Egads! Look out for roaches! The diminutive creatures seemed to swarm first-year dormitories this year as students moved in for fall semester at the University. While smiling RAs attempted to interest the first years in ice-breakers for their first night on Grounds, 3-inch cockroach beasts stared up at the fresh faces with their curious looking eyes, and then quickly scurried away.
It took some whining and negotiating to make it happen, and it might not remain after all is said and done.
After hefty deliberation and five bowls of granola, I decided that I was heading toward a metaphoric abyss -- and that I needed a haircut.
Ears perk up, eyes widen and conversation halts as the latest 911 call is dispatched through the radio system at the Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department.
The Chabad Jewish Heritage Students Association tonight is hosting a "Shabbat Dinner Like Your Bubbe Used to Make" at 8:30 p.m.
Whether looking for a place to impress a date or entertain your parents, look no further than Vivace. This elegant Italian restaurant has a heartwarming ambiance and serves a delicious, traditional cuisine.
"So I'm sitting next to this like blatantly 15-year old kid at the South Carolina game trying to pass himself off as a first year and he insists on coming on to these first years in front of me and yelling the 'Not gay' chant which, you know, is stupid enough, but at least if you go to U.
When I was in eighth grade, I woke up one morning and made a rather startling realization: I had a pink room!
Congregated at the base of the Rotunda steps beneath a stormy sky last week, hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch theUniversity's many a cappella groups perform in the annual Rotunda Sing. Every year, a cappella groups use the event to showcase their ability and to attract talented newcomers into their musical families. Unfailingly impressed by the talent they see at the Rotunda Sing and at other performances around Grounds during the first few days, first-year students always are eager to audition and quickly throw themselves into competition. Vying for a coveted spot in one of the groups, students begin the trial process by signing up for an audition time and preparing a verse and chorus to a song of their choosing. For first-year Engineering student Sol Eskinazi, that song was "Breakfast at Tiffany's." "I just kind of chose it out of the blue," Eskinazi said.
For every bare space on a wall, there is a poster. In fact, the University Bookstore's poster sale has a selection of over 1,000. Under the little white tent in Newcomb Plaza, encased in those heavy black plastic sleeves, are posters whose topics range from art to movies, from music to scenery. First-year College student Daphne Allen already had two posters picked out well before she was ready to go to the cash register.
First-year College Student What is the best trip you've ever taken by bus? The best trip by bus would have to be when I went to Washington, D.C., last year.
The bomb exploded Thursday in Kabul, Marina Omar's home city. She found out in her 8 a.m. English class at Piedmont Virginia Community College, leaving her a day full of hours to worry about her family in Afghanistan, particularly a beloved uncle and two rosy-cheeked cousins. Omar didn't have time to eat that day, let alone try to call home.
It was just a Tuesday morning * I was in my room * The sun came up like always * My alarm clock went off at 9:00 p.m.
Oct. 29, 1929 Stock Market Crash Wall Street, N.Y. "Panic. It is a word that describes a highly intense, contagious fear amongst a large number of people.
On sunny skied football game days, swarms of enthusiastic fans flock to Scott Stadium. They come to root for their home team, support their alma mater, and perhaps most importantly, pre-game. Most season-ticket holders arrive in Charlottesville a few hours prior to the game, filling the parking lots for some quality tailgating, which has become as much a part of the University's football tradition as striped ties and sundresses. Of course, quality tailgating most commonly includes a considerable amount of alcohol. So what allows both fans and students alike to bring alcoholic beverages onto school property on game days? "The Virginia Student Aid Foundation leases the parking spaces in the lots near the stadium from the University on game days," VSAF Executive Director Dirk Katstra said.
Q: How do you like teaching mostly first-year students? A: It's like Groundhog Day every year.
It takes all kinds to be in the V-club. When I was in high school, I decided I no longer wanted to be a virgin.
The checkout aisles are cluttered with the colorful covers: super skinny models wearing skimpy designer clothes.
When the elevator doors open on the third floor of the Monroe Lane Language House, they open to a bookcase full of shoes.
As we begin the third official week of classes today, I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that your planners already are full. No doubt you've pulled them out of your bag countless times since Aug.
