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A different home

By Connie Huang | January 24, 2008

Say you spend a semester abroad. Every day, you walk the streets of Lyon, France or Valencia, Spain and bask in the rich culture and history of the people and environment around you; every day, you breathe in air sweetened by an unknown indigenous flower that doesn't exist in your hometown; every day, you learn something new about where you are, about the world, about yourself. And then you must return home. Culture shock often occurs upon arrival in a foreign land.

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Rushing about

By Austin Wiles | January 24, 2008

Like any guy at U.Va. bored during the first days back from Winter Break, I decided to go through sorority rush.

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Only 14 more days

By Erik Silk | January 24, 2008

So I was perusing my local newspaper and noted that the forecast called for snow. (This was of course far in the past, as this publication requires that we submit our columns several months before printing). I began to think, "Maybe I ought to write about how snow isn't the same now that school never gets canceled here," but that didn't work, for two reasons: 1.

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Old lessons die hard

By Bailey Stephens | January 23, 2008

I did it! I'm finally in London! My excitement may seem a little overenthusiastic, but trust me, you would have jumped up and down like a six-year-old on Christmas morning when you arrived too -- not that I actually did that (looks down sheepishly). The trouble started when I began packing at home.

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Almost infamous

By Marissa D'Orazio | January 23, 2008

Has anyone heard about that fire in Newcomb that almost burnt all of U.Va. to a crisp? Did I tell you about how my friend almost dumped her fiancé, but now they are happily married with three children?

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Debauchery in Dublin

By Kelly Underwood | January 23, 2008

The night before I caught a plane to Dublin for the U.Va. in Ireland January-term program, a few friends and I went to see the movie "P.S.

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Blending with the Brits

By Courtney Kessler | January 23, 2008

London is really cold. The weather in London is terrible. London is so expensive. You will get mad cow disease if you eat the meat. These are just a few of the frankly horrifying stereotypes of London I heard before leaving for my semester abroad. While my other friends were hearing, "You'll love Valencia," or "Sienna is the most amazing place on earth," I was bid farewell with completely mixed reviews about a city I had never visited. Through my column this semester, I hope to dispel or confirm these stereotypes by relaying some of my personal experiences to my faithful audience (cough, Mom and Dad, cough). This week's stereotype is a more positive one: "British people are so nice." Upon hearing this statement, I was a little more uplifted before my departure to the Motherland, but one of my first encounters with a Brit was not so pleasant. After queuing up (the British version of getting in line) at a local pub, I was waiting to place my order for a nice cold Guinness when two bartenders simultaneously became available.

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Life

Advice is my vice

By Chris Shuptrine | January 21, 2008

Normally I do not write advice columns, because whenever I do offer advice, I somehow instigate a world war ("Why yes, Archduke Ferdinand, I think going for a drive is a great idea") or some freak coal mining accident ("No, guys, I'm pretty sure the canary is just playing dead"). Recently, however, I've been receiving a lot of letters asking for advice.

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Life

Game time

By Andy Taylor | January 21, 2008

Even as the bitter cold of winter is finally setting in, my mind cannot help but skip to the chaos to come.

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A "day on" for a day off

By Cait Speaker | January 21, 2008

Martin Luther King Jr. Day rarely intersects with the University's academic calendar because the third Monday of January is often during Winter Break.

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Hangin' Around This Town

By Melinda Lim | January 18, 2008

After spending four years learning and living in Charlottesville, some alumni set out for other cities or distant countries.

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Tit for Tat

By Maggie Jones | January 18, 2008

My intention for this column was to relate how someone eats his eggs to his character. I always believed that people who only eat scrambled eggs are unadventurous -- they can't fathom eating something with various textures and colors.

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Cavalier Behavior

By John Gregory | January 18, 2008

Author's note: written on Wednesday, January 16th -- you'll see why it's relevant in just a minute. When the clock struck 12 on New Year's Eve a few weeks ago and the band struck up a chord, they were playing "Auld Lang Syne," not the "Good Ol' Song." It should have been evident right there that 2008 was not going to be kind to the Cavalier football team.

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Rush disaster

By Alex Jospin | January 17, 2008

In case you haven't noticed why so many first-year girls are looking lost and self-conscious in the Rugby/Madison/Chancellor area in the past few days, it's because sorority rush has descended upon us.

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100 Years Later

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | January 17, 2008

The plaque outside informs passersby that on Oct. 6, 1817, the cornerstone of the University was laid on this very spot in the presence of James Madison, James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson.

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"Case closed?"

By Rachel Carr | January 17, 2008

It's not a pretty scene. "Weren't you looking?" the older woman bellows. She's cradling a bruised ankle in her left hand; her right is knotted up in a fist, thrust out like a promise to the erstwhile driver.

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Mr. Jefferson and wine

By Jeff Katra | January 16, 2008

Thomas Jefferson is known as a Renaissance man. He was a lawyer, a political pundit and leader, an architect, a scientist, a farmer, an ambassador, the founder of our University and America's first wine connoisseur.

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Let's hear it for the boys

By Lyssa Cleary | January 16, 2008

The football is hiked, thrown and caught in the end zone for a Wahoo touchdown. Immediately, fans in Scott Stadium are singing and swaying to another spirited rendition of the Good Ol' Song.

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Giving thanks

By Ian Smith | December 7, 2007

I am not one of those people who enjoy the variation of seasons. My ideal climate exists somewhere between 70 and 85 degrees -- Fahrenheit of course.

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Holiday City Market

By Connie Huang | December 7, 2007

East Market Streets lies the historic Downtown Charlottesville Mall, a shopping venue situated only a trolley ride away.