Mud sliding, exploding fire hydrants, a flaming car drenched in gasoline -- all this while the majority of the 10,000 person crowd was, let's say, "not in the right state of mind." In the 1960s and 70s, this was the annual tradition of Easters at the University. Easters has a long history, dating back just prior to the turn of the century.
As college students, our lives are largely dependent on our ability to communicate through electronic mail, or "e-mail" as it is known to modern hipsters.
With Nobel Laureate John Polanyi's speech about his life in the field of science falling only a few days after the Virginia Tech tragedy, it came as no surprise when he related the two topics. "Is there a relevance to this topic," Polanyi asked the audience, "and these events having to do with your friends at Virginia Tech?" Polanyi suggested that since science gives rise to technology, the two are related. "Technology provides these ready instruments that can create life and death," Polanyi said. He suggested that while guns and nuclear weapons can take many lives, penicillin and other types of medical technology make life possible at the same time. In his speech last Thursday, Polanyi, the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in reaction theory, spoke to the University community in the Dome Room about his experience in the scientific community.
Born and raised in the "wide open spaces" of Minnesota, Education Prof. Jane Hansen said she has known what she has wanted to do since she was in second grade. "I remember the day when I came home and announced to my mom and dad that I was going to be a teacher," Hansen said. Now she is the teacher's teacher -- she teaches current and future teachers how to teach. "I am a professor in the reading program and what I do is teach writing for teachers," Hansen said.
I really use it far too often. It's gotten to the point where it intrudes on every portion of my life, even interfering with social activities.
As I sit here on the MV Explorer, awaiting our imminent departure from northeastern China (and to Japan in 2 days time), I am surrounded by drunk college students, senior citizens and young children, not to mention one of the more well-known Nobel Peace laureates.
When asked his opinion of college students today during his visit to the University April 12, Ralph Nader did not mince words. "This generation is redefining 'trivial,'" Nader said. Nader visited the University two weeks ago to give a presentation titled "While You Were Watching Big Brother, Big Brother Was Watching You: What Students Should Know, and What Students Can Do." In an interview before his presentation, the 73-year-old political activist spoke about what he sees as the problem with young people these days. "They have less and less knowledge of history, a smaller vocabulary, a shorter attention span and spend too much time looking at screens," Nader said.
For my last column of the year, I should comment and perhaps apologize for some minor mistakes I have made in my previous articles.
I really wanted to write about the importance of arranged marriages. If you had a spouse picked out for you, you wouldn't have to worry about a lot of things.
Assault/ intimidation: RESTRICTED VICTIM of Assault-intimidation (C), at Emmet St, Charlottesville, VA, between 11:00, 04/14/2007 and 11:19, 04/14/2007.
Clark Elementary School could turn out the next Adrien Brody, Meryl Streep or Will Ferrell with the help of Kids Acting Out, a University contracted independent organization which helps students at the school put on plays each semester. KAO was started by 2005 University graduate, Bre DiGiammarino during the 2002-03 school year, although the group became very active in spring 2004. In spring 2004, KAO worked with 12 to 15 third- and fourth-graders at Clark Elementary School.
As a college student who is a former victim of advanced-stage teen angst and spent his formative years under the Bush administration, I like to think I am jaded.
When something like this happens, it is impossible to ignore. We have all heard the statistics: 33 dead, 15 injured, countless other emotional wounds.
I started working at The Cavalier Daily almost four years ago. Since then I've drawn five dozen editorial cartoons, over a hundred illustrations, almost four hundred comics and written a handful of columns.
I never thought I would turn my back on this University. I never thought I would so willingly abandon the friends I love, the classes I enjoy and the a cappella groups I tolerate.
In 1969, the University of Virginia was a very different place. Discrimination was part of the fabric of the University and racial tensions were high.
With the semester winding down, University students' minds collectively turn to one thing: end of the year celebrations, the most extravagant event being the Foxfield Races April 28.
It started out with whispers during classes Monday morning as the story about Virginia Tech broke on the Internet.
University students dug through their closets to find anything maroon and orange -- two colors all Hoos had previously tried to avoid -- to demonstrate their support of Virginia Tech at the vigil held last night. As candlelight slowly spread around the Amphitheater and flags from both universities were displayed, President John Casteen, III began his address to an overwhelmingly maroon and orange audience. "Tonight we have come together to talk, to meditate on, to mourn the deaths of Virginia Tech students and faculty members," Casteen said to an eerily silent crowd. Yesterday afternoon, Casteen attended a convocation held at Virginia Tech, later remarking that the somber atmosphere among students there was still "assertive of life." "Today was for them -- tonight is also for them, but tonight is for you, too," Casteen said, addressing the many University students who suffered losses Monday. Four of the 33 deaths hit especially close to home here at the University.
The semester is coming to a close, the fourth years are getting all nostalgic and weepy, and what's the deal with all of this rain?
