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On a team built around experi-ence at key positions on the defense, sophomore midfielder Andrew Bro-dy shines as a young attacker who has been among the best players for Louisville since day one.

As a freshman, Brody started all 20 games for the Cards. His eight as-sists were second on the team, and he added three goals in the campaign.

Brody’s success carried over to the opening night of this season and the first men’s game in the new $18.5

million Lynn Stadium. In the 53rd minute against then

second ranked Maryland, Brody headed in the game winner. With 7,000 members of Card Nation watching, Brody helped cement Lou-isville as a formidable soccer school and a celebrated soccer town.

His roots in soccer go back before he was even born. His father, Scott Brody, played in college at UNLV and professionally for the Colorado Foxes. From an early age, soccer was part of Andrew’s life.

“Pretty much it was dad. Ever since I could walk, he had a ball at

my feet,” Brody remembered. “He was my coach all the way up

until U13. He’s pretty much my mo-tivation, I want to succeed for him. I want to be who I am. I want to make it big for everything that he taught me, everything that he did for me. So that’s kind of why I play, because he led me into it.”

His father’s teaching is how he was able to grow so quickly as a player and contribute as soon as he stepped on the field in a Cardinal uniform.

Head coach Ken Lolla appreciates Brody’s efforts and praised the as-sets he brought to the team as a true

freshman.“I think it was what he offered on

the attacking end,” Lolla recalled of Brody in his first year. “His ability to run at players and create not only for himself but for others. His willing-ness, his courage to do it as a fresh-man was what allowed us to start him and allow him to play so many minutes as a freshman.”

“I just tried to listen to the older guys.

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Location: 1810 S 3rd St (Cardinal Towne)Incident: Burglary IIDisposition: Report - Open CaseComment: A University Student reported stolen property.

Location: SRCIncident: Theft Over $500 - from AutoDisposition: Report - Open CaseComment: A University Student reported stolen property.

SEPTEMBER 4

Location: SACIncident: Theft Under $500Disposition: Report - Open CaseComment: A University Staff person reported stolen property.

Location: Mark & Cindy Lynn Soccer StadiumIncident: Theft Under $500Disposition: Report - Open CaseComment: A University Student reported stolen property.

SEPTEMBER 5

Location: Province AptsIncident: Theft Under $500Disposition: Report - Open CaseComment: A University Student reported stolen property.

Location: Miller Hall Parking LotIncident: Accident, Hit & RunDisposition: Report - Open CaseComment: A University Student reported a hit and run accident.

Location: The Ville GrillIncident: Robbery II - Strong ArmDisposition: Report - Open CaseComment: A student reported stolen prop-erty.

SEPTEMBER 6

Location: 1514 Shelburne Cir Bldg 11A (Prov-ince Apts)Incident: Alcohol Intoxication/Criminal Tres-passing IIIDisposition: Report - Closed, Subject ArrestedComment: A University Student reported a loud party, upon further investigation Univer-sity Police Officer reported arresting 2 subjects.

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As of press, no one has been charged in the investigation of the attempted abduction and stabbing of the student, said Louisville Metro Police Department spokesperson Dwight Mitchell.

According to Mitchell, the suspect was covered up, and the victim could

not give a description. Police contin-ue to work on this case.

The list of crime around campus has been growing quickly over the past two months. Since students be-gan moving back at the beginning of August, more documented crime has happened than the start of any other semester.

Last Tuesday, a violent crime near campus led to the hospitalization of

one student.Around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 2, a fe-

male student walking to her car near the Family Scholar House on Lee St. was approached by a man asking for change. When she turned him down, he pulled a knife on her.

At knifepoint, he forced her to walk about a block to a wooded area near 6th and Shipp Ave., at which point he stabbed her in the stomach and ran west on Hill St. The student was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

“In my three years at Louisville so far, the level of safety I feel has de-clined steadily every time I step out-side or read an email alert regarding fellow students being attacked or robbed,” said junior Haley Massad.

Major David James of U of L police shared some insight on crime rates around campus.

“Theft is the biggest crime around here, hands down,” he said.

However, other criminal activities, such as a recent strong-armed rob-bery near the Ville Grille on Friday and theft and muggings around cam-pus, indicate that there are more seri-ous crimes occurring as well.

One student, Alan Gripshover, and his girlfriend Natalie Bomar, were the victims of a mugging on the first weekend of school in Old Louisville.

“I was not sure if they were going to shoot us or not, but there was no way I was taking any chances. I threw everything I had in my pockets, but they only wanted my wallet and Nata-lie’s purse.”

Gripshover said that he and Bomar have had issues dealing with the ex-perience.

“I definitely lost sleep over it and Natalie was shaken up for a while,” said Gripshover.

Some students have suggested that an increased amount of lighting in Old Louisville would make the area safer for students. Students are en-couraged by law enforcement to walk with someone else, especially at night.

According to James, “U of L is a great school. It is a safe place, but the students have to take some respon-sibility for their own safety and pro-tecting their own property.”

Those with any information are encour-aged to call the University Police at 502-852-6111.

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Emergency blue light systems are out of order near the site of the ab-duction. PHOTO BY CHERRELLE MARABLE/ THE CARDINAL

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CVS STOPS SELLING TOBACCO As of Sept. 3, CVS Caremark has stopped selling to-bacco products and changed its name to CVS Health. Tobacco products earned CVS $2 billion in annual revenue, but CEO Larry Merlo believes that, as a health care provider, it is the right decision. Instead of the tobacco products on the shelves behind the ca-shier counters, nicotine gum along with programs to help customers stop smoking will be sold.

FERGUSON OFFICERS TO WEAR BODY CAMERASWeeks after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, Ferguson officers are now equipped with $300 body cameras. Law enforcement officials be-lieve it is mportant to be able to see what the officer is seeing when they are interacting with a suspect. Two private security firms donated the cameras after complaints were received about police tactics.

HACKER STEALS AND LEAKS CELEB-RITY NUDESOn Sept. 1, nude photos of celebrities and athletes were posted online by a hacker. The hacker gained access to the iCloud accounts of celebrities like Jen-nifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Hope Solo prior to posting the photos online. The leaks are believed to have originated on internet image board Anon1B. Representatives of Jennifer Lawrence have threat-ened legal action against anyone who spreads the photos. Apple and the FBI are still investigating the situation.

