As a member of The Cavalier Daily, one quickly discovers that despite the paper’s central role in University life it is physically cut off from the outside world. Tucked away in the basement of Newcomb Hall, the paper’s office does not have a single window through which staffers may glimpse the sunset as they work feverishly to finalize the next day’s issue.

Yet as the 122nd Managing Board takes up its post in this rather secluded environment, we see no reason that other members of the University community should be prevented from having a more transparent view into our institution’s operations. With this in mind, we have outlined a few of our primary goals for the upcoming year so that all may know what to expect when they pick up a copy of our newspaper.

Our objectives for the paper’s internal procedures are meant to promote a high level of efficiency and quality in our product. Because The Cavalier Daily has a staff of more than 100 individuals, we recognize that this is a bottom-up operation that requires extensive coordination. Therefore, we plan to use the Managing Board’s annual retreat with section leaders as a launching point for our agenda to ensure unity among the staff as we move forward.

Not only do we have goals for our staff, but also for how we approach our readers. Today’s student population is more diverse than ever. We hope to expand our paper’s content to appeal to that audience. Traditionally, there has been a strong focus on news emanating from groups such as the Honor Committee, the University Judiciary Committee and Student Council. As an independent newspaper, it is also our obligation to report information related to emerging segments of the University community. To this end, we plan to reinvigorate staff education so that our writers and editors will be more knowledgeable about the communities and the issues that they cover.

In addition, we expect to continue increasing The Cavalier Daily’s online presence. Last year’s web site redesign has helped increase the paper’s online readership and we intend to take advantage of this by incorporating a greater variety of multimedia into our online presentation. Although the print edition remains our core product, we hope that readers will also go to the paper’s web site for music, videos and blogging that will supplement traditional news content.

Although The Cavalier Daily is an institution steeped in tradition, these are changes that we believe can make the paper even better in the future. We would be remiss, though, if we did not first acknowledge the 121st Managing Board and staff for the hard work that they invested in this organization to get it to where it is today. As we begin a new era in the paper’s history, we can guarantee that at least one thing about The Cavalier Daily will not be altered—the level of dedication that is displayed by its members in pursuit of truth.

I was distressed to learn that Chik-fil-A’s charitable arm, the WinShape Foundation, funds and praises anti-gay organizations like Focus on the Family and Pennsylvania Family Institute.  WinShape even holds conferences for opponents of gay marriage.

Chick-fil-A, of course, is free to do what it wants with its money and free to hold and express whatever opinions it will.  However, I am also at liberty to patronize other establishments at Pavilion IX and I hope others will reach similar conclusions.

ARIUS KAUFMANN
SEAS I

LAST Tuesday night, President Obama delivered the annual State of the Union Address, which was followed by the traditional response from the opposing party, given this year by Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. But Congressman Ryan’s response was not the only one that aired on television Tuesday night. CNN also broadcast a response by Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Congresswoman Bachmann’s rebuttal to the State of the Union was intended to be made public online for the Tea Party Express, but CNN also picked up the response. The intention behind CNN airing Bachmann’s response is unclear, but in doing so the news network essentially elevated the Tea Party to the same legitimacy as the Republican and Democratic Parties, showing the growing force and popularity of the Tea Party movement.

Some believe that CNN’s choice in showing both Ryan and Bachmann’s responses served to underline the growing fragmentation within the Republican Party, including the increasingly popular Tea Party movement. Others may see it as CNN trying to place Ryan as a centrist between Democratic President Obama and far-right Bachmann.  But Bachmann’s response was too tame and too similar to Ryan’s for either of these scenarios to be the case. Both Ryan and Bachmann addressed the predictable issues. Their call for reduced government spending, repeal of “Obamacare,” and a smaller government are sentiments echoed by the majority of the Republican Party. Bachmann added nothing new to the discourse.

Many Republicans did not see Bachmann’s Tea Party response as conflicting with that of the official Republican Party. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, among others, felt that Bachmann’s rebuttal was more of a reiteration of the views outlined by Congressman Ryan in his speech. Paul stated, “I think you get a variety of opinions and all Republicans aren’t the same, but I don’t see it as trying to usurp somebody else’s prerogative. I think one main Republican message, but other voices as well.”

