For my first Halloween in America, I went as Barbie in a cheap plastic cloak with a plastic mask that had the eyes poked out and a hole for the mouth.
Ben Brown Third-year College Student Q: What's the best costume you ever had for Halloween? A: Last year I dressed up as a pregnant woman, and people really liked that so I might do that again. Q: What are your plans for the night? A: I'm not as big of a fan of Halloween as most of my friends are.
It all started Wednesday. After a quick stop by the mini-fridge to grab my requisite Diet Coke before calculus, I opened the door to my hall and was struck by a very foreign combination of odors and sounds.
After tea in the cafe overlooking the Atlantic, I felt keyed up. It probably had something to do with all the sugar in the tea; or maybe my own nervousness in a conversation that kept switching from French to Arabic and back again that caused me to drink more tea than I needed.
The topic of sacred spaces is nothing new for University students. From their first admissions tour to their final march down the Lawn at graduation, they know they're on hallowed ground. Tomorrow night, this hallowed ground becomes the backdrop for an architecture symposium that will explore sacred spaces in America.
Is the windshield of your new Honda splattered with bugs? Is the mud so caked on your sporty Jeep that you've forgotten its original color? If so, Charlottesville car washes are open and ready for business. In mid-September, the local government enacted severe water restrictions for community businesses, forcing many car washes to shut down temporarily. But within days of the ban, Express Car Wash in Seminole Square began experimenting with non-traditional washing methods.
While other students scramble to find a costume to this weekend's Halloween parties, third years Ryan Chatman and Matt Bulloch will don a uniform.
Q: Where are you originally from? A: I went to high school near Chicago. Before that I lived in New Jersey for a while. Q: What were your favorite things to do as a kid? A: Depends at what age.
Still looking for that perfect Halloween gift to send home? How about a U.Va. coffin certificate?
Thomas Jefferson designed the University to have approximately 110 rooms holding two or three students in each room.
The days of class field trips? Drift back to that big yellow bus stationed in the school parking lot.
After Connor Ginley underwent major surgery last year, he found himself re-evaluating his future.
Like many women living off Grounds at the University, Jessica Karr has a feminine bathroom. A floral shower curtain and matching bath mat decorate the bathtub and floor, perhaps making it easy for the third-year Commerce student to forget she shares this bathroom with her male roommate, Seth Rogers, a fourth-year College student.
Last year, New Jersey high school students collected books for the initiation of a hospital library, while Rhode Island students beautified their school grounds and an elementary school stockpiled pennies to help a financially pressed family just blessed with quadruplets.
Reviewers' note: This week, we visited Copacabana. We understand that Copacabana shares its name with a popular Barry Manilow song.
"Hi! I'm just calling cause I'd like to applaud the UTS bus drivers who I had yesterday when Rugby Road was shut down.
Around mid-October, a slump spreads through the University. Class attendance drops. Students are more intent on the "Wonderword" than on note taking.
"aspenuva." In University lingo, it's the login to partypics.com. On the social circuit, it's the password to unlock a catalogue of the weekend scene. The Web browser opens.
Just when you've run out of good reasons to procrastinate, the University Registrar has stepped in and saved the day. That's right, the Spring 2003 Course Offering Directory is up and ready for hours of agonizing perusal. Fourth-year Commerce student Athena Ng said she's already taken a look. "A friend IMed me last night to tell me it was up," Ng said.
A conversational hum filled the hotel lobby as men and women in business suits congregated in small groups. "Can I get two minutes when you're done here?" one businessman said to another.