ISIS THREATENS RUSSIAISIS posted a video threatening Russian President Putin over his support of Syria’s Bashar-al-Assad and promised to liberate Chechnya. In response, Chech-en leader Kadyrov went on Instagram and vowed to destroy ISIS if they try to threaten Russia or Chech-nya. Russia has been quiet about the ISIS situation but backed a United Nations decision to investigate ISIS atrocities in Iraq. Experts believe Russia and China, who has also been quiet about ISIS, are happy to let other nations deal with it.

Two degree programs in the College of Arts and Sciences – liberal studies and justice ad-ministration – are changing the names of their majors. Both programs seek to attract talented students with a passion for their selected field of study. The new names will promote a bet-ter understanding about the programs’ course-work.

Individualized majorWhat does a student within the individu-

alized major study? The answer is, nearly anything he or she wants. According to their webpage, the University of Louisville’s liberal studies program allows students to design their own plan of study “in areas not available within an existing departmental curriculum.”

In spring 2014, the liberal studies program decided to tailor their name to better describe the major. The College of Arts and Sciences ap-proved the change to the individualized major (BA).

“The liberal studies program researched na-tional trends and found that the preferred title for programs such as ours has become ‘individ-ualized major,’” said Sarah Gierke, senior aca-demic counselor for liberal studies.

In the past, U of L students designed their own majors in social empowerment through art, music industry/pre-law, crime-related in-terviewing and international business. Their website boasts that students have created “hun-dreds of individualized programs.”

With a new label as the individualized major, the emphasis is on the students.

“This title better represents the intent of the degree – to allow students to create a cohesive plan of study while pulling from multiple dis-ciplines to best prepare them for their future goals,” said Gierke.

Sophomore Jeremy Ball, prospective indi-vidualized major student, wishes to do just that. When he found that the University of Louis-ville did not offer a degree program in inter-national relations, he decided to create one for himself.

“The program will bring in the concepts of political science, history and philosophy, with the aim to capture the political and traditional cultures of every area of the globe,” said Ball.

Ball must present a written proposal to the individualized major program before gaining acceptance. He hopes his plan of study will pre-pare him for his future career.

When asked about the program’s move to the individualized major, Ball said he was not aware of the change. He does not recognize a clear difference between the two labels.

“Both [liberal studies and the individualized major] seem broad enough to where an expla-nation will always be needed on a resume or in an interview,” said Ball. “My hope is that I have the opportunity to explain it.”

“There is a difference to how people respond to ‘individualized major’ as compared to liberal studies,” said Gierke.

The new name describes a plan of study where the passions of the individual student are in focus.

Criminal justiceThe department of justice administration is

undergoing a similar change, although the of-ficial renaming will not take place until July 1, 2015. After that date, the field of program at U of L will be known as the department of crimi-nal justice.

The department chose to adapt their name to meet the national trend in similar programs.

“Over the years, we have had to explain how our program is comparable to criminal justice programs, and since there is no difference, we decided to change the name of our degrees and our department,” said department chair Debo-rah Keeling.

In addition, the name change will attract prospective criminal justice students to the University of Louisville.

“[The renaming] is also a response to chang-ing technology and marketing strategies,” said Keeling.

The internet has shifted the way students select degree programs and universities. As the department of justice administration, the University of Louisville did not appear in some search engine results.

“My professors have stressed how important and beneficial the change is for current stu-dents,” says Miranda Stone, junior justice ad-ministration major. “Personally, I welcome the change of labeling.”

Stone believes that the renaming of her ma-jor will be more recognizable to future employ-ers.

“If I am asked what my major is and I answer justice administration, I am usually asked if that is like criminal justice,” says Stone.

The justice administration program has posted updates via Facebook and printed ma-terials about the summer 2015 renaming. The hope is to reduce any confusion surrounding the name change.

“[The department of criminal justice] should, in reality, produce a more accurate and repre-sentational label for our program and there-fore, greater understanding rather than confu-sion among students,” said Keeling.

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What’s in a name?: Two depart-ments set to receive new names IN THE

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NEWSWhat you missed while

you were in class

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Whether you are a freshman, re-

turning student or faculty member, it

is hard to miss the enormous amount

of students inhabiting campus this year.

The quad looks fuller, classes are

overflowing and lines are longer.

McAlister’s is as busy as ever, along

with every other dining option Sodexo

has to offer. Although Sodexo admits

the first two weeks are always hectic,

they also recognize if this pace were to

continue in the upcoming weeks, some

adjustments will need to be made on

how they handle the flow of students

they serve.

Last year, some restaurants report-

ed serving, on average, three students

for every minute of the day they were

open.

This year those numbers will rise

with U of L’s record-breaking freshman

class. From Aug. 22 to Aug. 28, Sodexo

processed 44,000 transactions. The first

day of classes alone, 9,500 transactions

occurred.

Charlie Clabaugh, marketing and

sustainability coordinator for Sodexo,

says the first three weeks are always

most hectic as students have not fig-

ured out their schedules.

“Once students get the hang of what

times are most convenient to grab a

bite to eat, things tend to spread out

and become less chaotic.”

Sandella’s Flatbread Cafe, expected

to open after Fall Break, should allevi-

ate the volume constantly being pushed

through McAlister’s.

Clabaugh says the biggest challenge,

if the level of volume from the first two

weeks of classes were to continue, is the

apparent need for more dining options.

When asked if Sodexo is staffed ac-

cordingly to the amount of volume

they are experiencing, the number of

employees was not as big an issue as

just providing alternative options for

students to use their meal plans.

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Student dining overwhelmed as semester begins

!e University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research is planning a "ve-year, $20 million ex-pansion for its facilities and sta# in the near future, putting it on the forefront of energy source research.

!e Conn Center was originally founded at U of L’s J. B. Speed School of Engineering in 2009. !e Conn Center’s innovative "eld of research looks at ways to increase homegrown energy sources to meet the national need, while at the same time being able to reduce energy consumption and dependence on foreign resources.

“!e Conn Center will utilize these valuable resources toward our goal of becoming a national center of excel-lence,” said Mahendra Sunkara, direc-tor of the Conn Center, last week in a press release.

Even before the renovation project began, the Conn Center made a name for itself in innovative energy-related research.

“U of L was able to receive some of this grant money because of the repu-

tation that the Conn Center is build-ing in renewable energy research,” said John Karman, U of L communication and marketing specialist.

!e University of Louisville is not the only school looking into renewable resource research. It will be undertak-ing a collaborative, multi-institutional research e#ort. Nine other state in-stitutions are working on the e#ort, including the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University.

!e Conn Center received an award in the form of a grant from the Nation-al Science Foundation, which is a fed-eral agency that supports fundamental research and education.

