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The baseball field at Justice High School in Falls Church, Va. is special for a couple reasons. For one, it is a turf field, which is not common among high school baseball fields. Second, the “thwack,” of a baseball being hit rings out audibly across neighboring streets because the field sits high above adjacent roads. It is a lovely place for baseball.
No. 1 Virginia and No. 2 Texas have been the top programs in women’s swimming and diving for the past few years. In the 2024 NCAA Championships, the Cavaliers took home the national title with 527.5 points while the Longhorns came in second with 441. In the 2023 NCAA Championships, the same placement occurred — Virginia took the top spot with Texas right behind. It happened again in 2022. It would have happened in 2021 too, but the Longhorns finished third. Still, these teams are seemingly always facing off in must-watch meets.
Saturday, the Cavaliers continued to grind their way through their indoor season and stopped by Philadelphia to race at the Penn 10 Elite against Penn State, Harvard, Cornell, Villanova and others. Sophomore Tatum David and junior Sarah Akpan had great races in the women’s mile and 60 meter dash, and senior Sophie Atkinson ran to a phenomenal new personal record in the women’s 3,000 meters.
No. 5 Virginia delivered a thrilling 4-3 win Saturday over No. 7 Duke after beating New Mexico Friday, capping the two-day ITA Kickoff Weekend and winning its region of the national qualifier. The Cavaliers (6-0, 0-0 ACC), with their victory at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, punched their ticket to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships, which will take place Feb. 7-10 in Evanston, Ill.
Virginia wore its throwback uniforms in a home matchup Saturday afternoon against Notre Dame. The homage to the program’s storied history was accompanied by a single fact shown on the jumbotron pregame — Virginia had never lost at home to the Fighting Irish.
I love to run. There is truly no better feeling than stepping outside to embark on a run with your friends — except maybe the feeling I get when the run is over.
1940sJanuary 30, 1942“‘Cavalier Ladies’ Form Social Organization at University”No AuthorUntil 1970, the University was an all-male college. During this period, the wives of students took it upon themselves to create a social organization called the “Cavalier Ladies.” Wanting to become more acquainted with one another, they planned many activities such as gymnastic classes, dances, and bridge parties.1960sFebruary 1, 1961“Madison Hall Renovations to House Extension, YMCA”By Bill MoffettPhotos by HallMadison Hall was undergoing renovations in Feb. 1961 to create office space for the Young Men’s Christian Association and the University’s Division of Extension and General Studies. The DEGS offices had previously been located on the first floor of New Cabell Hall, and the move was expected to free up enough space to create roughly 15 new classrooms in the building.1970sFebruary 1, 1979“Dance marathon has much to offer”By Andrew KingstonThe first annual dance marathon held by Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity and the Inter-Sorority Council occurred in 1978 and was a huge success with 44 couple participants and raised almost $17,000 for Madison House and Jeff Beaton. For two days straight the couples had to remain in Memorial Gym, dancing until they dropped. For the second annual marathon, the hope was to raise $25,000 for Madison House and the Central Virginia Child Development Association.1980sJanuary 29, 1988“Students relate Soviet Union experiences” By Louis GoodsonStudents who participated in a University-sponsored study abroad program in the Soviet Union over winter break recounted their experiences, which included visits to Moscow and St. Petersburg, which was known at that time as Leningrad. They reflected on the ways in which life in the USSR — including shopping, festival celebrations and television broadcasts — were similar and dissimilar to their own experiences in the United States.1990sFebruary 2, 1998“New Bodo’s to open … soon”By Nikolai SawyerNot wanting to rush success, Bodo’s Bagels former owner Brian Fox adhered to his original schedule for building the new location on the Corner, despite students eagerly anticipating easier access to their bagels. Although the restaurant was originally planned to open in 1998 after two years of construction, it ultimately opened its doors in 2005, taking nearly a decade to complete. The mural inside depicting the University and town was painted by his daughter. 2000sJanuary 31, 2002“Concerto for One”By Acacia GaskiUniversity students and Charlottesville community members, whether musically-inclined or not, loved to play a grand piano in Newcomb Hall. The main lounge where the piano was housed served as a place of respite for students, with some coming to practice their skills as pianists and others visiting just to appreciate the music.
