As always, first-year sorority hopefuls will move back into their dorm rooms well before the spring semester begins, ready to brave freezing weather and occasional snow in high heels and dresses. However, formal spring recruitment this year will last only one week.

This year, the Inter-Sorority Council shortened spring rush from two weeks to one, following a national trend of shorter recruitment periods.

The condensed rush will coincide with only two academic days instead of one and a half weeks. Women now will be finished with rush events by the Sunday after classes begin and receive their bids by Monday.

“It’s not necessary, for the first years especially, when they’re deciding their schedules, to be worried about extracurriculars when they should be focused on their studies,” ISC President Cahill Zoeller said. “It accomplishes the same process in a much shorter amount of time, so why not?”

The ISC executive board and Presidents’ Council also has been active this year in tweaking its rules for contact between first years and sorority members to ease difficulties.

“The policy is supposed to be there to create an even playing field for all women entering recruitment,” said Sunter Armstrong, ISC vice president of judiciary. “It’s not a policy to hinder first years from getting involved in other activities and getting to know upperclassmen.”

In response to concerns from presidents of individual sororities, the presidents’ council changed its bylaws to allow sorority members to interact with first years off-Grounds if they both are participating in an event sponsored by a University organization. Previously, off-Grounds contact between sorority members and first years was restricted to common courtesy.

“It got to the point where first years and upperclasswomen weren’t able to participate in activities that were disaffiliated from Greek life,” Armstrong said. “We didn’t want to not encourage girls to get involved with other activities because they were first years or sorority women and worried about contact policy.”

The Presidents’ Council also altered their bylaws to allow an exception in the contact rules for all lawful sisters, including stepsisters and adopted sisters. Before the change, only biological sisters were exempt from ISC contact regulations.

Finally, in response to an increasing number of sororities hosting philanthropies in the fall, the ISC amended its bylaws to prohibit advertising in first-year areas and prizes that include sorority paraphernalia.

The University Democrats are hosting the first lecture in a “Principles in Politics” series tonight in hopes of providing non-partisan accounts of public service to the University community.

“Basically, the speaker series was started because we feel that people today have forgotten that there are people in politics who are passionate about issues,” University Democrats Research Coordinator Allyson Gold said.

The club has invited both Republicans and Democrats to participate in the lecture series, describing the lectures as autobiographical accounts highlighting how the speakers became involved in politics.

“We have no partisan intentions,” University Democrats President Ian Amelkin said. “We just want to educate the University community that there are honest and hardworking politicians in the United States government today.”

Amelkin cited politicians such as the late Paul Wellstone as an inspiration to create the lecture series to convey the principles of public service to the University and Charlottesville community.

The club formally began planning the lecture series in February of last semester, inviting politicians to speak at the University about their experiences with public service. Fundraising for the series began in June and consisted of direct mailings to Charlottesville Democrats who actively donate to political races.

Teach For America President Wendy Kopp will kick off the series tonight at 5 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room 402.

As of now, the University Democrats have confirmed three future speakers for the series, including Texas Lt. Governor Bill Hobby and Tom Mantos, staff member for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Coordinators say they are confident that two more speakers will soon be confirmed.

According to University Democrats Communications Coordinator Kristen Vining, the group plans to invite notable speakers.

“We are trying to go as national as we can,” Vining said.

The University Democrats also hope to include a forum with the Charlottesville City Council in late October or November.

The willingness of politicians to come to the University already demonstrates the success of the lecture series, Amelkin said.

“We’ve had trouble drawing speakers from the Charlottesville community in the past,” he said.

Members of the University Democrats said they hope that the lecture series will continue beyond this semester and school year.

“We are going to judge how successful it is this semester and then make plans for next semester” Vice President Ryan Hughes said.

Amelkin said the series could even become a lasting part of the club.

“If this series is successful, we should have permanent funds for University Democrats to continue the speaker series,” Amelkin said, adding that the lecture series “should be non-partisan always.”

