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A Soaring Career

By Kelly Underwood | April 16, 2007

D r. Donald R. Erbschloe remembers leaving the University like any other student. He had a bachelor's in math and physics, a high admiration for the honor code and respect for professors that impacted and inspired him. But when he returned to Grounds April 3 to speak to Air Force ROTC cadets, Erbschloe came with an extensive education and experience from his Air Force career. Major George Dowdy, University commandant of cadets, invited Erbschloe to speak to the cadets because his career after leaving the University has taken him from the battlefield to the office, making him a valuable resource for cadets, especially those majoring in the technical fields. Erbschloe is the current chief scientist, Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base.

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Police Blotter

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 13, 2007

Vandalism/ damage /destruction of property: RESTRICTED VICTIM of Vandalism/damage/destruction Of Property (C), at John St, Charlottesville, VA, between 01:30, 04/08/2007 and 05:30, 04/08/2007.

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The evolution of a semester

By Ed Cao | April 13, 2007

You wake up. Your alarm clock shows 7 a.m., but you are oddly awake and alert. You recognize this behavior is weird, even if you do consider yourself to be a morning person.

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Band of Business Brothers

By Ashley Simpson | April 13, 2007

Every spring, hundreds of male students rush to join fraternities. But, as they walk up and down Rugby Road in search of their new band of brothers, they are not likely to visit Alpha Kappa Psi -- this group isn't your typical fraternity. Don't be fooled by the Greek letters -- while other fraternities recruit males and don't necessarily talk about academics at their meetings, Alpha Kappa Psi is the University's business fraternity and its brothers are both male and female. According to Alyssa Guo, former president and current brother, Alpha Kappa Psi is "the largest coed professional business fraternity in the nation." Alpha Kappa Psi was founded in 1904 and incorporated in 1905 at New York University, according to current president John Sweeney. He said the fraternity's original unifying force was concern about the lack of business curriculum available at colleges and universities. "Most universities focused heavily on liberal arts, and you had to pursue other avenues if you wanted to go into business," Sweeney said. Today, even with the prominence of the Commerce School at the University, the fraternity's goals are still "advancing and promoting business courses at universities" according to Sweeney. The University's Alpha Gamma chapter was started in 1921 and has since been hosting business and social events.

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Love thy neighbor

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | April 12, 2007

Monticello Curatorial Assistant Jodi Frederiksen was sifting through various artifacts during the course of the painstaking job of cataloging nails, bricks and other such objects when she came across something unusual: tin-plated iron shingles from Monticello's dome, dating back to Jeffersonian times, with signatures scratched into them.

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The "Naked" truth

By Lauren Caldwell | April 12, 2007

University students and aged NPR listeners alike gathered last Friday to hear best-selling humorist David Sedaris speak of his life in Tokyo, love for "The Zombie Survival Guide" and his unlikely friendship with a convicted child molester.

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Get back to work

By Laura Sisk | April 12, 2007

As finals draw closer, we are con-fronted more than ever by the funda-mental problem of student life here at the University: how to put off our work as long as possible without flunking out of school. I like to think I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

Life

What's your love strategy?

By Julie Eckert | April 11, 2007

How many speakers have come to the University and asked their audiences to do warm-up exercises? Out of those who may have, how many ask audience members to find partners they do not know, take their faces in their hands, look them in the eye and say, "I love you?" Probably just one -- Dr. Patch Adams -- when the world-renowned, clown-nose-wearing doctor spoke in Old Cabell Hall March 30. As students filed in for "An Evening with Patch Adams," some may have been surprised that the man standing on stage looked different from Robin Williams's character in the movie.

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Shop till you plop

By Daniel McNally | April 11, 2007

It's April. It's that time of year when showers prepare to bring flowers, when college basketball ends and baseball begins and when 90 degree days are quickly followed by snow in Central Virginia.

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Staying safe

By Dan Dooley | April 11, 2007

If you're like me, you're probably extremely concerned about your level of personal safety in Charlottesville.

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Latino Awareness Week: Discussion & Dialogue

By Katt Henry | April 10, 2007

The chances are pretty low that in a given week you and your friends will discuss immigration, the political interests of youth in other countries, the place of civil rights activism in current affairs and the importance of building connections with students of other ethnic backgrounds. But sparking dialogue about rarely discussed topics was exactly the point of the University's second-annual Latino Awareness Week, held March 19 to March 23. LAW was organized by La Alianza Coalition of Hispanic/Latino Leaders, an umbrella organization that includes groups such as the Latino Student Union and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

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This ship is a time cube

By Erik Silk | April 10, 2007

What could this title possibly mean? The Time Cube is some ridiculous nutcase's idea regarding temporal fields or religion or something like that, which one of my friends discovered on the Internet.

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Sic semper Titanic

By Bailee Barfield | April 10, 2007

While University students may find the week that celebrates Thomas Jefferson's birth one filled with festivity, this week also ushers in more unfortunate incidents, including the assassination of a fellow president and the sinking of a very big ship. It was just like any other Friday evening in Washington when Lincoln and his wife arrived to attend the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre April 14.

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Procrastination

By Maggie Jones | April 6, 2007

I think someone should write a procrastination handbook about 101 ways to not do your work. I think I should be hired for the job.

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A time to dance

By Steve Austin | April 6, 2007

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh, but Perfect Praise Dance Ministries focuses on the time to dance. "We're not just entertainment," said fourth-year College student Natalie Banks, Perfect Praise president.

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Laptop dependent?

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | April 5, 2007

Students roll out of bed at the insistent ringing of their alarms and turn on their laptops to check the weather, a crucial step in deciding what to wear and whether to carry an umbrella.

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Monopoly money

By Erik Silk | April 5, 2007

I'm presently writing to you from a PC in a Malaysian hostel. I am putting this piece together in MS Notepad, as this computer's MS Word program takes every word I write in English and transforms it into a series of crazy Chinese characters.

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