!e new project, called “Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sus-tainable Future,” will address several signi"cant challenges that the state is currently facing in the energy econo-my. !e main goal will be transition-ing toward the use of renewable re-sources, considered a vital step in the right direction for our planet’s future. !e main focus points for the project will be the areas of electrochemical en-ergy storage, biomass feed stocks and nanocomposite membranes.

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Chatham DeProspo, beyond ‘The Goal’ ANNIE MOOREAMOORE@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

Louisville, Kentucky is far from Gos-hen, New York. College is a big transi-tion from High School. Division I col-legiate soccer is a completely different animal than club soccer. These changes are all being experienced by one fresh-man on this year’s Cardinal women’s soccer program, midfielder Chatham DeProspo.

DeProspo started the transition strongly, becoming the first person, and first woman, to score a goal in the new $18.5 million Lynn Stadium.

“I can’t put it into words,” DeProspo said. “It’s the best feeling ever. I was hugging Kari (Weinland) non-stop after the assist she gave me. I couldn’t have done it without her. But it’s an amazing feeling, and I’m truly blessed to have done that.”

This was DeProspo’s first look at a campus that is embracing soccer, along with the rest of the city and the country. When the goal went in and she turned around, she was embraced by 5,000 screaming Cardinal faithfuls- a crowd larger than she’d ever experienced.

“I haven’t been in a better environ-ment ever, playing soccer,” DeProspo said. “I had never seen that many peo-ple at a women’s soccer game at all. So, I was very impressed, and I know I’m part of a good community, a very loving community. When I chose Louisville, I knew it was because the community is all about the school, but actually getting to see it was amazing.”

Amongst the noise and chaos, though, were a couple of friendly faces: her mom, Catherine Bartlett, and her dad, Bill DeProspo. Her parents weren’t just there for the first game, though. They have made every game she’s ever played. Even when she played in Florida, her parents would fly down to

watch her play, and she said they plan on being in the stands for every game at Lynn Stadium this year, too.

“I am who I am because of them,” DeProspo said. “There’s never a game that my parents have not been at. I went to boarding school in Florida for three years, and they were still at every single game. My mom drove 20 hours to come, or my dad would fly down. In college, they’re doing the same thing. They’ll be at every game. I think with that love and support, I haven’t seen it in any other family. I do think mine’s the best out there, and I love my parents to death, and my two brothers.”

It is that connection to her family that drives her aspirations, not only on the field but also in the classroom. Cha-tham is a Political Science major and very driven to success in the classroom, much due to the influence of her family.

“[Political Science] is actually some-thing that runs in my family,” DePro-spo said. “I’ve been interested in it for a while, kind of picking it up from them. I always have a strong point of view, and I like debating my point of view. It has to do with the real world; it’s your re-sponsibility as a citizen. You shoul

know about the world and what’s going on.”

The head coach of the women’s soc-cer team, Karen Ferguson-Dayes, noted that DeProspo has a bright future with many tools at her disposal to make her effective at the defensive-mid position.

“There’s so many things about Cha-tham that I like,” Ferguson-Dayes said. “She’s very technical. Her speed of play is fantastic for a young kid, to be play-ing as fast, to have the vision that she has. To make the transition from the club and high school environment to the college environment as fast as she has. We knew she was going to be able to do that, we just didn’t know it would

be the first game of the season. On game day she is definitely ready to go.”

Ferguson-Dayes says her only problem could be harnessing her energy and com-mitting to all of the work it takes to win. As a freshman, she has a lot on her plate, but if she focuses, the sky is the limit.

“Chatham is re-ally good,” Ferguson-Dayes said. “I think she could get herself on an All-ACC freshman roster. If Chatham wants to go and play at the next level, whether that be after college overseas, or whether that’s with the youth national team, that’s a decision she’s going to have to make for sure. But she’s absolutely talented enough for that to be in her future, if she wants it.”

What DePospro will do in the next

four years is unknown to all of us, in-cluding herself. But if the first goal in Lynn Stadium is any indication, she’s got a bright future in front of the bright lights of the soccer world.

Chatham DeProspo made history with her game winner against Ole Miss. PHOTO BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE CARDINAL

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Lights, camera, action: Andrew BrodyBRODY, FROM COVER

As a freshman, Brody made an immediate impact, scoring three goals and assisting on eight others. Now a sophomore, midfielder Andrew Brody started his season off with a bang, scoring the first goal of the season and upsetting then ranked number two Maryland. PHOTO BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE LOUISVILLE CARDINAL

“He works hard everyday in train-ing. He’s very supportive, and he’s a very dynamic player. In college soccer on his own he can create opportunities, and that’s special. And we’re just so excited he’s here.”

-Head Coach Ken Lolla

I know I was one of the younger ones, but I

could still have a lot to offer to the team,” Bro-

dy said about being a major player as a

freshman. “I listened to their help. They

helped me throughout the year. Same

with the coaches; I thought I learned

a lot throughout the year. I got better

as the year went on. I knew I was go-

ing to try to make an impact, and luck-

ily I made a huge impact, and I was just

happy to help the team in any way pos-

sible.”

As a sophomore, it doesn’t look like

Brody will be slowing down. In the first

game of the season, and the opener of

Lynn Stadium, Brody’s header in the

upper left corner was not only the his-

toric first goal by a man in the impres-

sive stadium but also the game winner.

“It was awesome,” Brody remembers of the

energy of the crowd after that goal. “We’d pret-

ty much been defending the whole first half. I

thought Maryland had gotten the better of us. So

to come out, we had dominated the start of the

second half. And to get that reward, to get that

goal in front of all the fans and everybody here, it

was just huge. The expression on all of our faces

to go and celebrate together as a team with the

crowd roaring us on, it was great.”

The gravity of that goal and what it meant for

the program still overwhelms Brody.

“It’s crazy. I don’t think it has sunk in quite yet,”

he said. “It’s awesome. I’m happy that first and

foremost we got the win. That was a huge win for

our RPI, beating Maryland. But nah, I don’t think

it’s sunk in yet.”

The win was huge for Louisville, vaulting them

12 spots in the polls to number two. The goal also

earned Brody ACC Player of the Week honors.

The award, while great, is not what Brody

cares most about. He knows that it’s all

about the team first.

“It’s definitely all about the team. So

without the team, I wouldn’t have been

ACC player of the week,” Brody said of the

importance of both moving up in the polls

and the honor. “We still had to get that

win. So without my team helping me out,

I wouldn’t have even gotten that award. So

as we move forward and progress, it defi-

nitely has to be all about the team.”

The team first mentality is what Brody

is all about. Combined with his skill-set,

it makes him a player who will be able to

continue to dominate for the Cards.