The Board of Visitors decided to supplement the Commonwealth’s compensation measures for the University’s faculty and staff in a meeting held Saturday.

As a result of the continuing statewide budget crisis, University employees have not received either pay raises or bonuses for the past three years.

The State Council on Higher Education in Virginia previously had set a goal to keep faculty compensation for state schools in the 60th percentile among peer schools.

The University’s salary rankings have fallen in the last few years to the 46th percentile in the 2000-2001 school year, and to the 27th percentile in 2002-2003.

In response to the problem, which has similarly affected other state schools, the General Assembly has approved a 2.25 percent increase in salary, effective in November.

The University will approve an additional 1.75 percent pay increase based upon current salaries, to be allocated to faculty members based upon merit.

The funds for this supplemental increase, totaling about $2 million, will come from several reserve funds and will not result in any immediate tuition increase.

From this pool, two funds totaling $450,000 have been established by the Board to compensate and reward outstanding classified employees.

The Board will be debating the implementation of a 2.5 percent tuition increase for the 2004-2005 school year, in order to address the compensation issue in a more permanent fashion.

Such a tuition increase may be rendered necessary if the state is unable to meet its financial obligation to the University within the year.

The University has suffered from more than $90 million in budget cuts over the last two years.

According to University spokesperson Carol Wood, faculty compensation is a serious issue for both faculty retention and recruitment, and is thus critical in the maintenance of the University’s celebrated academic standing.

“People at the University have become adept at operating under financially constraining circumstances,” Wood said. She credited the University’s continued success to “strong fiscal management, incredible returns on the University’s endowment and generous private support from alumni and friends.”

The University faculty and staff have responded to the crisis well, she added.

English Prof. Michael Levenson, former chair of the department, said the faculty and staff members have “pulled together well, talked well and held good civic discussion.” He added that faculty members have conducted themselves as “citizens of the University.”

The University is among the first of Virginia’s struggling schools to address this critical issue, Wood said.

University Police and local law enforcement officials announced Friday the indictment of 33 people — including former and current University students and employees — for alleged involvement with the illegal sale of narcotics. A total of 15 of the suspects had been arrested in Charlottesville as of 2:00 p.m. Friday. All but two charges filed against the suspects are felonies.

The 15 arrested individuals are: College student Arrington ÒBryanÓ Booker, College student Brandon Davis Booker, Jaison Abraham Burke, Nicholas Adam Campbell, College student Thomas Corbett Daly, Jeremy Owen Donnely, Engineering student Marco C. Falconi, College student Zach Heffner, Daniel Murray, Mathew Nadolski, College student Skandar Rassas, Engineering student Eric W. Reid, Jonathan Rouhafazai, Todd Lee Stinnett and Engineering student Daryl Edward Thomas.

Of the 33 indicted suspects, three are University employees, eight are non-students, seven are former students and 15 are current students. Eight of the 15 people arrested Thursday night are current students, according to statistics released by the University Police.

The indictments were the result of a 15-month undercover investigation, titled “Operation Spring Break Down,” conducted by the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force.

JADE is composed of local and University Police officers as well as agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Drug Enforcement Agency. The coalition was formed in 1995.

Over the course of the investigation, JADE seized drugs including marijuana, cocaine, opium, ecstasy and Psilocybin Mushrooms with an estimated street value of at least $20,000.

The remaining suspects are being sought in other states as well as overseas, said Lt. Don Campbell, JADE task force coordinator.

“It’s not going to be real long until we find” the remaining suspects,” Campbell said.

In a press conference at Scott Stadium Friday, University Police Chief Paul E. Norris, Jr. said the operation was aided by tips from within the University.

“Most of the information that led to this investigation was provided by University students and staff,” Norris said.

Charlottesville City Police Capt. Chip Harding said Operation Spring Break Down is focused on apprehending narcotics dealers, not consumers.

Though some of the suspects know each other, authorities stressed that the accused are not part of one drug ring.

