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Oluponya Records

By Lindsay Powell | March 21, 2008

Since its inception about six years ago, Oluponya Records has sought to support future stars. As the first and only student-run recording label at the University, Oluponya Records (pronounced All-Up-On-Ya) is dedicated to recording and promoting talented students and student groups. "Our mission is to expand genres and serve as a premier organization for students at a great price and in a good location," said third-year Commerce student Alex Boyajian, president of the organization.

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Saving Grace

By Rasheda Nipu | March 20, 2008

Grace Akallo's current life is not out of the norm. She went to college. She got married. She had her first child.

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An elephant (and an armadillo) in the room

By Rachel Carr | March 20, 2008

The biggest mammal on Grounds today is probably a member of our football team. It's unquestionably a member of our species.

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Spring fashion special

By Alex Jospin | March 20, 2008

The buzzword this season is color. Bright primary colors on nails and toes, neon clothing and even jewel tones for eyeliner.

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Crazy for crêpes

By Connie Huang | March 19, 2008

It's dark, and raindrops are falling fast. Worse yet, I'm walking without an umbrella or rain boots along Water Street, near the Downtown Mall, and the cars that drive by splash muddy puddles of water onto my already-soaked jeans.

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Beaujolais-Villages: The Light Wine from Cenral France

By Jeff Katra | March 19, 2008

Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais-Villages 2006 Price: 9.99 Grade: B+ The Beaujolais region lies between the more famous French regions of Burgundy and the Rhone Valley.

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A honey for all seasons

By Nora White | March 19, 2008

"The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey ... and the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it," Winnie the Pooh declares in "The House at Pooh Corner." What dear Winnie doesn't realize, however, is that not only do real bears not actively eat honey (they eat bee larvae inside the hive instead), but the bees themselves have another quite crucial purpose in life -- flower pollination!

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The race for the presidency

By Lindsey Wagner | March 18, 2008

Turn on the television, open a newspaper or browse a news Web site and you are guaranteed to find news about the election.

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Daniel Dooley: A biopic in words (Part II)

By Dan Dooley | March 18, 2008

When last we left him, Daniel Dooley was in a very precarious position, struggling to hang onto the edge of a cliff with one hand while maintaining a tight grip on his baggie of PCP with the other.

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Flight 666 is ready to board

By Chris Shuptrine | March 17, 2008

Dante, in his bestselling "Inferno" (No. 1 for 700 years), speaks of the seven levels of Hell, with level one being pre-school, levels two through six being DMV lines of different lengths and level seven being airports.

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The old tying-the-knot trick

By Andy Taylor | March 17, 2008

As I've been meandering back and forth to class lately, I've been thinking a lot about what all this high-brow learning stuff is gearing me up for, and I'm sure that this applies to just about everyone.

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A bonzer idea

By Melinda Lim | March 17, 2008

This month's fashion magazines have been flaunting the latest runway looks fresh from New York City's Fashion Week, but Fair Dinkum Fashion provides a fresh look on the latest T-shirt designs without straying too far from the Rotunda.

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Traveling personalities

By Mary Baroch | March 14, 2008

It is a truth universally acknowledged that friends are not always the best roommates, and as I am sure many of you discovered last week on Spring Break, sometimes friends are not the most hospitable traveling companions.

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Give me some peanuts and crackerjacks

By Lyssa Cleary | March 14, 2008

Spring Break has come and gone, we've grudgingly turned the clocks back to lose an hour of sleep, the season's last home basketball game is over and hopes of a winter wonderland are quickly dwindling.

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Just call me Neil Armstrong

By Ian Smith | March 14, 2008

One of the things that made me fall in love with U.Va. was, quite simply, its size. The big-but-not-too-big feel of the school made my decision to come here much easier.

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Correction

By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 14, 2008

A Thursday, Feb. 28 photo caption accompanying the Life article "E-Week" misidentified a photo of two high school students as a photo of two Engineering students.

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ROFLcopter

By Erik Silk | March 14, 2008

On my most recent Spring Break, aboard a Carnival Cruise liner comprised of maybe 65 percent old people and 35 percent thirsty college students (fascinating social dynamic, I'll tell you about it later), I engaged in a lively debate with a young lady from North Carolina.

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The case for credit cards

By Rahul Gorawara | March 13, 2008

For college students, especially Wahoos, credit cards are a smart choice. It’s easy to get caught up in the notion that credit cards are to be avoided because of 19 percent interest rates and the millions of Americans who have overdosed on debt; however, as with many financial products, there are effective and ineffective ways to use them.

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So what is a subprime anyway?

By David Victor-Smith | March 13, 2008

Starting this past summer, the press swirled with talk of subprime mortgages, a housing bubble and a credit crunch.

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Deconstructing the Chinese economy

By Paul Chen | March 13, 2008

Since the death of Chairman Mao and the reestablishment of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the Chinese economy has been climbing at annual rate of 9.6 percent on average.