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(11/03/08 8:08am)
Virginia’s volleyball team lost to Clemson and Georgia Tech in this weekend’s set of away games.The Cavaliers (13-12, 5-8 ACC) struggled against the Tigers (18-6, 10-3 ACC), losing 0-3 (14-25, 12-25, 18-25) in Friday night’s match. No Cavalier hit double digits in kills, with senior outside hitter Beth Shelton leading the team with nine. Senior middle hitter Danielle Hepburn led Clemson’s attack, putting up a stifling .684 hitting percentage to accompany 13 kills and five blocks.The Cavaliers also struggled in Saturday’s match against the Yellow Jackets (17-6, 9-4 ACC), which saw Virginia on the losing end of another sweep. Virginia fell to Georgia Tech 0-3 (19-25, 22-25, 16-25) with only three Cavaliers notching a positive hitting percentage. Freshman outside hitter Simone Asque led the Cavaliers with 14 kills, while setters senior Marlow Bruneau and sophomore Kelly Irvin contributed with 14 and 17 assists, respectively.Senior middle Shannon Davis provided one bright spot for the Cavaliers in reaching a historic mark. With her two blocks on Saturday, she became the fifth Cavalier in the history of the program to tally at least 400 career blocks and 1,000 career kills. Her totals currently stand at 400 blocks and 1,052 kills.The Cavaliers return home for the next two weekends, beginning with matches this Friday and Saturday against North Carolina and N.C. State.—compiled by Dan Stalcup
(11/03/08 8:04am)
JosephFirst-year College studentWhat do you like to do in your free time?Read/write poetry, watch football, play my PS3.What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?I like attractive girls who are smart, but not nerdy. I like to be able to carry on an interesting, balanced conversation. I don’t want a girl who is taller than me (I am 5-foot-10), but slender, slightly shorter girls are a plus.What are your favorite TV shows?“Scrubs,” “Mythbusters,” “SportsCenter,” “Spike TV Presents: World’s Most Amazing Videos,” “South Park”Favorite books/authors?My favorite book is “Lyrical Ballads” by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.What’s your favorite food?Any type of Lebanese or Middle Eastern food.Describe your ideal date (not person but outing)?My perfect date would be dinner at a casual restaurant, followed by either ice skating, a movie, putt-putt or bowling. I like to do one-on-one activities as opposed to group dates.What are deal breakers?Bad breath, cigarette smoking, really tall girls.Where do you see yourself in 10 years?In 10 years I see myself earning a partnership at a large law firm and competing for a high ranking position at a Fortune 500 company.If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?I would be a clown because I love making people laugh, and it has the lowest casualty rate.Describe yourself in one sentence.I like to have a good time at my own expense, I am an enjoyable person to hang out with and I’m just an all-around fun guy. ClaireFirst-year College student What do you like to do in your free time?Listen to music, attempt to play the harmonica, eat, go to art museums, go on hikes, occasionally write poetry, spend time with friends, watch movies, travel, take photos, go to concerts/see live music.What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?Shockingly good looking, funny, taller than me (not hard since I’m 5-foot-2), nice smile, sweet, good conversationalist, cutely awkward, easygoing, likes to laugh, not overly stocky/overweight; I like brunette curly hair, but it doesn’t really matter.What are your favorite TV shows?“Project Runway,” “Seinfeld,” “Scrubs,” “Gilmore Girls,” Pushing Daisies”Favorite books/authors?“The Catcher in the Rye,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Phantom Tollbooth,” “Crime and Punishment”What’s your favorite food?Mashed potatoes, sushi, bananas, Thai food, mango lassis, chickpeas, brie.Describe your ideal date (not person but outing)?Anything spontaneous and fun; making a picnic lunch and going on a picnic/nice walk, good conversation, going out for coffee and seeing a good live local band.What are deal breakers?Smoker, really obnoxious and egotistical, very overweight or super stocky.Where do you see yourself in 10 years?Working, living happily, hopefully engaged or in a good relationship/settling down.If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?When I went to see Cirque du Soleil I saw a guy who could whistle any song — even really hard classical pieces — and that is what I would want to be.Describe yourself in one sentence.I am pretty easy to get along with, can enjoy myself in most situations as long as I’m in good company and love being spontaneous. Date: 0ct. 26Time: 7 p.m.Location: The Virginian Joseph: I thought she looked like a pretty normal girl. She was on her cell phone, so I wasn’t sure how to take that ... but I thought that from the start it would be a pretty interesting date.Claire: He looked like he was a nice guy.Joseph: I walked up to her and waited until she got off the phone, and I said, “Are you Claire?” And she said, “Yes,” and I said, “I’m Joseph, nice to meet you.”Claire: I was on the phone outside the restaurant when he walked up ... We awkwardly shook hands and said, “Nice to meet you” and walked inside.Joseph: We talked about what we had heard from our friends about the restaurant and a little bit about why we signed up to do Love Connection.Claire: We talked about why we signed up for [Love Connection] and just about where we live since we’re both first-year [students].Joseph: She ordered grilled cheese, and I ordered The [Famous Virginian] Club. [The grilled cheese] was actually what I wanted to order, but she took it from me. I thought it was