Suspects were arrested in a variety of locations including bars on the Corner, City Hall and local residences, starting around 7 p.m. Thursday and ending after 2 a.m. Friday, Campbell said.

“We knew who the people were,” Campbell said, adding that none of suspects attempted to resist arrest. “We did not anticipate any problems and we had no problems.”

Agents secured warrants from both Albemarle County and Charlottesville grand juries, using evidence obtained by undercover detectives who set up drug purchases with suspects and secretly videotaped the transactions.

Some suspects currently are released on bail, which averaged $2,500 but varied according to the type and amount of the drugs involved, according to Campbell, who noted that sentencing likewise will vary with the drug.

“Some of them could get 12 months maximum, some of them could get 20 years,” he said, adding that he doubted any of the suspects would receive the maximum sentence.

Campbell said agents had possessed enough evidence to make the arrests for some time, and that there was no reason in particular that the sting occurred Thursday night. Officers who made the arrests were split into five teams, with about five or six officers in each.

Officials at the magistrate’s office declined to say when the arrested individuals will appear in court.

If any of the students arrested are convicted, University Judiciary Committee Chair Alexis Gregorian said a dean or the police can bring charges against them under either standard two or ten of the University standard code of conduct.

“If accused of a standard ten violation, they would have to prove how any sort of drug violation would affect the pursuit of the University’s proper academic goals,” Gregorian said.

She added that violations of standard two could be charged regarding the violation of the health and safety of members of the University community.

For the 15 University students who were indicted, JADE detectives sent each a letter inviting the suspect to join a secret society, “Zeta Tau,” instructing the recipient to meet near the Rotunda Thursday evening. Five students responded to the letter and were asked for identification to verify their invitations to join the society.

The five then were escorted into a van decorated with an insignia for the supposed secret society. Undercover agents drove the suspects to City Hall, where they were informed that they were under arrest.

Campbell joked that the name “Zeta Tau” stood for “Zero Tolerance.”

Fifth-year Engineering student Eric W. Reid was one of the students arrested at City Hall. Reid said he thought the ruse was a “horrible use” of the University’s secret society tradition, adding that he plans to plead not guilty to his charges.

Reid claimed his arrest was a product of racial profiling.

The police “assumed since I was a black man driving around in a BMW that I used drug money to purchase it,” he said. “The truth is that my mother bought me that car.”

Other suspects were apprehended later that night on the Corner.

An anonymous St. Maarten Café manager who was present but off-duty Thursday night said Charlottesville Police Officer Gary Slaughter, who patrols the Corner area, spoke with the manager about another suspect’s possible whereabouts.

According to the off-duty manager, JADE agents came into St. Maarten Café just before midnight, adding that no arrests were made on site.

St. Maarten Café management also confirmed none of their current or past employees were arrested that night.

Tom Pattison, the general manager at St. Maarten Café, said there were no disturbances Thursday night.

“Nothing happened at St. Maarten Café,” Pattison said. “It was business as usual.”

Fourth-year College student Omeed Jafari was at the Buddhist Biker Bar from about 11 p.m. until closing time Thursday night. Jafari said he saw three JADE agents run upstairs while two stood by the door. “I think they knew exactly who and what they were looking for,” he said.

Jafari added that there were rumors spreading about people getting arrested, but the bar remained full until close.

“I don’t think it had any bearing on people that night,” Jafari said. “I think they were just shocked to see ATF agents and not just police walking around.”

Mellow Mushroom Manager Andrew Irby was off-duty Thursday night but was patronizing the establishment at the time of the arrests on the Corner.

“We were sitting at the bar and these cops roll up seven deep or so. Our bartender met them halfway,” he said.

Irby added that the officers asked the bartender for specific people. The bartender said he did not think that they were there. Then, Irby said, one of the JADE agents shined a flashlight in the face of one of the cooks and said, “That’s him.” Irby added, however, that the agent was mistaken and the cook was left alone.

