Life

Seeing diversity

Students from all backgrounds will come together tonight to participate in "U.Va. in 20/20, how is your vision?," a program sponsored by the Minority Rights Coalition and Student Council. The Coalition is comprised of the Asian Student Union, the Black Student Alliance, the Latin Student Union, the National Organization for Women and the Queer Student Union. Third-year College student Katy Shrum, president of the University chapter of the National Organization for Women, said the purpose of the Coalition is to build community and to help students realize that all oppression is interrelated. M.

Checking Out of Hilton Hell

Just shoot me in the sinus with a Prozac-laced blow dart already, because I've had enough.The Hilton sisters absolutely destroy me.

Odds & Ends

Hurricane Isabel came and went this weekend, leaving behind her a trail of downed trees, flooded roads and pools of candle wax.

The Collar Conundrum: Up or Down

Icome from a preppy public school about 15 minutes outside of one of the most conservative cities in the country -- our nation's capital: Washington, D.C.

Biker Biologists

It is a biologist's office -- there can be no doubt about that. Textbooks line the walls -- "Embryology," "Developmental Biology," "Genetics," among many others.

South Lawn cinema

Streaking is a University tradition, but not many students would expect to be belligerently jogging in the buff down Main Street at age 30 with a jiggling beer gut and a receding hairline.

Move-in day: After a long day of carrying all the necessary equipment a first-year student needs for survival (laundry basket, sheets and a poster showing the many different kinds of cocktails one can make with orange juice), the exhausted 18 year olds sit in a circle around their RA. As they move from person to person, participating in the often cheesy ice breakers, they exchange names.

Fourth-year last resorts

Like the enigmatic odor of the Castle, there is a cryptic tale that wafts from the mouths of the ramen noodle-praising first years.

The Sweetest Sound

Whether or not they choose to admit it, many University students take Joe Raposo's advice to heart.

'Hoo cares about Isabel?

It's hard to complain about nice weather. Take yesterday, for example. Students lounge in the sun, posing with their books while enjoying the feeling of sunglasses on their faces.

You're so vain

Last May, as my friends and I caravaned down to Wilmington, N.C. for Beach Week, we enjoyed the usual stellar sights of I-95 South -

Fear and Roaming

They told me I was the first white boy who'd ever said more than "hi" to them. Me, I was just looking for some shade.

Sharing Spaces

It is the stereotypical dream home -- that comfortable little pale blue house adorned with a white picket fence, vibrantly colored flowers stretching across the front porch, the smell of fresh cookies baking in the oven and the family dog running around the yard.

Speed learning

University Programs Council wants to teach you how to bartend, belly dance and breakdance, among other things.

The Man in Black

It's all over now baby blue. Damn right -- Johnny Cash is dead. His wife having died in May, Cash followed to join her in the great beyond, perhaps trading in his traditional black garb for white, pending St.

All in the Family

Bonds made in college can last a lifetime. After surviving four years of blood, sweat, tears and beers, college buddies may even begin to feel like family.

Back attack

College life can be a real pain in the back. For one, there are huge textbooks to tote around -- the ones that seem to weigh down a backpack as quickly as they lighten a wallet.

The Cavalier Daily Crossword

ACROSS 1. Rugged rock 5. What happens when the smog lifts in southern CA? 9. Ejects forcefully 14.

Taking one for the team

They all wear uniforms issued by the University as they walk off the field after a rigorous practice.

Odds & Ends

Hours were spent brainstorming and thinking, writing and editing, improving and perfecting ... and eventually the dreaded college admissions essays were complete.