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ON FIRE

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.


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Shabbat Shalom

The Chabad Jewish Heritage Students Association tonight is hosting a "Shabbat Dinner Like Your Bubbe Used to Make" at 8:30 p.m.


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Sound Bytes

"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.


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Style File

When I was in eighth grade, I woke up one morning and made a rather startling realization: I had a pink room!


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Singing Their Hearts Out

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.


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Odds and Ends

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.


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Rotunda Stop...

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.


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Homeward

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.


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A NEW DAY

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.


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Days That Define A Nation

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.


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It pays to tailgate

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.


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Highlytes

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.


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Odds & Ends

It's new and improved. It's bigger and better. There's only one catch -- it won't be done for another 16 months. The construction currently taking place at the Aquatic & Fitness Center has caused more than a few stretched necks. According to Intramural-Recreational Sports, the final project will include a three-court gymnasium, an indoor jogging track, multipurpose rooms to accommodate aerobics, yoga, dance and martial arts, additional free weight space and an expansion of the existing space for cardiovascular exercise and cycling classes. One problem associated with the construction, however, is parking.


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Sound Bytes

"There's lots of hot chicks at U. Va." -- Infatuated First Year The conversion of Dabney and Tuttle computer labs seems more like an underhanded accounting move than an attempt to help students.

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As the Cavalier Marching Band wraps up an exciting season, Taran Gupta, drum major and fourth-year Engineering student, discusses the energy, creativity and leadership behind CMB. From halftime performances to long rehearsals, Gupta reflects on how CMB contributes to game day atmosphere and strengthens student community on Grounds.