If CNN was trying to demonstrate fragmentation and a lack of a cohesive stance in the Republican Party, the goal certainly was not accomplished. If anything, the two responses further unified the far-right Tea Party movement with the Republicans. But what CNN did manage to do is demonstrate the growing popularity of the Tea Party. By airing a Tea Party rebuttal as well as a Republican one, CNN positioned the Tea Party not only as a movement within the Republican Party, but as a political party of its own.

Started as a grassroots movement primarily against increased taxes, the Tea Party movement has grown, evolved, and gained significant popularity and power. Despite the losses of popular Tea Party members such as Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell in November 2010, the Tea Party has managed to gain footing in Congress. Currently, the Tea Party Caucus, a congressional member organization, has 51 members. The Tea Party expects to continue growing in the coming years, and a recent Rasmussen poll finds that 79 percent of Tea Party members expect that their movement will play a bigger role in the 2012 elections than it did in the 2010 elections. With an unemployment rate of over 9 percent and a staggering deficit, the American people should not expect the Tea Party to shrink and lose popularity.
Perhaps CNN recognizes this. Perhaps CNN recognizes that the Tea Party movement is an up-and-coming political force that has the power to influence the future of American politics, a force that will not go away quietly. By giving national airtime to the Tea Party on as important a night as the State of the Union Address, CNN has elevated the movement to a previously unheard-of status. With the help of CNN, the Tea Party is becoming more than just a political movement within the Republican Party.

Claire Shotwell’s column appears Mondays in The Cavalier Daily. She can be reached at c.shotwell@cavalierdaily.com.

NEWSPAPERS are amazing things. One of the many clichés associated with the profession describes the printed product as “The Daily Miracle.” That was coined long before electronic media and online classified ads competed for potential readers’ attention and eroded newspapers’ financial base. In some newsrooms, the cliché may refer to the miraculous work produced by a consistently dazzling staff. In others, it may represent amazement that the staff can get anything done on time. But generally it means that so many things have to happen, so many gears need to mesh, to produce one issue of a newspaper that it’s amazing such a thing can happen once in a while, much less on a regular basis.
The Cavalier Daily seems particularly miraculous. It’s a student-organized and managed journalism operation that’s survived for more than 120 years at a university that doesn’t offer a journalism or communications degree. The people who work at The Cavalier Daily don’t get rich. They don’t get academic credit. They don’t get great boosts to their social lives or their study and sleep habits. Mostly, they just get to work.
In its last editorial, the outgoing Managing Board upheld the tradition of saying goodbye and offering an assessment of the work they and the rest of The Cavalier Daily’s staff have done over the past year.
“There has been no shortage of important news since we took our posts,” they wrote.
Indeed.
Yeardley Love, a student and a member of the women’s lacrosse team, was killed. George Huguely, another student and lacrosse player has been charged with Love’s murder. The murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington remains unsolved. The University is in a legal fight with Virginia’s attorney general over academic freedom and public funding. The Honor Committee is trying to make the honor system better and more comprehensible. John Casteen retired after two decades as the University’s president and Teresa Sullivan became the first woman to serve the University as president.
After covering that and much more, the Managing Board is moving on. Some staffers will no doubt move on, too, while others will shuffle around within the system and others will move into positions of increased responsibility. Some of them have by now become members of the new Managing Board.
“. . . [W]e join you in becoming but readers and observers of The Cavalier Daily,” the old board’s last editorial declared.
Of course, that’s not a demotion. Readers and the community they live in are the reason any journalistic operation allegedly exists—or they should be. And readers are not simply observers unless they want to be. Letters to the editor have been around for a long time. And now so have the comment sections attached to online articles. Newspapers have long been interactive. Changing technology has made them more so.
Some stories were difficult to do, that farewell editorial said, because “our reporters are very much a part of the community they write about.” That, too, should be true of any good news operation. In this case, The Cavalier Daily itself is very much a part of the community it covers. It puts the University’s student governance principles to work in very practical ways. The paper’s successes and failures are very much the result of students’ decisions and actions—students inside the paper as well as those who are “but readers and observers.”
At the paper, like the rest of the University community, change is nearly constant—well, annual, at least. That makes it even more miraculous that any student-run organization can keep traditions and standards alive.
Neither The Cavalier Daily nor its Managing Board are perfect, of course. Even in the final days of the recent regime, there were some silly mistakes—a story that ended midsentence, for example—and some questionable editorial decisions. A series dealing with lacrosse recruiting seemed off-key in places, sometimes in serious ways. But that’s how these things work. Any enterprise that includes people will include mistakes and debatable judgment. But the endless story was an aberration. And the recruiting stories showed ambition and a willingness to try to get a little deeper than a recruiting class report or a sports column—a species that sometimes relies too heavily on opinion and leans too lightly on fact.
Journalism is a serious business. Putting something on paper or on the Internet has consequences. The trick is to have the right kind of effects: to inform readers, to provoke discussion, to hold people in power to account, and to amplify the voices of people without a megaphone of their own. That only happens, of course, when readers pay attention and respond. That’s why, when the just-left Managing Board wrote that its members were becoming “but readers and observers,” that didn’t mean the board was ceding power. Board Members are joining a much more powerful and important group.
Tim Thornton is the ombudsman for The Cavalier Daily.