funny she was going to order the same thing as me.Claire: I had the Gourmet Grilled Cheese and he had a club sandwich.Joseph: There was never really a dull moment because she would ask me my favorite things. Whenever we hit a topic that we would have something in common, we would go off on a tangent. [There weren’t many awkward pauses], only a few times when I was trying to eat and she asked me a question right when I took a bite. It was only awkward for me because I was chewing.Claire: We talked about a lot of different stuff. The conversation wasn’t that awkward, which is good. There [weren’t] that many awkward pauses. We had a few similarities. We both like to write, we both don’t like working out, we don’t go to the gym a lot, [and] we’re both taking astronomy and psychology.Joseph: She lives in Balz and I live in Kellogg. I think our windows face each other, and we had never met. We both are kind of undecided on our major, so we’re taking pretty standard classes. Other than that, we didn’t have a lot in common, but not in a bad way. [My least favorite part of the date was] probably that she stole my grilled cheese.Claire: He was really easy to talk to and he was friendly. I guess something we didn’t have in common is we talked about politics briefly, and he’s conservative and for McCain, and I’m liberal and for Obama, so that was not good, I guess.Joseph: She’s a good conversationalist. I was kind of worried I’d be with someone who’s kind of ditzy or way too talkative. She was a good balance between wanting to talk and listening what I had to say. There was about 50-50 balance of who did the talking. There was a little bit of chemistry, probably more toward the beginning of the date.Claire: It was a friendly conversation, but I didn’t really seem romantically connected to him. After dinner we went to Arch’s [Frozen Yogurt] ... and then we walked back to our dorms talking. We went back to my dorm and talked a bit more. We said, “Thanks for a great date” and hugged goodbye.Joseph: She wasn’t really receptive to my hug, but the effort was there. We exchanged phone numbers. She’s right there, so I would probably hang out again.Claire: I’d be willing to hang out with him again but probably more as friends.Where they are now:Claire and Joseph have not talked since the date and are not Facebook friends.
(11/03/08 7:58am)
The Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity was a novel experiment when it was created three years ago, and that is hardly enough to time to declare the idea an unqualified success. Still, the office has helped create initiatives that certainly are directed at addressing some of the most difficult problems the University faces in terms of diversity — the Just Report It! Web site and efforts to increase the number of minority faculty members the University employs, for example. Both of those issues — bias reporting and faculty diversity — were identified as important by input from a variety of sources, including the Commission on Diversity and Equity. That commission’s work is now being carried on by the Diversity Council. If it is to propose ideas as effective as those proposed by the original commission, however, the Diversity Council needs to be a more visible institution.Too few students know about the Diversity Council’s role in planning and advising the University on how to meet its diversity goals. Students should have clear ways of contacting Diversity Council members to express concerns or ideas. The council’s plans and deliberations should also be readily available.That students are not very involved in the council makes sense. Most of the council’s members are administrators, and even at a school that prides itself on student self-governance, that is appropriate. Those administrators are in charge of the University departments affected by the Diversity Council’s discussions, and they can offer input that students cannot.The three students currently on the Diversity Council seem like sufficient representation, so long as they bear in mind they are not there to push agendas but to represent all students.Though it is not necessary for more students to join it, the student input the Diversity Council receives needs to be as broad as possible, and its current low visibility makes that difficult. The student members of the council are involved in other organizations and receive varied student input through their other roles, but most students probably do not know this cooperation with the University’s administrators takes place on a regular basis.One step the Diversity Council should take to elicit greater student input is to improve its Web site. Currently, only students who know about the council’s existence would be able to find it. The Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity’s Web site should make it clear that this council is the group shaping the University’s goals, rather than providing only a link to a list of members and their e-mail addresses. The content of the council’s discussions should also be more readily available. Currently, the agenda for each meeting is available on the Web site in a very brief form that would be meaningless to anyone not on the council. Interested students should be able to find what the council has been discussing.Ultimately, though, the onus is on the student members of the Diversity Council to reach out to students whose primary focus is not on diversity. The Minority Rights Coalition and the Honor Committee’s Diversity Advisory Board — both of whom have representatives on the council — do not receive input from all spectrums of the University. The student members on the Diversity Council should seek the opinions of a wide variety of students, not only those who approach them.
