The University’s Students for Environmental Action hosted a conference called Energy Unplugged, where experts gathered to present on environmental issues such as energy efficiency and global warming.
Students 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 Leningrad.
In 1977, Elizabeth Taylor captivated a packed Helms Theatre with insights on her career and personal life, including her favorite role in “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and candid opinions on Hollywood.
The day before Thanksgiving in 1981, the University was gifted with its first snow of the year!
Jesse Jackson, a human and civil rights activist and politician, spoke at Old Cabell Hall in 1986.
As our first basketball season without Tony Bennett begins, let's look back to the very first basketball season we started with Bennett as head coach.
The Cavalier Daily traveled to New York City for this interview with Tony Award-winning theatre director and producer Harold Prince.
Halloween marks the time when the mysterious P.U.M.P.K.I.N. Society delivers pumpkins to deserving students and faculty.
Only 40 years ago, students could join the Skydiving Club, where they could drive to Orange County Airport and take a leap from an airplane.
Students gathered at the amphitheater and the Lawn to encourage the University to divest holdings in businesses that have ties to South Africa's apartheid government.
The University Guide Service, established by Mary Betts in the 1950s, had become a prestigious and competitive organization by 1984, accepting only 8% of applicants each year.
The Cavalier Daily stood its ground, stating that the paper had every right to comment on national news and to publish pieces that may not align with the views of the majority of the student body.
William Vest used his position as a trash-picker to spread cheer to the University. Vest was known around Grounds for his enthusiastic singing and friendly attitude.
These two articles from 1991 show the different sides of the still controversial debate surrounding affirmative action.
Those opposed to the Mall feared closing Main St. would create inconvenience and traffic, which would in turn decrease the income made by merchants.
Attendees at the Beaux Arts Ball dressed for the occasion in costumes.
The two students interviewed want to break the stereotype that Deaf people are incapable of enjoying, doing or accomplishing the same things that hearing people can.
Of the next five articles, all but one are prank articles published by the CD. Can you figure out which one of these stories actually happened?
Robert Kent Gooch was a beloved political science professor at the University, who also happens to be the namesake behind Gooch dormitory.
A drug raid occurred in 1991, involving three of the University’s fraternities, where 12 University students were arrested for possession of a range of drugs, from ecstasy to amphetamines.
