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In a sport that seems to revolve around the performance of the individual, it may be surprising that the Virginia cross country team is emphasizing teamwork. But that is exactly how the men's and women's teams have used most of their practice time to prepare for this weekend's Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.
"Birds flying high, you know how I feel. Sun in the sky, you know how I feel. Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel. It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me. And I'm feeling good." Yep, Saturday was a Michael Bubl
The No. 3 Virginia field hockey team - equipped with an unblemished 6-0 record despite a particularly tough schedules so far - may look stellar to the distant eye, but don't go telling that to coach Michele Madison.
There is an age-old saying - "Nobody is perfect."
The No. 3 Virginia field hockey team continued its season with weekend wins against No. 12 Ohio State and No. 9 Syracuse at Powhatan Sports Complex in Norfolk, Va.\nSophomore midfielder Tara Puffenberger scored four goals for the Cavaliers (6-0) during the weekend and notched her first career hat trick during Virginia's 4-2 defeat against Ohio State (4-2). Junior midfielder Michelle Vittese also contributed in scoring while freshman forward Elly Buckley and junior midfielder Paige Selenski each recorded assists during the game.
Former Cavalier guard Jeff Jones, who announced April 6 that he was leaving the Virginia basketball program, finalized his decision to transfer to Rider this past Monday. The junior will finish out the semester at Virginia and join the Broncs in the fall, citing his relationship and trust with the coaching staff as his main reason for choosing Rider.
They have experienced the jubilation of a ninth-inning comeback on several occasions during the past two seasons. A Keith Werman slap to the gap. A Stephen Bruno single up the middle.
The Virginia track and field teams competed in the ACC Outdoor Championships this weekend in Clemson, S.C. Both squads failed to perform as well as last year, as the men finished in third place behind Florida State and Virginia Tech after taking home a portion of the title last spring, and the women dropped from fourth to eighth, far behind the champion Clemson.
Recently, major celebrities in the fashion industry have taken it upon themselves to speak out against the use of unrealistic models in their campaigns. One does not need to look far for these comments: New York Magazine headlines read "Anna Wintour Says Vogue Does Not Photoshop Girls Thinner, and Now Aims to Show a Wider Variety of Body Types," or as Times Newsline headlines read, "Michael Kors Unveils New Age Limit for Models," a proposition Kors advanced due to the perceived prevalence of poor body images in relation to the fashion industry. In an age when Photoshop and airbrushing have seemingly run rampant in magazine advertisements and models are making headlines not due to their physical beauty but from deaths resulting from reckless dieting schemes, these actions could not have come at a better moment. To illustrate the disparity between reality and the images the fashion industry chooses to display, The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness published this harrowing statistic: "The average woman is 5'4" and weighs 140 pounds. The average model is 5'11" and weighs 117 pounds. Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women." These unrealistic images also affect men. Popular culture images give men the desire to be more muscular and cause them to work out and diet excessively. This is illustrated from the Alliance's statistic that "Time Magazine reports that 80% of all children have been on a diet by the time that they have reached the fourth grade."
Passion. Integrity. Humility. Respect. For decades, college football players, coaches and media have used these and other buzzwords to describe the ideal college athlete. When taken seriously, these members of the sports lexicon lay at the foundation of what collegiate competition is supposedly all about. Tragically, college football programs that honor these virtues have become an increasingly rare breed in recent years. Not so very long ago - before O.J. was accused, Canseco juiced, or Tiger cheated - college athletes played the game with hearts largely untainted by the greed, egotism and immorality that have corrupted contemporary sports. The crucial difference is coaching. Today, college coaches increasingly fail to embody personally and instill professionally the values of teamwork, character and academic achievement that are integral to a coach's job of molding boys into men, on and off the football field.
After falling just short of the national championship game last season, the Virginia men's lacrosse team starts its spring campaign ranked third in preseason polling and set to face off against a Drexel team it defeated 13-7 last season and has dominated 5-1 during the last decade.
The Virginia men's lacrosse team will enter the season ranked No. 3 in the nation behind No. 1 Syracuse and No. 2 Duke. Virginia returns six starters and 28 lettermen from last year's team, which finished 15-3 and lost in the NCAA semifinals to tournament runner-up Cornell.
