1 YOUR STANDARD home town newspaper would never devote twopages to sappy, overdramatic testimonials, all of which contain no remotely useful or interesting information.
2. Once you're done reading The Cavalier Daily (or before you've even started, for that matter), you can ball up the pages and stuff them into your shoes before you put them in the closet. That will prevent the creases caused by walking from setting in.
3. The Cavalier Daily was founded nearly 113 years ago in 1890. That same year, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits companies from using market power to limit competition.
4. The Cavalier Daily has held a monopoly on daily print news at the University since 1994, when shrewd advertising policies forced its only competitor, the University Journal, to shut down permanently.
5. Since 1994, about 500 students have passed through the doors of the Cavalier Daily office. All of them came wanting to make a difference at the University.
6. None of them has been a better combination of calm, funny and gracious than John Clark.
7. None of them has been more successful in making that difference through clear, thoughtful and well-argued writing than Jen Schaum.
8. None of them has made a bigger impact, bar none, on an organization's present and future than Adam Blumenkrantz.
9. None of them has laughed at more bad jokes (or things that weren't meant to be funny at all) than Jon Erdman. That's why we love him.
10. None of them dealt with more difficult, more unpredictable circumstances and did it with more class than Rachel Alberico, Katie Dalton and Erin Perucci.
11. And none of them is as selfless and as focused on the common good as Sean Healey.
12. I consider all 400 of those students to be my friends.
13. You can too! Just go to www.cavalierdaily.com and click on the "Join the CD" link.
14. The CD's motto: A shameless plug every day!
15. The Jefferson quote on A6. Memorize it. You'll discover it's one of those few statements that argues equally well for two polar opposite sides of an issue.
16. Dave Werner's cute - and sometimes bitingly funny - comic, Second Nature.
17. Dave Werner's cute - and sometimes bitingly telling - editorial cartoons.
18. Dave Werner's sense of humor, sense of style, and his humility. He will deny all of this.
19. And, ladies, he plays the guitar and sings too!
20. Sorry ladies. He's taken.
21. The Rotunda image on www.cavalierdaily.com that switches from day to night at 6 p.m. every evening.
22. The Rotunda image on the newspaper's first page that appears on the far left side. You won't find another college newspaper in the country that has the balls to print an off-center masthead.
23. Balls are what Adam Blumenkrantz - all 5-foot-6 and 130 pounds of him - is all about.
24. Our front page is arguably the hardest page to produce in all of print journalism. You try coming up with five compelling stories every day taken from a community of a little over 20,000. It's hard.
25. But we've never resorted to cows.
26. Bees, yes. But not cows.
27. People playing soccer on the Lawn, yes. Many times. But not cows.
28. Now turkeys ... that's a whole other matter all together.
29. Words you'll never find in this newspaper (thank goodness!): tindle, rasterize, dingleberry, snatch, simmerdown. Look 'em up.
30. Words you'll find used more often than any others in this newspaper: the University, honor, student-run, initiative. This is truly a newspaper that reflects the best aspects of its community.
31. From B. Beach of Charlottesville, Va., who writes: "I love reading The Cavalier Daily on Fridays."
32. Oh, sorry, there's more. "It's Laura Parcells' picture. Makes up for the whole week."
33. Eric Hutchins - the best decision maker I've ever seen and one of the nicest, most humble people you can ever have the pleasure of meeting - has never gotten his picture printed in The Cavalier Daily.
34. He doesn't care.
35. But so you know, ladies, he's tall, dark and handsome. Not to mention a few years away from being ridiculously successful and rich.
36. Sorry ladies. He's also taken.
37. The Newcomb Hall Basement - home of The Cavalier Daily offices - houses dead fish, remnants of a bowling alley, cockroaches, holes in the floor and Pav Goo (but only Mondays through Saturdays).
38. And, for 50 students every year, it's closer to home than any fraternity house or academic lounge ever could be.
39. That's why it smells.
40. Jed Williams' vocabulary.
41. Just about everything else about Jed Williams, but especially The Voice.
42. The online site, which you can access by pointing your browser to www.cavalierdaily.com, has no pop-up ads for voyeuristic X-10 cameras or Internet gambling pages.
43. What it does have is the work of the University's most talented web designers and - as an added bonus - a sexy picture of Editor in Chief Brandon Almond, waiting to be transferred to your computer's wallpaper.
44. The CD's new motto: At least two shameless plugs every day!
45. When you're done reading The Cavalier Daily (or before you've started, for that matter), you can use it to clean your barbecue. Just soak the newspaper in water and place sheets on the warm grill before putting the lid back on. After 30 minutes, the newspaper should have soaked up most of the grime and make the grill much easier to clean!
46. Pink Flamingos, where - on the last production day of the semester - the CD speculates wildly about who did what, what got whom, and who will win what. It's usually right.
47. Christa Dierksheide. Forgiving, caring, dedicated and unbelievably brilliant, she would be perfect if only she could handle a martini.
48. Josie Roberts' vivid writing and creativity. Actual excerpt from her latest story: "Madison's Pig 'N Steak restaurant ... hosts customers as large as the quantities themselves."
49. Lindsay Means' ability to write about things she knows nothing about (there's a word for that ... but not in this newspaper) and sound like she knows it better than 95 percent of her readers.
50. Chris Yeung's knowledge of something about everything. And I mean, everything.
51. Like, for example, hockey. And philosophy. And movies.
52. But, c'mon, hockey???!!!
53. There are days you might look at The Cavalier Daily and think it's overpriced.
54. On the nights before those days, we were drunk.
55. Very, very drunk.
56. Abby Curran's welcoming, infectious laugh.
57. Emily Roper's willingness to fall for a prank. And her courage to take a on a taxing and, at times, thankless job for the sake of the newspaper and for the University. With your charisma and your tools, you'll should do better and have more fun than anyone before you.
