Something new has landed in the Lambeth residence area. And it's not just the latest wave of students. WTJU, a University-owned radio station broadcast on 91.1 FM, has moved its headquarters from Peabody Hall to Lambeth Commons, and in the process, it has acquired a swankier studio. "The old studio was wall-to-wall with albums.
Hoop dreams Ever had the chance to see one of your professors scurrying around a basketball court in shorts and sneakers?
Driving down Route 29, the Blue Ridge Mountains seem to call out to Ashley Meeks every time she returns to Charlottesville. "I want to get out there," she often says to herself. Like many University students and area residents, the fourth-year College student is captivated by some of Albemarle County's most well-known landmarks.
Enter through the Scott Stadium doorway labeled Bryant Hall in bronze letters and expect to find a conventional football stadium.
Dear Dockter Duval,I've finally made it to college and everyone keeps talking about how many beautiful girls are at the University.
Women kick butt You're a woman walking home alone late at night and you're feeling spooked out.
Jolting U.Va. students into organization Have no fear, jolted first-years: The Daily Jolt is here. Every aspect of the University experience, social and academic, is intense. And your first year, even trying to find everything you need -- from location of classes to a specific Greek-lettered building down Rugby -- can be painstakingly difficult. The University "Daily Jolt" is a new Web site designed to help University students with everything from eating out to scheduling classes on time, said second-year Engineering student John Mell, one of the two designers of the Web site. Related Links The Daily Jolt @ UVA   The site comes complete with a discussion forum on University issues, a marketplace similar to the auctioning behemoth eBay, a listing of movies and TV shows relevant to college students, and an abundance of important University links, including ISIS and the Course Offering Directory. To produce the Web site, Mell and a friend, second-year Engineering student Jason Kearns, had to put in a lot of time over the summer. "Instead of working on my summer job, I did this," Mell said. "The Daily Jolt" is a network of collegiate Web sites designed to provide students with a compilation of convenient, useful links.
Like the majority of jaded Americans looking to waste half their life savings in one summer outing, I went to an amusement park this past August.
Mmmm. Chik Fil-A. Mocha-Java Shakes. Taco Bell. All-you-can-eat dining halls with soft-serve frozen yogurt.
Imagine yourself laid out on the white sand beach of a tropical island -- palm trees rustling around you while you alternate between sipping on the rum and coke in your left hand and chewing on the world-class cigar in your right.
Residential phone service. It seems so simple. Run a line here, flip a switch there and voila!. But at the beginning of the school year, when Charlottesville teems with thousands of students, hooking up efficient phone service isn't so simple -- especially when there's only one residential phone company in town. Sprint, the dominant provider in Charlottesville, faces a glut of service requests at the beginning of the year, and as the requests pile up, so do the complaints. Students living off Grounds moan about delayed or forgotten service appointments as well as being put on hold for too long. Like Jody Flipper.
Get your bike on Businessmen on their way to work, dressed up in suits, briefcases in tow.
Two weeks after living like a celebrity in Ireland, Alison Cunnane leans back in a chair in Alderman Cafe, speaks modestly and describes what she calls the "calm-me-down process." She's back in Virginia now, settling into her classes and juggling her many extra-curricular activities, but her thoughts are still in Ireland, where she spent 12 days this summer getting back to her Irish roots. This summer, Cunnane was a Rose. A third-year history major from Baltimore, Cunnane represented the Washington, D.C.
Why 'Pi Groove'? For those of you who want to feed your social appetite, but also want to feed your soul, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity has the party for you. This Saturday night starting at 9:30 p.m., three bands will kick off the fraternity's first annual night of charity - "Pi Groove" - benefiting the U.Va.
I learned many things this summer. I learned how to jumpstart a car and how to smile and say thank you convincingly to people who've been terribly rude.
Historical color in Newcomb The once-bland halls of the third floor of Newcomb Hall have become more colorful and diverse lately with the addition of work by Caribbean artist Frank Diaz Escalet, on display at the Art Space gallery until Oct.
With its rolling hills and neoclassical architecture, Charlottesville seems to be the antithesis of an area like Manhattan.
That voice. The girl sitting next to you in your dreaded discussion has this voice you know you've heard somewhere before.
At a University boasting 10 undergraduate and graduate schools, it is not unusual to hear that students on Grounds can be whatever they want to be. Well, make that almost anything.
