SpringFest is tomorrow? Really? Because the last time I checked, I was still wearing my winter wear ? fuzzy hats that look like animals, fratastic fleece vests and argyle socks that compulsively match the rest of my outfit.
My duty as a Cavalier Daily Life columnist is to inform my fellow University students about issues that are important and relevant to their lives.
The number of meals a week that are wasted at the University: 300. The number of people the University can feed with these meals a month: 1,200.One group trying to bring awareness to these statistics is Campus Kitchens, a national initiative that partners with college and high school students to use lost meals from dining halls to help the greater community.Currently, Campus Kitchens is located at one high school and 19 universities, including Wake Forest University and the College of William & Mary.
If my life were to be plotted out in a timeline, last week would have been titled ?Worst Week EVER,? scribbled angrily in Sharpie and dotted with numerous sad faces.
When I heard that 12th Street Tap House opened on W. Main Street a few months ago, I imagined something akin to one of my favorite Richmond haunts, Capital Ale House, where the beer flows like wine and the food, when eaten, strays not far from the meat and potatoes of the American palate ? as one would expect from a tap house.
Yesterday, while touring the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, Va., I saw an antique waffle iron.
It is commonly thought that individual people can only do so much to impact the larger world around them.
Before college, after college, and in any setting other than college, people get together for parties because of their own volition and, separately, ask other people on dates.Reader: But I go to U.Va.
The final push before graduation has me thinking about a phenomenon I have dubbed the Magical Post-Collegiate Compression.
What determined Barack Obama?s decisive victory in the 2008 presidential election?
The student body, aside from being fairly attractive physically, provides us with the opportunity to meet hundreds of people with remarkable interests and talents, making it difficult to know when to pursue someone.
The past week has been quite an experimental one for me. During the last few days, I?ve done three male-related things that I?d never thought I?d do before.
Second-year College student Victoria Chin has long, curly hair reaching all the way down to her elbows.
So some fussy lil? girl got in my cute face last week and dared ? she dared!
When you start college, every adult tells you to ?follow your passions.? I remember this clich
Flipping omelets and juggling potato cakes over the stove, Martha?s Caf
It sounds suspiciously like an episode of ?Dr. Phil,? during which an unhappy girlfriend discovers the healing powers of Ben & Jerry?s.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner revealed the Obama administration?s long-awaited economic rescue plan Feb.
Human history is as much a product of forgetting as it is of remembering.
As I write this column, there?s a Beethoven piano trio playing all around me.
