By Vinu Ilakkuvan Cavalier Daily Associate Editor The shrill ring of an alarm at 7:45 a.m. Monday morning resonates through the room.
Reading Days. I don't know about you, but the very idea of Reading Days is a source of great anxiety for me.
I don't know who is responsible for assigning the dates of Fall Break, but it always seems exactly wrong.
A lost poem composed by Robert Frost was recently uncovered by a University graduate student. While it's both an exciting historical discovery and a marvelous addition to Frost's body of work, the poem itself serves as a stark reminder that we as students are being constantly bombarded by a disproportionately Western perspective in education, even at the hands of deceased Westerners like Frost. The poem also contains many troublesome and intellectually challenging stanzas, such as the opener: This is a poem by Robert Lee Frost, Up until now it's been totally lost, I thought it was time to surface again, When I heard about the ongoing Capital Campaign. The foresight which these lines demonstrate is rare among (Western) authors, as any (non-conservative) literary scholar will tell you.
Though it may be a job most traditionally associated with graduate students, a number of undergraduates at the University have taken on the added responsibilities of being a teaching assistant. One student said working as an undergraduate TA can feel a little awkward at times. "I don't feel like I'm in a very different position than [the students] are," said second-year Engineering student Christina Stamper, who is a TA for a course taken by first-year Rodman Scholars.
By Nicole Ponticorvo Cavalier Daily Associate Editor English Prof. Jessica Feldman said she can pinpoint the time her passion for modern literature developed -- after she read "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats and "Remembrance of Things Passed" by Marcel Proust toward the end of her high school career. "It really was just as if I had discovered my life's work," Feldman said.
I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say the lovely fireworks celebration last Friday that kicked off the Capital Campaign inspired love and respect in all of our hearts for the beauty and tradition of our fine University.
The Studies of Women and Gender Department may conjure images of women burning bras, but Interim Director of SWAG Rina Williams seeks to put that stereotype to rest. In short, SWAG is an "interdisciplinary program that studies women and gender from multiple women perspectives in an international context," Williams said. The international component of the University's SWAG department sets it apart from other women's studies programs nationally. "We have a strong contingent feminine theory for the United States, but we also study the Middle East, Africa and South Asia," Williams said.
Fifteen minutes and 1,120 feetseparate the Uni-versity from a place where life moves slower -- Carter Mountain Orchard. Carter Mountain Orchard, known for its pick-your-own apples and famous for its apple cider donuts, has been owned and operated for 40 years by the Chiles family, according to manager Cynthia Chiles. The orchard is home to between 15 and 20 different varieties of apples, which are differentiated by their flavor, color and the time they ripen, among other factors. "All have very unique flavors," Chiles said.
It's 4:45 p.m. right now, and I'm starving. I don't like to use the term "starving" in general because I feel like it demeans Angelina Jolie's work.
For some reason I've been getting a buttload of letters from various University celebrities the past few weeks.
Administrators are charged with overseeing and improving various facets of the University. Many of these people work behind the scenes in roles that are not clearly defined to outsiders.
I'm going to preface this column with a statement: I love Harry Potter. I didn't want to, it just kind of happened.
As the University prepares for a night of fireworks at the Rotunda for the kickoff of the largest capital campaign in University history, some benefits of which will be dedicated to the South Lawn Project, one is reminded of another event at the Rotunda involving fire, crowds and much activity -- albeit of a different, and more devastating, nature. As it is infamously known, Thomas Jefferson's focal point of the Academical Village was seriously damaged in a fire Oct.
The truth about skinny jeans: I don't care what all the magazines say, you cannot wear skinny jeans.
While the University is home to 72 academic departments, the classics department has the honor of being one of Jefferson's original 10 academic disciplines.
You've finished classes for the day and are just settling down to tackle your homework when your stomach starts rumbling.
I have just started my fourth and final year of college. I haven't finished my majors, I don't know what "area requirements" are, and I haven't bought a single book for class.
The English language is full of terrifying phrases: "You have an incurable disease," "Your credit card bill is past due" and "You don't know me but I love you." Quite frankly, all of these statements pale in comparison to that question asked so frequently in Charlottesville this time of year: "Do you want to live with me next year?" (We both know you just heard the theme from "Jaws" and had to create a makeshift paper bag from The Cavalier Daily to stop hyperventilating.) I keep coming back to my house here in Charlottesville and wondering why all of my roommates are not at home, even though all four of them are in the living room.
The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was the most successful gaming console of the 1980s. Anyone with a happy childhood knows first hand how great it was and can attribute countless hours of fun to it.