The Virginia swim and dive teams will head to Happy Valley, Pa. this weekend to face off against Penn State in a two-day dual meet, hoping to improve on their performances against Kentucky on Nov. 7.
Unless you have some combination of the powers of teleportation and time travel, chances are you missed at least some parts of the monumental games and competitions this past weekend.\nAnd that's a shame - Friday, Saturday and Sunday were one of the most remarkable weekends in recent Virginia sports history.
When Virginia's offense trotted out onto the field for the first snap of Saturday's game against Miami, the PA announcer informed the media: "Jameel Sewell is in at quarterback for the Cavaliers ... Correction: Marc Verica."
What do you think about when you hear about the University of Pennsylvania, Duke, the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and Yale? All of these universities carry with them honor, prestige, exclusivity - and the stain of murder. Each of these colleges has witnessed a murder within the past two years. In 2007, Pennsylvania professor Rafael Robb bludgeoned his wife three days before Christmas and was subsequently charged with her murder in early 2007. In 2008, Lawrence Lovette and accomplice James Atwater murdered two students from UNC and Duke. Yale recently experienced the loss of Annie Le, who was suffocated to death by lab technician Raymond Clark, III. Though these may be isolated incidents, this goes to show that universities do experience violence. However, as Benjamin Franklin states, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." There is only so much that universities can do to prevent harm upon their students; the rest is up to students, including taking advantage of the opportunities that are offered to them. The University is by no means free of acts of violence and because the University has offered so much to protect its students, the responsibility rests on the student to take advantage of these opportunities and to guard his personal safety.
Sometimes a plot comes around that just never seems to get old. And, sometimes, it needs to. First a musical film in 1980, Fame was adapted into both a Broadway musical and popular television series. Now almost 30 years later, Fame hits theaters again, with a revamped script and a whole new crop of characters. Though more glitzy and fast-paced, the new Fame lacks the grit and depth of its decidedly more serious predecessor.
Unlike most everyone else, I remained in Scott Stadium as the final seconds trickled off the clock and the score became official: 26-14, in favor of William and Mary. I had walked into the stadium, like everyone else, exuding confidence and with the assurance that this would be a sure victory, one that might put the Cavs on the positive track this season. After the first touchdown, any fears of an upset were assuaged. Three minutes hadn't ticked off the clock yet. Fast-forward to when there were three minutes left on the clock and the Sea of Orange was flooding out the gates like the dam had burst. I, and those few with me as the mass exodus trounced past us, stood jaw-dropped and awestruck at what had happened. In three years of watching U.Va. football, I've seen some spectacular things; none of them topped (or rather, bottomed) this display, this very disgrace to the sport of football.
The No. 9 Virginia women’s lacrosse team will host No. 7 Princeton Saturday at Klöckner Stadium. The Cavaliers (6-2, 1-2 ACC) are coming off of a hard fought overtime win against in-state rival William & Mary earlier this week. Virginia has been in somewhat of a slump since it beat then-No. 3 Syracuse three weeks ago. In the four games since that victory, the Cavaliers have lost to then-No. 3 Maryland and then-No. 9 North Carolina, and needed overtime to escape with wins against two other opponents.The Tigers (4-1) meanwhile, have faced three ranked opponents this season, defeating Johns Hopkins and Penn State but losing to Duke. Virginia also was able to overcome Penn State, defeating the Nittany Lions 12-11 in overtime.“I think we are going to have close games,” Virginia coach Julie Myers said. “Gone are the days when you show up and because you are Virginia you are going to win by eight because people are intimidated.”Virginia also will have to contend with an impressive sophomore between the pipes: Princeton goalkeeper Erin Tochihara. Tochihara was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Monday for her performance against Penn State in which she stopped 13 shots — nine of which were in the first half. Tochihara recorded a career-high 16 saves in a losing effort against Duke, and she is only allowing 8.54 goals per game.Tochihara’s play could pose difficulties for the Cavaliers, who have recently struggled with their offensive efficiency. They are only converting 44.5 percent of their shots on goal and could have a hard time scoring against Tochihara, who is first in the Ivy League in save percentage (.594) and saves per game (10.25).“We don’t want all of the games to be easy because then we are just going to keep going through the motions,” junior attack Whitaker Hagerman said. “[Our opponents] just keep pushing us. We know that no matter what all of our competitors every single game are going to be tough.”The Tigers do not have any superstar players on offense; they are, however, a balanced group, as six players have recorded at least six goals this season. The Tigers have played close games this entire season, with their largest margin of victory or loss being four goals.Virginia should prepare itself for another defensive-minded game and will have to make the most of its scoring opportunities. Virginia still has a long way to go before the NCAA Tournament, and the game this weekend against Princeton could provide some beneficial experience against a high-caliber opponent.“We still have a lot of games ahead of us and we need to work on a lot of different things and hopefully we will win in the end when it really matters,” senior midfielder Blair Weymouth said. “We will be a much better team come May.”
