Life

A Sputnik moment

By Hideyuki Liu | February 9, 2011

John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to do great things "not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win." He uttered those words because the Soviet Union had launched its first satellite, Sputnik, into space, and the United States did not even have a space program in place.

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Life

Beckman Coulter proves to be solid investment

By Harrison Freund | February 9, 2011

Last fall, I recommended Green Mountain Coffee Roasters as a short because of the fact that it sold - and still sells - a fad product and the stock's price was much higher than warranted by the true value of the company.

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Life

What is...Jeopardy!

By Lisa Kessler | February 8, 2011

When "Jeopardy!" aired Nov.

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Life

Who

By Stephanie Waties | February 8, 2011

You've heard them before: Treat others as you would like to be treated; be respectful of individuals and their differences; and if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. They're what I like to call "playground rules" - a few standards for good behavior that we all learned during our first days of elementary school.

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Life

Who

By Katie McNally | February 8, 2011

When you were a kid, remember how cartoons always depicted your conscience as a little angel sitting on one shoulder and a little devil sitting on the other?

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Life

Through pink-and green-colored glasses

By Caroline Massie | February 7, 2011

Flip through "University of Virginia: Off the Record" and you'll find the word "preppy" repeated throughout the sections describing the student body.

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Life

Global warming and cooling

By Kathleen Baines | February 7, 2011

An early spring? Yes, we will most certainly have one. Because Phil said so, and he seems like a pretty dependable guy. The academics call it clairvoyance.

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Life

The people behind the bar

By Connelly Hardaway | February 4, 2011

For a night of fun, University students won't say no to frat parties, apartment pre-games or dorm get-togethers, but when the clock strikes midnight the word "bars" seems to reverberate throughout Charlottesville.

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Life

A weekend road trip

By Sheila Bushman | February 4, 2011

I don't think this is on the list of 111 things to do before you graduate, but it should be, so I will add it here.

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Life

Food for the win: Superbowl style

By Vanessa Stephenson | February 4, 2011

Never underestimate the power of good food. Sunday night, groups of people will gather around their TVs all across the country to watch the Super Bowl.

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Life

Reaching out

By Vanessa Stephenson | February 3, 2011

In light of the death of Yeardley Love last spring, relationship abuse has become a pressing issue at the University.

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Life

Team project

By Simone Egwu | February 3, 2011

During the past two weeks you may have noticed some obnoxiously tall women carrying around obnoxiously bright blue and orange basketballs.

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Life

Mortality

By Connelly Hardaway | February 3, 2011

I am aware of my own mortality. Some people might shrug and say, "Well, me too. People die all the time and eventually I will as well." Some people might cringe and tout their own invincibility: "I am 20, hear me roar." I think very few people would consider their life spans the way I consider my own.

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Life

A greener Grounds

By Mary Donovan | February 2, 2011

The recently inescapable presence of construction on Grounds may, at first glance, seem threatening to the University's celebrated landscape.

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Life

The ABC

By Elizabeth Stonehill | February 2, 2011

Spring semester at the University ushers in the same things every year: droves of second-year sorority girls shepherding their newest flocks of "babies", dreary-eyed first-year boys having the nerve to complain about how often they have to casually socialize, and the adoption of Greek as the University's official language.

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Life

Tackling the tyrants of literature

By Mary Scott Hardaway | February 2, 2011

There are a lot of things I'm not necessarily fond of. These include, but certainly are not limited to: sugar-free gum, yippy dogs, recycling and, at the top of my list, Mr. Shakespeare himself.

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Life

Working beyond a statistic

By Katie McNally | February 1, 2011

Popular culture often portrays sexual assault as a women's issue, but members of One in Four, the University's all-male rape and sexual assault peer education group, don't see it that way.

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Life

We burned the bras for a reason

By Katie McNally | February 1, 2011

During the summer I turned 12, I embarked on a college odyssey with my family. My older sister was a rising senior in high school, and to prepare her for college applications, my parents dragged us through every campus on the East Coast.

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Life

Mastering the wink

By Abbi Sigler | February 1, 2011

I was surprised and dismayed when a friend told me she thought winking was creepy and reserved for old men.

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Sex & Relationships

Love Connection: Brian and Gina

By Jordan Hart | January 31, 2011

Brian: Second-year Pre-Comm/Econometrics What are you involved in at U.Va.? Pacific American Leadership Training Institute (Facilitator), SEED (Secretary), Cavs and Panthers peer mentoring. What else do you like to do?