The 3rd Congress (2016-17 term) of University Staff shared governance held their first business meeting on 15 August. The meeting was chaired by Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Laurent Heller (pictured above) on his first …
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One Day This War is Going to End
It was on 15 August, in 1979, that the film ‘Apocalypse Now’ made its debut to the American movie-going public. The film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, focuses on an Army Captain, played by Martin …
A Dramatic Farewell
On 12 August, 1980, US Senator Edward M. ‘Ted’ Kennedy appeared at that podium of the Democratic National Convention in New York City. Kennedy had spent the summer campaigning against incumbent President Jimmy Carter for …
New Executive Committee Meets
The newly elected members of the Executive Committee of Congress met for the first time on 5 August. At this meeting Jake Rebholz of District 161 and Wendy Margolis of District 110 were unanimously approved …
Drip…Drip…Drip
On 8 August, 1949, an article appeared in LIFE magazine titled, “Jackson Pollock. Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” thrusting the artist to stardom. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in …
A City in Flames
It was on 28 July, 1932, after local police had failed to drive them out, that mechanized and mounted units of the US Army invaded an encampment of unemployed Veterans of the First World War, …
Indictment
It was on 25 July, in 1974 that Barbara Jordan, a Democrat from Texas, spoke to her fellow members of the House Judiciary Committee as they debated the Impeachment of President Nixon. Jordan began her …
Wallace ’48
It was on 23 July, in 1948, that the Progressive Party opened it’s Presidential nominating Convention in Philadelphia, PA. The Party had been formed in response to what were viewed as the anti-New Deal policies …
Making Sense of it All
Representatives and Alternates who make up the 3rd University Staff Congress spent the afternoon of 18 July in an orientation, where they were welcomed by the Vice Chancellor, made aware of the open meetings and records …
Fear and Loathing in Louisville
18 July marks the birthday of Hunter S. Thompson in 1937. Thompson would be known as a pioneer in what was termed, ‘gonzo journalism’, which in part was typified by colorful anecdotes, often involving the …