Community confronts issue of sexual assault
After a University student reported a sexual assault April 15, the University community once again felt the tight clamp of an elusive and frightening force that affects both women and men.
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After a University student reported a sexual assault April 15, the University community once again felt the tight clamp of an elusive and frightening force that affects both women and men.
Billy Hill Jr., a 1977 University graduate, collapsed approaching the finish line of the annual Richmond Marathon and died of a massive heart attack in 1981. A year later, his fraternity brothers in St. Anthony Hall rallied together in his memory and started the first-annual philanthropic event on Grounds.
Will Parsons, Mighty Bouncer, Fear of all First Years, sat enthroned on his stool at the door of Coupe De Ville's waiting for his next victims.
The women stood on the stage, standing in the middle of the glaring spotlight and colonnades of white balloons. Throngs of supporters screeched high-pitched sorority catcalls from their seats. The energy reverberated throughout Old Cabell Hall auditorium, in sync with the booming bass blasting from the speakers.
I'll admit it. I cried. I bawled my eyes out.
The dumb snow kept flying into my eyelashes, I was starving and exhausted and if one more person asked me why I transferred, I might have had to throw up all over my polka-dot nametag.
The University has a number of well-known secret societies, although students are left wondering about the mysterious organizations, who their members are and where they do their work. There is one highly confidential group on Grounds, however, that does something no secret society does -- it listens.
The University has a number of well-known secret societies, although students are left wondering about the mysterious organizations, who their members are and where they do their work. There is one highly confidential group on Grounds, however, that does something no secret society does -- it listens.
What do 1,400 doughnuts, 10,000 pounds of apples, 800 McDonald's hamburgers, 10 large Domino's pizzas, a thousand Wal-Mart dollars, 500 Christmas cards, hundreds of better-off children, clean communities, innumerable cans of food and thousands of Wahoo volunteers add up to? The most expansive and organized University Make A Difference Day yet.
As more and more people sat down in the Tuttle lounge to hear Miss Virginia 1999 Crystal Lewis speak last Tuesday, the gender discrepancies within the audience became clear. The girls calmly discussed careers, workloads and the weather. The guys laughed and joked among themselves embarrassingly, anticipating Lewis' arrival. But once she began speaking, however, both groups found that Lewis had more to discuss than her beauty queen career -- the value of volunteerism.
A dialogue is taking place behind the airwaves that many students and community members may be completely unaware of.
All hogs go to heaven in the Belmont community of Charlottesville. And after they do, humans get to experience a little bit of it at Hog Heaven, a barbecue and grub restaurant near Charlottesville, but off the beaten path.