Slaughter said he helped the JADE agents narrow down their search to two bars by observing that a companion of one suspect was carrying a glass mug. Both O’Neill’s Pub and The Biltmore Grill offer “mug night” Thursdays.

Sarah Aquilome, a manager at O’Neills, was off-duty Thursday night but had stopped by the bar just before the police came.

“They were just walking through looking for people,” she said. “They had a list but they didn’t find anyone” at O’Neills.

Aquilome said everyone left when they saw the agents. As she exited the bar, she said she saw one man get arrested outside on the street. According to Aquilome, the suspect did not run but seemed confused when the JADE agents handcuffed him.

Andrew Otto, assistant general manager at The Biltmore Grill, was on duty Thursday night.

“Our stance on this is to make no comment on anything that happened that night,” Otto said. “We aren’t going to make anymore of it.”

Slaughter confirmed that the JADE agents found the suspects for whom they had been searching at The Biltmore Grill and made the arrests there.

Though several of the eight students arrested are members of a fraternity, Greg Moore, Inter-Fraternity Council vice president for membership, said their alleged actions are not representative of the present state of Greek life at the University because of the small number of fraternity members involved.

“I’d be a little more concerned if there was a third or a ton” of fraternity members involved, Moore said. “One or two doesn’t matter. Those were individuals acting on their own free will.”

Moore added that the recent drug bust bears no resemblance to the 1991 University drug raid, dubbed “Operation Equinox,” which resulted in the seizing of three fraternity houses by federal law enforcement officials.

– Associate Editor Anthony LaMesa contributed to this article

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill recently announced a program to wholly cover the financial need of students from low-income families through grants and scholarships. It has earned the praise of many higher education advocates across the country, and at this past weekend’s Board of Visitors meeting, that of President John T. Casteen, III. The UNC program is impressive — but it is past time that someone recognizes the work the University has done to ensure the affordability of tuition.

The UNC program, announced last week, will apply to all students who come from families that make less than 150 percent of the federal poverty level — right now, the UNC cutoff is approximately $26,000. These students will be assured that 100 percent of their financial need will be met through grants and scholarships (including work study programs).

This program certainly is admirable — ensuring that all financial need is met for all students from low-income families, and that they won’t have to accumulate any debt to boot. UNC also boasts significant headway into this area — 86 percent of the need of students covered under this mandate is already met through grants and scholarships. This mirrors many programs that elite private universities with larger endowments — most notably, Princeton — have put in place in recent years to eliminate imposing debt on its graduates.

The University does have an interest in ensuring that its graduates do not become bogged down with debt. Increased student debt makes students less inclined to attend graduate schools, participate in study abroad programs, and in the end is just one more financial burden that students seeking an education would ideally not need to assume.

However, it would be specious to claim that the University hasn’t already made an exceptional effort in this area. Over the past five years, the University has made a concerted effort to meet 100 percent of all student need through financial aid — loans, grants and scholarships.

Certainly, once the 100 percent goal is met this coming year, Student Financial Services will start focusing more on increasing the percentage of aid that comes from grants and scholarships. However, even over the past few years when trying to ensure that all student financial need was being met, the University has also focused on alleviating the amount of financial aid that loans compromise for students.

Instead of taking the cheap and short-sighted way out through approving massive amounts of loans, the University increased the amount of grants dramatically. For the 2004-2005 school year, all student financial need will be met. However, over 70 percent of student financial need is already met through grants and scholarships.

One of the most telling statistics, which is used to compile the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Value” rankings, is what is called the “average discount from total cost.” This is the average amount of the cost of tuition that is covered by grants and scholarships — or, to put it more simply, to what extent grants alleviate the financial burden on students. In this case, the University places highest among all public universities.

The University deserves credit for the way in which it addressed student financial need. In a time of fiscal turmoil and sharply declining state support, instead of simply increasing the loans they gave to students, administrators were willing to dip into the University’s coffers and provide more grants for students. Their efforts might not be as showy as the new UNC program, but it still merits recognition and appreciation nonetheless.

