I came late to the movement. It began 20 years ago in Kobe City, Japan and hit it big in the U.S.
Eric Gibson is the man with the horse. Every Saturday home football game, Gibson and his horse, Blazer, pull into the Carl Smith Center on Alderman Road as the Cavalier and the Cavalier horse, costumed and ready to gallop onto the field before thousands of cheering fans. Virginia's Cavalier mascot first became popular after the 1990 Citrus Bowl, but Gibson is the first permanent Cavalier mascot at the University, and has been the opening attraction at football games for three years now. "Before Eric, we had the Charlottesville mounted police doing it.
(This is the third in a four-part series about dating and relationships at the University.) Niehn To is Vietnamese but has never dated another Vietnamese guy. Still, she didn't hesitate four years ago when she began dating her boyfriend Stephen LeGarde, a fellow fourth-year College student who is white.
Hip Hop and Money The image of a black rapper cruising along in a BMW and wearing expensive leather clothes on MTV is a common one.
It's registration time, and once again we encounter that oddly soothing - or agitating - voice, depending on what it has to say.
International groove Tonight all students have a chance to turn their belly dancing dreams into reality.
The other night I walked in on one of my friends hooking up with a girl. The catch is he has a girlfriend, who I am also a friend of as well.
HIGHLAND BEACH, Fla.-For the past week, Palm Beach has been leading a double life. For most of the year, it's a place where the rich and famous, such as Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey, dwell in pink mansions built on castle-like scale atop the sandy lip of the Atlantic.
Early Saturday morning, many first-year students awoke to a frenetic banging on the doors of their suites accompanied by loud, disgruntled shouts.
I know you're tired of hearing about it, but like every journalist (I use that term loosely) I am contractually obligated to talk about this year's presidential election.
Children of War Third-year College student Camila Figueroa and third-year Commerce student Federico Avila have been friends since pre-kindergarten.
As the minute hand on the clock ticked closer to the hour, an anticipatory hush fell over the crowd.
Last week, trick-or-treaters of all ages transformed themselves into witches and warlocks, haunting the hallowed Grounds of the University.
Dance Confessions "Confessions of a dancer" appears to be a typical dance recital on a superficial level.
Duner's doesn't take reservations, so show up early. Even on a Monday night, nearly every table at Duner's was taken.
Name: Key Richardson Year/School: First-year College Most unusual class: The History of Mr. Jefferson's University.
On the eve of the election (or, rather, on the first eve of the election), it was refreshing to know that Mr. Jefferson's dream of democracy is alive and well at the University.
WASHINGTON-Rushing up and down the Metro escalators, people from all walks of life scurried off to their respective corners of the metropolitan area.
WASHINGTON-In striking contrast to the drab, any-other-day-of-the-year feel in the nation's capital during the day, election fever hit the bar scene hard once the sun went down. Clyde's of Georgetown represented the epitome of the final struggle between the two parties, with all eyes turned to the bar-side TV for the latest results. "It's crazy over there," a Clyde's waitress told a group of patrons wandering in.