LET ME first of all say that I am not an opponent of the fraternity system. My dad was in a fraternity. My brother is in a fraternity. I, myself, may have joined a fraternity had I not become involved in other organizations here on Grounds. I am, however, a resident advisor.  It is my duty, first and foremost, not to enforce rules or condemn people, but rather to ensure the health and safety of my residents. I approach the mysterious loophole in University responsibility known as men’s “rush” from this distinct angle. That being said, all opinions stated in this column are strictly personal and in no way reflect the official views of the Residence Life program. But, as an RA, I am shockingly aware of the many problems associated with the current rush process, and as a student I feel obligated to discuss these concerns with the University population.

This year on my hall I was unpleasantly surprised to find first invites openly advertising events such as “Fried Chicken and 40’s.” Other events of note were blatant keg kills and similar parties with mass amounts of alcoholic beverages for first-year students. Now, I won’t argue that drinking, or underage drinking for that matter, is wrong. I understand it’s a contentious matter, and I myself am not particularly decided on the drinking age debate. I also understand that this type of drinking occurs every weekend on Rugby Road throughout the year. But drinking as part of an organizational selection process comes with an entirely different set of problems  Students, especially first years, feel obligated to drink copious amounts of alcohol, many above and beyond their already established limits, in order to impress or feel accepted in such a setting. Some can deny this effect, but it becomes obvious, especially for an RA, by the number of hospital calls made in dorms during rush weeks. Any RA or senior resident will tell you that the number of ambulance visits during rush is significantly higher than during normal times of the year. It may be due to social pressures, or it may simply be due to increased access to alcohol, but nonetheless it puts students in a very dangerous position.

The other difference is that all of these events are, in a very real way, sanctioned by the University. The Inter-Fraternity Council is a registered CIO of the University and is closely overseen by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. The formal rush process, the main means of recruitment for fraternities, is thus implicitly—and in some cases explicitly—endorsed by the University through these outlets. It is understood that there is a vast amount of drinking at rush events (if you don’t believe me, ask any first-year student or any other student for that matter). Surprisingly, if one looks at the official rush regulations, Section II states, “No alcohol is to be present during any rush functions,” underage or not. Additionally, it’s worth mentioning that Section IV states, “During no contact days, no contact may take place between rushees and fraternity members.” I cannot tell you the number of times my residents have come back drunk from events or had dinner with brothers during no contact days. Unfortunately, this isn’t the exception either. I guess I’m not sure if fraternity governing rules are an utter farce or if the University simply chooses to turn a blind eye to them. Normally I don’t care about the internal activities of fraternities, but when they put young students, in an organized setting sanctioned by the University, in a high-risk situation, I have reason to be concerned.

One only has to look across the genders to find answers. The sorority rush process, which takes place during a more condensed time period, handles these issues in a much more serious manner. No drinking is allowed during rush events, nor does any, to my knowledge, actually occur. Likewise, “off” days tend to actually be “off,” and promotion of any particular sorority outside of official events rarely occurs. The strict regulations that are actually enforced by the Inter-Sorority Council prevent this from occurring.  The recent sanctions regarding drinking on previous bid days are a testament to this fact. I realize there is a huge difference between fraternities and sororities.  However, the goal of a safe, informative and enjoyable rush process should still be the same for all. Enforcing a similar level of regulation for fraternities would be an important first step to reforming the process and ensuring the safety of interested students.

