A little more than halfway between the Corner and the Downtown Mall is one of Charlottesville's best restaurants for food, service and atmosphere: Southern Culture.
Graceful ladies stroll around in large, floppy hats. Men chat easily in expensive suits, afternoon cocktails balanced in their hands.
Amphitheater goes Greek If you feel like Rugby Road isn't "fratty" enough and you need a bit more Greek in your life, then get psyched about Friday night.
Every morning over my summer vacation, I would get up, pour myself a cup of coffee, and give a cursory glance to the day's headlines.
Ding! A passenger pulls on the overhead line, signaling the bus driver to stop. The driver pulls up to the curb, lets off several students, picks up a couple more, and it's business as usual. Sounds simple.
In Black and White Fifty-nine percent of black undergraduate students view news coverage in The Cavalier Daily as racially biased, according to a survey conducted last spring for the State of Race Relations, a new University group. This independent student organization completed the first-ever comprehensive survey of student attitudes toward race relations at the University and now challenges fellow students to talk about the results. "We're looking to come up with concrete solutions to racial problems at the University," said Michael Freedman-Schnapp, co-founder of the State of Race Relations. Tonight at 8 the group is holding an open forum in the Chemistry Auditorium to present the results of the study, conduct a moderated discussion, and hear the views of a student panel.
On the eve of the first Olympics of the new millennium, the world's premier athletes prepare to compete in what is the culmination of years of intense, grueling training.
Welcome to the Idiot's Guide to American Politics. And by "idiot's" I don't mean for idiots. I mean by one. My political theory library includes four volumes, and three of them are Machiavelli's The Prince.
They're new, they're political and they're green. Ten students sat in a humid Cabell Hall classroom Tuesday, as the two-week old Greens at U.Va.
Vegetarians convene Mmmmm. The smell of sizzling veggies floats through the air as kids have their faces painted in vibrant colors.
Pipe dreams The 96-year-old E.M. Skinner pipe organ in Old Cabell Hall underwent a considerable amount of restoration over the past few years. The recent tune-up will be on display during a recital tonight at 8:15 by Peggy Kelley Reinburg. Reinburg, a graduate of Northwestern's School of Music, is a world-renowned organist.
"Where's Bodot, I thought you said he was coming." "He is." "When?" "Soon." "Oh." "Coming." It has been a familiar word on the Corner District, where Charlottesville's third Bodo's Bagel shop officially has been "coming" for over five years. Six classes have arrived on Grounds, two classes have walked down the Lawn, the Corner got a Starbucks and Scott Stadium got HooVision.
Easy-listening tunes crooned from removed speakers while waitresses busied themselves rearranging empty tables.
First years have the Castle and Plus Dollars. Cash free orders of Big Bird sandwiches and Pav dining.
As a lazy child, you watched your father sternly shake his finger at you and bellow, "Son, you are just standing here as the world passes you by!" Now that you have matured, removed yourself from the path of that shaking finger and made it to college, this admonition still may apply.
'One' performance 'Four' you You've seen the flyers. You've heard the name. You're wondering, "Who is 'One-in-Four' and what do they do?" In order to answer this question and much more, the all male group One-in-Four will be presenting their program in the Rotunda Dome Room Friday at noon. Normally, One-in-Four only performs for all-male groups.
Something new has landed in the Lambeth residence area. And it's not just the latest wave of students. WTJU, a University-owned radio station broadcast on 91.1 FM, has moved its headquarters from Peabody Hall to Lambeth Commons, and in the process, it has acquired a swankier studio. "The old studio was wall-to-wall with albums.
Hoop dreams Ever had the chance to see one of your professors scurrying around a basketball court in shorts and sneakers?
Driving down Route 29, the Blue Ridge Mountains seem to call out to Ashley Meeks every time she returns to Charlottesville. "I want to get out there," she often says to herself. Like many University students and area residents, the fourth-year College student is captivated by some of Albemarle County's most well-known landmarks.
