Hodges takes shot at dream
By Stacy Kruczkowski | November 17, 2010[caption id="attachment_38438" align="alignleft" width="182" caption="Junior Jacob Hodges was the team's student manager for the 2009 campaign.
[caption id="attachment_38438" align="alignleft" width="182" caption="Junior Jacob Hodges was the team's student manager for the 2009 campaign.
Perhaps somewhat unnervingly, a recent study conducted in France has shown that bisphenol A, a chemical found in some plastics, can be absorbed through the skin.
[caption id="attachment_38379" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The University's Board of Visitors began its November meetings yesterday.
[caption id="attachment_38372" align="alignleft" width="145" caption="Senior forward Mike Scott led Virginia with 19 points and 10 rebounds last night against USC Upstate, notching the 19th double-double of his career.
At the living wage rally last month, students protested what they called the unfairly low wages of many University workers.
[caption id="attachment_38317" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Senior wide receiver Dontrelle Inman recorded six catches for 60 yards Saturday.
University coffee-addicts are faced with a difficult problem: where to find that perfect cup of java.
[caption id="attachment_38266" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The federal Head Start program is funding several centers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its 50,000 programs across the nation.
A concrete paint-splattered floor, fancy light stands, camera equipment and cords crisscrossing across the ground - Dell 2 has become a renegade warehouse production of a full-fledged musical. The first full-length musical created for the primary purpose of being put online - the project of fourth-year College student Jeffrey Luppino-Esposito - has a cast of 32 members and a leadership and production team of 16 students.
If they succeed, they will be lauded as this year's "Diaper Dandies." If they struggle, they will be discounted as too young and inexperienced.
From 1985-88, a serial killer targeting young black women ravaged the greater Los Angeles area. After a failed attack in November 1988, the murders, connected by DNA and ballistics evidence, stopped. Fourteen years later, they began again.
[caption id="attachment_38213" align="alignleft" width="138" caption="Fifth-year senior quarterback Marc Verica has tossed 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
With How I Met Your Mother now well into its sixth season, Josh Radnor, who stars as Ted in the series, has experienced the ups and downs of a young adult trying to establish himself in New York. Radnor's new film, happythankyoumoreplease, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and showed this weekend at the Virginia Film Festival, deals with a similar, although more weighty, theme, following several New Yorkers as they try to settle into their new lives as adults. Radnor stopped by the Virginia Film Festival during the showing of happythankyoumoreplease Sunday night, which he directed, wrote and starred in, and spoke with tableau beforehand about the process that went into creating the film as well as what he considered when casting it. tableau: What was your inspiration for the film? Radnor: I wanted to write a great movie to give myself an acting opportunity.
How do you think Virginia will do this season after your departure and being picked to finish 10th in the conference? Virginia has an awesome coaching staff that pushes the players to their highest level every day.
Getting chillier and chillier by the hour, fall has set in, taking a toll on many physically. As the air becomes cooler and drier, health and well-being are at risk. In general, the numbers on the thermostat can indicate how a person may feel physically.
[caption id="attachment_38131" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Charlottesville residents flocked to see President Obama, who visited the city Oct.
[caption id="attachment_38073" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Police officers will survey West Main Street during the coming weeks as part of "Operation Share the Road," a campaign to increase education and enforcement regarding traffic laws for both motorists and bicyclists.
[caption id="attachment_38069" align="alignleft" width="226" caption="Junior midfielder Michelle Vittesse made a tactical shift, playing more defense than offense against North Carolina Friday.
Although the University pays one of the highest entry-level wages in Charlottesville, living wage campaign organizers have said the administration is not doing its part to halt the United States' steadily worsening class inequality.
The Honor Committee debated three aspects of how juries in honor trials deliberate at last night's meeting, as it works to improve the trial process and maintain healthier relations with the University community. Committee Chair Charles Harris said the majority of the debate centered on proposals to increase, clarify and direct jury participation. The first proposal, put forth by Law School representative Barlow Mann, involved presenting jurors with a list of specific questions to direct their deliberations and help them render a more objective verdict.