The 12th woman in this game was the welcoming crowd of Klöckner Stadium. The record 1,249 fans who watched the No. 5 Cavaliers (9-1-1, 2-0 ACC) defeat Florida State (6-5-0, 1-1) cheered on a Virginia team that pulled out a thrilling come-from-behind victory, 3-2.

Down 2-1 with five minutes left in the second half, Kelly Hammond took a well-placed pass in the box from Noelle Keselica and blasted a goal over Florida State goalkeeper Kerry York to tie the game. That goal, the second of the day for Hammond, sparked the Cavaliers’ final burst and got the crowd on its feet.

“Once we got that goal, it gave us life,” Virginia coach Steve Swanson said. “The crowd really helped us. They lifted us up toward the end of the game. I really felt we could win it in the last four minutes, just because we had the momentum.”

Virginia would keep the momentum for the rest of the game. With less than 30 seconds left, freshman substitution Ariel Thompson blasted a free ball into the corner of the net to notch her first game-winning goal of her career and give the Cavaliers the victory.

“I felt like everything was in slow motion,” Thompson said. “It landed right and front of me and I just hacked at it.”

Along with classmate Shannon Foley, the two freshmen came off the bench to provide boosts for the Cavalier team.

“The freshmen are doing awesome,” Hammond said.”Shannon coming in and being able to take people on is amazing.Ariel coming in bringing us speed and energy is awesome to have.”

Swanson remarked on the potential for the freshmen to continue to succeed.

“I think they’re both tremendous athletes,” Swanson said. “They both cause problems for defenders. It’s nice to have them coming off the bench to give us a spark. I think they deserve a lot of credit. The neat thing is they both will get a lot better. It’s exciting for us.”

Virginia drew first blood Saturday on a corner kick from Gillian Hatch that was headed in by Hammond to put the Cavaliers up 1-0. Awarded ACC Player of the Week last week, Hammond continued her strong play to notch her second two-goal game of her career and leaving her with nine goals on the season.

Florida State attacked aggressively against the stingy Virginia defenders, who had allowed a meager .49 goals per game coming into this contest. The Seminoles would tie the score when Camie Bybee shot a feed from Kristin Boyce past Virginia goalkeeper Anne Abernethy five minutes into the second half. Abernethy played solidly, with a series of three saves in the span of just over two minutes midway through the second half but was finally beaten by Boyce on a redirected corner kick at the 58 minute mark.

Florida State would tally 13 shots against the Virginia defense, marking the first time this season in which the Virginia defense has given up more than 10 shots in a game.

The win gives Swanson his 50th as coach at Virginia. He joins former coaches Lauren Gregg (133 wins) and April Heinrichs (52) as the only coaches to win 50 games as a Cavalier.

The Cavaliers will travel next to in-state rival James Madison tomorrow and will play host to No. 10 Wake Forest Saturday.

Riding the arm of Matt Schaub and the legs of Wali Lundy, the Virginia Cavaliers (4-1, 3-0 ACC) walked over a struggling UNC team (0-5, 0-3), 38-13, Saturday at Chapel Hill.

Despite taking the early advantage off a field goal from senior kicker Dan Orner, UNC could not overcome the play of its defense — rated the worst in the nation — and eventually crumbled from the pressure of the Cavaliers’ offensive attack.

Headlining the assault was, of course, Matt Schaub, who threw an almost perfect 19-22 for 284 yards in just his second game back after suffering an early season shoulder injury.

“I felt good out there today,” Schaub said after the game. “I thought I was in the zone. The receivers were getting off the line of scrimmage and really getting open.”

The Cavaliers were held scoreless throughout the first quarter, but Lundy punched in a touchdown from six yards out to cap a 75-yard drive early in the second quarter, changing the tide of the game and starting a run of 17 unanswered points for Virginia.