I don’t hate fraternities, nor am I in any position to admonish most of their actions. However, as an RA and a responsible student of this University, I do have the obligation to identify dangerous situations and ensure the safety of first-year students. The University up to this point has shown an extreme lack of responsibility during the rush process. I would hope this is due to an honest lack of knowledge and not the refusal to shine a spotlight on the shadows of Rugby Road. If the University really wants to help its students it should focus its attention not on some shimmering ideal of governance, but rather on what actually happens in the spring and what that means for those involved.

Ricky Passarelli is a fourth-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Brian:

Second-year Pre-Comm/Econometrics

What are you involved in at U.Va.?
Pacific American Leadership Training Institute (Facilitator), SEED (Secretary), Cavs and Panthers peer mentoring.

What else do you like to do? Hobbies?
I am an avid gym-goer, but slack a ton whenever exams pile up. I love playing tennis and pick-up games of basically any sport. I enjoy running and spending quality time with my friends and roommates. I like to be handy and fix things, and cleaning helps me release stress.

Describe your ideal date. Ethnicity, height, hair color? Personality, sense of humor?
My ideal date would be a female of any ethnicity that likes to laugh and have a good time. I would hope to find someone who wouldn’t mind jumping right into a deep discussion of something current and would have a real passion for her opinion.

What would you do?
My ideal date is a tandem bike ride along some old deserted railroad line that borders the bay. The sun shines and it’s just a bit windy as birds chirp and bells ring as we pedal along a yellow dirt path.

If you could date any celebrity, who would it be and why?

ScarJo. Hands down. He’s just not that into you. But I am just that into her.

What’s a typical weekend like for you?
My friends and I normally decide to go out one or two nights a week, depending on how busy we are. Sometimes its alcohol-free with board games and a movie, but most of the time it’s meeting up with friends at frats.

What are your favorite TV shows?
30 Rock, Dexter, Entourage, Gossip Girl (on the dl) and The Walking Dead.

What are your favorite movies? Who are your favorite actors?
Love Actually, Bourne Series, Narnia series, Inception, Matt Damon, ScarJo.

Describe the best five minutes of your life.
We were standing on the roof of a hostel in Taiwan, waiting for the sunrise. All the friends we had made the past four weeks were together laughing, yelling, smiling. Every night for the past week we had stayed up trying to squeeze every bit of fun out of our time together. I look out and the sun peaks out over the mountains and the light floods the valley that is Taipei, and we all are breathless.

What makes you a good catch?
I think I can be a bit gullible and silly at times, but I am very genuine and really try and find a connection with everyone I meet. I think I’m a good listener, but I don’t mind talking either. I’m definitely introverted at first, but I find my comfort zone pretty quickly and can be really fun to be around.

What would you want your date to have in common with you?
I think a similar sense of humor would be great and an interest in current events and sports would be awesome. GO RAVENS!

What would your theme song be? Why?
Totally Cake’s “Going the Distance.” Because I can’t sing too well anymore and it’s more of a yell or chant. Plus I like to imagine that I can go the distance.

What are the deal breakers?
Smoking isn’t particularly cool.

If there’s one thing you could change about yourself, what would it be? Why?
I do wish I could grow a few more inches, because my ups are pretty weak and I’d like to be able to dunk on my elementary school’s hoops one day.

What do you want to do when you graduate?
I’d like to become a financial analyst or sports statistician.

What’s your favorite part about U.Va.? Least favorite?
My favorite part is walking behind the Rotunda during fall when it’s just a bit windy and the leaves are flying around. Least favorite is during exams in the dorms because quiet hours are oppressive.

Describe yourself in one sentence.
Brian Lee is simply complex.

Gina:

What are you involved in at U.Va.?
I play on the women’s ultimate frisbee team. I also work at the art museum and am a member of [Feminism Is For Everyone].

Ultimate frisbee is my main hobby, but I also try to make time for music and singing when I can.

Describe your ideal date. Ethnicity, height, hair color? Personality, sense of humor?
Average height-to-tall, fun personality, great sense of humor, open minded, doesn’t take himself too seriously.

What’s your ideal date location?
I’m mostly a fan of indoor dates. Dinner and a movie or a concert are great. But I could also be convinced to go apple picking.