(10/31/08 8:27am)
In an Oct. 30 picture caption, a photo of George Washington’s statue near the Lawn was mistakenly identified as a statue of Thomas Jefferson. The Cavalier Daily regrets the error.
(10/31/08 8:19am)
TRUE! secret, very, very dreadfully secret I had been and am, but why will you say that I am mad? Allowing faculty juries on Semester at Sea honor trials had sharpened the system, not dulled it. I tried all cases in the heaven and in the earth. Faculty tried some cases on the sea. Hearken! and observe how honorably, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my bylaws, but once written, it haunted me day and night. Reason there was none. Precedent there was none. I loved student self-governance. It had never wronged me. I think it was the unfairness! Yes, it was this! If Semester at Sea students were allowed student juries, the trials would be delayed too long. Whenever I thought of it my blood ran cold, and so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to allow faculty juries, and thus rid myself of this unfairness for ever.Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded — with what caution — with what foresight, with what dissimulation, I went to work! I added a bylaw cautiously — oh, so cautiously — stating Semester at Sea trials would have faculty juries. And this I did for two long years, so you see they would have been very profound students, indeed, to suspect that every year, faculty juries tried honor cases.Upon the second summer I was more than usually cautious in holding the trials. I had two students in, and was about to send them away, when they called the press, and the student body sprang up, crying out, “What’s this?”And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound. It was the beating of the faculty’s gavels. It grew louder, I say, louder every moment! — do you mark me well? Yet, for some weeks longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder! And now a new anxiety seized me — the sound would be heard by students! The bylaw’s hour had come!If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the faculty trials.I amended the Voyager’s Handbook to allow students to be placed on shipboard juries. Hidden under that possibility, I then added a clause, so cleverly no students could have detected anything wrong, that the registrar could decide to have a faculty jury. The debate had been heard by students. I smiled — for what had I to fear? The debate, I said, was my own in committee. I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, made my own defense on the grounds of the amendment which continued to allow faculty trials.The students were satisfied. My MANNER had convinced them. While I answered cheerily, they chatted of football and signs.My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears — until, at length, I found that the ringing was NOT within my ears.The sound increased — and what could I do? It was A LOW, DULL, QUICK SOUND. I gasped for a breath, and yet the students heard it not.It grew louder — louder — louder! And still the students chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? No, no! They heard! They knew! And now — again — hark! louder! louder! LOUDER!“Wahoos!” I shrieked, “I admit the deed! — look on the ship! — here, here! — it is the beating of their faculty gavels!”
