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Training Day

By Elizabeth Katz | February 20, 2003

"Are you going to be able to handle a $250,000, 35-feet-long, eight-feet-wide, 13-ton-vehicle? Can you deal with people who are going to yell at you?" Affirmative answers to questions such as these are merely the beginning of what is an intense preparation to become a University Transit Service driver such as second-year College student David Rogge. Students rarely question the training and safety precautions of UTS drivers as they ride buses to class each day.

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Hungry? Why Wait? Pita Pit feeds snowed-in students

By Elizabeth Stanek | February 20, 2003

Last Saturday was just like any other Saturday afternoon in Charlottesville. The white stuff peppered down on University Avenue and owners of the bestial Land Cruiser preened as their heads grew ten sizes while their 4-wheel drive careened through the snow with cocky declarations of "How do you like this SUV now!" And I (to be perfectly candid) was lying on the couch, my mouth watering at "The Naked Chef" -- Food TV's spastic Brit who is constantly firing things up for his oh-so-close knit circle of "rugby" pals. You see, I was a tad bit hungry with this whole "blizzard" thing going on, but times were tough.

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Travel in St. Petersburg: individualism vs. collectivism

By Fifi Donovan, James Zoller and Molly Clancy | February 19, 2003

The six of us arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia prepared for six weeks in a new city, immersed in a completely different culture.

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Hoos on TV

By Beth Bland | February 19, 2003

A toned-down "Sex and the City" meets the University tonight at the premiere of this year's new programming for HooTV. The many people who came together to produce one of the newest HooTV shows attempt to bring viewers into the lives of four fictional University students through a new soap series, "Wahoo Sisterhood." The account of the experiences of Riley, Winter, Savannah and Sydney, the main characters of "Sisterhood," is a first for HooTV.

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Wintry mixed feelings: or, the power of first year

By Megan Peloquin | February 19, 2003

I'm not just talking about the snow, which I am sure you all can expect is just about killing me right now.

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New Frontiers

By Patricia Cooper | February 19, 2003

The biggest news in small-town Virginia could be the installation of its first stoplight or the grand opening of a new Target.

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Highlytes

By Lytle Wurtzel | February 18, 2003

Now is the winter of our discontent. With another foot of snow on the ground and more on the way, it's not surprising that many of us feel our good moods have been frozen solid since the holidays. While Charlottesville's winter wonderland holds a certain fascination for me as a native Floridian, I can see how the novelty might have worn off long ago for everyone else. Despite the fact that I haven't been warm in two months, I'm more concerned with the other effects that winter brings on its back. I'm talking about Seasonal Affective Disorder, which psychologists aptly refer to as S.A.D.

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Professor Profile

By Meghan Moran | February 18, 2003

ENAM 314: African-American Literature Survey II Q: If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be? A: Well I guess if I don't take my husband I'd be in trouble. Q: What is your ideal Valentine's Day date? A: Well it's not really romantic.

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Odds & Ends

By Patricia Cooper | February 18, 2003

With a fresh frosting of snow carpeting the University, Grounds is a veritable winter wonderland.

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321 contact

By Lauren Fischer | February 18, 2003

Tucked away in a back corridor of the Curry School in Ruffner Hall, the Student Virginia Education Association bulletin might easily be overlooked.

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Odds & Ends

By Meghan Moran | February 14, 2003

A glamorous Valentine's Day evening full of dancing, drinks, cocktails and crudites is within your reach this Feb.

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Taste Buds

By Thomas Ross and Teresa Tung | February 14, 2003

Today is Valentine's Day, and if you're just realizing that now, you're probably already in hot water with your significant other and need to make it up to him or her.

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Singled Out

By Elizabeth Wilmer | February 14, 2003

It's that time of year again. Couples prepare to celebrate relationships. Singles complain. Everything mysteriously turns pink and red -- from drugstores to television ads to the halls of elementary schools across the country.

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Sound Bytes

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 14, 2003

Okay. I'm not an alcoholic or anything, I just wanted to buy my friend a nice bottle of something for Valentine's Day.

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Got Greek?

By Neela Pal | February 13, 2003

Sorority lip balms and kleenexes decorate the countertop. Fraternity shot glasses and visors line the walls.Spools of ribbons and plush teddy bears fill the shelves.

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Open Discussion

By Jennifer McDaniel | February 13, 2003

Q: "How do you like your eggs?" A: "Germany." Q: "Where do you live?" A: "I like it." After this kind of crazy, nonsense jibber jabber associated with unavoidable silly icebreakers, seven first-year students accompanied by three upper-class facilitators began to slowly work their way deeper into conversation while sitting in a luxury suite at Scott Stadium on a chilly Tuesday evening. Q: "Why did you choose to come to U.Va.?" A: "I love it here and wanted to follow in my brother's footsteps." Q: "What is your favorite thing about first semester?" A: "Snowball fights on the Lawn!" These students comprised one small group section of first year seminar, a unique program offered second semester to randomly-chosen first year students.

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Imitating Mick: Rocking it out with leather pants

February 13, 2003

He's the hottest senior citizen in town (aside from Sean Connery, of course). After making four decades of women swoon, he's well into capturing a fifth.

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Bridging the Gap

By Neela Pal | February 12, 2003

When third-year Engineering students Justin Steele and Ermias Abebe do venture out of the E-school and into Gilmer 130, they are used to sitting in the audience seats.The evening of Feb 4, however, found them standing at the front of the auditorium, facing a few hundred of their peers. That Tuesday night the two stood prepared to teach others about their own history through a presentation entitled "Connecting Communities: A Look at Current Race Relations through the Lens of Black History at U.Va." "Preaching to the choir" The presentation was first introduced to the public a semester ago, but at that time the audience make-up was almost entirely African-American.Steele noted that originally the presentation had been geared toward African-American students and was publicized with that in mind. "The initial statement of purpose was to increase ownership of African-American students -- so that they could say U.Va.

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From third grade to third year and beyond, Valentine's Day wreaks havoc in the lives of men

By Preston Speed | February 12, 2003

It's that time of year again -- romance is in the air. Come Friday, Charlottesville will be littered with flowers, chocolates and girls wearing pink and red accessories.

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We're listening

By Beth Bland | February 12, 2003

Madison House is home to many community service programs here at the University. There is, however, one program that is virtually unknown. HELPline, a "confidential, anonymous, empathetic, non-directive, non-judgmental listening service," has been a program at Madison House for years, but never has gotten much publicity.