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Off the streets

Forty-six-year-old Rick Martin lives a happy and fulfilling life. He has been married for several years, has a baby on the way and has a rewarding career as an at-risk youth coordinator at the Fan Free Clinic in Richmond.


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Averting the 'Fourth-year Fifth'

U.Va. is known for its traditions. Most of them are harmless. One, however, has proven to be deadly. The "fourth-year fifth" entails fourth-year students drinking a fifth of liquor during the last home football game of the season. In 1997, Leslie Baltz died from an alcohol related incident on game day.


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Professor Profiles

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures RUTR 335: 19th Century Russian Literature RUSS 552: The Rise of the Russia Novel Q: What educational path led you to U.Va.? A: I went to Harvard as an undergraduate, and majored in Slavic languages and literature.


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ODDS & ENDS

In Latin, "vox" means "voice." And so VOX, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood, is dedicated to giving 18- to 25-year-olds a voice in advocating reproductive health. Completely student run, the new organization is not merely a spokesgroup for Planned Parenthood, said fourth-year College student Emily Damgaard, VOX vice president.


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How to make awitty toast

My dad throws dinner parties with kaleidoscope colored hors d'oeuvre platters and it-ain't-just-for-rappers-Kristal every day of the week that ends with "Y." Why?


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Handcrafted Community

It is a clear, brisk Saturday afternoon and the wind is capricious. Traipsing down the brick walkway of the Downtown Mall, passing by assorted shops, you wind your way through a cosmopolitan crowd. Tables, stands and booths begin to appear along the walkway closer to the Mall's center.


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Odds and Ends

After a quick glance at a bulletin board in Cabell Hall, you could have your schedule for next week filled with concerts, lectures, plays and symposia. The abundance of colored flyers and posters, stapled over each other in efforts to be in the foreground, illustrates the sheer number of organizations at the University that regularly host events.


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Eye spy

Eight miles outside Rockhill, N.C., there's a small, family-owned dairy farm. And on this farm there lived some cows. And on this farm, there lived a very bright 6-year-old student at Winthrop Training School who would trade in his milk pail for a chance to revolutionize the way handicapped people interact with the world. Sixty years later, Engineering Prof.


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Sound Bytes

"She was undeniably really, really cute in face and other physical attributes, yet shivering against the cold there in front of the main entrance to Thornton Hall.


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Making connections

The idea of trying to get a job in New York City conjures up images of living in overpriced, tiny apartments while working two menial jobs and jumping at every opportunity to get hired somewhere else. But it doesn't have to be that hard. Next Tuesday, University Career Services will hold an information meeting about the New York Recruiting Alliance for third- and fourth-year students interested in a job or an internship in New York. The NYRA is made up of career services staff from U.Va., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Smith College and Northwestern University. The alliance serves as a liaison between students at those schools and companies in New York who are interested in hiring them. After the information session, students from any school can drop off their resumes in the UCS office by Jan.


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Getting an early start on skipping school

I'd like to say that my college academic fallacies can be traced back to second grade, the year I rocked the charts and skipped a whopping 29 days of school. At an early age I discovered there was a world outside the confines of idiotic sock-puppet classroom humor.


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A New Chapter

Latin by tradition, not by definition. The women of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc. resolutely practice their binding code.


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ODDS & ENDS

If you haven't made it past O-Hill Dining Hall or the Pav this semester, then get your taste buds ready for Thursday night's Taste of Charlottesville. The event, which will take place at Alumni Hall, features popular dishes from local restaurants. Sponsored by the Alumni Association, TOC is a chance to thank Student Life Members for their commitment to the University, while satisfying their appetites with great grub. "This is a very special way for us to thank student members for their contribution," Alumni Association Assoc.


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This Old House

Fourth-year College student Meghan Fleming was in need of some playing cards. But searching through a drawer in her college house, she didn't find a deck -- she found Confederate money. "You never know what you're going to find," Fleming said.


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Rotunda Stop...

Courtney Hagen -- Fourth-year CollegeMargaret Kramer -- Fourth-year Engineering Q: How do you two feel about the fall season in Charlottesville and at U.


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Smile! There's no escaping your First-Year Face Book picture

Last year I was one of five girls in my senior class to be voted "Most likely to be Presi-dent." Not that being politically oriented is a bad thing, but if you knew me, you would realize why this "honor" carried an air of absurdity. For one, I hate "leading" because I always end up doing all the work (or maybe I have a hard time trusting other people -- but that's a whole web of psychoanalysis for another day).Besides, you should see the other girls who were selected. Yearbook at my school practically was a career, run by an oligarchy of overachievers who made it their mission to document every single aspect of our all-girls' school life, annoying the student body to no end in the process.They snapped useless pictures and wrote copy that no one ever reads in the name of "Quill and Scroll" awards.


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Professor Profiles

Department of English ENNC 831: Victorian Intellectual Prose Q: Where did you get your degree? A: Harvard -- I was an undergraduate and graduate student there. Q: How did you get interested in the media? A: Well, I've always liked television.

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On this episode of On Record, we sit down with Lela Garner, sustainability manager of student outreach and engagement at U.Va. Sustainability. Garner discusses sustainability initiatives on Grounds, the 2030 U.Va. Sustainability Plan and Earth Month celebrations.