That was the first of three touchdowns for Lundy, who rushed for 129 yards on 28 carries. Lundy has now rushed for over 100 yards in seven of his 14 career starts but gave most of the credit to his teammates for his performance.

“The offensive line stepped up,” Lundy said. “They came to play. UNC’s defensive line played hard, but we just kept running the ball down their throats.”

With three minutes to play in the first half, Virginia began to assert its dominance when Schaub rifled an 18-yard touchdown pass to freshman wide out Fontel Mines for his first collegiate reception. But UNC quarterback Darian Durant led the Tar Heels down the field in a last ditch drive to stay close to the Cavaliers at the half. They came away with a field goal to make it 17-6 going into the locker room.

In the second half Virginia dominated every phase of the game. The Cavaliers came out punching on their first drive, handing the ball off to Lundy for 34 yards on six of the drive’s nine plays, before he dove into the endzone for the score from one-yard out.

“In a closely contested game at the half, you have to come out in the third quarter and establish yourself,” coach Al Groh said.

The UNC faithful headed for the gates on the next Virginia drive after Schaub floated a beautiful 33-yard pass square into the arms of junior tailback Alvin Pearman, who trotted in for the score. The Cavaliers went on to rack up 21 unanswered points in the second half.

While the offense was in full swing, the defense was stellar, holding the Tar Heels to only 58 yards rushing and just 265 yards of total offense.

“We wanted to keep the rushing of our opponent under 100 yards,” Groh said. “I think we were well under that. Our front line played real well.”

Durant was pressured all day, as the defensive corps recorded five sacks, two of those coming from sophomore linebacker Darryl Blackstock. But putting Durant on the turf is no easy task.

“Durant is a terrific quarterback, who has great escape ability,” Groh said. “He’s hard to pen up, but our guys stayed in the hunt and did a good job.”

Late in the game, in front of a crowd now seemingly more orange than baby blue, Durant scrambled down the field for a 14-yard score against the second string Virginia defense to make the final score 38-13.

“I’m happy for our players,” Groh said. “I’m pleased with the way we played today. If you want to do anything in this conference you have to win on the road.”

Amid all the UNC mistakes and broken plays, the Tar Heels did come away with a single bright point, as Durant surpassed Ronald Curry to become UNC’s all-time leading passer with over 5,000 yards.

Virginia looks to remain unbeaten in the ACC when they travel to Clemson Saturday.

I am no sidewalk psychic, but I saw the future of Virginia football Saturday at North Carolina.

And that future wasn’t in the right arm of Matt Schaub, who looked confident and sharp in the pocket, completing 19-of-22 attempts with no picks. That future wasn’t even in the legs of sophomore sensation Wali Lundy, who pounded the turf with 28 carries for 129 yards and three touchdowns. Or in the foot of last week’s surprise superstar, kicker Connor Hughes, who booted a 29-yarder in the second quarter to preserve his perfect record of field goals made and give the Cavaliers a lead they never relinquished.

Although the leadership and production of Schaub and Lundy were certainly valuable, it was the younger, less-experienced Cavaliers who were Saturday’s story, showing abilities that promise bigger things to come.

Once Virginia got its engines warmed up Saturday, they effectively flattened the 0-5 Tar Heels with a solid and complete-game win.

The Virginia defense held Carolina to 23 points below the Tar Heels’ average points per game total and limited prolific passer Darian Durant to 207 yards in the air. The most impressive part of this feat was that the Cavalier defense was run by two freshmen. True freshman Ahmad Brooks was thrust into a leadership role at inside linebacker when redshirt freshman Kai Parham got the call to start in place of injured junior Rich Bedsem.

“I can’t even explain it,” Parham said of the emotions surrounding his first college start. “It was fun.”

The fun will certainly continue, as Virginia fans can only hope that Parham and Brooks will be starting side-by-side for years to come.