If you could date any celebrity, who would it be and why?
Sidney Crosby. He may have robbed the United States of a gold medal, but he seems like a truly good person who is dedicated to what he loves.

What is a typical weekend like for you?
I party in moderation. Quiet evenings at home with friends are just as fun. My weekends also tend to include various sporting events.

What are your favorite movies?

Remember the Titans,” “The Princess Bride” and “Up!”

Describe the best five minutes of your life.

That time I played frisbee on an Italian beach with six of my closest friends while everyone back home was in class. What could be better?

What makes you a good catch?
I’m a fun and friendly person who loves to make people laugh. I’m also loyal and dependable.

What would you want your date to have in common with you?
I’d like my date to be optimistic, easy-going and open-minded. Differences in religion and hobbies would be refreshing.

What would your theme song be? Why?
“Whip My Hair” by Willow Smith. Yes, the song gets annoying quickly, but that message is more important. It talks about living your life the way you want to despite what people may say.

What are the deal breakers?

Smoking and talking too much about oneself.

If there’s one thing you could change about yourself, what would it be? Why?
I’m a little too practical sometimes. I need to let myself do things just for the fun of it more often.

What do you want to do when you graduate?
I want to get a job. That’s pretty much all I can hope for right now …

What’s your favorite part about the University? Least favorite?
I love that we all work hard but play hard as well. It’s the best of both worlds. I hate how competitive things can be sometimes.

If you could time travel to any period, when would it be and why?
I would love to travel to the future! Who wouldn’t want to see what great things are just on the horizon?
Describe yourself in one sentence.

I am a fun-loving individual who likes to try new things.

Gina: Before the date started, I was thinking it was just going to be very chill and it was just going to be a fun experience to meet someone new. I wasn’t expecting anything out of it. I didn’t mention it to my family, but I told a bunch of my friends and now they all want to do LC too, which is funny, so you might get some more responses in the future.

Brian: Beforehand, I was just thinking how I did not want to do this and I had no idea why I signed up for it. Not wanting to do it was me being nervous, I guess. I told my roommates about it … They remembered when I submitted it and they thought it was hilarious that I got picked. They were just laughing the whole time. I didn’t tell anyone else.

Gina: We met in front of Bodo’s on theCorner and decided to go to Café Europa because neither one of us had been there before and it seemed like a cool place around Grounds we should go to before we graduated.

Brian: I basically was at the bank with a friend and I walked over at 1:01 and there was only one person sitting there, so I was like “Uhhh not to be weird or anything, but are you Gina?” She said “Yeah,” so I got lucky I guess. She looked relieved that she found the person and didn’t get stood up. I didn’t really read her face for excitement.

Gina: I may have been a little bit nervous just because I didn’t know what to expect on a blind date, but once I met him and we started talking, I was pretty relaxed. He didn’t seem nervous so that really helped to make it really easy-going and a nice experience. He seemed like a down-to-earth kind of guy.

Brian: She was cute. Nice looking. Well-dressed. She seemed pretty energetic and peppy, not so much nervous or anything. I feel like we got off on a good start and it wasn’t awkward throughout so that was good.

Gina: The guy who works at Café Europa was really funny. When I first walked in, I didn’t know what a lot of the things on the menu were and he helped me along with it. When I ordered, he asked me if I was Greek because I pronounced the words so well. I said I was Italian, so that might be it and he said “Oh, so we’re cousins!” He was a cute little Greek man.

Brian: After we ordered, we just sat down and proceeded to talk while we waited for the food. We talked sports. She’s from Pittsburgh and I’m from Baltimore … I basically insulted her football team and we talked about football and then about what our majors were. I’m Pre-Comm and Statistics and she’s SWAG. When I first heard SWAG I was a little weirded out and she was … defending it. She talked about global development studies and I’m pretty well versed in that stuff, so we talked about social entrepreneurship and that was nice.

Gina: He seemed very nice and when I found out he was a Baltimore Ravens fan, I was concerned because I’m a Steelers fan and we had just beaten them in the weekend previously, but he didn’t hold that against me. I thought that was a good quality that he didn’t hold it against me just because of where we’re from.

