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2012

News

Taste of Summer

April 27 by Monika Fallon, Senior Writer

Summer is around the corner, and now is the time to get nostalgic about all things summer before we remember we’re actually sick of them. An a nostalgic person, I have many fond memories of this time of year, but none are fonder than those involving this season’s foods. Rocket Pops Everyone remembers those red, [...]

Life

Holocaust survivors share stories

April 4 by Katherine Raichlen, Senior Writer

Herbert Finder has visited the University four times in the past 10 years to speak to students in the introductory course “The Holocaust” about his experience as a teenager in the Nazi camp system. After every talk, he asked his son, Jewish Studies Director Gabriel Finder, why these students were taking his class. Gabriel Finder [...]

Health & Science

Study links dental x-rays, brain tumors

April 11 by Fiza Hashmi, Section Editor

Many who await dentist appointments with a feeling of trepidation may do so with good reason. A study published yesterday in American Cancer Society found frequent dental X-rays may be linked to meningioma, an often benign but sometimes harmful brain tumor. Study participants who remembered having bitewing X-rays before age 10, a procedure used to [...]

Sports

Cavaliers travel to Durham for battle with Blue Devils

April 20 by Christie Boyden, Staff Writer

The Virginia baseball team steps up to the plate tonight against struggling Duke to open a three-game weekend series at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The Cavaliers (24-13-1, 9-9 ACC) need to overcome junior righthanded pitcher Marcus Stroman, whose 2.05 ERA leads the Blue Devils (14-24, 6-12 ACC). Though Stroman’s 6-foot-5, 185-pound frame may make [...]

Opinion

Sending out an SIS

April 27 by Andrew Kouri, Columnist

Note: Due to an editorial error, this article was mistakenly printed in the Life Section of the April 25th Cavalier Daily under a different byline. Every semester when course registration rolls around, I, like most students, quickly become frustrated using the University’s $58.9 million integrated Student Information System (SIS) to register and browse for classes. [...]

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In with the old, out with the new

March 15 by Conor Sheehey

“That’s what the present is. It’s a little unsatisfying, because life’s a little unsatisfying,” Owen Wilson’s   Gil explains to his 1920s-era love interest near the end of Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. After longing to live in the “golden age” of early twentieth-century Paris for most of the film, Gil comes to realize his nostalgic escapism is more a threat than [...]