“He’s a wonderful teammate,” coach Lolla said

of his young midfielder. “He works hard everyday

in training. He’s very supportive, and he’s a very

dynamic player. In college soccer on his own he

can create opportunities, and that’s special. And

we’re just so excited he’s here.”

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Bonnafon’s breakout performance provides options at QBSAM DRAUTSDRAUT@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

In 2004, Bobby Petrino’s prolific

offense averaged 49.8 points per

game while being directed under

a two quarterback system. Senior

Stefan Lefors shared time with

freshman Brian Brohm, and the

two combined for 3,415 passing

yards and 26 touchdowns in route

to an 11-1 record.

In the 66-21 victory over Murray

State Saturday night, fans caught a

glimpse of what could be another

tandem teaming up at quarterback.

Sophomore Will Gardner start-

ed the game and led four scoring

drives, pushing Louisville out to a

28-7 lead.

A week after making his colle-

giate debut, Gardner finished 13

of 22 for 133 yards and two touch-

down passes.

“He seemed much more confi-

dent and relaxed,” Petrino said. “He

understood what we wanted him to

do.”

True freshman Reggie Bonnafon

entered the game in the first series

of the second quarter and directed

a three-play 48 yard drive capped

off by his own eight yard touch-

down run.

“It was a decision that we talk-

ed about all week long: do we go

ahead and play

Reggie or hold

onto a redshirt,”

Petrino said. “It’s

a long season, so

we said let’s stick

him in the first se-

ries of the second

quarter, and it was

good to see he ex-

ecuted.”

Bonnafon returned for his sec-

ond drive, leading a nine play 67

yard drive. This time, Bonnafon

found senior wide receiver Mi-

chaelee Harris for a 27-yard touch-

down pass.

“He threw the ball well; he ran

the ball real well. He had a lot of

confidence. That is what I liked to

see so much,” Petrino said.

After sitting for two series,

Gardner returned in the final min-

utes of the first half, pushing the

ball 32 yards in less than two min-

utes setting up a 45 yard goal from

John Wallace.

“It is different, but you have to

stay focused during the game. You

have to go in there and not miss a

beat,” Gardner said.

Gardner did not return to play

in the second half, but Bonnafon

led scoring drives in the second

half, finishing

the game 8 for

11 for 112 yards

and a touchdown

pass. The Trin-

ity High School

product also ran

for 22 yards and

two touchdowns.

“Since the first

day he came here,

I have been impressed with his ma-

turity and his knowledge of the

game,” Petrino said. “He opens up

our offense a little bit with his abil-

ity to run the ball.”

Gardner and Bonnafon bring

two alternate styles to an offense

still developing an identity. Gard-

ner can direct an offense in the

pocket while Bonnafon adds cre-

ativity and athleticism to the posi-

tion.

Both benefit from a veteran of-

fensive line and a talented group of

running backs and wide receivers.

Petrino won’t be forced to pick

a particular quarterback, because

they both have yet to reach their

potential.

True freshman quarterback Reggie Bonnafon got his first bit of action Saturday night, completing 8-11 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown and running for two touchdowns. PHOTO BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE CARDINAL

“You have to stay focused during the game. You have to go in there and not miss

a beat.”

-Will Gardner

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Louisville’s women fall 2-0 to UK in soccerDEREK BRIGHTWELLDMBRIG03@LOUISVILLE.EDU

The Louisville Cardinals women’s soccer team

fell to 2-2-0 on the season with a 2-0 loss at the

hands of bitter rival Kentucky, who improved to

4-1-0.

The game went to the half scoreless, as both

teams had chances early but could not capitalize.

Kentucky came right of out the gate firing with a

shot that went just over the crossbar in the first

minute of the game. UK got another good look that

went high over the goal in the tenth minute.

Louisville had two good looks at the goal in the

first ten minutes as well. The first came in the form

of an Erin Yenney shot, missing wide right; the sec-

ond came off a corner kick that failed to reach the

goal.

“I think we played a good first half, and I thought

for moments we played a good second half,” head

coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes said of her team’s ef-

fort. “I think they kind of took over at the 60 min-

ute mark. They were really dominant in the air and

physically started to take over and instead of us

fighting back, we kind of relented a little bit. Had

opportunities to score goals and created some good

chances but I think at the end of the day their ath-

leticism at the end of the game kind of took over.”

The tide did change midway through the second

half, which saw a more aggressive Wildcat attack,

leading to more chances at the goal. For most of the

half, it seemed like the Cards would be able to keep

the Cats out of the goal, due to their defense inside

the box. But they were never able to turn their de-

fense into offense, which Ferguson-Dayes contrib-

utes to the team’s youth.

“I think our team defending is exceptional,”

she commented. “We turn teams over and we get

ourselves in good attacking chances, but then just

can’t finish the final piece of it. When I go back and

looked at the video, I imagine there are going to be

a lot of younger players in those pivotal moments

because we start and play so many younger kids. It’s

a great experience for them but at the end of the day

when we’re getting that many chances, we definitely

have to convert.”

What looked like it would be Kentucky’s best

chance at a goal came in the 70th minute when

goalkeeper Paige Brown was drawn out of the net

but did not gain possession of the ball, leading to an

open net look for the Wildcats. The shot was saved

by sophomore Caroline Kimble.

In the 84th minute, however, Kentucky got an-

other good look in the form of a header from Mi-

chaela Dooley off an assist from Danielle Fitzgerald

which found the back of the net, breaking the score-

less tie and would go on to be the game winner. Zoe

Swift would add another goal when she got behind

the defense and beat Brown in the 87th minute.

The more experienced Wildcats proved to be

too much physically for a smaller, younger Cardinal

team, who start five freshmen.

“Probably a combination of both,” Ferguson-

Dayes remarked of the physical and mental battle in

the game. “Because it wasn’t that they were build-

ing, they were just serving diagonally and physically

getting numbers in the box. So it wasn’t great soc-

cer that was breaking us down it was just physically

they wore us down.

“And then when we did turn them over, in that

moment of transition we struggled to keep posses-

sion. We were so deep and tried to attack from such

a deep position where we’d have to keep possession

for two or three passes to allow our numbers to get

forward. Because we were so deep defending them,

we were a little too anxious to get into the final third

and we just didn’t have the numbers to do it.”

Despite the loss, the youth of the team and the

season allows Ferguson-Dayes to remain optimistic

about the team and the year.

