IT'S MID-AUGUST on the University Grounds, and you know what that means: Soul-smothering heat, bumper-to-bumper traffic on Route 29 for three straight days, and - of course - a whole new crop of fresh-faced first-years. Oh, first-years.
THE SCENE is all too familiar. You?ve just walked out of your second midterm of the day on two hours of sleep from the night before, and now you?re going to have to go right back at it for another test tomorrow.
TODAY I registered a Twitter account. I had avoided it for as long as I could and was finally curious to see what all the hype was about.
AS THEIR academic careers here at the University come to an end, fourth-years reflect on their fondest memories and what those experiences have taught them.
Sometimes it?s OK to brag.Last week, The Cavalier Daily bragged about a former editor-in-chief winning a Pulitzer and a former managing editor being part of a team that was a Pulitzer finalist.
When I stepped into this weekly soapbox three years ago, I was an opinion columnist without a voice.
For three years I have been producing a weekly opinion column for this paper.
Last week's announced tuition hikes are only the most recent addition to a network of unjust policies affecting out-of-state students.
Well, this is my final opinion column for The Cavalier Daily, and as I?ve likely written far too often about politics and also because I will shortly leave this place, I should probably finish with a piece about the University.
There are a lot of things I won?t miss about this University, but then there are also a lot of things I will.
Those lucky students who participated in the mass migration Spring Break rituals most likely found that the beach resorts and towns that hosted them were fully prepared to tolerate and even encourage the mass mayhem and chaos in exchange for lively profits.
The historic election of Barack Obama this past November has reinvigorated the debate over race in America.
Unless you?ve been living under a rock, you?ve no doubt heard about the Obama?s new family pet, a Portuguese Water Dog named Bo.
There's been a lot of talk about personnel changes in the University?s athletic programs lately.
University students should be disappointed by the movement to protest the selection of Judge J.
In the olden days, when all mail was snail mail, there was a rote piece of wisdom.If someone made you mad or, if you felt you had been wronged, the thing to do was to sit down and write (or type, banging on the keys of a manual typewriter could be very cathartic) a letter to the perpetrator.
With income tax day over with, students are already planning to use their tax returns on beer for another major holiday in the near future: Cinco de Mayo.
A fellow first-year recently encountered the University?s parking system first-hand.
In the spirit of the revolutionary character of this country?s foundation, Thomas Jefferson once told a friend that ?the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.? Whether Jefferson would have actually wanted revolutionary upheaval is doubtful considering the fact the man was often a detached idealist.
