The Corner became a little more international July 22 when the "Fabulously British" clothing store, "Jack Wills University Outfitters," opened its doors.
My third year started out with a bang ... literally. I thought things would be different this year
August has not been a good month for the financial markets. Economic fears about Greece, Ireland and Portugal have expanded to include Italy, the third largest Eurozone economy.
As students return to Charlottesville for the new school year, there are many reasons for celebration: reunions with friends, excitement for the upcoming year and a last "hoo-rah" before the end of summer.
I feel old. As a first year, I remember envisioning a great divide between students, a gaping chasm between my fresh-out-of-high-school na
I don't know if you've heard or not, but apparently the world is ending soon. I suppose I should be more upset about this but I have to admit, I saw the signs.
This summer I had an eye-opening experience. No, I didn't save any orphans or build any houses for underprivileged families.
First years, welcome to the greatest four years of your life at the best college in the country. Here at the University, you'll find plenty of traditions.
As a new crop of students begin to flood first-year dormitories, upperclassmen are handing down indispensable advice about their time at the University. The best advice Student Council President Dan Morrison said he received was from his first-year resident advisor. "At our first hall meeting, [my RA] said, 'When you go back to your room and start your year, don't close your door; leave your door open for people so they can come hang out or ask for help,' and this proved really helpful as the year went on," Morrison said.
The thought of Greek initiation ceremonies often calls to mind private events and the passing down of secret traditions, but many of the University's fraternities and sororities take a more public approach to bringing in new members.
If Lorleai Gilmore went to the University, she would not be reading this column. She simply would say "Oy with the poodles already!" - a phrase she coined which can be used to shut up a person who is talking nonstop about a certain topic - and keep flipping the pages until she found the comics page.
This past Wednesday, I turned in my organic chemistry lab notebook. I realize that something as mundane as carrying a notebook across Grounds and putting it in a box at the Chemistry Building isn't particularly newsworthy; it's more symbolic than anything. When I was a first year nearly done with general chemistry and introduction biology, I was more scared of organic chemistry than I was about my final exam in either course. I saw the look that crept over most people's faces when I asked about it.
For most students, when finals roll around, good diets usually take a backseat to food and drinks that quickly satisfy hunger or temporarily raise energy levels.
Whenever I pull out my fashion magazines to show my mom the latest trend that I'm dying to have, she always rolls her eyes and laughs.
I was sitting on the steps of the Rotunda the other night. I was not naked, running up the steps like my first-year self.
University students are well known for the many ways they show their pride, wearing orange and blue, quoting Thomas Jefferson, or even just the occasional boasts about their school's academic ranking.
Summer often means going to the movies to see the blockbusters. But before the movies and the trailers come the advertisements.
Jewish life at the University found a renewed identity April 10, when the Brody Jewish Center building - Hillel's 10,000 square-foot addition to its existing space at 1824 University Circle - officially opened. "There's now this glorious space to be Jewish in together and to invite others in to experience what Jewish life is like," said Vanessa Ochs, associate professor of religious studies and member of the Jewish studies program.
In my three years here, I've worked my way through a lot of what I would call the traditional "wisdom texts": those works that we read time and time again, because either directly or indirectly they seem to offer us a message on how to live our lives.
I keep having to double-check my planner. I always have had trouble with dates. I still can't believe its 2011.
