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Listen to your dog

By Nick Eilerson | October 17, 2008

With its placid blue skies and desirable mid-October temperatures, Fall Break proved to be the perfect time to run around outside, take a stroll through the park, or even read Ralph Waldo Emerson?s famous ?Them Trees Sure Is Purty!? to Sweetie under the comforting limbs of an old acorn-sputtering oak.Naturally, I did none of those things, instead opting to engage in such stimulating activities as watching re-runs of ?Clarissa Explains It All? and challenging my dog Phoebe to staring contests.

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On-Grounds Interviewing

By Connie Huang | October 16, 2008

On the fourth floor of Scott Stadium, the luxury skyboxes that typically house suite-holders at football games are also home to the On-Grounds Interviewing program, through which job opportunities can come a-knockin?.The program?s goal, according to Barbara Hampton, University associate director for employer services, is to consolidate the interview process for both employers and students by bringing them to a single location.

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Becoming financially fit

By Rahul Gorawara | October 16, 2008

Most financial advisors sound like broken records. ?Save and diversify. Save and diversify…? They may throw in a stock tip or tax loophole, but for the most part, their advice is the same.

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Big dreams

By Katherine Carter | October 10, 2008

Dreams Corps International is a non-profit organization that gives Chinese students a chance to experience life in rural China ? and the only collegiate chapter in the United States happens to be right here on Grounds.

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The art of manliness

By Nick Eilerson | October 10, 2008

It?s a question I get all the time ? ?Nick, how did you get to be so darned manly??The answer I give to people is never clear.

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The hinge of fate

By Bailee Barfield | October 10, 2008

Every fall, as the temperature drops to a brisk chill and the tips of the trees begin to caramelize, professors bombard their poor students with exams, papers, presentations and any other form of assessment to mark the halfway point of the semester.

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Between the lines

By Allison Comizio | October 9, 2008

?You come in perplexed and you leave happy,? Writing Center tutor Paul Legault said about the services The Writing Center provides.

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Something new

By Ian Smith | October 9, 2008

I never thought I would ever be the type of person to rush a fraternity, but as of last week, I have found myself in new territory ? and loving it.

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Getting to know y

By Lauren Kimmel | October 9, 2008

I?m from Philadelphia. You know, where this country was born? Ben Franklin? The Phillies? Cheesesteaks?

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Drawn together by food

By Lisa Littman | October 8, 2008

If you ask around Grounds about the Lorna Sundberg International Center, you might receive some quizzical looks.

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In praise of cabbage

By Sarah Brummett | October 8, 2008

Tara Parker-Pope, author of the ?Well? blog at The New York Times, posted an entry June 30, 2008 titled ?The 11 Best Foods You Aren?t Eating.? I admit I was a little smug when I discovered that of the 11 ?super foods? she listed, I was regularly eating more than half, and at least occasionally eating all but one.

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The sound and the glory

By Sarah Wade | October 7, 2008

Try to imagine a Cavalier football game without its marching band. Cav Man demolishes his computer-animated enemy and gallops the field in triumph, cheerleaders back-flip and somersault, football players charge through smoke to a roaring crowd.

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A healthy television diet

By Rebecca Marsh | October 7, 2008

Spoiler alert ? the following column is not for the televisually-impaired.Most people know what day it is when they check their phone or their calendar because of particular meetings, assignments or commitments.

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Love Connection

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 6, 2008

KellyThird-year history major, Asian Pacific American studies minorWhat are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?Somewhat decently tall with a good sense of humor and laid-

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Getting doodled

By Jordan Hart | October 6, 2008

Dating is tough. There are plenty of cute guys at this University who catch my eye. There are something like 6,000 male undergraduates, so I really can?t complain about my options ? and who?s to say I?d rule out most graduate students, either?

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U.Va. football team earns top-10 honor

By Nick Eilerson | October 3, 2008

In losing to Duke this past Saturday, the Cavalier football team accomplished something that few all-male, officially recognized NCAA football teams have before.

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Reality bites

By Abigail Coster | October 3, 2008

Shouldn?t our goal be to lead interesting lives, rather than watch the banal existence of the verbally inept captured on reality television?

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Unveiling endowments

By Paul Chen | October 2, 2008

?I don?t know how big it is. Don?t know who runs it. Don?t know how much the pay-out ratio is,? third-year College student Vincent Zimmern said about the University?s endowment.

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Credit crunch ... U.Va. style

By Andrew Mueller | October 2, 2008

The current financial crisis has plagued Wall Street for more than a year with no clear end in sight.

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The new Wall Street

By Adam Wangner | October 2, 2008

As many readers of this column are undoubtedly aware, a series of watershed events beginning with the onset of the credit crunch in 2007 have dramatically changed the landscape of Wall Street and the U.S.