This is big news. Big, slow-moving news. The University is beginning its search for a new president. The main responsibility falls to the Special Committee on the Nomination of a President, which Rector John Wynne appointed and will chair - though I suspect that much of the work will be done by the search firm R.
WHEN ASKED to provide advice for incoming students at the University, my mind initially drew a blank.
WHETHER Charlottesville is a two-hour drive from your house or a two-hour flight from the nearest airport, going away to college seems like enough of a journey in itself.
On August 21, all active undergraduate and graduate students at the University received a pointed e-mail from studentsystem@virginia.edu.
THE INEVITABLE has come for BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay. Black Internet has ceased providing bandwidth to the files-sharing site (or information theft site, depending on your point of view). The Pirate Bay is in serious trouble; it is the most recent big name peer-to-peer site that is facing opposition from civil lawsuits joining the now infamous Napster and others. Although operators of TPB are still fighting their battle in hopes of providing the world with free movies and music, their fate is already determined.
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.
