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A different kind of sustainability

On Friday, student group Crafting for Conservation and Student Council’s Sustainability Committee gathered in the Garden Room on the Range to present the first Sustainable Art Gallery and to celebrate “America Recycles Day,” which also took place on Friday.


Life

Quality over quantity

At the beginning of the semester when I had just joined The Cavalier Daily, my fellow Life columnists released a flurry of writings on something which is apparently on everyone’s mind: sex.


Life

A foreign sort of affair

In the 19th year of my life, I did two things that were profoundly stupid. For two entire days, I made Facebook my homepage – a decision which single-handedly compromised my already dwindling ability to simultaneously do homework, check Twitter and keep up with the Kardashians.


Life

Paving an Unprecedented Way

The Committee to Pave the Lawn — gasp as you will — is a real thing. Fortunately, there is no need to worry — the committee does not have real intentions of paving over Thomas Jefferson’s Lawn.


Life

Nice guys finish last

On a Tuesday night in September, I found myself curled into a heap, resting atop a pile of pillows and blankets on the floor of one of my hallmates’ room.


Life

From Guatemala to Grounds

The U.Va.-Guatemala Initiative, a Center for Global Health program that brings students and faculty together to benefit Guatemalan people and communities, collaborated with the Department of Emergency Medicine to bring the University “Guatemala Week” this last week, welcoming several Guatemalan guests to Grounds and hosting a variety of events.


Life

Their stars shine the brightest

Beyond Fey, some of the University’s biggest on-screen alums include Sarah Drew and Jason George from “Grey’s Anatomy,” Sean Patrick Thomas from “Save the Last Dance,” Ben McKenzie from “The O.C.” and Emily Swallow from “The Mentalist.” From the beginning, drama professors noticed exceptional skills in these performers.


Life

No consolation prizes

Ah yes, U.Va. — where we have our cake and eat it too. We work hard AND we play hard. Sleep is for the weary, which we are not.


Life

Sup? Idk, u?

You’ve seen it: a bus almost running over a hypnotized girl blindly walking across McCormick Road, her eyes glued down to her phone’s LCD screen, fingers swiftly tapping away.


Life

Abortion: a liberal (arts) perspective

Kendrick Lamar blasted over a buzzing Prius full of five second-years, crammed in a backseat next to Pop-Tarts and Chex Mix and Pringles and crumpled candy wrappers as they wound through Pennsylvania.

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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.