Sex & Relationships

Love Connection: Patrick and Melanie

By Mai Le | April 11, 2011

Melanie: U.Va. involvement and activities: Inter-Sorority Council, Chi Omega, The Monroe Society, Madison House (Adopt a Grandparent and YMCA Daycare) Ideal date: Caucasian, dark hair, on the taller side (5-foot-10) ... Someone who is outgoing and social, involved and hard-working Ideal date Location: Definitely dinner at a place that has a relaxed environment ... Nothing that adds too much pressure. Ideal celebrity: Bradley Cooper Typical weekend plans: A typical weekend for me would include going out with friends and doing something fun.

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Life

The Peter Pan phenomenon

By Kathleen Baines | April 11, 2011

I don't want to grow up. After a night of book-club debates and several vigorous games of spades - read as: but not really - a group of friends and I did what every college kid with the Sunday morning blues does: a mandatory trip to Bodo's.

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Life

The SIS conundrum

By Lisa Kessler | April 8, 2011

The excitement students experience when course listings are released each semester often quickly fades to confusion and stress.

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Life

The name game

By Sheila Bushman | April 8, 2011

In elementary school, my friends and I went through the "name changing phase." Although this phenomenon may not be documented in a child psychology textbook, it occurs in late elementary school or early middle school and may be defined as "the overwhelming desire to change one's name to one that's entirely different." My babysitter went by her first initial; instead of being called "Jessica," she was called "J." In a similar vein, instead of being called "Sheila," I tried to go by "S."

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Life

The bigger picture

By Vanessa Stephenson | April 8, 2011

As third year comes to an end for me and I realize my time as an undergraduate is flying by, I've become more sentimental in my attitude towards Charlottesville.

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Life

Service Beyond Volunteering

By Caroline Massie | April 7, 2011

It is not uncommon for students to contemplate the impact they will have on the world, but for some these thoughts are more than just a hazy idea of post-graduate plans.

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Life

Alternative conditioning week

By Simone Egwu | April 7, 2011

This past week, as our season ended with a loss in the quarterfinals of the WNIT, my teammates and I had some time off - an entire week when we were not expected to be active, touch a basketball or think about sweating.

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Life

It

By Connelly Hardaway | April 7, 2011

I am pretty sure that money cannot buy happiness. I am fairly certain that the happiest moments of my life were products not of money spent but of time wasted.

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Life

The faces behind the food

By Charlie Tyson | April 6, 2011

The man, the myth, the swiper: Dean Caulfield Dean Caulfield - "as in Holden," he said - is the first person you see upon entering Observatory Hill Dining Hall.

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Life

Blue or Orange? Blue or Orange? (sung to the tune of black and yellow

By Elizabeth Stonehill | April 6, 2011

With student self-governance as the focal point of University life, one would be hard-pressed to find an institution with more dynamic, passionate and over-committed students.

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Life

Caring a little bit more

By Mary Scott Hardaway | April 6, 2011

I care a lot about appearances. This may come as a surprise to anyone who has seen me walking to class, well, ever.

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Life

Katia Dianina

By Mary Donovan | April 5, 2011

Katia Dianina is a Russian professor at the University with a storied background - including a brush with a celebrity.

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Life

Dressing for the occasion

By Abbi Sigler | April 5, 2011

I take a lot of heat from my friends for the way I dress up. I'll admit it; I am one of those girls.

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Life

Everything I need to know about life I learned at camp

By Katie McNally | April 5, 2011

When I was growing up, I went to a camp in Riner - a.k.a. Middle of Nowhere, Virginia - every summer for about six years straight.

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Life

The anti-social network

By Jordan Hart | April 4, 2011

Forgetting about your ex after a long relationship must have been so much easier before Facebook existed.

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Life

Life IN the big screen

By Tyler DeBoard | April 4, 2011

For years I've been carrying on a secret relationship. While I haven't been trying to hide this love affair, I may not have been as forthcoming as I should have been.

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Life

The original wahoo wireless

By Charlie Tyson | March 31, 2011

Things have changed for University radio since 1947, when WUVA was launched in the basement of Madison Hall using electrical wiring in dormitories to pass along its AM signals. "It was very much amateur, but we became a big success quickly," outgoing WUVA-FM President Robert Powell said.

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Life

All the small things

By Connelly Hardaway | March 31, 2011

I do not think life is supposed to be simple. I think it has been and always will be a big tangled blob of things no one knows for sure.

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Life

Everyone can

By Kristin Ulmer | March 31, 2011

Flipping through the pages of Vogue the other day, I noticed an ad with a bright pink background featuring Katy Perry wearing a pink and purple spandex cat suit promoting the fragrance "Purr-fect." How much did they pay her to wear that?

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Life

Spend money to make money

By Caroline Newman | March 30, 2011

In the weeks following the announcement that the Commerce School will increase its tuition, Commerce students are contemplating the effects of the extra charges. The Board of Visitors announced Feb.