58. The Dec isn't printed on recyclable paper.
59. The Cavalier Daily, despite its commitment to excellence and journalistic integrity, is not afraid to print things that are blatantly untrue.
60. Dec people smell like freshly cut flowers on a warm, spring day.
61. As did nearly 25 Cavalier Daily staffers after working diligently and tirelessly on the evening of September 11 and well into the morning of September 12 to provide their readers with the most comprehensive attack coverage "this side of the Wall Street Journal," wrote one reader.
62. They did it for you.
63. For free.
64. And Papa John's pizza. Delivered by Alexis.
65. Christine Buurma's strength and attention to detail. And her Milano cookies.
66. Michael Loatman's endurance and vision.
67. Suzannah Evans' fire and eye for talent.
68. Megan Milks' talent - which is, in a word, unparalleled. Actual excerpt from one of her movie reviews: "No matter how careful you are, you cannot hold this film in your hands without parts of it leaking through your fingers."
69. The Cavalier Daily isn't afraid to get its hands dirty. We had people in New York and Washington after Sept. 11. In Austin and Nashville for the 2000 elections. In Palm Beach County for the recounts.
70. We like margaritas.
71. So we enjoyed Palm Beach the most.
72. But we have no doubt that New York meant the most to our readers. We hope you felt the same.
73. The Life section, hidden behind Sports on B3. If only for the Big Picture alone. Or if only for the top-notch writing alone. Or if only for Lee Camp, Lytle Wurtzel and Elizabeth Stanek alone. Or if only for their restaurant recommendations - the only ones I trust - alone.
74. Or because it is fun, community oriented, thoughtful and thought-provoking and, at its best, the epitome of what journalism could and should be.
75. Diya Gullapalli's wackiness and her eagerness to come up with that one truly original idea. It worked out wonderfully.
76. Maria Tor's truthfulness. And her support.
77. Juliana Chan's constant pursuit of perfection.
78. Jaime Levi's pink cookies.
79. Cross country and women's rowing stories on the Sports page.
80. The Sports babes, especially Kate Bedingfield, Katie Montgomery, Kate Lipper, and Jess Garrison.
81. Let's throw Chip Knighton in there too.
82. The 2001 HOOPS basketball supplement. In a decade, we'll rank it right behind the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
83. Bryan Maxwell's insightful columns and his constant advice, better taken than ignored.
84. Bryan Maxwell's hair.
85. Once you're done reading The Cavalier Daily (or before you've even started, for that matter), you can use a sheet to prevent your fireplace from smoking up the room. Roll a sheet up lengthwise, stick it up your flue and light it to warm up the chimney before you start the fire. Works like a charm.
86. The photos: in color, of plugs and butts, of nationals at the international house, of Roger Mason next to a blackboard and of everything - exciting or not - that happens at the University.
87. Brady Wolfe's smoking habits. And Peter Jackson's bare chest.
88. Shelly Hartsook and Reece Cardwell, who make this place run and make sure the crossword is delivered intact to your desk every morning.
89. Sproundup.
90. Jeremy Williams, for who he wants to be and who he almost is.
91. said.
92. Larry.
93. J.
94. Sabato.
95. Stories like nsmasturbation. And their accompanying headlines, "Community man up and coming."
96. The losers who write letters. You may not know it, but you perform on behalf of the University community a vital service that keeps this newspaper alive and on its toes.
97. Sharon. For being the best mom that doesn't write my name on my underwear.
98. Stephanie Batten's little tricks.
99. Lindsay Wise for teaching me everything I know about this job and much more that I've forgotten. You are truly an inspiration.
100. The Cavalier Daily works by nobody's rules. No administrator. No advisers. No advertiser. No outside student organization. If there's one thing to love, it's independence.
101. And the bathrooms, for the automatic flush. But not the toilet paper.
102. Blue Highway.
103. Palatino.
104. CG Omega.
105. The people who got me down here and made me want to stay: Jim Reedy, Tracy Berman, John Moorehouse, Margaret Chipowsky, Kris Wright, Steve Argeris, Ed Hock, Doug Strassler, Dan Lopez, Amy Shapiro and Tina Hong.
106. The people who have made this a family as much as it is a newspaper: Ann-Woods Isaacs, Brian Cook, Kevin Bostic, John McArdle, Adam Justice, Jeffrey Eisenberg, Lisa Florkowski, Clay Yount, Emily Rockwood, Donnie Coleman, David Bloomberg, Chu Hwang, Aaron Gussman and Matt Oliver.
107. The gifted writers that made every day as managing editor a exciting and enlightening experience: Catherine Dunn, Daniel Stern, the entire Arts & Entertainment staff (but especially Ian Cohen and Bryan Kasik), Mike Layfield, Shelley Johnson, Oliver Longwell, Mary Catherine Wellons, Jonathan Evans, Ben Sellers and Justin Bernick.
108. Everybody I couldn't fit in, left out or forgot. You should get yours. You know where I live and you know I have to leave to eat. And use the bathroom. Or at least eat.
109. The people at The Cavalier Daily could spend their valuable time sleeping, reading, studying, kissing, flirting, drinking, eating, vegetating, caressing, laughing, crying or playing. But instead they make a newspaper. For you. While doing all the above.
110. To the person I can depend on to read to the end: You should love the Cavalier Daily because there may someday come another staff member with the smile, the poise, the spirit and the passion of Rachel Alberico. And you should be as lucky as I to see it and appreciate it.
111. Sometimes, even we can't come up with enough to say.
112. But just for old time's sake: the Jumble.
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