The Easters Weekend tradition originated in 1828 when UVA students started taking dancing lessons from professors on Grounds.
This selection of important University happenings tells of an orgy in the Webb Lounge, presented by the Counselor’s Committee on Human Sexuality, as well as a reassignment of lawn residents to the McKim Nursing Dormitory after condemning the lawn for inadequate facilities and pestilence.
A faculty jazz quintet performed songs representing New Orleans’s influence on the jazz world and music at large. Bassist Pete Spaar, whose family hailed from New Orleans, urged students to remember the city and its people after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The women’s basketball team secured their spot in the Sweet 16 after a 72-67 win against the Florida Gators and a 71-68 win against the Dartmouth Big Green.
In 1957, third-year College student Dave Apple petitioned to put his name on the ballot for the College presidential election as an independent.
The University Police’s first female captain, Sylvia Bailey, discusses the impact of her gender on her ability to do police work.
Renowned writer and poet Maya Angelou gave an address to a full crowd in Old Cabell Hall, in which she spoke on education, literature and her own life and writing.
The Image Awards, hosted by the Office of African American Affairs, the Black Student Alliance and the Black Leadership Institute, recognized students and faculty members for their commitment toward the Black community of the University– and to cap off Black History Month 2009.
A new trend noticed in 1954 was the shift from traditional Valentine’s day cards for serious romantics to more comical options to give out to your friends.
The University’s Students for Environmental Action hosted a conference called Energy Unplugged, where experts gathered to present on environmental issues such as energy efficiency and global warming.
Students who participated in a University-sponsored study abroad program in the Soviet Union over winter break recounted their experiences, which included visits to Moscow and Leningrad.
In 1977, Elizabeth Taylor captivated a packed Helms Theatre with insights on her career and personal life, including her favorite role in “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and candid opinions on Hollywood.
The day before Thanksgiving in 1981, the University was gifted with its first snow of the year!
Jesse Jackson, a human and civil rights activist and politician, spoke at Old Cabell Hall in 1986.
As our first basketball season without Tony Bennett begins, let's look back to the very first basketball season we started with Bennett as head coach.
The Cavalier Daily traveled to New York City for this interview with Tony Award-winning theatre director and producer Harold Prince.
Halloween marks the time when the mysterious P.U.M.P.K.I.N. Society delivers pumpkins to deserving students and faculty.
Only 40 years ago, students could join the Skydiving Club, where they could drive to Orange County Airport and take a leap from an airplane.
Students gathered at the amphitheater and the Lawn to encourage the University to divest holdings in businesses that have ties to South Africa's apartheid government.
The University Guide Service, established by Mary Betts in the 1950s, had become a prestigious and competitive organization by 1984, accepting only 8% of applicants each year.
