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Life

The Search Is On

In the days after the World Trade Center collapsed into a mound of melted steel and dust in Lower Manhattan, few living things could be seen roving through the wreckage.


Life

The Revival

After a day of destruction, the healing began with prayer. On the night of Sept. 11, less than 12 hours after the first attack on the World Trade Center, thousands gathered on the south Lawn to grieve together.


Life

Odds and Ends

ITC reduces paper waste By Julie Hofler Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Each month 85 trees are cut down to provide paper for University students who wish to print out assignments in the 19 Information and Technology Communication computer labs.


Life

Teen Beat

Dave Matthews used to practice in this Charlottesville studio. A painted poster from one of his fans that portrays the song "Proudest Monkey" still hangs there, but the band has moved on.


Life

The Price Is Right

I t's been three weeks since you last made the trek to the supermarket. You are in dire need of the college necessities: Hot Pockets, Easy Mac, Double Stuff Oreos, Tostitos Chips and Salsa, strawberry NutriGrain bars and a 12-pack of Bud Light.


Life

Odds and Ends

Dome Room houses thoughts on homelessness By Ryann Collins Cavalier Daily Associate Editor If you think homelessness doesn't affect you, think again.


Life

Practice Makes Perfect

There's typical and then there's typical. Sometimes what separates the two are religious values and beliefs that determine how many times a day you pray, whether or not you drink, and the kinds of stereotypes you might have to deal with.


Life

Odds and Ends

University student leads a heartwarming effort to save lives By Daniel Stern Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Death is something that most students choose not to think about or, at least, talk about.


Life

S h o p t o t h e b e a t

W hat I need is a good defense, 'cause I'm feeling like a crim inal..." The deep voice of Fiona Apple floats around Ann Taylor Loft in the Barracks Road Shopping Center, enticing people to share her burden.


Life

Hidden from View

I'm scared. You might be carrying a gun under your veil," said a University student when Women's Studies Professor Farzaneh Milani decided to wear a traditional Iranian chador to class in the spring of 1994.


Life

You've Got Mail?

Mary Humphrey stepped back and carefully sureyed the long table full of misplaced mail in Station No.


Life

Pep Band marches to the beat of a

The percussion section starts its cadence and about 120 members of the pep band take off and do anything and everything on their way to take their positions for the first song. The Virginia Pep Band consists of students from every year and every school - and even some alumni that are only students at heart - and plays at men's basketball and football games. "Basically you take out everything that sucked about marching band in high school," said third-year Education student Heather Pozun, the director of the pep band.


Life

Wedding day turned weekend photo shoot

I finally understand where Steve Martin was coming from. As the movie "Father of the Bride" opens, his character reclines in an oversized chair, removing his shoes like Mr. Rogers, and explains that he once thought a wedding was a simple case of boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, they find a ring and a dress, then say "I do." Having just experienced his daughter's wedding, the exhausted father of the bride says he was wrong.


Life

Odds and Ends

All you can eat By Daniel Stern Cavalier Daily Associate Editor It's a Thursday night and your wallet is a bit too thin to fund a trip to Cafe Europa or a call to the College Inn.

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Since the Contemplative Commons opening April 4, the building has hosted events for the University community. Sam Cole, Commons’ Assistant Director of Student Engagement, discusses how the Contemplative Sciences Center is molding itself to meet students’ needs and provide a wide range of opportunities for students to discover contemplative practices that can help them thrive at the University.