Top 10 U.Va. Spring Break Destinations
(03/02/14 10:20pm)
1. I’m going home (NoVa edition)
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1. I’m going home (NoVa edition)
The brand new and currently little-known Students Helping Honduras has come to the University with a mission of promoting educational opportunities for Honduran students.
Last week I participated on an Alternative Spring Break trip to Las Marias, Puerto Rico. While there, I learned quite a bit about sustainable organic farming, bio-construction and, more broadly, about how to be a member of a community — not just how to be part of a community, but how to actively contribute to the community’s well-being. Knowing that my actions — washing my hands before helping to prepare dinner, using biodegradable soaps and taking care of the gardens from which we got our food — would impact everyone else on the trip made me especially careful about how I acted. Community involvement is, I think, mostly overcooked in the United States. We all consider ourselves good members of the community — whether it’s local, national or international — and believe that doing a little community service here or there is enough to meet this quota. On the whole, few of us consider ourselves lazy or inconsiderate members of this planet. But the idea of maintaining a good community, and the standards a strong community requires, are much higher than we often recognize.
We spend our entire lifetime trying to figure out how to live. As college students, we pull all-nighters to make better grades to get better jobs to make more money to improve our quality of life and “live better.” Your train of thought may not exactly follow those lines, but in general, that’s pretty much how it goes.
Athens, Tenn. is a long way from Charlottesville, and an even longer way from Oxford University. But for fourth-year College student Joe Riley, who was named a Rhodes Scholar Saturday, Tennessee is where it all began.
Looking for a way to satisfy your carb cravings and help a worthy cause at the same time? Challah for Hunger has a table on the Lawn you may actually want to visit.
I would like to propose that our University switch to a quarter system.
With spring on the horizon and a new semester in full swing, touring musical artists will soon perform at local venues such as The Jefferson Theater and John Paul Jones Arena.
At about 2 p.m. March 11, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles off the coast of Japan. Within half an hour, a 33-foot tsunami came ashore and swallowed the entire port of Sendai, a city famous for its fishing industry. The Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures in Tohoku were hit hardest by the tsunami.
Ever since middle school, I have been the family fashionista, much to my mother's dismay. Every morning she would sigh with impatience and roll her eyes in frustration, as she reminded me for the third time that I better hurry up or else I would miss the bus. Upstairs in my room, I was eyeing myself carefully in the mirror to ensure that my outfit and accessories were coordinated perfectly, agonizing about every little detail. Once my mother shouted her final warning, I would sprint downstairs with my backpack from my room, which was now strewn with clothes, depicting my indecisiveness.
Get ready, Charlottesville - there's about to be a riot. Critically acclaimed indie rockers Ra Ra Riot will be in town March 4, treating the Jefferson Theater to their unique blend of pulsating Anglophile rock and swooning chamber-pop.
The arrival of sunny days and balmy temperatures in Charlottesville finds students taking their shorts and flip-flops out of storage and heading to the Corner with sunglasses in hand, optimistically hoping that winter is gone for good. With spring fast approaching, everyone's attention has turned to the outdoors and making plans for the upcoming summer break. Fortunately for fans of warm weather and hot bands, summer also marks the beginning of the outdoor music festival season, and this year's offerings are looking better than ever.
NEXT WEEK, the University will be participating in the college event that has long inspired National Lampoon straight-to-DVD movies. Though spring break has been portrayed as an excuse to get intoxicated, some around the University are challenging this image. Alternative Spring Break was established in 1992 with the goal of providing students a gateway for an alcohol-free service week. The group's intentions mean well and can be very constructive, but its efforts are misdirected.
After spending an entire childhood in a house with siblings, you'd think that college would finally offer the perfect opportunity for brothers and sisters to forge their own paths in life.
SOMETHING is brewing near Beta Bridge, and for once it is not alcohol. There has been a recent explosion in the number of students heading toward Beta Bridge on Friday and Saturday nights - not to find the hottest party, but to feed it. Numerous student groups, from the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega to several different Alternative Spring Break contingents, have taken up residence on Rugby Road to sell food to hungry partygoers.
In the wake of numerous assaults and robberies across Grounds this semester, Student Council has decided to launch SafeWalk, a pedestrian alternative to SafeRide, in the spring.
Chris\nFourth-year engineering student
Since the passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in 2009, there has been an even greater drive nationwide to increase volunteer turnout. Here at the University, service has always been a big part of student life.
There is a secret that 6students at the University have worked hard to preserve throughout the years. We've tried to keep it hidden from the outside world, but recently we've become less occupied with masking this truth, and I think it's time we give in and confess. Despite all outward appearances and general perceptions to the contrary, we, the students of the University of Virginia are huge, fat nerds.
I did not get much of a tan during my Alternative Spring Break trip to Arizona - probably because, contrary to popular belief, the spring weather conditions were best characterized as snowy with a high of 32 degrees Fahrenheit.