The Cavalier Daily
Serving the University Community Since 1890

Life


Life

More than just an opera

If you have heard opera music outside Newcomb Hall recently, you may have been within earshot of a rehearsal for Opera Viva?s spring opera performance, Mozart?s Don Giovanni.


Life

Don

It is easy for University students to grab a hamburger for lunch in between classes.


Life

Stop interrup

I just read ?The Dumbest Generation.? Cover to cover, author Mark Bauerlein posits that we digital kids are dumb because we no longer read books.


Life

Out with a BANG!

I had been looking forward to eating at Bang! for some time ? its reputation precedes itself in Charlottesville.


Life

It

As spring approaches, motorcycle enthusiasts will hit the road with a familiar rumbling thunder.


Life

Forever young

I recently had a mini existential crisis in the self-checkout line at Kroger, a place where I imagine thousands of such dilemmas have occurred, from ?But I typed in the produce code for red grapes, not green!


Life

Who is swagger?

People?s attitudes toward dating are much like the ?Power Rangers? ? they keep changing and no one is really quite sure why.Take, for example, the Neanderthals.


Life

Maturity Obscurity

I?m a 19-year-old second-year at one of the best colleges in the country, but when it comes to guys, I still feel like I?m a 13-year-old kid with a terrible perm and a mouthful of braces.


Life

A helping hand

Every day near 14th Street, students walking to class pass by a small percentage of Charlottesville?s homeless population.


Life

Around this time each year, I?m grateful I?m not a high school senior.


Life

Casino capitalism: understanding the PPIP

?The financial system as a whole is still working against recovery.?In an op-ed article for The Wall Street Journal March 23, Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner announced that the government was prepared to increase the bailout budget to $1 trillion from $700 billion in an effort to combat the current economic crisis.


Life

The end of empire

I did not even know that the British Empire is dying, still less did I know that it is a great deal better than the younger empires that are going to supplant it.??George Orwell, Shooting an ElephantHistory tells us that the decline of one empire inevitably results in the rise of others.


Life

A real shocker

I was warned about culture shock and the emotional aspect of living in another country for an extended period of time.

Puzzles
Hoos Spelling

Latest Podcast

In this episode, Mona El Khafif, an Associate Professor of Architecture, explains biophilic design, which refers to the integration of nature into urban and architectural spaces. Through her work on the Biophilic Region Exhibition and her emphasis on the role of educational collaboration, she highlights the importance of shaping architecture and learning for an environmentally conscious future, even here in Charlottesville.