Virginia had huge contributions on defense from a host of juniors in safeties Jermaine Hardy and Jay Dorsey and end Chris Canty. Yet it was another underclass linebacker, sophomore Darryl Blackstock, who stayed in Durant’s face all day, sacking him twice for a combined loss of 16 yards.

It didn’t take a fortune-teller to see Virginia’s stars of the future on the other side of the ball, either.

The receiving corps had a big day for the Cavaliers, with several athletes stepping up to revive a depleted depth chart. With Michael McGrew out for the season, Marques Hagans moved to backup quarterback and Ryan Sawyer recovering from a nasty illness, Virginia was starting to look a little thin at receiver.

“It was time to go to the young kids,” coach Al Groh said. “And they’re progressing along nicely.”

Freshman Fontel Mines lit up the crystal ball, taking an 18-yard pass into the endzone late in the first half for a touchdown on his first career reception. Mines follows in the footsteps of fellow freshmen Deyon Williams, who scored on his first career catch three weeks ago against Western Michigan.

Sophomore tight end Heath Miller continued his solid play against the Tarheels, demonstrating his ability to make crucial catches on third and fourth downs, quickly becoming Schaub’s favorite target. His 22 receptions on the season lead the team by eight.

Yet it was junior Ottowa Anderson who really broke out Saturday, leading his team with six receptions for 80 yards. Anderson seemed to settle into his starting role, oozing confidence after a career-long reception of 36 yards in the second quarter.

“He is one of the most coach-able players on the team, and his career ascendancy reflects that,” Groh said.

The crucial questions still remain as to what Virginia can take away from this lopsided win against a struggling UNC team. Can Virginia continue to play at this level against teams like the Seminoles, who march into town in two weeks, or on the road against the Tigers this week in the intimidating atmosphere of Clemson’s Death Valley?

Virginia is clicking on all cylinders, coming off an emotional squeaker over Wake Forest to play cool, collected football on offense, defense and special teams against UNC. They beat Carolina in nearly every statistical category and emptied the stadium of baby blue early in the third quarter.

The Cavaliers are coming together under hard-working Al Groh, who teaches them to play every game as if their back is against the wall, as if they have something to prove.

This mentality was evident in a Cavalier squad that never relaxed, despite leading by 32 in the fourth quarter. Rather, Virginia cruised, playing tough for 60 minutes, exhausting Durant and exalting each other. If the complete Cavalier squad that showed up in Chapel Hill plays an encore at Clemson, the future of Virginia football could start this season.

Finishing with an overall score of 929 (+65), the Virginia men’s golf team took ninth place in the Franklin Street Partners Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Host North Carolina narrowly escaped with the title, shooting an 875 overall, with Georgia State taking second with 879, only four strokes behind North Carolina.

Senior Jeremy Luce, shooting a 230 (+14) overall, led Virginia in the tournament with sophomores Brad Tilley and Craig Cook-Stevenson shooting 234, being tied for 32nd, following Luce.

In Lexington, Kentucky, the Virginia’s women’s golf team finished in seventh place, after shooting a 326 (+38) in the final round, at the Wildcat Fall Invitational. With an overall total of 926, Vanderbilt took home the championship title, followed by Mississippi St. with 941 strokes. Freshman Sally Shonk led Virginia overall, shooting a 236 (+20), finishing tied for 13th overall.

Two other Cavaliers finished in the top 25 for the tournament with freshman Rachel Smith shooting a 80 (+8) in the final round on Sunday to finish 19th overall while freshman Leah Wigger shot a 239 (+23) overall to finish tied for 24th.

Over the three-day tournament, Virginia combined to shoot a 964 (+100) overall to finish in seventh out of 18 teams. UNC-Wilmington and Kentucky finished third and fourth, respectively. Miami and East Carolina finished tied for fifth, both finishing the tournament +95 strokes above par.

Virginia will travel to Knoxville, Tenn. on Oct 19-21 to compete in the Mercedes Benz Intercollegiate.