“It was a great learning lesson for us,” she said of

the experience gained from the game. “I thought

we played well, just not for 90 minutes. When they

kind of took over, we never rode the wave enough

to come back and take over. But still had a couple of

chances at the end of the game too. But we’ll learn

from it; that’s a positive. I think we’re a very good

team. We’ll rebound and move forward.”

“It wasn’t great soccer that was breaking us down, it was just physi-cally they wore us down... But we’ll learn from it; that’s a positive. I

think we’re a very good team. We’ll rebound and move forward.”-Head Coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes

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Louisville volleyball excited for season, ready for UKNOAH ALLISONNALLISON@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

Anne Kordes’ volleyball team exits the weekend with mixed results and a wake up call.

Playing host in Cardinal Arena, Louisville went 2-1 in the Active Ankle Challenge with wins over Tennessee State and Cincinnati. Louisville suffered a surprising loss to Appalachian State though to close things out and improve to 3-2 overall.

“We were coming off a successful week and I thought we played tight here at home all weekend,” head coach Anne Kordes remarked.

“We need to learn to maintain our composure and take away a lesson from that situation. We have two ranked opponents this week coming up against Ken-tucky and Arizona State so that lesson came at a good time in our season.”

Last season’s squad graduated four impactful se-niors that helped Louisville reach a 23-8 record over-all and win the AAC with a perfect 18-0 conference record.

Now, the Cards rely on a roster of talented, but al-most entirely new, faces.

“It’s a new year and a new team. We have eight new players, but we are focusing on the group that we have now, and they’ve done such a nice job. Their whole focus is being as good as they can possibly be to help their teammates be successful,” assistant coach Lee Maes said.

Four transfers and four freshmen make up the eight first time contributors to Louisville volleyball.

With a mixture of young talent and experience from multiple conferences, the Cardinals have seen moments of great success with this new squad, includ-ing a huge upset over Big Ten powerhouse, then 12 ranked Minnesota.

“We have a lot of options; we have an opportunity to have some different match-ups depending on who we are playing, and that’s what I like. It gives us the chance to try and put up the best line-up against what team we are playing,” Kordes explained.

Of the most important seniors to graduate was all-time Louisville great, libero Caitlin Welch, who amongst her countless accolades is the Cardinals all-time leader in digs.

It’s up to Mississippi State transfer, junior libero Roxanne McVey, to help fill the void.

“Roxanne is going to focus on the things that she can control; she is a consummate learner. She’s trying to go out there and be a steady player in that position. We are relying on her a lot in our ball control,” Maes said.

“Roxanne is holding her own for sure; she is be-coming more and more comfortable as the season goes on and as practices go on.

“She’s doing a great job at that. I think as time goes on, she is going to gain that leadership role, and she is going to feel more confident. She is the leader of the back row, and that’s what she’s got to do,” junior setter Katie George said.

Another major transition is the acclimation of go-ing from two fifth-year seniors starting at the middle blocker position to two true freshmen. Highly touted recruits Tess Clark, six-foot-three, and Maggie De-

Junior setter Katie George led the Cards in assists last year with 966. The Cardinals are gearing up for a piv-otal match with vaunted rival UK. PHOTO BY AUSTIN LASSELL / THE CARDINAL

Jong, six-foot, have made an impact early. “They’ve been amazing. I can’t even tell

you how impressed I’ve been, not just the work ethic, the attitude, the intangibles; that’s all great. But how fast they have picked everything up, how cerebral they are and how nothing has flustered them thus far. I think that’s the biggest key.

“Every game they are there to play no matter what. They don’t care who’s ranked or that they’re freshmen. They’re certainly not playing like it, so it’s been fun,” Kordes said of her youngsters in the middle.

For all the fresh faces on this year’s squad, there are still impactful returners. At the outside hitter position is a potent combination of red-shirt sophomore Janelle Jenkins and sophomore Maya Mc-Clendon.

Last year as a true-freshman, McClen-don led the Cards in kills with 329 and was second on the team in digs with 332. Meanwhile, Jenkins was fourth on the team in kills with 239 and was third in blocks with 66.

“Now that they both have one year un-der their belts each, I think that they are doing a great job from a leadership stand-point. They’ve been there; they have the experience now, so there shouldn’t be any nerves.

“Now I just think it’s maturing in their position because they are the pin hitters. They get all the out assisted balls; it’s up to them to take care of it when we are put in those positions,” George said.

“Maya touches the ball so many times on each play, so she has a lot on her back. She has to step up every single game, and I think she’s doing a really phenom-enal job at that,” George explained.

It is without a doubt that McClendon is one of, if not the, most important players on this Cardinal squad. The raw talent that she brought to Louisville as a freshman from DuPont Manual cannot be under-stated; now for the Cards to continue to improve, Mc-Clendon must continue to improve.

After a 3-0 victory over Cincinnati, coach Kordes explained the importance of McClendon’s growth.

“Maya just had a phenomenal game there from her back row play; her passing, her defense and serving were very good, and that’s where I’m excited to see her evolve as a player.

“Everyone knows she can jump and swing and she does great things, but I’m excited to see her become that all-around player that just has no holes in her game.”

If McClendon is the muscle, then George is the heart. The local junior setter out of Assumption High School has been key to Cardinal success since she walked in as a freshman.

As the floor general, George led the Cards in as-sists last year with 966, the second highest total be-ing 236. There is no question that the fight and work

ethic George walks on to the court with rubs off on her teammates.

“She’s just been great. What you get from Katie, from her leadership skills to her ability and then her belief in herself and our team, is always going to be good for a couple points a set. So I’m so glad that she’s out leading our team; that’s for sure,” Kordes said.

“We worked really, really, hard this summer, and we had a phenomenal preseason just working and learning as a group, and I think that put us in a really good position for this season,” George continues.

“We are trying to knock off some big teams. We want to go into the ACC with confidence, because that is going to be a great conference. We are going to set the bar high; we want to win the ACC. Right now, they have us pre-season polled at finishing fifth. Thanks, but no thanks. We want to finish up there.”

Heading into the ACC is made easier with the addi-tion of North Carolina State transfer, junior red-shirt outside hitter, Laura Blab. After three seasons spent in the ACC, Blab knows what it takes to win in that con-ference, and she knows Louisville has what it takes.

“I think we can dominate. I think with how much we work, we can win the ACC,” Blab expresses. “It’s not all about talent and height; it’s about how hard you work, every ball, every point, and we have that. Everyone on the team contributes, and I think that is what’s going to get us to the top.”

The Cards return to action when they host vaunted rivals UK, Tuesday, 7:00 pm in the KFC YUM! Cen-ter.

