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(04/14/14 5:30am)
I have always had a great respect for writers, as they can pull to the surface that which is anchored in only the depths of our minds. As someone who spends the majority of her free time writing and performing for the University’s comedy organizations, most of the “depth” I seek is usually cast onto folly and absurdity for the purpose of getting a laugh. Yet The Cavalier Daily was the one organization in which I could write what I wanted to without such an obligation. What’s more, it was a place where I was surrounded by a group of people who shared a passion for writing that paralleled my own.
(04/01/14 3:56am)
One question I’ve been getting a lot from people lately is, “Denise, how can I be savvy and intuitive like you?” Usually my response is to just sit back and laugh until they leave. But today I realized that life is a game and not everyone is born knowing how to play it. Luckily, I’ve decided to give you a few tips on how to make your life a little easier, like I do.
(03/20/14 4:04am)
Lately, I’ve noticed there are a lot of movies out there but not many I can sit through all the way. I decided to write down a few of my own ideas for movies so I can make them, once I finally get rich.
(02/27/14 4:48am)
The restaurant was packed. It was Friday afternoon and we were all out to celebrate Dad’s birthday. Dad said he didn’t want to celebrate his birthday by wasting money on “this idiot establishment,” but Mom dragged us all here anyway because it was her favorite place and I’m pretty sure her birthday isn’t for another few months. I was happy because I got to skip tutoring. Jack was happy because he was still wearing his Karate uniform, which he told me was a “trick magnet.”
(09/19/13 3:03am)
TEACHER: Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, nice to meet you.
(08/22/13 1:51pm)
Unlike many of my peers at U.Va., I didn’t have the gumption to plan my summer ahead of time. Had I started applying for summer jobs during winter break, my natural course of action would have been to take summer classes, work on a political campaign or do another Capitol Hill internship. Instead, I applied to work at Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, once the Imperial residency of the Ottoman sultans and now an exhibition center for invaluable Ottoman art, relics and architecture.
(01/15/13 3:19am)
About two weeks ago, a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi, India boarded a bus at night when she was raped by a group of men, beaten, and thrown onto the side of the road. After days of struggling to stay alive, the woman, accompanied by a male friend who tried to save her, finally passed away in a nearby hospital.
(12/04/12 4:59am)
December is here, and in the midst of finals projects, final exams and your final days of avoiding laundry, there exists at the University a poignant feeling of what people refer to as the “holiday season,” or as I like to call it, Christmas.
(11/27/12 3:18am)
Like many college students, the feeling of coming home this past weekend filled me with a feeling of content, tryptophan and a resulting laziness that kept me at least five feet away from a school book at all times.
(11/15/12 2:15am)
Over the course of the past week, the sudden downfall of CIA Director David Petraeus sparked controversy when it became known that he resigned because of the revelation of his affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
(11/09/12 3:54am)
The season of class registration is here, which means that over the span of the past week, I’ve overheard all too many discussions about which courses to take for the upcoming semester. While I can understand that major requirements, college requirements and easy A’s trump all other priorities when it comes to the credits students are willing to load, I usually can’t help but interject my suggestion to take at least one literature course at the University.
(10/31/12 12:56am)
Last Wednesday Dr. Christina Hoff Summers gave a lecture titled “The Case for Conservative Feminism.” In her hour-long speech, Dr. Sommers, author of the books “Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women” and “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men” spoke about her critique of contemporary feminism and how its misinterpretation of facts and statistics is hurting the Western understanding of equality.
(10/23/12 3:27am)
This week, Newsweek magazine announced that it would be cancelling its print publication of nearly 80 years and switching over to digital issues. In spite of surprising and somewhat abrupt nature of the switch, Editor in Chief Tina Brown went out to state that going all-digital was “not about the quality of the brand or the journalism…” but rather the “challenging economics of print publishing and distribution.”
(10/16/12 4:36am)
Over the past two weeks, the presidential and vice presidential debates have set the political arena on fire, with commentators, news reporters and viewers following and assessing almost every nuance of the 90-minute back-and-forth between the parties. Whether or not we are even willing to hear them, it seems the election season surrounds us with body language experts, ironic third-party fanatics and partisan supporters who are quick to project their own meaning onto every word and action. After all, it is the spirit of election season.
(10/02/12 2:41am)
According to a recent survey conducted by The French newspaper Le Monde, 56 percent of French citizens feel as though there is an “anti-white” racism developing in France. The survey found that France’s influx of immigrants from North Africa and elsewhere has allegedly left the white majority feeling threatened with a new phenomenon of “reverse racism.”
(09/25/12 4:11am)
This past week, a survey conducted by Gallup found that 60 percent of Americans have little or no trust in the media’s capacity to report news accurately, fairly and objectively. The survey went on to conclude that in comparison to previous years, election or otherwise, the amount of distrust in the mass media has hit a record high.
(09/18/12 2:50am)
Last week’s release of the new iPhone 5 sent both Apple’s clients and critics abuzz with speculation on the new changes, their implications for the future and how they will affect the lifestyle of Apple consumers. The new model is reportedly longer, thinner, faster and is already expected to double other versions in sales over the next week. For Apple’s devoted fan base, the iPhone 5 is yet another brilliant addition to their stockpile of black and white accessories that also just happen to call, text and Facebook chat in the blink of an eye. For most of the nation’s cynics, however, it is another one of Apple’s unnecessary, overhyped, pretentious variations on a regular phone.
(09/11/12 4:31am)
Early last week, a woman in Eastern Turkey severed the head of her rapist before hanging it in the village square to show to the community. The woman, already a mother, stated that she had to kill the “one toying with [her] honor” to reclaim her respect and so that her children could go to school without being ridiculed.
What is unique about this case is that the victim’s retribution was far more than an act of vengeance. The woman in question was as much a victim of rape as she was a victim of “honor”: a cornerstone principle in Islamic societies.
(09/03/12 12:55am)
Last Wednesday after his rally in Charlottesville, President Barack Obama hosted a half-hour “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit.com, a link-sharing website with millions of users worldwide. Over the course of 30 minutes, the president answered users’ questions about the space program, Internet neutrality and the White House beer recipe. The post’s overwhelming traffic caused the entire website to overload, making it inaccessible for hours to follow.
(08/28/12 4:00am)
Aside from being slightly older and on the opposite side of Grounds, I found new-school-year
Charlottesville to be almost exactly as I left it: the people are charming, the architecture impressive and the weather predictably unpredictable. One thing that is not the same, however, is that many of the people I had known have now graduated, and as a result, many more are coming in whom I’ve never met before.