Life

Hitting the high note

By Zainab Al-Sayegh | March 21, 2011

Any club that has been around for 140 years has reason to celebrate. But for the Virginia Glee Club, the oldest musical group and second oldest organization on Grounds, this impressive anniversary called for more major and higher key celebrations. The anniversary was a week-long event, opening Friday night with a concert featuring the Virginia Glee Club, the Oriana Singers from Roanoke College and professional soloists.

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Life

Growing up is Chariz-hard to do

By Tyler DeBoard | March 21, 2011

I guess you could say I've been battle-tested from a very early age. Dozens of other second-grade boys wasted their priceless recess minutes chasing the girls or playing football.

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Life

They

By Jordan Hart | March 21, 2011

I think, in the realm of dating, playing hard to get only works up to a certain point. A little bit of mystery is always a good thing, but there's a fine line in this game of playing hard to get.

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Life

Status update

By Zainab Al-Sayegh | March 18, 2011

Media Studies Teaching Assistant Ahrum Lee decided to try something new for his discussion section this semester: He actually is encouraging his students to use Facebook in class. Lee's decision is part of a growing trend among the University's faculty to use social media to help achieve academic goals. Administrators, too, are capitalizing on social media as a tool for promoting the University.

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Life

Succumbing to superstition

By Katie Urban | March 18, 2011

Before you read this column, there are two things you should know about me. First, when it comes to most sports, I am not very knowledgeable.

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Life

Stopping stress

By Courtney Hartnett | March 18, 2011

The stereotype of pre-med students is time tested and often true: the overscheduled, hyper-anxious student rushing to class, huddled over what looks like a small family of science textbooks at the library, compulsively checking grades, garnering glossy resume additions like a kid collecting baseball cards. Although we certainly don't all fit the stereotype, there is one element of it that hits every pre-med at one time or another: stress.

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Life

Going green

By Charlie Tyson | March 17, 2011

In America today, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated by the religious and non-religious, Irish and non-Irish alike.

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Life

Running for all the wrong reasons

By Connelly Hardaway | March 17, 2011

I like to run. Ever since my friend and I set the record for the fastest mile at our middle school, I've liked running.

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Life

A break from normal fashion

By Kristin Ulmer | March 17, 2011

Ever since middle school, I have been the family fashionista, much to my mother's dismay. Every morning she would sigh with impatience and roll her eyes in frustration, as she reminded me for the third time that I better hurry up or else I would miss the bus.

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Life

The science of art

By Caroline Massie | March 16, 2011

Engineering students are often maligned for the stereotype that they only care about issues of math and science, displaying little to no interest in the arts.

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Life

New finance group for women

By Harrison Freund | March 16, 2011

SWS, or Smart Women in Securities, is coming to the University. From its start at Harvard in 2006, SWS quickly expanded into several other Ivy League schools.

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Life

Poets' society

By Courtney Hartnett | March 15, 2011

Walk into a library and you'll see stacks of literary magazines. Go to the dining hall and you'll notice a flyer advertising an upcoming open mic night.

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Life

Counting crows

By Katie McNally | March 15, 2011

I'm probably going to upset some animal lovers out there, but I have to get something off my chest: I hate birds.

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Life

A major difference

By Romae Kelly | March 3, 2011

As second semester hurdles by, the clock is ticking for underclassmen to make a decision about their majors.

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Life

Road trips

By Simone Egwu | March 3, 2011

There is one thing I am familiar with, and that is travel. As a team we probably are on the road - driving or flying - at least once a week during the season.

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Life

Talk therapy

By Connelly Hardaway | March 3, 2011

Six days out of seven, I am a therapist. On the seventh day, I am sleeping, for if I were awake, I would be a therapist. I don't have a special couch or reading glasses that slide down my nose.

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Life

The view from up here

By Charlie Tyson | March 2, 2011

Fourth-year College student Kimberly Schreiber didn't expect to be competing against men in the final round of a Feb.

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Life

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

By Elizabeth Stonehill | March 2, 2011

A few weeks ago, a man changed my outlook on life. If you think I mean that this happened on Valentine's Day... just no.

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Life

What

By Mary Scott Hardaway | March 2, 2011

I've been named a lot of things in my life: Maisie, a term of endearment my mother stole from Dr. Seuss.

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Life

May I have his dance?

By Connelly Hardaway | March 1, 2011

Dance Marathon, the event touted in flyers, profile pictures and T-shirts, brings together a large percentage of the University's population every February.