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Whitewash in U.Va. sororities

White girls next to world monuments, white girls trying “exotic cuisines,” white girls in matching Lilly Pulitzer dresses drinking matching $10 frozen lemonades, an inexplicable number of white girls on the beach — these are the images that have taken over my social media this past week as sorority recruitment started. Seemingly overnight, my newsfeed was flooded with links to sorority Facebook pages and Tumblrs and clever photo captions with Greek letters mixed in.


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The 16 things we should do this fall

Completing the “116 Things To Do Before You Graduate” list is a daunting task. Recently, my friends and I headed to the Lawn to pick up our copies of the infamous fourth-year checklist, feeling like it was a rite of passage.


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Naps in Maps

My roommate hates interventions. I learned this last spring when I took on the role of mother and demanded she get some more sleep, for her own good.


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The power of a phone call

The office was silent, save for the sound of clicking keyboards. I felt my coworkers’ presences looming all around me in our tight working space.


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Back to the roots

About a month and a half ago, I was less-than-cozily nestled in seat 34A on a redeye flight bound for London.


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Growing up

When I saw my little brother for the first time this summer, I was struck by how tall he had gotten.


Life

Crafting an idealized you

In this highly interconnected society, with more and more communication moving to the Internet, we are becoming less concerned with how we are perceived in person and more concerned with how we are perceived online.


Life

Tattoo you

Every morning on my way to class I pass by Acme Tattoo and Piercing on the Corner, and almost every morning, that little voice in the back of my head tells me to go in and get one.


Fourth-year students Clare Driggs and Melissa Picon are participating in Dorm Norms, a new program bringing presentations on sexual assault to first-year dorms.
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Creating new norms in dorms

New University students are constantly reminded of norms — it is not campus, it is Grounds; you are not a freshman, you are a first year and the list goes on.


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All University students are required to live on Grounds in their first year, but they have many on and off-Grounds housing options going into their second year. Students face immense pressure to decide on housing as soon as possible, and this high demand has strained the capacities of both on and off-Grounds accommodations. Lauren Seeliger and Brandon Kile, two third-year Cavalier Daily News writers, discuss the impact of the student housing frenzy on both University students and the Charlottesville community.