Brian: I would say we didn’t, like, talk about life and stuff specifically but she seemed like a sports fan and athletic so that was cool. She seemed intelligent, but we didn’t … compare and contrast our personalities, really. The conversation moved pretty well because we always had something to say. I don’t know if we had a lot in common for one date, but at least sports and politically speaking there was enough to talk about.

Gina: The conversation flowed easily. He apparently is friends with people from my hometown so he had heard some things about Pittsburgh and we talked about our different experiences in high school. He went to public school and I went to an all-girls Catholic high school so we talked about our different experiences. I was surprised that when he realized how into sports I was that he didn’t comment about how strange it was that a girl was into sports. Neither one of us made any judgments. We just talked and he didn’t judge me for going to Catholic school or make judgments about me as a person for that. He was just asking questions to see what I was all about and I thought that was really cool.

Brian: When we were both done eating, it was like, “Uhh what do we do from here?” At that point, I was like, “Do you want to get going?” So we got up and I paid and everything and we left. I got to 14th Street and was like “OK, I’m going this way”. I said “Bye” and gave her a handshake, so that was kind of awkward. But overall, I would say I had a good time.

Gina: I would give the date like a 7. 6 or 7. It was a good experience. We had a lot to talk about and he was easy to talk to, but I didn’t have any romantic feelings toward him. If I had that on top of it, it would be a 9 or 10 but it was still definitely a fun experience, so I’ll give credit where credit is due.

Brian: I would say it’s a 6. I mean, I guess I don’t go on a lot of first dates with strangers, so normally when I go on a date with someone, it’s someone I’ve known for a bit longer and am more comfortable with, I guess. This time I didn’t know her personality, so it was more tense and awkward. So you have to be more careful … I guess I was more stressed out in trying to make it less awkward, because I didn’t know this person really. But overall I thought it was OK.

Brian and Gina haven’t spoken since the date, but Gina says if she saw him around Grounds she would say hello and it wouldn’t be weird.

One of the first dating columns I wrote was about the fascinating phenomenon in which many first-years break up with their high school sweethearts in November. This usually occurs when they go home for Thanksgiving Break and see each other for the first time since they started school at separate colleges. It seems that a lot of people decide they want to experience the beginnings of college independently, to figure out what they want on their own. Well, now that I’m halfway through my fourth year, it’s becoming apparent that this first-year breakup experience has its parallel at the end of the college experience: many fourth-years break up upon feeling the pressures of graduation.

During the course of the past semester, many of my fourth-year friends in long-term relationships stopped dating. It was bizarre when it happened to the first pair, as I had known them as a couple for so long. But then another duo split — and another and another. A lot of times, the decision comes after a lot of long, rational thought. If the two are together at graduation, normally one follows the other to his or her new job or graduate school, moving in together to save money on rent. Sometimes, however, one person does not follow the other — a recipe for long-distance relationship stress. Fourth-years try to take charge of the decisions caused by their impending graduation. Instead of letting graduation force a decision upon them, students come to decisions about the future on their own terms, which leads to a reevaluation of the relationship and subsequent breakup.

When the end is quickly approaching, every bad moment in the relationship sticks out that much more. So as the end of college nears, one person might irritate and wear down the other to the point of splitting. Knowing a split may be on the horizon, moreover, people might look for flaws and problems in their relationship to justify walking away.

My guess is that this trend will continue to develop as this last semester progresses. When a new year comes, people are encouraged to go “out with the old and in with the new,” giving couples even more of a reason to want a fresh start. Around this time, people realize that they won’t have the chance to be a college undergraduate ever again. In this case, they may want the opportunity to go crazy without anyone holding them back.

I’m sure many of these former couples have their own important and personal reasons for ending things, but all of these theories must explain why so many pairs call it quits during their last year. Fourth-years, look around and see if you notice the same sorts of things. And the rest of you, file this away in your head for when the same thing starts to happen next year and the year after.

As for me, a combination of these situations led to my own breakup in early January after an 18-month relationship. I broke up with the same guy I wooed by serving store-bought Sara Lee cheesecake that I had pretended to bake myself. It’s honestly for the best, with no hard feelings, and now I have twice as much time to go out and experience everything I want to do during my last semester. The good news for you, loyal readers, is that it has been tested and proven that being single always makes for a better dating column.

Jordan’s column runs biweekly Mondays. She can be reached at j.hart@cavalierdaily.com.