P rejudice, ignorance, silence, self-segregation and racism - these words frequently were used over the past few weeks to describe the existing racial tension between black and white students on Grounds. It is easier for many whites to relegate racial discrimination to an era that lasted up until half a century ago, when the legal system formally segregated the population.
By Lytle Wurtzel Cavalier Daily Associate Editor "Spread the message and the love." Walking down the Lawn this week, you might hear this shout coming from one of the Lawn tables as someone throws a hand up in your face. But this isn't a 1970s revival and that hand isn't flashing a peace sign - this is a whole new movement.Gimme five, man: the first National High Five Day is Thursday. Third-year College students Wynn Walent and Conor Lastowka are co-founders of the movement to bring national attention to an age-old greeting. "Our hope is that in 10 years the holiday will be legitimate and sanctioned by the government," Walent said.
Driving up the gravel road behind 15 West Lawn, Todd Ward parks the U.S. Postal vehicle, hops out of the right side and grabs the day
For all those students who have a particular interest in the crash of thunder or the terror of a hurricane, tonight you'll have the opportunity to hear John Scala speak from his own personal experience as a severe storm meteorologist for the Weather Channel. Coincidentally, Scala received both his masters and doctorate degrees in environmental sciences from the University. Scala's graduate research took him to the Amazon rain forest of Brazil in 1987, where he helped design and implement a data network for sampling the environment of thunderstorms that developed over the jungle. Further project research has led Scala to Cape Canaveral, North Dakota, Colorado and Lake Michigan.
Criticism is hard for anyone to take, particularly if it's one's own work being picked through with a fine-toothed comb. Dave Sbarra, a Graduate Arts and Sciences student, imagines standing in a hallway, waiting for a team of professors in the room to finish tearing up a paper that has consumed most of his waking hours for the past few years. Sbarra said he pictures a fellow classmate walking by and asking him how he's been doing.
Skillfully maneuvering enormous buses around tiny cones and showing off their knowledge of the road, students took a bumpy ride at the annual University Transit Services bus rodeo Saturday afternoon. Organized by fourth-year College student Kate Brooker, an outgoing UTS driving relations supervisor, the rodeo was open to anyone who wanted to take a shot behind the wheel of a bus. "You don't have to have your commercial driver's license to drive in the rodeo because it's in a blocked-off parking lot," said UTS driver Brian Gross, a third-year College student.
I really think people would make a lot less war and a preponderance of love if stewardesses were everywhere. I'm not saying completely remove the skirted saints from the miles of high above.
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O n Monday, fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces erupted around the Church of the Nativity complex, where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.
By Alexandra Valint Cavalier Daily Associate Editor How would you blend together little pieces of wisdom, years of teaching and random personal experiencesinto a comprehensible 20-minute lecture?
All right, we're not saying that spending an evening at Palladio Restaurant at Barboursville Vineyards is going to be cheap.
Night is the most common time for violence against women, whether it is in the form of domestic violence or sexual assault. Tonight hundreds of University students and Charlottesville residents will gather to reclaim the night as a time of safety for the female gender and as a time to increase awareness of the prevalence of violence against women. The University's 13th annual Take Back the Night protest also will provide an opportunity for the survivors of such attacks to share their stories. The rally serves as a time for education and for celebration. "We use a lot of different kinds of performers," said second-year College student Lara Eilhardt, vice president of the University chapter of the National Organization for Women and this year's head of programming.
I write today on behalf of all the girls out there who, like myself, particularly are puzzled at a certain aspect of male behavior.
There is something too daunting about an unknown future, about the years to come, which are as cloudy as an overly chlorinated swimming pool in suburbia.
As the semester winds down and the University heads toward exams, stress levels rise in proportion to the number of term papers and art projects that soon will be due. The University Programs Council offered students a break from that stress yesterday under the Big White Tent outside of Newcomb Hall by hiring three professional massage therapists to give free massages. Fourth-year College student Christen Pendleton said her massage was "awesome." "I had an hour to kill before a meeting and I saw a flyer," Pendleton said.
Printed neatly at the top of our syllabi each semester, office hours are announced almost as quickly as they are forgotten.
By Christine Wilder "Masiari!" "Ndaa!" My companion for the day, a second-year Nursing student, raised his arm to the old man who had greeted us. "What does that mean?" I asked. "It's a greeting - like good afternoon." "Un-dah," I attempted. "No, no!
By Lytle Wurtzel Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Tonight, Camille Cooper of "General Hospital" fame reveals that the beauty of a soap opera star does not always exist before the director calls "lights, camera, action." As Cooper discloses, beauty in the media industry is not a product of a simple directionbut, rather, a labor of lighting, camera filters and touch-ups. Billed as the "big ticket" event of Health and Wellness Week, Cooper's talk, "The American Beauty Myth," is sponsored by the Health Unity Council.
By Laura Good Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Medical doctors are known for their reception of fame, glory and of course, money.
S trolling out of Observatory Hill Dining Hall with full stomachs, or even fuller carry-out boxes, a small audience of diners often gathers near the bulletin board plastered with yellow suggestions slips. "We typically stop and review the comment cards about three times a week or whenever updated," first-year College student Carrie Keefe said.
