The plush, behemoth of a coach bus lumbered to a curb stop at Louisville’s Belvedere entrance. IUS students poured out and scattered up the concrete ramp into the 10th annual WorldFest for the free, three-day event, hosted by the city of Louisville, to display its growing cultural diversity. The event highlighted food, music and culture from around the world. Spices sailed in the hot river breeze. The humidity carried distant rhythms of world music for blocks. After the bus arrived at the Belvedere entrance, most of the students headed straight into WorldFest, but a group of five students, led by Chris Cole, general studies senior, headed out on foot for the first IU Southeast scavenger hunt in downtown Louisville.

About a dozen IUS students experienced cultures from around the world at WorldFest 2010, which took place at the Belvedere on the Louisville Riverfront Sept. 3. Campus Life sponsored a bus that left McCullough Plaza at 5:30 p.m. The students attended the eighth annual WorldFest without having to worry about driving through downtown Louisville and finding parking.