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Buddhist Biker Bar: A Personal Perspective

Buddhist Biker Bar: A personal perspective Crozet Pizza occupies the Corner with a side of zest by Tyler Gurney Cavalier Daily Columnist Nationally recognized Crozet Pizza has made a historic move — literally and figuratively speaking.


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Photographic memory at maximum capacity

Spring always emanates a bit of nostalgia for me. Be it the time of year for homecomings, or the intimidating season for the donning of boxy caps and gowns and the playing of “Pomp and Circumstance,” the time frame between March and May reinvigorates that nostalgic twinge from within.


Life

Parting Words

Two Saturdays ago, as my roommate and I lay on the roof of my house on Gordon Avenue planning out our afternoon activities, my roommate asked to see my phone.


Life

Fantasy Foibles

I am seriously obsessed with fantasy series. One of my earliest memories is of reading children’s books brimming with unicorns and fairies.


Life

A punderful life after all

When I started writing this column three years ago, I only had one guiding principle in mind: puns. I wasn’t interested in writing opinion pieces about legitimate issues or advice columns for bewildered first-years.


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A word is worth a thousand pictures

Since writing a column earlier this semester about contradictions in common colloquial phrases, I’ve found an aphorism that irks me — though for different reasons. I’ve been feeling indecisive towards the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words.”


Life

Sustainable Hope

In light of the recent Boston Marathon bombing, the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas, the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting on top of the recent Sandy Hook shooting still resonating in our minds and hearts, it sometimes feels as if it would be easier to give up and feel as though the world is becoming some sort of dark place. I am not writing to discredit the horrors of these events—while I was lucky enough not to personally know anyone harmed, I was certainly saddened by each of them, and my thoughts and prayers go out to all of those who were affected by these tragedies.


Life

Sister, sister

Two weeks. That’s all there is left to my first year here in Wahooland. With this time left, you’d think I’d devote this last column to our beautiful University, but I’d like to move 270 miles south instead, to the heart of East Carolina University.


Life

Virginia is for Lovers

As I child, I often rifled through our furniture’s drawers in search of trinkets. My favorite was the pack of cocktail napkins stored in our buffet.


Life

A break for Mr. Jefferson

What does it mean to be a college student in the 21st century? It means having role models like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who simply couldn’t be bothered to slave over a degree.


Life

Entitled Convenience

It’s a shame that clichés are, well, exactly that. Trite mantras that become diluted with overuse and come to be associated with Southern finger-wagging mothers.


Life

Scents of spring

Walking outside this week was like walking into a sauna. The air was sticky, but in a way pleasantly humid after the endless months I spent inside this winter.


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