Life

Life

Efforts from exile

By Patricia Cooper | November 6, 2003

Joseph Abdel Wahed and his family were expelled from Egypt in 1952 because they were Jews. Wahed was one of thousands of Jews given a "one way ticket" out of the country and forced to leave behind family, friends and personal belongings. Despite the horror of this forced removal, little is known of what Wahed calls the Forgotten Exodus. Fourth-year Commerce student and president of Hoos for Israel Matthew Rubin was touched by Wahed's story, printed in National Review.

---

Life

In the middle of a mid-college crisis

By Megan Peloquin | November 5, 2003

I have this odd obsession with time. I think it's a control issue -- because time is intangible and constantly running, I am a fanatic about keeping track of it -- to an embarrassing degree. Oh yes, I'm the girl who slashes each and every day in her planner as they end.

---

Life

Renaissance Man

By Hannah Woolf | November 5, 2003

A smallish, sprightly man darts through parkedcars at the Aquatic & Fitness Center. Students may recognize him as "Bill, that guy who writes tickets." Bill Kelley is a 61-year-old man who may look his age, but he certainly doesn't act it. When he walks he bounces.

---

Life

Don't sweat the job hunt

By Neela Pal | November 5, 2003

"Work It!" exclaims the cover of Allison Hemming's book, which can be found among the shelves of resources at the University Career Center.

---

Life

Hear O Israel

By Elizabeth Katz | November 4, 2003

Petite and feminine with bright eyes and a big smile, it's hard to imagine first-year College student Michal Duvdevani serving as a lieutenant in the Israeli army. It's hard to imagine how she felt when her mother was rescued from a bombed building or how she feels when she reads the news and sees the names of her friends listed among the casualties. At 22, she has seen more tragedy and has been under more intense pressure than most of her fellow first years probably will experience in their entire lives. These experiences have forced her to mature more quickly than many of the American students around her, giving her a unique perspective on the value of life, the importance of family and citizenship and the meaning of the college experience. Michal's family immigrated to Israel generations ago and has been very supportive of the country that saved them from European persecution.

---

Life

Escaping reality

By Brett Meeks | November 4, 2003

It's that guy sitting in front of you in class doing the crossword instead of taking notes. It's the people who play video games for hours at a time instead of doing their homework.

---

Life

Red-eyed in Iceland

By Jason Motlaugh | November 3, 2003

Modern legend has it that Icelanders are world-class hedonists, burning with a strain of cabin fever that only 20+ hours of daily blackout during winter can breed.

---

Life

Separating work and play in a technological world is no easy 'multi'task

By Lytle Wurtzel | November 3, 2003

Although it may be hard to recall during this spell of beautiful fall weather, it was not too long ago that Hurricane Isabel blew through Charlottesville. In writing about the aftermath of the storm, I mentioned how refreshing it was to have a momentary break from the computer, cell phones and email. Apparently, I am not the only one who questions our reliance on technological devices to get through the day.

---

Life

Major decisions

By Meghan Moran | November 3, 2003

There are an inevitable series of questions adults ask college students upon first meeting. "So where do you go to school?" "What's your major?" A stop by the Arts and Sciences Council Majors fair might be beneficial for the many University students who still answer this last question with the catch-all "undecided." In Newcomb Ballroom today, from 11 a.m.

---

Life

Color Scheme

By Chad Anderson | October 31, 2003

People making their way down Rugby Road cannot help but notice that the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house is bright yellow.

---

Life

Odds & Ends

By Jennifer McDaniel | October 31, 2003

Tonight from 4 to 6 p.m. the Lawn will be given over by its usual college student inhabitants to children from the Charlottesville community, clad in disguises ranging from princesses and monsters, to our dear Cavalier himself.

---

Life

Sound Bytes

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 31, 2003

I just wanted to say good luck to the rugby team at States this weekend. -- Repeat Caller I just want to say that strip Metro Center is absolute sheer genius.

---

Life

Taste Buds

By Allison Correll and Daniel Stern | October 31, 2003

Sushi and Noodles. So says the headline at the top of Sakura's dinner menu. But as we found on a wet Monday night, this Corner establishment, specializing in all forms of Japanese cuisine is much, much more. Located adjacent to Frank's Pizza on 14th Street, Sakura has a flare for both the traditional and the exotic as its chefs master the art that is sushi and sashimi making.

---

Life

Body Art

By Neela Pal | October 30, 2003

Second-year College student Ben Justice was at the Commerce School Career Fair, conversing professionally with suit-and-tied business folk, when an unsettling thought suddenly crossed his mind: Hidden underneath his collared dress shirt -- safe from the eyes of future employers -- lay 10 tattoos spread all over his torso. "I couldn't help but think yeah, my body's covered in ink," Justice said.

---

Life

Cell phone shrinkage in society today

By Elizabeth Stanek | October 30, 2003

Picture this scenario: Carrie Bradshaw, needing some technological intimacy, is spooning with her laptop after a rendezvous with Mr. Big who failed to cuddle.

---

Life

Scandalous creations

By Patricia Cooper | October 30, 2003

Ghastly wigs and grisly bodysuits. Magical capes and spooky masks. While Halloween traditionally entails concealing your identity in a scary witch or ghost costume, many people have altered the practice.

---

Life

Project Art

By Matt Galati | October 29, 2003

Big, ugly, red construction walls. These eight-foot-tall eyesores stretch throughout Grounds from the Aquatic and Fitness Center to Lambeth Field.

---

Life

Retraction

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 29, 2003

The Cavalier Daily regrets to acknowledge that significant portions of the Monday, Oct. 27 Life

---

Life

Explore the alternative

By Neela Pal | October 29, 2003

"To bring together members of the University community who would not have otherwise interacted in their usual social spheres, in a common goal of service to the global community and cultural awareness and understanding." So reads the mission statement of Alternative Spring Break, a fairly new and independent CIO on Grounds. The organization's expansive ideology is reflected in its ambitious plans for Spring Break every year.

---

Life

Return of the hated acronym: The GRE makes high school's SAT seem like child's play

By Alexandra Valint | October 29, 2003

A level of Dante's hell should be reserved for the GREs. And by that I mean for the nefarious, sadistic individual who had the brilliant idea of torturing poor (literally, the test costs $115) stressed fourth-years with a slow and painful death by bombardment of multiple choice questions. To all you lucky, blessed students who are ignorant of the Graduate Record Examination (which is very few I'm sure, since everyone these days is going to graduate school.