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Life

Support team

First-year College student Kasey Crute was only a rookie on the women's club rugby team when she experienced a terrible accident during Spring Break. Crute was volunteering in Panama with a Global Brigades trip when she sustained severe spinal injuries jumping into a local swimming hole.


Life

A return to common sense

Common sense is not something at which we as humans seem to excel. I often see it cast aside for more complicated or sillier options. Like most people, the first time I noticed this tendency to suppress logic was in one of my earliest encounters with the workings of a bureaucratic system.


Sex & Relationships

Love Connection: Patrick and Melanie

Melanie: U.Va. involvement and activities: Inter-Sorority Council, Chi Omega, The Monroe Society, Madison House (Adopt a Grandparent and YMCA Daycare) Ideal date: Caucasian, dark hair, on the taller side (5-foot-10) ... Someone who is outgoing and social, involved and hard-working Ideal date Location: Definitely dinner at a place that has a relaxed environment ... Nothing that adds too much pressure. Ideal celebrity: Bradley Cooper Typical weekend plans: A typical weekend for me would include going out with friends and doing something fun.


Life

The Peter Pan phenomenon

I don't want to grow up. After a night of book-club debates and several vigorous games of spades - read as: but not really - a group of friends and I did what every college kid with the Sunday morning blues does: a mandatory trip to Bodo's.


Life

The name game

In elementary school, my friends and I went through the "name changing phase." Although this phenomenon may not be documented in a child psychology textbook, it occurs in late elementary school or early middle school and may be defined as "the overwhelming desire to change one's name to one that's entirely different." My babysitter went by her first initial; instead of being called "Jessica," she was called "J." In a similar vein, instead of being called "Sheila," I tried to go by "S."


Life

The bigger picture

As third year comes to an end for me and I realize my time as an undergraduate is flying by, I've become more sentimental in my attitude towards Charlottesville.


Life

Service Beyond Volunteering

It is not uncommon for students to contemplate the impact they will have on the world, but for some these thoughts are more than just a hazy idea of post-graduate plans.


Life

Alternative conditioning week

This past week, as our season ended with a loss in the quarterfinals of the WNIT, my teammates and I had some time off - an entire week when we were not expected to be active, touch a basketball or think about sweating.


Life

It

I am pretty sure that money cannot buy happiness. I am fairly certain that the happiest moments of my life were products not of money spent but of time wasted.


Life

The faces behind the food

The man, the myth, the swiper: Dean Caulfield Dean Caulfield - "as in Holden," he said - is the first person you see upon entering Observatory Hill Dining Hall.


Life

Life IN the big screen

For years I've been carrying on a secret relationship. While I haven't been trying to hide this love affair, I may not have been as forthcoming as I should have been.

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Latest Podcast

Since the Contemplative Commons opening April 4, the building has hosted events for the University community. Sam Cole, Commons’ Assistant Director of Student Engagement, discusses how the Contemplative Sciences Center is molding itself to meet students’ needs and provide a wide range of opportunities for students to discover contemplative practices that can help them thrive at the University.