At 8 p.m. this past Monday night, I found myself walking into Newcomb Hall wearing awkwardly towering high heels, a tank top under my winter jacket, and more eye makeup than I ever thought would adorn my practically virginal lids.
On Sunday mornings, the comics came out to play -- huge, half-page, in-living-color spreads of "Garfield," "Calvin and Hobbes" and "Peanuts." We ripped open plastic, struggled with pages so obviously not made for miniature arms, and laughed at the little slices of imagined life neatly begun and ended within allotted spaces.
The flier is an open invitation. "All we ask of you is an open mind, as we will take pleasure in doing the rest and providing this thing we call 'food for your soul.'" It's a Friday night in February, but the arctic cold doesn't penetrate to the upstairs room of the Starr Hill Music Hall where tightly packed listeners eagerly divide their attention between the poet onstage and scanning the stylishly dressed crowd around them.
The cringing middle-aged couple resolutely kept their heads down as they stealthily tried to make their escape up the center aisle of the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center.
There's an impromptu concert on the piano in the main lounge in Newcomb Hall, open to the public and free of charge.
C abell Hall: one of the first names you were thrown as an unindoctrinated first-year student at orientation - the one you mispronounced when you were less University-savvy.
A meeting Friday between Virginia football coach Al Groh and representatives of the University's Arab and Muslim community yielded an improved dialogue between the athletics department and student groups. Groh organized the meeting, which aimed to address statements he made last month that associated Arabs with terrorism.
Beginning this spring, the University's Commerce School will expand its Management of Information Technology master's degree program by offering classes in Northern Virginia. While the University has had a presence in Northern Virginia for many years with its center in Falls Church, the upcoming launch of the Northern Virginia-based IT degree represents the first attempt of this kind by the Commerce School. The degree, which is now offered only in Charlottesville, is intended for professionals with at least two years of work experience and both managerial and technological expertise.
Ever had dreams of lounging your way to an M.B.A. from your bed, laptop in hand? Ever think that you would be more efficient if you did not have to deal with those nagging professors every day?
