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(08/10/26 3:29am)
Tucked between a stack of orientation materials that every incoming first-year receives is a promising number — 800+ and counting. To first-years, that number represents the sheer breadth of Contracted Independent Organizations that the University offers, a seemingly boundless array of opportunities for connection and belonging. However, this number omits one crucial caveat — within the University’s current social culture, connection seems to be driven by purpose and optimization, rather than by belonging. Somewhere between students striving to be the best and CIO leaders creating more and more opportunities to meet that ambition, a specific subset of club culture has crowded out any room for casual friendships, interactions and moments at the University.
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(08/20/26 3:51am)
Over 100 Charlottesville residents filed into the Charlottesville City Council meeting July 20. The tension was palpable as citizens eagerly awaited their turn to voice concerns during the public comment session for a recent plan. Just three days earlier, the city had announced its plans to clear the homeless encampment that had formed along the Rivanna River near Free Bridge by Sept. 1. The air was thick with hostility between two distinct sides. A group of Charlottesville citizens praised the removal for breaking up a site where occupants “openly consume drugs, harass residents for money or create dangerous or unsanitary conditions,” as one Greenbrier resident put it. Shooting back, others emphasized the lack of options provided to them, and Free Bridge inhabitant Donez Chambers criticized the opposition for “blam[ing] the homeless people for being homeless.”
(08/12/26 2:38am)
As summer comes to a close, many students may be counting down the days until they return to Grounds. However, these last weeks of break are the perfect time to listen to familiar songs from countless students’ childhoods. Whether students spend this summer on vacation, at an internship or at home, these four pop tracks encapsulate the vibe of early- to mid-2010s nostalgia for everyone to reminisce on the past era of decade-defining summer sounds.
(08/10/26 2:52am)
U.Va. Health launched its Earn While You Learn program four years ago and since then, the initiative has grown to span a broad range of healthcare training programs. Sixteen employees graduated this spring as the inaugural cohort for the program’s nursing track.
(08/08/26 9:00pm)
After years of battling multiverse-level threats and Avenger-sized foes, the newest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man series brings Peter Parker back to his roots — the gritty, bustling streets of New York. The film premiered in theaters July 31, and it follows a sullen Parker grappling with loss as he navigates a world that has forgotten his identity. With plenty of anticipation surrounding the movie’s release as early trailers teased returning fan-favorite characters and new villains, the film had high expectations to meet. The film delivered on much of that promise, excelling in portraying the superhero’s unique struggles and role as a friendly neighborhood hero. However, it slightly falters in its pacing and occasionally overpowering connection to the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe.
(08/08/26 3:32am)
There are a lot of things to love about summer in Charlottesville, but my Saturday mornings belong to the City Market.
(08/09/26 2:44am)
Amidst the lead-up to Virginia’s spring game, Coach Tony Elliott offered his perspective on what the 2025 season taught him.
(08/07/26 4:38pm)
As students pack their bags and prepare to head back to Grounds, the annual Wahoo Welcome Concert rapidly approaches — and the University Programs Council has been hard at work making this year’s show an especially enticing occasion. In a post Friday, UPC revealed that Malcolm Todd, an R&B-inspired indie pop singer-songwriter, will be performing Aug. 22.
(08/09/26 2:33am)
The Virginia Theatre Festival began in 1974 as a University semi-professional drama program and recently returned to Charlottesville for its 52nd iteration. The festival hosts several shows each summer that feature both Broadway and Charlottesville actors, and the company is composed of over 100 people from around the country in addition to several University students, faculty members and alumni.
(08/10/26 3:05am)
Former interim University President Paul Mahoney announced Oct. 22 that the University had reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to suspend its remaining civil rights investigations. In doing so, U.Va. joined a collection of five other major universities to settle with the federal government since March 2025, and its agreement did not include a financial payment.
(08/08/26 3:15am)
Editor’s note: This article is a humor column.
(08/06/26 3:35am)
Living on the Lawn is considered one of the highest honors for an undergraduate student, and along with being an occupant in one of the 54 bedrooms, fourth-year residents are brought into a unique environment of student self-governance that guides them in their day-to-day lives at the center of the University.
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(08/12/26 2:55am)
In today’s political environment, there are not many issues that can find a consensus of a broad majority of the ideological spectrum. The question of how to deal with the ever-growing population of data centers has taken center stage, however, as tech companies seek low-cost areas to build massive computing centers to feed a growing demand for artificial intelligence. Virginia is home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers, and Virginians are understandably incensed with concerns over these centers’ electricity and water usage and how that usage affects residents of the Commonwealth. One idea that has garnered bipartisan support is a moratorium — or pause — on new data center construction.
(08/12/26 10:52pm)
Admittedly, Restaurant Week probably isn't the best time to visit a restaurant for the first time. Dining rooms are packed, kitchens are slammed and servers bounce from table to table without a second to spare. But if a restaurant can deliver under that kind of pressure, it says far more about its character than a quiet Thursday night ever could.
(09/04/26 11:35pm)
Two years ago, the McIntire School of Commerce moved its application deadline from the end of students’ second year to the end of their first year. Consequently, for many incoming first-years who intend to apply to McIntire, the time to contemplate their academic trajectory or develop their application for this opportunity is halved. While McIntire’s decision to shift this deadline is in part a product of increasingly early professional recruitment timelines, this acceleration incentivizes a harmful behavior — strategizing one’s application from day one at the University.
(08/03/26 11:25pm)
Summers are often quantified by the moments that define them. Think of “Barbenheimer,” or “brat” — two phenomena that stand within the collective memory as relics of a unique cultural moment in time. If that is the case, then summer 2026 seemed determined to produce a new defining moment every week.
(08/03/26 2:00am)
After a six-year-long drought of albums, indie rock band The Strokes returned with their newest project, “Reality Awaits,” July 24. Led by frontman and singer-songwriter Julian Casablancas, the band has shifted their sound several times over their nearly three-decade career — ranging from garage rock to bedroom pop to new wave — marking stages of evolution in the group and in music as a whole. Keeping with that tradition, “Reality Awaits” is intentionally inconsistent in its composition, keeping listeners guessing as to the style and substance of each sequential track. The band’s first album since 2020’s “The New Abnormal,” the New York-based group’s latest venture often undercuts its resounding instrumentation and poignant lyrics with overproduced vocals and dissonant harmonies.