(10/30/08 9:16am)
The legal troubles of Virginia football players continued yesterday. Virginia starting fullback Rashawn Jackson appeared in Albemarle General District Court for a hearing relating to a charge for one count of breaking and entering and one count of grand larceny, according to a University Police press release.According to the release, the two felony charges relate to an incident that occurred Nov. 22 of last year at Cauthen dormitory.The release states that Jackson was held on a secured bond in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail prior to his hearing yesterday. Court documents state that his case has been continued to Nov. 20.Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage released a statement last night in regard to the charges Jackson faces.“At this time Rashawn Jackson is still a participating member of the football team,” Littlepage stated. “This matter will be handled within the team and the athletics department, and his final status with the team will not be determined until such time as the legal process is resolved or additional information becomes available. The athletics department will not have additional comment until this case is resolved.”Former Virginia cornerback Mike Brown was also a high school teammate of Jackson at St. Peter’s Prep in Newark, N.J. Brown was dismissed from the team in August after being charged with one count each of grand larceny, possession of stolen property with intent to sell and altering serial numbers.Former starting quarterback Peter Lalich and former linebacker J’Courtney Williams were also dismissed from the team because of legal issues this year.—compiled by Paul Montana
(10/30/08 8:57am)
Early Oscar buzz for Jolie, HoffmanIt’s only October, but already Angelina Jolie and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are generating serious Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor buzz. In the Clint Eastwood-directed thriller Changeling — based on a true story — Jolie plays Christine Collins, a woman whose young son is abducted in 1920s California. Meanwhile, Hoffman is reported to have already begun campaigning for the Supporting Actor award after his role in Doubt; he plays a private school priest who is accused by a nun (Meryl Streep) of sexually abusing a new student. Both face stiff competition so far from the likes of Keira Knightley (The Duchess) and Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight). —by dave replogleUpcoming JPJ concertsWhile it may be in it’s third year of use, for some, the still-enchanting musical venue John Paul Jones arena has yet to be discovered. With big-name acts, such as the recent Jay-Z and T.I. concert, Elton John, Keith Urban and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to name a few, rolling through it, JPJ has been named one of the best new concert arenas in the country. Some upcoming shows include Reba and Kelly Clarkson (Oct. 30), Nine Inch Nails (Nov. 5), CATS (Jan. 27), and Hairspray (Feb. 10). —by stephanie garciaPost-prison poet comes to bookstoreThe latest poet to grace the University Bookstore’s poetry reading series comes to Charlottesville from a New Mexican maximum-security prison cell. Jimmy Santiago Baca spent the first half of his life as an orphan, later serving five years in prison. After a near-fatal experience in prison, Baca turned to literature and poetry to turn his life around. After his release, he published poetry and a memoir and created a non-profit organization to help people from all social realms to take advantage of education. Currently at work on a novel, play, documentary and various poetry manuscripts, Baca presents his work at the bookstore at 8 p.m. tonight.—by stephanie garcia
(10/30/08 8:48am)
Everyone supports the idea of environmental sustainability, but not everyone supports all efforts to promote it. Likewise, the idea of a student-run food garden on Grounds is easy to get behind, but a detailed project may not meet student approval, once the costs and benefits are clear. Student Council’s Environmental Sustainability Committee received Council’s public support for such a garden Tuesday, though few details of the project have been finalized. But, as they say, the devil is in the details, and depending on the details of this project, it may not be worthy of Council’s support.With the University in the middle of a budget crunch, the project would be unconscionable if the costs were significant — especially if the garden would divert resources that could be spent better elsewhere. The project’s organizers, however, currently do not know where they will get the money for the garden.Of course, the money may not come from the University’s budget. Private grants and donations may be able to fund the project. That does not necessarily mean the garden is the best possible idea. The Environmental Sustainability Committee may be able to find grants to set up internships at farms in the Charlottesville area that use sustainable practices.The committee did not consider that option appropriate because students would emit greenhouse gases traveling to an off-Grounds site and because it would not be as visible to other students as a garden on Grounds.Locating the garden close enough for students to walk to it would cut down on carbon emissions in transportation, but working with an existing farm might be far cheaper than building a garden from scratch — possibly enough to make that option more effective. The garden’s proponents do not seem to have done the research necessary to tell Student Council without a doubt this initiative is worth the cost.The committee was of course right that the garden would be more visible were it located on Grounds. But there is no indication students want a food garden to be in a visible location. Sarah Yates, one of the project’s leaders, said several dozen students have contacted her to volunteer in the garden. She cited that support as evidence students want the garden built. Naturally those students interested in sustainable agriculture and motivated enough to volunteer would not object to a convenient location, but that does not mean students as a whole think it is the best use of the University’s Grounds.Certainly many students would support the idea of creating a sustainable garden — somewhere. That support would likely wither if those students knew the garden would be placed in Nameless Field — one of the locations the committee is proposing.Yates said the committee thinks the University has the resources to create the garden. That’s true: The University has more than enough resources — land and money — to build a garden. But using resources on any project diverts resources from other uses that may be more beneficial. The committee has not demonstrated the garden is the best use of the University’s resources. The resolution Student Council passed Tuesday supported the idea of a student garden without knowing any of the details. Council is also likely in favor of more on-Grounds water slides, but that does not mean water slides are the best use of the University’s resources. Since Council endorsed the garden project without knowing its costs or benefits, Council’s support appears equally superficial.
