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Professional wrestling is foundation of civilization

By Lee Camp | October 25, 1999

With professional wrestling becoming increasingly popular many people are asking the question, "Is pro wrestling a sport or some other brand of entertainment that resembles a porno movie gone horribly wrong?" Here are the basic qualifications of major sports: Men and/or women wearing tight clothes, referees making terrible calls, people getting badly injured or killed and screaming idiot fans. Going by these qualifications alone, one would assume that wrestling is a sport.

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Students take pride in expressions of heritage

By Katherine Schneider | October 25, 1999

A traditional Dabkah dance, multi-national fashion show and the tango were only a few of the cultural activities performed by students in hopes of enlightening and entertaining audience members at Culturefest '99 Saturday. A lot of heart, energy and fancy footwork went into this day devoted to representing students' individual ethnicities and learning about other cultures.

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Former pro tennis player teaches local students

By Ted McGraw | October 23, 1999

Although it has been more than a decade since Renee Blount, a former University assistant women's tennis coach, last graced the grass courts of Wimbledon, tennis is still very much a part of her life. After a rewarding career on the Women's Professional Tennis Tour, Blount has settled down just 20 minutes east of Grounds in Fluvanna County. Without the stress of maintaining a top-100 ranking in the world, which Blount held throughout her 11-year career, she now focuses on teaching the game she loves.

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Hot Cakes: Don't let the name fool you

By Sara Melissa Selepouchin | October 22, 1999

When Lisa McEwan opened her dessert business in October 1988, she didn't imagine that 11 years later, Hot Cakes would have transformed itself from a small cake company to a quaint eatery in the Barracks Road Shopping Plaza. Upon entering the store, the faint aroma of coffee and fresh baking permeated the air, hinting of good things to come.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 22, 1999

Comp competition If the idea of spending Parents Weekend wandering around Grounds with your family admiring the Rotunda for the millionth time holds little allure, the University's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery is providing a novel alternative. The organization is hosting its second annual Programming Contest in Olsson Hall tomorrow.

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Watering football down to the basics

By Carolyn Pruitt | October 22, 1999

His friends call him "Bobby Boucher." Rich Abadie, the University's head football equipment manager who hails from Louisiana, manages a dozen Wahoo "waterboys." But don't call them that to their face.

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Former astronaut lands on solid Grounds

By Brandon Rogers | October 21, 1999

Not everyone gets to experience it: The adrenaline rush of your life as you approach a speed of 17,500 miles per hour, ending with the feeling that you weigh eight times your normal weight and can't even stand unless your eyes are open. This is one feeling a University professor experienced first-hand. "I wouldn't have missed a minute of it," said Kathy Thornton, professor of technology, culture and communication, and mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 21, 1999

Touchdown! Any Wahoos still crying over the loss to Virginia Tech finally can find comfort by watching an upcoming episode of public television's "Living In Virginia," which will examine the history of the rivalry between Virginia Tech and the University. The program will explore the 100-year-old football rivalry, highlighting colossal comebacks and legendary players. The documentary, created by WVPT -- PBS for the Shenandoah Valley and Charlottesville -- begins with the first game played between Virginia Tech and the University in 1895.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 20, 1999

Cash cut-off Some professors might be finding advising less materially profitable this year. According to an Inside UVA Online press release, College Dean Melvyn P.

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Pageantry with a purpose

By Sarah Culvahouse | October 19, 1999

As more and more people sat down in the Tuttle lounge to hear Miss Virginia 1999 Crystal Lewis speak last Tuesday, the gender discrepancies within the audience became clear.

Life

Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 19, 1999

Cash cut-off Some professors might be finding advising less materially profitable this year. According to an Inside UVA Online press release, College Dean Melvyn P.

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Odds & Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 19, 1999

Be aware, be safe Several groups are offering safety programs for students over the next few days as Student Council kicks off its Safety Awareness Week. One in Four, a peer education group aimed at men, will present "How to Help a Sexual Assault Survivor: What Men Can Do" at 7 p.m.

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