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Life IN the big screen

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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The original wahoo wireless

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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Everyone can

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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Spend money to make money

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.


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One black swan, two black swans...

"No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion," wrote philosopher David Hume.


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Rage against the maSheen

Charlie Sheen is God. And I'm an atheist. He smokes seven gram rocks because "that's how he rolls." He rolls invincibly, whether god or demon, hero or villain.


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Latest Podcast

In this episode of On Record, we hear from Dr. Amanda Lloyd, director of the Virginia Prison Education Program, which offers Virginia’s first bachelor’s degrees to incarcerated individuals. Dr. Lloyd discusses how and why the University chose her to lead this historic initiative.