Life

Life

The Man Behind the Mascot

By Christa Dierksheide | November 16, 2000

Eric Gibson is the man with the horse. Every Saturday home football game, Gibson and his horse, Blazer, pull into the Carl Smith Center on Alderman Road as the Cavalier and the Cavalier horse, costumed and ready to gallop onto the field before thousands of cheering fans. Virginia's Cavalier mascot first became popular after the 1990 Citrus Bowl, but Gibson is the first permanent Cavalier mascot at the University, and has been the opening attraction at football games for three years now. "Before Eric, we had the Charlottesville mounted police doing it.

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Life

The Color of Love

By Kelly King | November 15, 2000

(This is the third in a four-part series about dating and relationships at the University.) Niehn To is Vietnamese but has never dated another Vietnamese guy. Still, she didn't hesitate four years ago when she began dating her boyfriend Stephen LeGarde, a fellow fourth-year College student who is white.

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Life

Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 15, 2000

Hip Hop and Money The image of a black rapper cruising along in a BMW and wearing expensive leather clothes on MTV is a common one.

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Life

The ISIS Man Cometh

By Gregg Helvey | November 15, 2000

It's registration time, and once again we encounter that oddly soothing - or agitating - voice, depending on what it has to say.

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Life

Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 14, 2000

International groove Tonight all students have a chance to turn their belly dancing dreams into reality.

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Life

Dockter Duval's Advice Column

November 14, 2000

The other night I walked in on one of my friends hooking up with a girl. The catch is he has a girlfriend, who I am also a friend of as well.

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Life

To recount or not to recount: A state divided

By Christa Dierksheide | November 14, 2000

HIGHLAND BEACH, Fla.-For the past week, Palm Beach has been leading a double life. For most of the year, it's a place where the rich and famous, such as Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey, dwell in pink mansions built on castle-like scale atop the sandy lip of the Atlantic.

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Life

Woody's doors fly open

By Julia Salasky | November 13, 2000

Early Saturday morning, many first-year students awoke to a frenetic banging on the doors of their suites accompanied by loud, disgruntled shouts.

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Life

Days after election, pundits determine one thing: Florida's hot as hell

By Lee Camp | November 13, 2000

I know you're tired of hearing about it, but like every journalist (I use that term loosely) I am contractually obligated to talk about this year's presidential election.

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Life

Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 13, 2000

Children of War Third-year College student Camila Figueroa and third-year Commerce student Federico Avila have been friends since pre-kindergarten.

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Life

University students strut their stuff at Fashion and Design Club show

By Emily Bean | November 13, 2000

As the minute hand on the clock ticked closer to the hour, an anticipatory hush fell over the crowd.

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Life

The light that never goes out

By Sam Bresnahan | November 10, 2000

Last week, trick-or-treaters of all ages transformed themselves into witches and warlocks, haunting the hallowed Grounds of the University.

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Life

Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 10, 2000

Dance Confessions "Confessions of a dancer" appears to be a typical dance recital on a superficial level.

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Life

Feel at home in Duner's cozy dining room

By Tom Kennedy and Kerri Hannigan | November 10, 2000

Duner's doesn't take reservations, so show up early. Even on a Monday night, nearly every table at Duner's was taken.

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Life

Registration 101: Add some zing to your schedule

By Megan Strand | November 9, 2000

Name: Key Richardson Year/School: First-year College Most unusual class: The History of Mr. Jefferson's University.

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Life

Actors living in white mansions make it difficult to identify 'Real World'

By Lytle Wurtzel | November 9, 2000

On the eve of the election (or, rather, on the first eve of the election), it was refreshing to know that Mr. Jefferson's dream of democracy is alive and well at the University.

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Life

A Capitol Calm

By Julie Hofler and Stephanie Batten | November 9, 2000

WASHINGTON-Rushing up and down the Metro escalators, people from all walks of life scurried off to their respective corners of the metropolitan area.

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Life

Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 9, 2000

There are no Odds and Ends today.

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Life

Election Night: polls spur partisan celebrations

By Stephanie Batten and Julie Hofler | November 9, 2000

WASHINGTON-In striking contrast to the drab, any-other-day-of-the-year feel in the nation's capital during the day, election fever hit the bar scene hard once the sun went down. Clyde's of Georgetown represented the epitome of the final struggle between the two parties, with all eyes turned to the bar-side TV for the latest results. "It's crazy over there," a Clyde's waitress told a group of patrons wandering in.

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Life

Tying the Knot Early

By Kelly King | November 8, 2000

(This is the second in a four-part weekly series on dating and relationships at the University.) In the long sequence of life's experiences, "boy and girl get married," often falls sometime after school is finished.