I have been living here in the U.S. for over seven months now and sometimes it feels like home. At times I can even imagine living here permanently -- it happened when I was in Athens, Ga.
It's time that we stop sugar-coating racism, students and professors at the University said at a recent div-ersity forum. The Student Council Diversity Committee, the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union and University Media Relations sponsored a diversity forum March 1.
Last week's Spring Break was amazing. Like much of U.Va., I too went to a beach. Of course Rehobeth Beach may not be as "classy" or "clean" as other places, but has its own "special" qualities.
Not everyone left the University for Spring Break last week, and some students who chose to stay encountered difficulties adjusting to the closures of Newcomb Hall, Runk and O-Hill. "The food situation was very hard," first-year College student Amanda Chase said. Chase said she stayed on Grounds for practices with the crew team.
Last Thursday the United Arab Emirates-based company Dubai Ports World announced that it plans to transfer the rights to operate U.S.
There is little doubt that on the surface, the University boasts those stereotypical elements of Southern culture -- a large proportion of the student body combines the words "you" and "all" to manufacture the quintessential "y'all," seersucker pants are a positive fashion statement and the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, is merely 70 miles away.
Spring Break, Woo! ... is what one would proclaim if they had a vacation comprised of anything other than sitting at home watching FX. There is one thing I did learn over break, though: how entrancing as dumb a show as "Deal or No Deal" can be.
Amidst the usual amalgamation of flyers outside the Treehouse, one flyer caught third-year College student Josh Cincinnati's eye -- the University's cable channel, WHOO-TV, was requesting ideas for new television shows. Amidst the usual stacks of colorful playthings stacked on racks in the local Toys 'R' Us, one toy stood out above the rest -- a "Little Tykes" $9.99 toy microphone. And despite WHOO-TV having trouble setting up and the microphone's batteries being dead, the two seemingly unconnected events were two of the sparks that led to Hoos News as it exists today.
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With a bang or a whimper? A year earlier than expected, I find myself writing my last column for The Cavalier Daily. That's right.
Will someone please slap some sense into the women in my family? I've given up -- they just won't listen to me. Arranged marriages are making a comeback in 2006, and I'm trying to keep the Parsley girls on the cutting edge.
With spring break officially starting this weekend and having unofficially begun for my brain and motivation last week, destinations around the world are about to be bombarded with drunk college students. This is my first Spring Break going somewhere exciting (not that painting the rooms in the house wasn't thrilling last year, Mom), and I'm headed to Acapulco, Mexico.
While the University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is easily filling its classes, less and less students nationwide are interested in pursuing engineering, according to Mechanical Engineering Prof.
The 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy concluded this past Sunday after 16 days of international competition. University students reflected on their favorite Winter Olympic sports as well as controversies that arose out of this year's contest. Fourth-year Engineering student Kara Parsons said she watched the Olympics because it showed sports that don't always get television coverage. "They're not on TV except for the Olympics, so you've got to take the opportunity," she said. Other students said they enjoyed watching sports they partake in during their free time. "I snowboard so I like watching all the different competitions," second-year College student Warren Waterman said. Waterman said he thought the United States snowboarding team did very well this Olympics, except for one controversy that came out of the women's snowboard cross competition. Problems arose when Lindsey Jacobellis nearly won gold for the United States in the Snowboard Cross competition, but left with the silver medal after crashing on one of the last jumps of the race.
With polls closing today, it's time to bid a fond farewell to University election season yet again.
By a narrow margin, the Virginia Senate passed a bill to ban smoking in all indoor public facilities, including restaurants, bars, banks and hotel lobbies. The bill was not expected to pass in the House of Delegates and it died in committee unanimously last Friday. Most lawmakers said they did not think the bill would pass in a state that is the third-largest tobacco-producing state in the nation and is home to Philip Morris national headquarters. Conservative lawmakers said they were hesitant to endorse the bill because they were worried the government would be overstepping its rights over business owners if the bill had passed. Second-year College student Jonathan Massell said he agreed with the lawmakers' responses. "I realize there are health risks, but places tend to be unfair to smokers," Massell said.
The University Party swept to a complete victory at the polls yesterday, winning every contest in which it had a candidate, bowling over the rival Students' Party with the smooth precision of a jet fighter.
Did you know that the chief export of Chuck Norris is pain? Or that outer space exists only because it's afraid to be on the same planet as Chuck Norris?
As spring draws closer, people become inspired by a heightened sense of excitement and anticipation, yet there are some who aren't able to experience that joy.
The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, the snow is melting away ... and the high schoolers are here -- it's that time of year again.