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Video games have become a critical

part of media in United States culture

since the Atari 2600 was released in

the early 80’s. Today, video games

are on a whole different level than

how they began. Today the gaming

front is lead by Sony and Microsoft,

constantly in a battle to see who can

make the best system in order to

leave the other in the dust. Microsoft

has had great success with the Xbox

series, and Sony has had its success

with the Playstation series. No matter

how competitive the companies are,

they would be nothing without games.

The leaders in the gaming front

have always been the Halo series

by Bungie, and the Call of Duty

franchise by Activision. Now there is

something interesting happening in

the gaming world, where two rival

gaming companies in Bungie and

Activision are joining forces to make

the ultimate game. The game, Destiny,

has been 10 years in the making and

is reported by Bungie to have a $500

million budget, which is the biggest in

all of gaming and movies. Destiny is

offered on household-name consoles

and is said to be the next big name in

gaming because of its cutting-edge

gameplay and top-notch graphics.

Destiny will be releasing on

Tuesday Sept. 9 at midnight on a

special release at Gamestop. The

game is Gamestop’s most pre-

ordered new IP ever by Gamescon.

This is also supported by the fact

that four million gamers participated

in the beta program for Destiny.

Gamers have reached the sales cap

on the Limited and Ghost Editions of

the game and they can no longer pre-

order those editions due to the lack of

supply. Destiny may possibly be one of

the most important games in history,

due to the fact that it is the first big

game of the new generation gaming

systems that is not platform exclusive.

Freshman Payton Mockabee goes for a relaxed vibe to fit what she describes as her comfortable style.

Senior music therapy major, Bailey Carter, is comfortable but cute while wearing casual pieces with strong accents.

Sophomore Phon Cun opts for a dress while wearing one of her favorite colors, green.

Amy Davis, junior theater arts major, adds edginess to a floral dress by pairing it with ankle boots. She says she buys most of her pieces from local stores.

Find your DestinyMulti-platform game hits the market

Outfits of the week

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“Neighbors” is the latest comedy from Seth Rogen that goes and makes fun of one of the most common subjects of college in film: fraternities. Although the noisy, drunken and constantly partying fraternity has become a Hollywood cliché, this movie has a different take on this common trope. This film focuses on the people who are unlucky enough to live next door to the aforementioned archetype. While this movie is no “Animal House,” this is an enjoyable movie that is worth looking into.

The movie follows a young, newly wed couple, played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, who want to live the American dream with their newborn child. The couple simultaneously attempts to show that, despite the entrance into parenthood, they are still capable of partying and having a good time. However, a fraternity, led by a young man played by Zac Efron, moves in

next door. This frat is quite possibly the most obnoxious and destructive on earth. While the couple initially attempts to peacefully coexist with the frat, it quickly devolves into a war between the two houses as the situation continues to escalate.

The film is filled with the traditional Seth Rogen humor that consists of awkward conversations, which produce some very funny pieces of dialogue, that feels similar to improvisation but in reality was likely carefully scripted. There is the usual high degree of profanity, gross humor, immaturity and marijuana that is to be expected from a Seth Rogen comedy. Rogen and Byrne have excellent chemistry onscreen.

However, Efron steals the show as Teddy, the president of the fraternity. He is simultaneously the most hateable and charming person I have seen in this kind of movie. He is a human character, having understandable motivations and

goals, while at the same time doing horrible things and crossing lines that should not be crossed.

I personally feel that this is a good movie to show at the beginning of a college semester. While this movie does not show any college life, it does show that people need to be involved in academics. This is apparent from Efron’s limited opportunities due to poor grades.While I do realize that Greek life is not all parties and pranks, I also understand that this message can be applied to any activity in general.

In one sentence, this movie is simply a good time. It is funny and is not bad, but it is not Rogan’s best work. While it lacks the degree of depth and humor seen in “This is the End,” the movie still has his brand of humor that he is known for. It is just another frat comedy with the only difference being that it is about the people who live next to them.

For in-state students, September usually marks the time when Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) money is distributed. Other students will have their full or part-time jobs, other scholarships and grants, or the trusty deposit from the folks back home to lend a hand, ensuring we are able to survive through the bitter stereotype known as “the poor college student.”

If we spend it however we want, that is.

The beginning of the school year is filled with incredible expenses, and the price of living on or off campus can quickly become too much if not properly prepared for what may come. True, this week’s release of Bungie’s Destiny might seem must-have, and that after-hours craving for cookies is tempting, but making sure you have enough to continue living through the bills, life needs and even the unforeseen emergency is always a nice idea as well.

And it’s easy to do, too. All it takes is a little math and some careful checking of your money.

Behold, the joys of budgeting.Even though it gets so much slack,

budgeting really marks the first step in claiming financial awareness. And after talking with Eileen Burden and Chelsi Sloan, workers from Kentucky Telco and Class Act, respectively, Federal Credit Unions, it’s safe to say it’s a necessary step that all college students should be making.

So, what is budgeting? To put it briefly, it’s keeping a constant monthly record of your expenses versus your income. To repeat, it is constant. Every check, every receipt, every five-dollar bill you find lying on the street that makes your day a bit brighter. Keep a record of it all. By doing this, you’re becoming aware of what you make, and what you spend.

Both Burden and Sloan could not express this idea enough. Actually being aware of your spending habits is perhaps even more important than the budget itself.

Burden went on to emphasize that, even if you are not fully engaged in paying for rent, bills or other tedious, but necessary, expenses of life now, someday you will be. By prepping now, you’re automatically engaging

your mind to not be so frivolous with your money in the future.

Now that you’ve tallied up the income and expenses, it’s time to divide the expenses into two separate categories. Rent, insurance and the like are fixed expenses, as they’ll always happen at a fixed time of the month. The night out with friends and the splurge on a new computer monitor are variable expenses, since you have more control over them. Putting both together will give your total expense, and after subtracting it from your total income, you’ll know what your monthly surplus (or deficit) is.

This is when the hard part begins; trimming the budget to work with your financial needs and/or desires. Since fixed expenses always occur, and assuming we like to live in a house instead of on the street, they get priority in the money field. Whatever is left can go into variable expenses, a savings account, emergency fund or whatever else you desire. As both Burden and Sloan stressed, a budget is a personal object, so the ways one uses whatever leftover funds they have is up to their own interpretation.

The two representatives did add

in that an emergency fund would be a move in the right direction. Who knows when that drive down the Watterson can turn into a freeway fiasco with a flat tire?