APATHETIC. Uninterested. Lazy. As members of the “Me Generation,” we’ve heard these terms used to describe us before. We have tended to combat these notions in the form of electronic protests, railing against our critics in e-mails, posting angry entries on blogs, creating Facebook groups in hopes of garnering over one million members to collectively affirm that we do, in fact, have the ability to care about and fight for a worthy cause. Members of our generation are constantly criticized for lacking the political and moral gumption to get up out of our desk chairs and take to the streets in the name of [insert cause here].Recent events have given our critics no reason to believe otherwise.The uproar caused by the alterations Facebook made to its terms of service earlier in February, namely its assertion that it had a license to use its members’ content in any way and at any time it wanted to, set off another wave of internet activism. Facebook users were pissed, and they knew exactly how to show it: by creating Facebook groups to voice their opposition to the policy.In an immediate sense, the protest worked. Facebook quickly revoked its terms and opened up the process of creating the new terms of use to all of its members. According to the Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro, more than 30,000 of the site’s users contributed suggestions in the first twelve hours. This “collective editing,” writes Pegoraro, has the potential to influence the way numerous companies go about serving their clients and making their policies both understandable and accessible.Yet examined from another angle, this supposed achievement on the part of the Facebook-using masses just serves as another example of the laziness of a generation of people who think they can turn to a computer screen to change the world.For starters, how hard was it for an angry college student to create a new event on Facebook titled, say, “I Hate Facebook Terms of Use,” and invite all of his or her friends? And how hard was it to receive the electronic invitation to said group and click the “Join” button?Moreover, the uproar caused by a change in Facebook’s terms of use was blown entirely out of proportion. Sure, it’s scary to think that a company is figuratively walking around somewhere ready to brandish damning pictures of us or publish the comments we wrote to another friend. But using Facebook is a completely voluntary decision, as is posting pictures from your Spring Break in Cancun or you best friend’s twenty-first birthday party. The user determines the content placed on Facebook in the first place.Jacquielynn Floyd from the Dallas Morning News put it this way: “Face this: You are your own front line of defense in maintaining your privacy. This extends to vetting personal information on the Internet. In the same way, it means exercising discretion over allowing people to take hilarious party pictures of you that might wind up being published as the Bong Hit Heard ‘Round the World.”This is not to say that allowing consumers a significant amount of input in the creation of a company’s policies is not a good idea; it is. What is disheartening is the incredible amount of energy and effort people put into the Facebook campaign compared to the amount of effort that could have been devoted to much more worthy causes. Forms of activism like door-to-door campaigning, demonstrations, even petition signing and writing letters to the editors of newspapers have been trumped by point-and-click politics, a lazy way of being opinionated without having to try too hard.There are over 80,000 members of the “Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” group that was created in response to the uproar over the site’s terms. It’s too easy to join a Facebook group organized for the sole purpose of protecting one’s own rights and to call it a movement. It is much more difficult to organize in large numbers to combat serious problems like poverty, homelessness, racism, or discrimination.Facebook has made it too easy for this generation to feel like they can make a difference. No, scratch that. It has made it too easy for this generation to feel like they have made a difference. Winning the supposed war against Facebook’s legalistic faux pas is not akin to making a difference in society. Assembling together and showing Facebook the strength of your virtual numbers may scare the company’s owners into revising a policy that was never that uproarious in the first place, but the same tactics will not suffice when it comes to working towards true progress in areas that actually do warrant our attention.It is time to take a step back from the computer screen and stop using our keyboards to feel like revolutionaries. Those scanning their screens at Facebook may have heard us this time, but I doubt that there are many others listening.Amelia Meyer’s column appears Wednesdays in The Cavalier Daily. She can be reached at a.meyer@cavalierdaily.com.