completely.
The number of Perfect Pan pizzas Papa John's
lnte rn;ational is donating to be used in the
PIUA see page A4 event.
Campus police hold annu.al 'Safety Week'
By Kyle Winslow
The Louisville Cardinal
In an endeavor to promote crime
awareness and prevention, the Stu­dent
Government Asso~iation along
with the Departmenr of Public Safe­ty,
Prevention Education and Advo­cacy
on Campus and in the Com­munity,
reamed up to host Campus
Safety Week from Sept. 5 through
Sept. 7, here at the University of
Louisville.
The event was aimed at promoting
awareness to many different crimes
that can occur on college campuses.
According the Justin Tooley, SGA
Services Vice President, "I thought
it would be a good idea if the cam­pus
community responded ro some
of the most prevalent crimes occur­ring
on college campuses, mostly
theft, crimes involving alcohol, and
personal security." Tooley added that
the first month of school is known
as "Red Zone" because most campus
crimes occur during the first 28 days
of the semester.
SGA offered Technology En­graving
in most of the residence
halls. The purpose was to give the
resident's belongi ngs a trademark
so that if something of their:s was
stolen, they could retrieve it by this
identification. Leah Riggs, a senior
finance major and Senator for SGA
did the engraving at Louisville Hall.
"The Technology Engraving is an
attempt ro prevent theft, and make
the residents feel more comfo:rtable
about their possessions," said Riggs.
She engraved everything from lap­tops
to cell phones, and even tape
dispensers.
Bes ides Technology Engraving,
SGA made another improvement in
theft protection by introducing an
"]f I Were a Thief" project. "[Resi­dent
Assistants] were asked to •check
residence halls for unlocked doors. If
doors were unlocked, a flyer was de­signed
to warn residents to lock their
doors when out of their rooms. This
is an indirect response to most cam-pus
crimes being theft." said Tooley.
Joe Dittman, the Community Ori­ented
Policing Coordinator for DPS
said that there were 230 individual
thefts last year. "A lot of the thefts
were reported by freshmen that were
na'ive, and new to the university,"
said Dittman. He also described
the thefts as "opportunity thefts,"
in which the perpetrators picked up
purses or laptops that were sitting
out in the open.
DPS sponsored a cookout Sept.
6, outside their headquarters at the
Floyd Street Garage. According
to Dittman, "It was a fine success,
[DPS] offered door prizes, gave
out free permits, and there was free
food." He estimated nearly 600 stu­dents
attended and sald that DPS
wanted the students ro know, "We
are here, we are student advocates
and we want to meet them." Ditt­man
believes crime on campus will
continue ro decrease, because "the
university has made a tremendous
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VOLUME 80, ISSUE 4 • 16 PAGES, 2 SECTIONS
New plan will
address traffic
on local road
By Matt Adkins
The Louisville Cardinal
One major campus street will soon have a
new look if all goes as planned.
Eastern Parkway, located on the south
side of the University of Louisville's Belknap
campus is slated for renovation. State and lo­cal
officials plan to narrow the section of the
thoroughfare between Third Street and the
I-65 interchange to two lanes.
"This is an important project for the Uni­versity
of Louisville and its student body,"
said Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher. "Address­ing
traffic and safety concerris on campus is
just one of the positive things we can do to
help a university grow and succeed."
Fletcher said a reduction of lanes, desig­nated
pedestrian crossings and wider side­walks
"are just a few of the elements of this
project that will improve safety for pedestri~
ans and better manage traffic flow."
In August, U of L President Dr. James
Ramsey was presented with a $2 million
check from Fletcher for the effort. "The East­ern
Parkway project grew out of our Beauti­fication
Task Force that we created shordy
after I became president," said Ramsey.
Ramsey was also successful in getting an
extra $1 million from former Kentucky Gov.
Paul Patton to begin landscaping and other
work mostly around Fourth Street and Car­dinal
Boulevard. As part of the $1 million
earned, the university decided on what they
could do with Eastern Parkway ..
Since the road is four lanes, there have
been some issues regarding pedestrians. "We
were made aware by a number of people that
there had been safety issues for some time
because of the lack of a cross walk at Third
Street and Eastern Parkway. We undertook a
study wirh rhe state and various recommen­dations
were provided to us for alternatives,"
said Ramsey.
Some statistics show
that there are at least
17,500 vehicles driv­ing
every day on
Eastern Parkway.
There are also ap­proximately
250 stu­dents
that cross the street
on weekday m~rnings according to
Governor Fletcher. The potential improve­ments
will be designed to make the area eas­ier
for pedestrians to travel since the area is
busy with traffic.
Besides having only two lanes when the
project is done, Eastern Parkway is expected
to have new features to make the road more
user friendly, some of the which will include
wider sidewalks, improved pedestrian signals,
and landscaped buffers, which will allow for
any future ideas to include bicycle lanes.
The project itself will cost more than
$2 mill ion according to Ramsey. The uni­versity
will have a matching requirement
of $200,000. "This project will consume
our resources for the immediate future. We
would like to continue our paint up, clean
up, and fix up effort. We have tried to use
non-academic fund sources for these efforts
in the pasr."
Despite Eastern Parkway there are other
parts of campus that will possibly undergo
changes as well in the future. "We have a
major project that we would like to under­take
on Third Street in front of Grawemeyer
Hall to more closely integrate the campus
with the Stansbury Park, which is between
Third and Fourth Streets. We're developing
a master plan on this project and will then
seek funding. In the future we will also seek
transportation funds to do more work on
Cardinal Blvd., Fourth Street, and other ar­eas,"
Ramsey said.
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