Furthermore, Burden and Sloan suggested that putting a little bit of wiggle room in the budget is key. Stressing over an exact price range isn’t healthy, or wise. Allow some space in the budget, should expenses turn up to be a bit more than expected in the coming month, or income should be less than normal. Round expense rates up, and do the opposite for income.

If you’re compelled to begin a budget, yet don’t feel entirely secure in plotting it out, both the Class Act and Kentucky Telco Federal Credit Unions have offices located within campus. Class Act is within the Cardinal Towne complex, while Kentucky Telco has a space in the Floyd parking garage. Both would be more than happy to aid you with first of many steps in creating your financial security. Within time, you’ll be able to rest easy knowing that all that hard earned cash is going to the places you need and want it to.

‘Neighbors’

Money on my mind:Budgeting for the college kid who just wants to buy Qdoba

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U of L acquires new Campus Catholic Ministries chaplainSIMON ISHAMEDITOR@LOUISVILLECARDINAL.COM

“I’ll try not to cuss,” said Father Chuck Walker jokingly, as he sat down for this interview.

Walker started at U of L as chaplain of Campus Catholic Ministries in June, after being appointed in March to the position by the Archdioses of Louisville. The university has not had a full-time Catholic priest in 25 years, though almost one in three U of L students are Catholic. Walker views this as an opportunity to blaze a trail.

“Since it hasn’t been done here as a full-time job in such a long time, I’m the one who’s got to figure out how to do it. I’ve got to write the book. My whole life, I have always set the stage for someone else. I feel like John the Baptist. He was the one that said, ‘There’s somebody behind me. I’m preparing the way for that one.’ I’ll be doing that here, for whoever’s next,” said Walker.

“The worship that we have is good, but there are a whole lot of kids who are not coming. One of the challenges is going to be trying to figure out how to offer even more opportunities for them. It’s a very exciting opportunity to help students feel led and fed by their faith,” he said. “There are opportunities to do service with Habitat for Humanity and Hand in Hand Ministries. There are different parts of the Louisville community that could use student involvement. I’d like to reach out to our neighbors in the Interfaith Center, and right next door to us is the Baptist student center. I want to be involved with them.”

“Just regular guys”Walker was born in 1953 in

Loretto, Ky., which he described as “a very Catholic town.”

“When I was about 13, we moved up to Okolona (a neighborhood in Louisville). It was only after we moved there that mom and dad confided in me that there were only two non-Catholic families in Loretto. The priests were friends, the nuns were friends, I went to Catholic school, Catholic church. It was a whole

Catholic community. So because of that, I always considered priesthood,” he said. “I saw the guys who were doing it were just regular guys ... just good men trying to do a good thing.”

Walker graduated from DeSales High School, a Catholic boys’ school in Louisville. It was the guidance counselor, who was also a Carmelite priest, who helped put Walker on the educational path to priesthood. The closest Carmelite seminary was located at Marquette University, a Jesuit university in Miluakee, Wis., and the counselor encouraged him to make a visit. Walker liked the school, but ultimately it was the weather that made the decision for him.

“Me and another guy from DeSales, we went up there for a visit during the winter, and it was the coldest I’ve ever been in my life. I came back and asked the guidance counselor about the other options,” he said.

Taking it slowHe settled on Bellarmine

University, a small Catholic university in Louisville, intending to major in sociology.

“I always wanted to be helpful,” he said. “I thought I would finish my degree, then come over (to U of L) to get my masters in social work. I also considered joining the police force.”

Like many college students, though, Walker couldn’t decide what he wanted to do right away, so he took several breaks from school to think about it. He took jobs at grocery stores and a factory, taking it slow while he considered what he was going to do with his life. On one of the last breaks he took, he was with an aunt in her kitchen when she remarked, “You’ll never be happy unless you become a priest.”

“That kind of kicked me in the butt in a big way. I started thinking about that, praying about that, and I realized that she was right. I had to do this,” Walker said. He re-enrolled in seminary.

But when he got back, just before his senior year, the university decided to shut down its seminary program. Walker was forced to transfer to Saint Meinrad, a seminary in southern

Indiana, to complete his studies.“When I transferred there, they

didn’t have a sociology major,” he said. “I had 18 hours of philosophy already, so my senior year was 18 more hours of philosophy, to be able to graduate with a degree in that. But I never liked the topic ... I don’t relate to pie-in-the-sky, philosophy types. Jesus was a guy who related to no-matter-who. That’s what I feel like I’m doing.”

And Walker readily admits that he is human: he told me during our interview that he had particular trouble during his final years of seminary education with the priestly committment to celibacy.

“I dated when I was in high school. I dated when I was at seminary, even up until about a year before I was ordained. There were women in my life that were very attractive, and women are still very attractive to me. I’ve been a virgin all my life, and I’ll be a virgin until I die, but there’s a chemistry. God made us the way we are. We’re attracted to who we’re attracted to ... Finally, I had one of those revelatory moments when God said to me, ‘Trust in me, I’ll get you through any trial.’ And he has,” Walker said.

He was finally ordained at age 27 in 1981.

“One strong place”Since becoming a priest, he has

worked with several churches across Kentucky to merge their parishes and associated schools. He took a ‘united

we stand, divided we fall’ approach to the mergers. These experiences have taught him some important lessons about people and their faiths.

“People are very attached to the places where they worship. They like how it looks, how it smells,” Walker said. “But the goal was always to provide a good Catholic community and education. If students keep dropping out and parishioners keep leaving, we won’t have anyone left. I’d rather have one strong place than three or so feeble places.”

Forever youngWalker has also worked with

college students in the past: as an associate pastor at a church in Danville, Ky., he served as the chaplain to the students of Centre College.

“Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve worked with youth, and I always related well to young adults,” he said. “And refusing never to grow up — that’s helped a lot.”

That eternal youth sometimes manifests itself in mischevious ways.

Walker is a die-hard U of L fan who has been attending football and basketball games since he was a teen. His all-time favorite Cardinal sport is right here at Ulmer Stadium: baseball.

“I like to buy a bag of peanuts and stick them in my pocket at the beginning of the game,” he said. “So when I see people I know coming up and down the aisles — (Walker pauses, and makes a series of short, quick throwing motions) — I hardly ever eat any of the peanuts.”

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ImmortalizedSpirit:A gallery walk

in the Hite Art Institute

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The rustic, natural smell of wood and aged fibers overwhelmed me when I opened the doors of the Hite Institute Art Gallery. It housed a collection of 20th-century, tribal works from around central and western Africa. The pieces, primarily sculptures and textiles, commanded attention and status with their sharp expressions and rich colors.

