With the number of University events coming up on the calendar as well as the various date functions and formals for sororities and fraternities, students often need a place to look for formal dresses and suits.
He likes to play basketball and soccer and to bang away on the toy keyboard. His heroes are Tom and Jerry.
As College Dean Edward Ayers said in a speech at the first dinner of the new Second Year Dinner Series, second-year students are just sort of stuck in the middle.
I've had iTunes for awhile now, and although I'm pretty savvy about its nuances, I hadn't really thought about the magnitude of this program until just the other night. I'm hanging out in my room, listening to "Mmmbop," when I click on the "Shared Music" button to see what other libraries I can browse through. Technical note: iTunes has a feature that allows users on the iTunes network to share their music libraries with other people in their area.
"Culture shock" is not just a buzz-phrase. Imagine spending all four years of college studying abroad.
A re you finding it difficult to concentrate while you study? Are you getting worried because midterm exams seem to last all semester?
With "Signature Week" now behind us, we can all walk around Grounds safe from legions of politicos with clipboards and petitions.
By Amber Davis Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Although many individuals support diversity and organizations around Grounds do their best to facilitate racial harmony, serious racial incidents continue to arise.
I'm not exactly sure how it started, but I absolutely cannot live without caffeine. As exciting as discussion sections are, I start to pull the head bob if I don't have a fix of some kind.
Every week, the Cavalier Daily asks a student 25 questions and allows him or her to eliminate five of them. This week's interviewee is Nrupa Jani, a fourth-year Spanish and Psychology double major who just returned from a semester in Valencia, Spain. Q: When was the last time you went to the zoo? A: I guess it was in India, where I have a lot of family.
Describe yourself in haiku. No, you don't have to do it right now, but those who showed up to audition for the First Year Players' presentation of "Godspell" did. "Is a haiku 5-7-5 or 7-5-7?" someone mused. "This haiku thing's going to kill me," another student muttered. Upon heading down into the basement of Newcomb Hall last Saturday, students were greeted with a few forms to fill out before the actual audition process began.
When Rebecca Elaine Brooks watches "Sex and the City," she does not identify with Carrie and the girls in their pursuit for "Mr. Right." Instead, Brooks finds herself occasionally missing the throes and excitement of being a single woman surrounded by her girlfriends. Brooks, a fourth-year Nursing student, was married this past summer to her British boyfriend of two years.
For residents of New Dorms, this past week has elicited a change in the way they get into their suites
I can't help but write about Valentine's Day today. I thought about pretending it didn't exist and writing about many other important matters like why anyone would drink DayQuil instead of taking the pills or how I could justify buying a $400 dollar pair of shoes.
Those assembled in Jefferson Hall last Friday night were afforded a glimpse at the national issues of an area of southeastern Europe not often discussed. On short notice, Igor Davidovic, Bosnia-Herzegovinian Ambassador to the United States, visited the University to deliver a speech entitled, "Bosnia: Ten years after the Dayton agreement," which related to the recovery of his country from the 1992-1995 war. "We were fortunate to be able to land the ambassador within two weeks [before his visit]," College graduate student and Jefferson Literary and Debating Society Vice President Benjamin Mitchell said.
Shortly after third-year College student Jon Huang heard about the death of his friend and fellow Virginia Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team member Brian Love, he sat down to write.
You can't stare at your computer screen any longer. Your eyes feel like they're going to pop out of your head.
I'm taking this class on the history of Renaissance Italy. It's a cool class; I enjoy learning about the towers of Florence, factionalism in Northern Italy, Papal Rome, the Greeks (woohoo!) and Muslims in Southern Italy.
When I finally went to bed on Thursday night, I had no idea that I would wake up the next morning with the flu.
In one week, the Third-Year Council will be hosting the Celebrating Excellence Dinner. It's a dinner designed to recognize those who contribute to our fair University yet don't get the recognition they deserve.