(10/29/08 5:52am)
Students living in Hereford Residential College who have attempted to renew their housing arrangements for next year have found themselves assigned a rather disturbing label: “displaced student.” The University is currently unsure whether it can offer these students housing in Hereford next year, because the residential college may be disbanded and its buildings converted to first-year housing. The University needs to find additional first-year housing, and if it must do so in Hereford, then it seems unavoidable that these students be displaced. Still, the University should try to make the transition as easy as possible by announcing a decision soon.University officials say they are still in the process of deciding what to do with Hereford next year, so they cannot tell Hereford residents what their housing situation will be yet. An e-mail to residents from Hereford Principal Nancy Takahashi stated, “The goal to reach a timely conclusion has unfortunately been complicated by staff illness.”Though we are sincerely sympathetic to these health issues, the question of finding housing for the Class of 2013 is hardly unforeseen. Replacing Alderman Road dormitories with new buildings has been in the works for years now, so the University should have known how it was going to substitute for the buildings being torn down. The need to find alternative housing for first-year students is not sudden.Hereford Residential College does seem like a logical place to locate these students. Had the University decided that when it planned the construction project, it could have phased out upperclassman housing during the last few years, allowing current residents to stay but not allowing new residents to move in. It could at least have warned Hereford residents their housing would soon disappear. The University’s housing Web site guarantees residents the right to stay in on-Grounds housing and first priority should they want to stay in the same rooms. We wonder where the University plans to house these students if Hereford is no longer an option, but even if there is room in other housing areas, Hereford students had no reason to believe their housing would not be available next year, and they had every reason to assume they could remain at Hereford. If the University had known this was not the case, students who do not care for other on-Grounds housing options could have made arrangements for off-Grounds housing already. Since it is a residential college, other housing options are not substitutes for Hereford. Though it has traditionally been a less cohesive community than Brown Residential College or the International Residential College, Hereford residents have recently changed that reputation to some degree through efforts such as the herb and vegetable garden planted last year. The appeal of the residential college environment is worth preserving — in Hereford’s case, it helps to make up for its remote location. Even if Hereford’s buildings are used for first-year housing, the University should seek to maintain the residential college in a new location.By not planning adequately for a lack of first-year housing, the University has now left Hereford residents in a state of uncertainty at a time of the year when many of their peers are already making housing arrangements. Since the University has not yet made a decision, they do not know whether to find new housing or stay put. Regardless of the University’s decision regarding the fate of Hereford Residential College, it should be announced soon.
(10/28/08 6:00am)
The Virginia men’s soccer team will return to the drawing board when it attempts to get back on track tonight against American at Klöckner Stadium.Virginia 8-5-1 (4-2 ACC) enters the game winless in its last three contests, while American 7-5-2 (3-0-1 Patriot League) comes to Virginia in sole possession of first place in the Patriot League.Given Virginia’s recent lack of offensive production, the Eagles may continue the Cavaliers’ recent difficulties. The Cavaliers were shut out in their last two ACC contests and have managed to net two goals in their four most recent ACC matches. Virginia managed two goals in a 2-2 draw last week against Longwood.The problem seems to be the same malady that plagued the Cavaliers earlier this season: missed scoring opportunities. Virginia continues to out-shoot opponents and receive numerous corner kicks; however, those opportunities rarely have been converted into points. For instance, in Virginia’s 1-0 overtime loss to Duke last Saturday, the Cavaliers out-shot the Blue Devils 11 to 8 in the contest yet failed to put one in the back of the net.American, on the other hand, travels to Charlottesville coming off a 1-0 victory against Patriot League rival Holy Cross, remaining undefeated in conference play.The Eagles, led by senior forward/midfielder Anthony Moy, are a competitive squad playing on a higher level than the teams Virginia has faced other Tuesday nights. American has quality wins against North Carolina State, Georgetown, Princeton and Navy. The Eagles also suffered a close 1-0 overtime loss to George Mason, a team Virginia narrowly defeated 3-2 in double overtime. —compiled by Anders Sleight
(10/28/08 5:59am)
As many readers likely already know, today is the last day to request an absentee ballot in the commonwealth of Virginia. Requests for absentee ballots must be received by the registrar by 5 p.m., so any one who has yet to request a ballot needs to do so by fax.The number of voters under 30 voting in the primaries doubled this year, compared to the 2004 election. Every election season features campaigns to encourage young voters to go to the polls, whether it’s MTV’s “Rock the Vote,” started in 1992, or P. Diddy’s decidedly more violent “Vote or Die” campaign in 2004. But youth voting in past elections has been consistently and significantly lower than the national average. It seems gimmicks and rock stars are not enough of a reason for young people to vote.This year, reasons to vote abound. The issues on which the election has hinged — a struggling economy, two foreign wars and difficult energy decisions — all affect young voters in profound ways. The Cavalier Daily will not endorse either presidential candidate this year, as we have in the past. Unlike some professional newspapers, we have no special access to the candidates that makes our opinion more informed than those of our readers.We do, however, encourage students to educate themselves on the issues and the candidates’ stances — and catching a few political ads while watching “Heroes” does not count. Read some newspaper articles, watch the debates on YouTube and visit the candidates’ Web sites.Then go vote.