The collection of 40 works first belonged, in its entirety, to Frederick and Margaret Merida, before they donated the collection to the University of Louisville in 2012, in honor of Hite Institute faculty member Dario Covi. Frederick collected the pieces through under-the-table deals until he later established his own gallery, opening his market to more legitimized trade. Each piece’s history tells a story even more curious than that of its procurement.

Some pieces celebrated a shift from boyhood to manhood, in the form of alarming masks with precise and geometric details that represented the strength of the animals they portrayed. The men’s masks solicited fear through

their sunken, hollow eyes and often jagged teeth.

Other pieces praised women as givers of life through softer details and an

emphasis on unrealistically large stomachs. An oversized pair of spoons reserved for feasts and harvest celebrations depicted a woman’s upper or lower half on the handle, which allowed the concave part of the spoon to act as the

woman’s womb. The artists’ attention to the women as mothers did not minimize

them to that role; it revered their ability to create and bear another human being,

another soul, as these people so cherished.Soul and spirit inspired, and even

enveloped, all of the artwork. Antelope horns adorned masks whose cultures deified the antelope as a principal creation on earth. Intricate patterns

covered ritual cups and window shutters believed to prosper and protect their respective peoples. Artists pieced hundreds of ornately decorated textiles together into costumes dancers wore at masquerade festivals that facilitated connection with the gods, and glorified women’s spiritual power and wisdom. In many of these cultures, community members only allowed people of high spiritual significance to craft the pieces.

In spending time with each piece and examining the artists’ marks, the pieces came alive. The cultures these works represented appreciated the human or animal form and spirit. They trapped the motion of their creators’ lives and cultures, which remindeds the viewer: there were once faces under those masks, humans under those garments. The African Art Gallery captured a depth to these cultures that immortalized their spirit for life and for their people.

Forbes calculated our current population of students on campus to be approximately 21,239. Two percent of these students are considered “non-resident aliens.” It might sound small, but that means close to 425 students who are on our campus and in your classes are from a different country and most of the time, from a different continent. For those who have never been to another country before, this means that those 425 students are strangers to your lovely home, known as the United States.

Why do I bring this up? Because, I am one of those 425 students. I am

from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and I’ve been here, in Louisville for just over three years now. Many of us “foreigners,” as we’ve been called, come to do collegiate schooling in the United States for two main reasons. One, we are here on an international exchange program. Two, which is the reason that I am here, is that we are on a school visa because we received some type of athletic scholarship.

Either way, we are in a new country, with new rules and guidelines and are still having to adjust to the new life: the college life.

The international student can sometimes be overlooked and passed along as just another student, but

we tend to forget one important factor: this student, who speaks multiple different languages (English rarely being one of them), who eats different foods and who uses different terminology is trying to figure out his or her schedule just like yourself.

On top of that, they are also trying to learn how to communicate with you that they really have to go to something called “the washroom,” meaning restroom, a term that you have never heard of before. Thankfully, I am not as foreign as some internationals, but the struggles are still very real regardless of country of origin. The smallest thing, such as not having

an American phone when you first arrive, can make all the difference, and acquiring a cell phone as a foreigner is another battle in it’s own.

These are small daily struggles that the international students encounter, ones that are second nature to most of you. It’s absolutely crazy, the amount of things that we, the student population as a whole, tend to worry about when enrolling in college. We won’t be able to truly appreciate and understand though how easy that transition to college is until we decide to walk in another cardinal’s shoes, specifically those indigenous to other countries.

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Two companies have revolution-ized after-dark transportation over the past few years and, in the process, issued warning orders to taxi com-panies who have had a monopoly on late night transportation for decades. Taxi companies have taken notice; they understand the threat that tech-nology coupled with creativity, clean-liness and courtesy brings to them. So, taxi companies called on their friends in Frankfort in an attempt to end the rise of companies like Uber and Lyft in the state of Kentucky.

Uber and Lyft, two innovative ridesharing companies, are about to be over-regulated by our state gov-ernment. This knee-jerk regulation will jeopardize Kentucky’s economic present and limit our economic fu-ture.

In an Associated Press report, the Department of Vehicle Regulation will impose “emergency regulations,” which would reclassify Uber and Lyft as taxi companies. Why? Because taxi companies complained that rideshar-ing firms were not subject to the same

requirements as they are. But the taxi barons’ stated complaints poorly mask their opposition to innovation in their industry.

Taxi companies in other cities and states have been pushing legislation to keep their monopolistic hold. Taxi companies can’t survive when other companies come along and do the same job – only in a cleaner, friendlier and cheaper way - so they must back anti-free market legislation to stay in business.

Taxi companies are afraid of com-panies like Uber and Lyft, for good reason. The last time I was in a yel-low taxi, it smelled of the vomit from a previous occupant, had ripped seats, and the driver took us on a long route to run up the meter. The first time I used Lyft, the driver had a box of snacks and a cooler of bottled water, and we were in a new, clean car.

Kentucky’s blatantly anti-inno-vation “emergency regulations” are modeled after similar laws from plac-es where overregulation is destroying their economies. After receiving cease and desist orders in Detroit this past February, Uber and its drivers were

forced to wait for the city to update their vehicle-for-hire regulations. Detroit is a bankrupt ghost town that businesses and residents have fled.

Similarly, in California, Lyft and Uber were forced to jump through insurance hoops thanks to their state legislature. It is interesting to note that Uber is headquartered in San Francisco, which, for the geographi-cally challenged, is in California. Cali-fornia’s blatant anti-business climate against companies headquartered there most recently resulted in the loss of potential jobs with innovator Tesla. Companies and taxpayers are fleeing California in a mass exodus to more business-friendly, neighboring states.

Jobs are already leaving Kentucky for greener pastures. In late April, Toyota announced it would shutter their engineering headquarters in Erlanger, sending around 1,500 jobs to Plano, Texas. As of July, only four

other states have a higher unemploy-ment rate than Kentucky.

As long as Governor Steve Beshear, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (who proclaims herself Ken-tucky’s “Chief Business Officer”) and the Kentucky House of Representa-tives (held by Democrats for over 90 years) do nothing while overregula-tion strangles innovation, Kentucky will continue to languish. As long as they perpetuate this anti-job growth climate, Kentucky will be left behind as companies and industries look to-wards business-friendly, job-creating states. As long as they stand by, the creation, growth and security of Ken-tucky jobs will continue to evade us.

Beshear, Grimes and House Dem-ocrats must stop whistling past the graveyard as Kentucky falls further behind. Or they should get out of the way and let those who understand job growth and the need for innovation lead.

Rideshare industry innovation could be halted in Kentucky

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