So my friends and I go out to Rugby ... I drink, I get a buzz, I dance with some random fellow (though one that I'd still find attractive if I were sober), we hook up against the back wall in some frat and never speak again.
When the Lawn is puddlewonderful Enter Charlottesville's rainy season. While rain may mean down and dirty games of football on the Lawn or mudsliding in the Mad Bowl, for those who maintain the University Grounds, rainy days mean more work than play. Jeff Ertle fights a constant battle to keep the University, especially the Lawn area, looking good. "Our goal is to try to keep the Lawn green," said Ertle, who is superintendent of the landscaping division of Facilities Management. But because of pedestrian traffic and poor drainage systems, for the Lawn, it's not always easy being green. To maintain the grass for special events such as Fall Convocation and Final Exercises, Ertle and his staff re-seed the Lawn at least twice a year, usually in the fall and spring.
Skeedaddle away from the monotony of Rugby Road and discover Wednesday night country line dancing at Max's. A 20-year-old Charlottesville tradition, tucked behind the railway tracks and next to the live music venue Trax, Max's offers everything from cowboy boots to back-flips, "Cotton-eyed Joe," to "Back That Azz Up," and on Wednesday nights, University students get in for free. Max's "is a good place to go if you're a cowboy nerd at heart," said first-year College student Dana Grant from Connecticut, who donned cowboy boots and a denim skirt for the occasion.
The Olympics are going on this week, and you know what that means - mil- lions of people across the world gathered in front of their televisions ignoring the Olympics in eager anticipation of the next edition of "Survivor." I caught a couple of minutes of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
Lawn's new addition We have those pretty new wheelchair ramps. But it's only a start. And in some ways, modernization for the disabled has taken a back seat to historical nostalgia. But in one small way, this is about to change - starting with the Lawn. Lawn resident Mazen Basrawi, a fourth-year College student who has been blind all his life, has used his handheld Braille label maker to put residents' names and their room numbers on each door. And finally, people are starting to take notice. "I've been pushing this for about two years now," Basrawi said.
Send in the recruits There won't be any F/A-18 flyovers or country-western singers, but tomorrow's homecoming football game against Clemson will feature a bit of pregame entertainment, if you pay close attention. Men's basketball coach Pete Gillen and assistant coach Tom Herrion are hosting a quartet of recruits this weekend and will lead them onto the Scott Stadium field at 3:15 p.m., 15 minutes before kickoff.
It's an all-too-familiar situation: A woman normally wears a size eight, but at a different store and with a certain pair of pants, she can squeeze into a size four.
A little more than halfway between the Corner and the Downtown Mall is one of Charlottesville's best restaurants for food, service and atmosphere: Southern Culture.
Graceful ladies stroll around in large, floppy hats. Men chat easily in expensive suits, afternoon cocktails balanced in their hands.
Amphitheater goes Greek If you feel like Rugby Road isn't "fratty" enough and you need a bit more Greek in your life, then get psyched about Friday night.
Every morning over my summer vacation, I would get up, pour myself a cup of coffee, and give a cursory glance to the day's headlines.
Ding! A passenger pulls on the overhead line, signaling the bus driver to stop. The driver pulls up to the curb, lets off several students, picks up a couple more, and it's business as usual. Sounds simple.
In Black and White Fifty-nine percent of black undergraduate students view news coverage in The Cavalier Daily as racially biased, according to a survey conducted last spring for the State of Race Relations, a new University group. This independent student organization completed the first-ever comprehensive survey of student attitudes toward race relations at the University and now challenges fellow students to talk about the results. "We're looking to come up with concrete solutions to racial problems at the University," said Michael Freedman-Schnapp, co-founder of the State of Race Relations. Tonight at 8 the group is holding an open forum in the Chemistry Auditorium to present the results of the study, conduct a moderated discussion, and hear the views of a student panel.
On the eve of the first Olympics of the new millennium, the world's premier athletes prepare to compete in what is the culmination of years of intense, grueling training.
Welcome to the Idiot's Guide to American Politics. And by "idiot's" I don't mean for idiots. I mean by one. My political theory library includes four volumes, and three of them are Machiavelli's The Prince.
They're new, they're political and they're green. Ten students sat in a humid Cabell Hall classroom Tuesday, as the two-week old Greens at U.Va.
Vegetarians convene Mmmmm. The smell of sizzling veggies floats through the air as kids have their faces painted in vibrant colors.
Pipe dreams The 96-year-old E.M. Skinner pipe organ in Old Cabell Hall underwent a considerable amount of restoration over the past few years. The recent tune-up will be on display during a recital tonight at 8:15 by Peggy Kelley Reinburg. Reinburg, a graduate of Northwestern's School of Music, is a world-renowned organist.
"Where's Bodot, I thought you said he was coming." "He is." "When?" "Soon." "Oh." "Coming." It has been a familiar word on the Corner District, where Charlottesville's third Bodo's Bagel shop officially has been "coming" for over five years. Six classes have arrived on Grounds, two classes have walked down the Lawn, the Corner got a Starbucks and Scott Stadium got HooVision.