(10/28/08 5:59am)
Though Dining Services’ Web site claims Pavilion XI is open until 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, visitors looking for a meal after 7 p.m. are often disappointed. By that time, the options many of the vendors offer have dwindled, and some of those vendors have closed entirely.As closing time draws near, diners are limited to whatever sushi, pizza and salads are left over from the day. Cranberry Farms and the Energy Zone by Freshens, two of the Pav’s healthier options, often close early.Of course the demand for food at the Pav drops off significantly after the early dinner rush, and it may be reasonable for the Pav to offer limited options later in the day. If that is the case, it should advertise the time at which its menu becomes limited, rather than leaving students to guess and fight among themselves for that last California roll.
(10/27/08 5:42am)
The Honor Committee finalized two surveys, Feedback on Involvement with Honor Investigation From the Reporter and Feedback on Involvement with Honor Investigation and Trial From the Reporter, at last night’s meeting. The surveys were designed to increase communication between the Committee and reporters of honor violations; the former was created for honor cases that are dropped after the investigation process and the latter for honor cases that go through the investigation and trial processes.The surveys ask reporters how they felt about the level of communication between themselves and the honor advisors as well as the reporters’ impressions of the case investigation. The surveys also ask reporters if they were comfortable in their understanding of the trial procedures and ask reporters to evaluate the timeliness of the investigation and trial processes on a scale from one to five.The Committee plans to put the surveys into effect immediately. Vice Chair for Trials Sophie Staples said the Committee may update the surveys in the future, if it wishes to do so.“As far as implementing this, it can be changed any time,” she said.—compiled by Stephanie Kassab
(10/27/08 5:29am)
The Virginia field hockey team’s senior night Saturday was bittersweet, as Wake Forest routed the Cavaliers 6-2.“We knew Wake Forest was precise,” coach Michele Madison said. “Their precision is good around the circle, and we just had to be flawless and we weren’t. We had chances to put it in; we also had chances to keep it out. We just couldn’t get the job done today.”Coming into the game, the No. 13 Cavaliers (11-7, 1-3 ACC) were 11-1 at home and needed a win, having lost two straight games in the strong ACC.Virginia took control of the game in the beginning but was unable to maintain its level of competitiveness throughout the game. The Cavaliers got on the board first with freshman midfielder Paige Selenski, who scored her team-leading 16th goal of the season about 6.5 minutes into the game. The Wake Forest defense kept Selenski in check throughout the rest of the game, though; she was not able to get a shot in goal for the rest of the day.After the Cavaliers’ first goal six minutes in, the game was controlled by Wake Forest (15-2, 2-2 ACC): the Demon Deacons scored two minutes later and followed with five straight goals. Junior forward Hilary Moore and junior midfielder Melissa Martin each scored two goals each for the Demon Deacons. Wake Forest senior midfielder Michelle Kasold, who currently ranks second in the nation in assists per game, added two more to her total on the year (23). Despite Wake Forest’s strong play, Virginia did not stop fighting until the final whistle was blown and added a goal by junior midfielder Traci Ragukas, who has netted 11 goals this season.“I was proud of the team as they kept going and the fight was there,” Madison said. “We were able to get a couple of turnovers ... but we were only able to convert one of them into a goal.”Three of the Demon Deacons’ six goals came by way of the penalty corner. The six goals allowed by the Cavaliers were the most allowed by Virginia this season.“I really don’t think the score reflects the actual game,” Ragukas said. “I thought we were right there; we just didn’t get any breaks. We had our opportunities; we just didn’t capitalize on them.”The Cavalier defense did not show the same tenacity it displayed in previous home games. Madison unexpectedly started freshman Adrienne Ostroff in goal after she had seen time in just three games this season. The start for Ostroff was the first of her collegiate career, and she allowed four goals in 32 minutes while tallying three saves.Ostroff “had another good week of practice,” Madison said. “She was getting the most saves. That was what it was about — to get some saves. I have to look back at the video, maybe one of the goals she could have gotten.”Senior Amy Desjadon and sophomore Devon Burnley also saw time in goal, each allowing one goal.After the game ended, the fans bid farewell to four Cavalier seniors: midfielder Lucy Meyers, back Inge Kaars Sijpesteijn, forward Liz Hiltz and Desjadon, all of whom have had impressive careers in their time in Charlottesville.The seniors, along with the rest of the team, have a long road ahead of them as they travel to Durham, N.C. to play Duke next weekend and then return to Durham to play in the ACC Tournament the following week. The Cavaliers will need to muster the strength to win on the road if they are to be successful the rest of the season.
