Life

Life

Early thanks giving

By Katie Sullivan | November 7, 2002

Have you thanked your cafeteria lady lately? Despite occasional complaints about long lines and repetitive food, first years know they couldn't survive without Observatory Hill Dining Hall and its staff. Last Saturday, a group of first years demonstrated their appreciation by declaring an O-Hill Appreciation Day, marked by a "wall of appreciation" in the dining hall. Four first-year students got the idea as part of a group project for their University seminar. "It was a loving kindness project," first-year College student Erin Dorsey said.

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Life

Song of Solidarity

By Josie Roberts | November 7, 2002

First of four articles exploring the value of cultural communications and those who cross racial boundries. To an outsider, a Black Voices rehearsal might look like chaos.

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Life

Rotunda Stop...

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 6, 2002

Q: How do you align yourself politically? A: Democrat. Q: Who did you vote for? A: I voted for Richards. Q: Why did you vote for her? A: I'm a Democrat.

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Life

Saddle up

By Laura Good | November 6, 2002

Trekking 30 minutes outside of Charlottesville along scenic back roads lined with trees bursting with fall color, Madison House volunteers arrive at the entrance to the Fried family farm where grazing cows greet them.

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An older brother offers pre-homecoming advice on dates, dads and dinner conversation

By Preston Speed | November 6, 2002

When I visited my family two weekends ago, I offered to help my younger brother Mike pick up some new dress clothes for his high school homecoming dance.

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Life

ODDS & ENDS

By Lytle Wurtzel | November 6, 2002

After several months of publicity, yesterday's elections had students running to the polls and their mailboxes to cast their vote. Of course, at the top of the priority list lies the referendum to pass the General Obligation Bond.

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Losing the name game, finding a new sense of self in Florence

By Gami Gutman | November 5, 2002

My number was up. After several hours of sitting on a cold, hard, metal bench, it was finally my turn to speak to someone.

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Life

The Funny Pages

By Acacia Gaski | November 5, 2002

On Sunday mornings, the comics came out to play -- huge, half-page, in-living-color spreads of "Garfield," "Calvin and Hobbes" and "Peanuts." We ripped open plastic, struggled with pages so obviously not made for miniature arms, and laughed at the little slices of imagined life neatly begun and ended within allotted spaces.

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Life

Professor Profiles

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 5, 2002

Chair, Department of Classics LATI 716: Roman Religion and Latin Literature Q: What was your educational path to the University of Virginia?

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Major decisions

By Laura Good | November 5, 2002

A flurry of students unsure about how to answer the "What's your major?" question roamed the Majors Fair yesterday.

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Life

Tunnel Vision

By Beth Bland | November 4, 2002

Tunnelers say that graffiti splatters the curved steel walls from ceiling to floor. Scrawled in orange and red spray paint - and readable only with a flashlight - sayings like "Satan lives here" line the inside of the University's steam tunnels.

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Historian's Corner

By Steve Ander and The University Guide Service | November 4, 2002

Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette were great friends separated by an ocean (Marquis de Lafayette being the famous French general who enlisted with George Washington in 1777 to fight for American independence). However, their friendship remained through correspondence after Jefferson, serving as the Minister to France, returned from France in 1789.

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Life

Odds and Ends

By Lauren Akselrod | November 4, 2002

Remember when you were a little kid and building with Legos was the ultimate challenge? Or were you more of a dress up and play house kind of child? Advocates of the former probably would jump at the chance to take a course like Professor Bean's Introduction to Engineering class.

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Life

Say What

By Jake Hostetter | November 4, 2002

Sometimes, I really get these monster, Godzilla Tokyo-stompin' type headaches that blow my brains out each one of my ears, a right nostril and other more heavily trafficked orifices below the equator line.

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Sounds Bytes

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 1, 2002

"So, I've been deciding what to be for Halloween. Like any good friend trying to help, my housemate emerges from her room with eight -- count them, eight!

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Within RANGE

By Angela Manese-Lee | November 1, 2002

Honor and prestige, two concepts immediately associated with living on the Lawn. With their gold engraved nameplates, wood-burning fireplaces and requisite rocking chairs, these rooms reward their undergraduate occupants with housing steeped in tradition. Yet just past the Lawn, in the outer realms of Mr. Jefferson's Academical Village, sit rows of rooms equally steeped in tradition, although the graduate housing is hardly acknowledged.

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Odds & Ends

By Alexandra Valint | November 1, 2002

The Lawn wasn't the only place to hang out on Halloween for Charlottesville kids. The Black Student Alliance transformed the Newcomb Ballroom with spirited orange-and-black decorations for the first-ever Harvest Fun Festival. Kids and their parents started shuffling in around 4:30 p.m.

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Baggby's fails for lunch -- add it to the don't pile

By Chris Makarsky and Thomas Ross | November 1, 2002

If you're downtown and trying to avoid the hassle and cost of a sit-down restaurant, you can drop by Baggby's Gourmet Sandwiches.

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Life

LIZ-ISMS

By Elizabeth Stanek | October 31, 2002

Are you tired of standing on the boring Halloween costume sidelines of life? Were you the one last year wearing khakis, a flannel shirt and a stick-on nametag that read "Hello my name is: Brandon Walsh"? Or, was it you that had on massive hoop earrings, blue eye shadow and screamed "Can't you tell I'm Jessie Spano?" If one of these situations describes you, then you might need costume help.

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Take it or leave it

By Katie Sullivan | October 31, 2002

As constant rain and freezing temperatures remind us winter is on the way, Facilities Management is paying attention to a different sign of the season -- all the leaves on the ground. "We haven't started getting the leaves up yet because the trees are just now starting to drop," Landscape Supervisor Rich Hopkins said.