Life

University secrets

By Ana Mir | September 6, 2010

Since its founding in 1819, the University has had its fair share of well-known traditions, but it also has had an even larger share of secrets and forgotten history. This past Thursday, the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and the Miller Center of Public Affairs honored the University's past with the event, "Secrets and Traditions of U.Va." The presentation was hosted by George Gilliam, the Center's assistant director for public programs and chair of the Forum Program.

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Life

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By Kathleen Baines | September 6, 2010

Environmental Science isn't a real major. Neither is Studies of Women and Gender or Urban Planning or Art History or Systems Engineering.

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Life

The only thing we have to fear

By Alyssa Juan | September 6, 2010

To anyone else, walking to class may simply involve placing one foot in front of the other. To me, it's a fight for my life against the University's deadliest and most terrifying creatures.

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Life

Beauty of words

By Connelly Hardaway | September 2, 2010

My favorite things in the world are words. Words strung together harmoniously. Words placed piecemeal in an uneven hiccup of a sentence.

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Life

The Sound of Music

By Courtney Hartnett | September 2, 2010

The last echoes of the Rotunda Sing had hardly faded when students began lining up to audition for the University's myriad of a cappella groups. With so many groups on Grounds, just about any interested student could find one that suits his tastes.

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Life

Self-starters

By Connelly Hardaway | September 1, 2010

If you haven't recently heard someone start a sentence with the words, "Well, in this economy ..." then you've been living in a cave.

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Life

Is gold worth the glitter?

By Harrison Freund | September 1, 2010

It seems that every time you turn on the television or listen to the radio, you're inundated by advertisements about buying gold.

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Life

Cozy?

By Connelly Hardaway | August 31, 2010

First-year students have it easy. They check a website that tells them where they live and who their roommates are.

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Life

Talk nerdy to me

By Katie McNally | August 31, 2010

There is a secret that 6students at the University have worked hard to preserve throughout the years.

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Sex & Relationships

Love Connection

By Elizabeth Stonehill | August 30, 2010

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Life

Back-to-school date spots

By Jordan Hart | August 30, 2010

Hello, old friends! I hope you all had great vacations with plenty of hot summer romances - preferably with tall Europeans and Amazonian babes with foreign accents and rippling muscles.

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Life

The next step

By Lindsay Powell | August 27, 2010

University students make many decisions during their four years at college, the most common of which usually include whether to live on Grounds or off, which internships to apply for and how to balance a social life and their studies.

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Life

Real Men Come in Floral Packaging

By Ian Flatt | August 27, 2010

I think pretty much every guy at one point has felt the sting of embarrassment from a seemingly harmless action that appears to others as just a little girly.

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Life

The Backyard

By Romae Kelly | August 26, 2010

As the new academic year commences, the search for previously unexplored and exciting food options does as well, particularly for those students who are relying less and less on University dining halls.

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Life

The benefits of drinking and driving

By Kathleen Baines | August 26, 2010

Based on an alarmingly accurate poll that I made up for this column, nearly 85 percent of adults between the ages of 18 and 25 are inadequately hydrated.

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Life

Striving for Equality

By Katie McNally | August 25, 2010

Fall 1970: 450 women arrive on Grounds, ready to claim their spots as the first female students ever admitted to the College.

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Life

How I handle fear

By Connelly Hardaway | August 25, 2010

When I'm sad or uncomfortable or jealous, I generally use one of two defensive maneuvers: sleep or insults. When I was 16, my heart was broken into about nine pieces.

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Life

Converted

By Alyssa Juan | August 24, 2010

I owe it all to James Van Der Beek. I admit that I am one of those pathetic girls who used to sit at home for hours just to watch a marathon of "Dawson's Creek." So it should be no surprise that one fateful summer afternoon I would watch MTV's "When I Was Seventeen" just to get a glimpse into the former heartthrob's life as a teenager.

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Life

Cozy?

By Connelly Hardaway | August 21, 2010

First-year students have it easy. They check a website that tells them where they live and who their roommates are.

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Life

A Sisterhood Returns

By Romae Kelly | April 30, 2010

Three years of waiting have come to a loud and proud halt. Three Sundays ago, a crowd in Newcomb Plaza watched as 50 new members were initiated into the University's Kappa Rho chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, which the national body suspended Oct.