(10/27/08 5:27am)
The Virginia men’s soccer team dropped its second straight ACC game Saturday night, falling at Duke 1-0 in overtime on a penalty kick goal.Though Virginia out-shot Duke (8-5-2, 3-2-2 ACC) 11-8 and edged the Blue Devils 6-4 in corner kicks, these advantages did not convert into goals. Freshman forward Brian Ownby, freshman defender Hunter Jumper and junior forward Matt Mitchell each had scoring opportunities in the first half, but each attempt was saved by Blue Devil senior goalkeeper Brendan Fitzgerald. Duke forward Mike Grella converted a penalty kick in the 97th minute for the only goal of the game after Virginia was whistled for a foul inside the box. Virginia falls to 8-5-1 (4-2 ACC) with the loss and will return to action at home tomorrow night at 7 p.m. when it hosts American.—compiled by Anders Sleight
(10/27/08 5:26am)
The Virginia men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams opened the season with a strong performance, with each team winning both of its meets this weekend.At South Carolina Friday, the No. 15 men won 165-124, while the No. 10 women took a 163-132 victory. The Cavaliers’ dominance continued the next day at Clemson, where the men won 189-105 and the women took first 169-131.Senior Ryan Hurley stood out in his specialty event, the breaststroke, taking first Friday in the 100 breaststroke (56.96) and the 200 breaststroke (2:02.39) and Saturday in the 100 breast (56.96) and 200 breast (2:01.79).Sophomore Scot Robison touched first in three events Friday, including the 50 free (20.63), the 100 free (44.73) and the 200 medley relay team. He took the 200 free race Saturday with a time of 1:38.87.On the women’s side, senior Megan Evo placed first in the 200 fly (2:01.72) against Clemson. She also contributed to the 200 medley relay team’s defeat of South Carolina with a time of 1:43.30 alongside teammates junior Mei Christensen, junior Katherine McDonnell and senior Kristen Wallace.In men’s diving, freshman Briggy Imbriglia won both diving events with scores of 346.50 for the 3-meter board competition and 312.97 for the 1-meter competition against Clemson. Against South Carolina, freshman Sarah Andrekovich took fourth in the 1-meter dive with a total score of 220.72, which led the Virginia divers.Virginia will host its first home meet of the season Wednesday at 5 p.m. against Virginia Tech.—compiled by Emily Bareford
(10/27/08 5:13am)
Students certainly need access to good advice as they choose majors and courses to help them achieve their ac demic and career goals. Student Council is aiming to improve this access through its new Major Advising Program, but the benefits of the program are likely to be negligible.The Major Advising Program will create a mailing list pairing upperclassmen with new students interested in their majors. These upperclass advisers would also hold office hours to allow for walk-in advising.Council intends for student advisers to complement the faculty advisers assigned to students. Student advisers likely could provide some information professors might be reluctant to dish out — which professors are boring or difficult, for example.There are some significant downsides to student advisers compared to faculty, however, that make relying primarily on student advice a potentially harmful proposition. Faculty are more knowledgeable about their area of study and have broader experience within a department than any one student. No upperclass student has taken a class with every professor in a department, but most professors are aware of their colleagues’ work and interests.Faculty advisers are also more likely to sit down with students to help them figure out their career interests and to make recommendations based on what they think a student should know before graduating. Students are likely to advise based on their own interests and how well they enjoyed a course. It is not that these upperclass students do not want to help their fellow classmates; they are, however, not as well-equipped to do so. To its credit, Student Council does not expect its program to substitute for good faculty advice, but students should take any advice from other students with a grain of salt.What is not clear is why