The bright-eyed J.R. Hadley could easily be mistaken for a brother in a Rugby Road fraternity, with a baseball cap complementing his calculated 5 o’clock shadow. But Hadley is in a different sort of fraternity — a young corps of up-and-coming business owners on the Corner.
University students took time to remember the tragic events of September 11 yesterday, through a variety of activities sponsored by student groups around grounds.
My grandfather died about three years ago. His last several weeks were spent in a hospital bed, hooked into gleaming machines, undergoing countless tests and treatments that ultimately proved useless in the face of death’s advance.
Trudie’s back! After an idyllic summer hanging out in her Alderman carrel, shooting the breeze in the Philosophy library, and having her pick of the Clemons DVDs, Trudie has returned to face the realities of the new semester — TA-ing. But Trudie’s here for you too — she isn’t agonizing over her Powerpoint and discussion questions to see you fall at the first hurdle! So life-hack your sections with these tried-and-Trudie tips, prompted by questions from readers just like you.
The University community commemorates the tragedy of 9/11 12 years later. The Burke Society handed out flags for students to plant at the south end of the Lawn.
Few jobs are as prestigious as being a professional sports player. Fewer jobs require the same level of unceasing physical and mental exertion. Two former Virginia stars, basketball player Mike Scott and football player LaRoy Reynolds, are putting in the effort and living the life so many people wish they could have.
Thus far in the young fall season, the No. 2 Virginia women’s soccer team has utterly dominated every team on its schedule.
When the Board of Visitors holds its first meeting of the academic year on September 19, it will be headed by the first African-American rector in school history.
Student Council addressed recent changes to AccessUVa, the University’s financial aid program, at its representative body meeting Tuesday evening.
The University is the second best public university in the nation, according to the 2014 rankings released by U.S. News and World Report Tuesday morning. Since the ranking system was started in 1983 the University has consistently ranked in the top 25, tying for number 24 in 2013 and number 25 in 2012.
On June 28, 2013, I was on SportsCenter. Or rather, my feet were. My summer internship with the San Francisco Giants’ AA-affiliate and my home team, the Richmond Flying Squirrels, landed me and my awesome pig-chasing shoes a spot on the program’s infamous Not Top 10.
Mormonism’s short history, and its continued vibrancy worldwide, makes it an exciting laboratory for scholars interested in exploring how religious movements develop, mature and gain adherents. But Mormonism, like many other minority subcultures, has only recently become an object of serious academic inquiry. The University, here, is ahead of its competitors.
A new system of faculty pay will now rely on group evaluations and peer review to determine the level of pay for faculty members.
The Honor Committee published case summaries Tuesday outlining the instances in which students took advantage of the Honor Committee’s new informed retraction policy since it passed in a referendum in March.
Student Council’s appropriations committee is in the process of allocating its semi-annual funding for the fall semester, the first of two processes through which the University’s Contracted Independent Organizations can gain access to funds this semester.
The No. 7 Virginia field hockey team improved to a perfect 4-0 on the season this past weekend with road wins against Yale and No.
Soon enough, the DJ switches songs. Chelsea screams that she loves this song; Brad agrees that no one could dislike Levels and suggests that they dance. What follows is a traditional motion so hideous and disjointed that it remains a miracle people perform such an act in public, let alone in an attempt to indicate intimacy and attraction.
Last season, the Virginia men’s soccer team graduated only two seniors and featured a team that had 18 freshmen and sophomores.
Excited fingers glide over the cardboard sleeves. Eager eyes are glued to the crates for hours at a time.
On Thursday, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell recognized improvements the state has made against human trafficking in rankings released last month by the anti-human trafficking group Polaris. Polaris ranks every state and the District of Columbia on the stringency of their laws combating sex trafficking and supporting trafficking survivors. In the past three years, Virginia has moved from Polaris’ fourth and bottom tier to the organization’s top tier.
