We recently had our first break from classes about three weeks into the semester to celebrate Holy Week, or Semana Santa, one of the biggest holidays in Peru.
The University?s Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority hosted VOICES 2009: Dancing Through Barriers Friday at 8 p.m.
Semester at Sea docked in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ? still locally referred to as Saigon ? for our eighth port visit.
The International Residential College was engulfed in controlled chaos as waiters rushed and dozens of students slurped and gobbled their way through noodles, milk tea and barbecued pork on rice.For the mostly Asian crowd at the Hong Kong Student Association?s Hong Kong Caf
As my fourth year comes to an end, I have started to think about the things that I will miss most about the University ? the lovely Grounds (and how refined I feel by calling them Grounds), my friends, those pudding parfaits that you can buy with Plus Dollars, running naked down the Lawn with 20 other people in tow and other such frivolities.
With a column title like that, you probably think I?m going to talk about that ego-craycray sunglass-mannequin Kanye West.
If you have heard opera music outside Newcomb Hall recently, you may have been within earshot of a rehearsal for Opera Viva?s spring opera performance, Mozart?s Don Giovanni.
It is easy for University students to grab a hamburger for lunch in between classes.
I just read ?The Dumbest Generation.? Cover to cover, author Mark Bauerlein posits that we digital kids are dumb because we no longer read books.
I had been looking forward to eating at Bang! for some time ? its reputation precedes itself in Charlottesville.
Cooking, as my regular readers have probably gathered, is one of my favorite pastimes.
As I walked down Karlov Street in Prague, I reflected on my mission.
As spring approaches, motorcycle enthusiasts will hit the road with a familiar rumbling thunder.
I recently had a mini existential crisis in the self-checkout line at Kroger, a place where I imagine thousands of such dilemmas have occurred, from ?But I typed in the produce code for red grapes, not green!
People?s attitudes toward dating are much like the ?Power Rangers? ? they keep changing and no one is really quite sure why.Take, for example, the Neanderthals.
I?m a 19-year-old second-year at one of the best colleges in the country, but when it comes to guys, I still feel like I?m a 13-year-old kid with a terrible perm and a mouthful of braces.
Napatra Fourth-year Architecture studentMajor?
Every day near 14th Street, students walking to class pass by a small percentage of Charlottesville?s homeless population.
I?ve gotten a number of notices from the University lately, informing me that I am, in fact, dangerously close to graduating.
I wasn?t loved enough as a child, so I need a lot of attention.