In October last year, dockworkers went on strike, demanding a 77 percent increase in wages over the next six years. This strike included the Port of Virginia, which employs 450 people. In early January, a deal was struck with the International Longshoremen's Association, which established this wage increase and placed restrictions on automation in the shipping process. While wages were due for an increase, the demand to slow the progress of automation in the shipping industry is unsustainable. Technology will inevitably improve. Cranes, paperwork and other labor can be replicated cheaply by computerized automation, so preventing companies from implementing technology runs against the natural current of progress. Instead of continuing to demand decreased automation, the union should work with the legislature in the hopes of driving investment into the reorganization of the current workforce. This will both ensure that dock workers have jobs in the future while also letting industrial progress run its course.
Summer 2024 was the golden age of the pop princess. With distinct aesthetics and addictive new albums, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Billie Eilish rose to the top of the charts, defining pop stardom in the digital age. These four artist’s latest albums have been nominated — along with four other records — in the Album of the Year category at the 2025 Grammy Awards Feb. 2.
Virginia Athletics celebrated National Girls & Women in Sports Day at the women’s basketball game Jan. 26 versus Louisville ahead of the official holiday which is celebrated Feb. 5. Since the team does not play at home again until Feb. 6, it was decided that the celebration would be held early. Several stars from the 2024 Paris Olympics such as senior swimmer Gretchen Walsh, Class of 2023 swimming alumna Kate Douglass and senior rower Sky Dahl signed autographs postgame as part of the celebration.
Halfway into the second quarter, the game already seemed lost. Already 20 points behind and unable to match the seemingly endless three-point shots from No. 18 Georgia Tech, Virginia floundered on the court. But, like waking up from a dream, the Cavaliers (11-9, 3-5 ACC) began to pick up speed and cut down the deficit against the Yellow Jackets’ (17-3, 5-3 ACC) to keep some skin in the game Thursday at John Paul Jones Arena. Virginia was not going to surrender easily.
The Honor Committee convened Sunday for its first meeting of the spring semester, reviewing a bylaw proposal designed to increase efficiency in case processing. The Committee plans to vote on the proposal during their next meeting Sunday. Members also discussed plans for the Committee’s annual Honor Week — a program designed to encourage students to interact with the honor system — set to take place from Feb. 9 to 14.
Student Council heard from Attorney Teresa Hepler of the University Student Legal Services during the first general body meeting of the semester to discuss current issues related to off-Grounds housing and public intoxication arrests of students. Representatives of Student Council additionally discussed the upcoming Spring Activities Fair and the official launching of the Student Council Capital Campaign.
The University’s Inter-Sorority Council, the governing body of all on-Grounds social sororities, hosted the final leg of spring recruitment — bid day — in Newcomb Hall Ballroom Sunday. A total of around 777 new sorority members convened to open their bid cards from one of the fourteen chapters that participated in formal recruitment at the University.
Cheers filled the Newcomb Hall Ballroom Sunday as hundreds of students tore open envelopes to reveal which sororities they would get to call their new homes. The bid day celebration — held inside this year due to frigid temperatures — was the culmination of a recruitment process marked by long hours and icy conditions. Now, students recount a mix of emotions from rush, with some disappointed after dropping from the recruitment process and others ecstatic to join Greek life.
Beginning this past December and continuing until June 1, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is hosting Milpa — a stop-motion animation exhibit named after the Anangu people’s traditional practice of sand drawing, an artistic and storytelling medium in Australian Indigenous art.
The University has reached the midpoint of the 2030 “Great and Good” Plan timeline. Announced in 2019 as part of University President Jim Ryan’s overarching 2030 vision to position the University as the nation’s leading public institution, the 2030 Plan has led to numerous changes across Grounds. This plan was approved by the Board of Visitors in 2019 and aims to strengthen the University’s foundation, cultivate a vibrant community in higher education, enable discoveries that enrich lives and serve the local community.
Ian Baucom, executive vice president and provost, has been named President of Middlebury College and will take office July 1, according to a release posted to Middlebury’s website Wednesday morning. The University has announced that Baucom will officially step down from his position in March.
The last time Virginia played at John Paul Jones Arena, a deep heave with only seconds on the clock snatched a win from its hands, worsening a historically poor start to conference play. That left a bitter taste in the team’s mouth, and though the team lost its next game, it came back to JPJ hoping to get back in the win column.