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Academics debunk aphrodisiacs

By Peter Cleary | February 13, 2004

Planning to seduce that cute coed down the hall with champagne and strawberries? Thinking of feeding oysters to your Valentine to put him in a more romantic mood? Think again. According to Terry Turner, professor of Urology and Cell Biology at the medical school, foods commonly thought of as aphrodisiacs have no physiological effect on the body. "Most of it is smoke and mirrors and pipe dreams," he said. While little is known on the reason for the dearth of aphrodisiacs among the panoply of edibles available to humans, Biology Prof.

Study depicts 'dog-eat-galaxy' world

By Peter Cleary | December 3, 2003

It's a dog-eat-dog world in intergalactic space.University of Virginia astronomers recently discovered that the Milky Way galaxy is slowly consuming multiple neighboring galaxies in a cosmic battle where size matters most. In a paper to be published in the December 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, the astronomers show that, in what may be a common occurrence in the universe, the Milky Way galaxy is eating up the nearby Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. As Sagittarius orbits around the more massive Milky Way, the gravity of the larger galaxy pulls stars towards it."You get too close to the center of the galaxy and tidal forces tear you apart," said University Astronomy Prof.

Student Health agrees to refund fee

By Peter Cleary | July 31, 2003

Student Health will refund the monthly fee they charged graduate students not enrolled in summer classes, largely as a result of the efforts of the Graduate Labor Union and Graduate Student Council. This year, Student Health began charging a summer use fee of $32.00 a month because of a change in the health insurance offered to graduate students, according to Dr. James Turner, executive director of the department of student health.

Buses now to run on 12-minute schedule

By Peter Cleary | July 24, 2003

In order to improve student safety, the University Transit Service will change the frequency of buses on the Blue and Orange lines to 12 minutes at all times. The new schedule, replacing the current one, in which buses comes every 10 minutes during the day and every 20 minutes in the evening, will take effect on August 25. Student Council and two University committees -- the Transportation and Parking subcommittee on Escort Review and the General Safety and Security Committee -- recommended the changes in order to better serve the night-time transportation and safety needs of students, according to Council Vice President for Administration Will Sowers. The committees reviewed issues of safety on Grounds and researched plans at other universities for examples on which to base the new improvements. "We wanted to maintain a high level of service, but at the same time focus more on safety," Sowers said of the committees' goals. One problem the committees noticed was that students sometimes had to wait over three-quarters of an hour for an Escort Service van.

Virginia weathers record-high rains

By Peter Cleary | July 10, 2003

"One-half of a Bible's worth of rain" is how a recent advisory from the State Climatology Office described the twenty days of rain most of Virginia received during the month of May. While it may be hasty to start building an ark, rain fell in Charlottesville on a record-setting ninety days during the first six months of 2003.

New students arrive on Grounds for orientation

By Peter Cleary | July 3, 2003

Questions about course selection, how much spending money you need in college and how to get to the student health center filled the corridors of Newcomb Hall this week as four hundred students from the class of 2007 arrived on grounds for orientation. During the month of July, most of the entering first years and transfer students will come to the University to attend one of seven two-day orientation sessions.

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