students need Council to match them with upperclass students. Most students have access to older students who share their interests, if through no other means than attending some of the same classes as them. A random student in a given major is less likely to have interests in common than someone a student already knows. Even for those few students who would have trouble finding advice, Council’s new program is somewhat redundant, as programs already exist to provide similar advising. The Arts & Sciences Council, for example, hosted a “Majors Fair” this past week. Tomorrow night, it is hosting its “COD Release Party” — at which upperclass students will be available for advice — in Webb Lounge, just next door to Tuttle Lounge, where Council launched its program last night.As a list of contacts, the Major Advising Program has the potential to be another resource for students. Council should make a database of student advisers and their academic interests available to new students. There are limitations on these advisers’ usefulness, but the project would not take much of Council’s resources.The idea of office hours — which are certain to be only sporadically attended — seems unnecessary, however. Rather than wasting time waiting for students to show up, advisers could arrange meetings via e-mail with students who want advice in person.
(10/24/08 4:29am)
The Thursday, Oct. 23 news article “U.Va. to still hold classes on election day despite petition” quoted fourth-year College student Marta Cook, a former Cavalier Daily Opinion columnist, as saying a bus taking students to and from the Alumni Hall and University Hall polling locations Nov. 4 will run from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Cook actually said the bus will run from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. The Cavalier Daily regrets the error.
(10/24/08 4:00am)
The halls of most of the University’s buildings are, to put it mildly, dull. Aesthetic considerations take a backseat to practicality, and bulletin boards covered in overlapping flyers do not add to the atmosphere. Introducing more art into the buildings students frequent could go a long way toward reducing the University’s monotonous hallways.Some University buildings already feature student art. Newcomb Hall recently began displaying student photography on its walls and it is hosting the results of Wednesday’s “free expression wall,” decorated by students on the South Lawn as part of Student Council’s efforts to promote placing art on Grounds, according to Jenny Smith, chair of Council’s student arts committee. For the most part, however, this art is not present in the University’s libraries and classroom buildings. Though no one wants a high-school style corkboard covered with watercolors, some tasteful art objects could only serve to improve buildings like New Cabell Hall or the Chemistry Building. The art department is growing quickly, thanks to the University’s investment in Ruffin Hall. Students’ art should make its way to Central Grounds.
(10/24/08 4:00am)
Student Council needs to broaden its sources of information for its “Lighten’ Up” campaign in order to spend its money where it will be most effective. Otherwise, the program will be poorly executed.The “Lighten’ Up” idea, initially revealed at the beginning of the semester and announced in detail this week, seemed like a good one. Council is offering to pay to install lighting in some off-Grounds areas where students report that a lack of lighting poses a threat to their safety. The project would not benefit all students, and it would be expensive, but at least something tangible and clearly beneficial would result — unlike from many of Council’s expenditures.For the project to benefit students as much as possible, however, Council needs broad input. Students can currently request Council direct its attention to a location by filling out a form on Council’s Web site or at its Newcomb Hall office.Students submitting forms obviously care enough about improving an area to go out of their way to do so. This effort itself is an indication the suggested area deserves Council’s attention, but there may be other, equally deserving areas that are not suggested to Council.Rather than relying on students’ awareness of the project and willingness to submit suggestions, Council should be seeking information itself. It should contact students in major off-Grounds housing locations — or even their landlords — and then judge the urgency of placing lighting in those places. It could even conduct a survey to identify the projects that would benefit the most students.If Council gets good information from students, the “Lighten’ Up” project can do a lot of good. The current system stands to benefit only those students informed and motivated enough to submit a request.