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Something Old, Something New

By Virginia McLure | March 21, 2007

"By bridging Vietnamese traditions with Vietnamese-American culture, we keep and change with the times, both making and breaking traditions as we go," the program for the Vietnamese Student Association's Tet Show stated. The program itself represented this mix of customs, including traditional red envelopes inside the programs, symbolizing good luck in the New Year, as well as modern advertisements and pictures of the students in their everyday lives.

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Paris: no parents

By Mary Baroch | March 21, 2007

Am I the only person still recovering from the horrible tease that is Spring Break? I think there is something wrong with a week of pure fun followed by six more weeks of class with assignments due and reading to be completed.

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You don't have to be a Jefferson Scholar to be a scholar of Jefferson

By Dan Dooley | March 21, 2007

At the University, no figure casts a longer shadow than that of six-foot-11-inch basketball center Tunji Soroye.

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March gladness

By Eric Ast | March 20, 2007

About three weeks into what I have recently dubbed "the greatest college month of them all," I have realized that March is, by far, the greatest college month of them all.

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A sense of history

By Michael Slaven | March 20, 2007

David Shreve spent years listening to Lyndon Johnson. As an economic historian studying presidential recordings, Shreve had a front-row seat to the Johnson White House, studying tape recordings of the 36th president's conversations with activists, congressmen and bureaucrats.

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Nursing your education

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | March 20, 2007

Students explore many different opportunities to get hands-on experience in their fields of interest, such as internships, volunteering and even shadowing professionals.

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Fresh off the vine

By Chris Hall | March 19, 2007

Wine is at the heart of Virginia culture just as much as the legacies of Jefferson, the historic battlefields, foxhunting and the ever-expanding modern landscape of the Washington, D.C.

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Wahoowa Virginia Basketball

By Winnie Chao | March 19, 2007

I never thought of myself as a basketball fan. My favorite NBA team in elementary school was whichever my best friend Margaret liked (which explains why one of my first-grade homework assignments was titled, "Why I like being Catholic and Irish"). My favorite NBA team in middle school was the one with Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan.

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Fake out

By Laura Sisk | March 16, 2007

When I was little girl, I had very big dreams for my eventual professional life. You know the old mantra of a person being "a doctor, a lawyer and an Indian chief?" Though it may be politically incorrect, it pretty much summed up my youthful ambitions: I wanted to be everything. As everyone -- from my coworkers to the girl behind me in line at Bodo's -- keeps reminding me, graduation is fast approaching.

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Methods to the (March) madness

By Ed Cao | March 16, 2007

This is an exciting time of year. The weather is starting to warm up, summer is in sight and college basketball is about to go completely nuts. First, I'd like to congratulate our basketball team for getting a No.

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Chalk it up to flyering

By Steve Austin | March 16, 2007

Not every student finds out about happenings at the University from e-mail lists or Facebook. At the beginning of the month, the University Policy Office unveiled new regulations about exterior posting of flyers and chalking. Many of the rules for flyering are often violated, such as those forbidding postings on the outside of buildings or on columns. Chalking rules, however, are almost always obeyed -- only nonpermanent chalk is permitted on uncovered, cement walkways.

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A campaign without champagne

By Dan Dooley | March 14, 2007

There comes a time in every college student's life when he or she casually decides, having no relevant experience and really no qualifications whatsoever, to run a completely random and downright reckless campaign for Student Council president.

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The passion of the student

By Daniel McNally | March 14, 2007

Think of things you are good at. It can be whatever: sports, games, talents, areas of expertise, writing better columns than The Cavalier Daily staff or anything else you can name.

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Inner beauty

By Marissa D'Orazio | March 14, 2007

Flawless skin, perfect teeth and silky hair represent the typical image of a beauty queen. The person behind the outer appearance, however, is not usually thought of as the kind of girl who spends her summers living in impoverished African villages and her spare time tutoring young children and who plans on becoming an elementary school teacher in an inner-city school.

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South Africa has better juice than the U.S.

By Erik Silk | March 13, 2007

Well, bake my potatoes, it's been a while!I just got back from a South African safari, but before I pass out from being tired and dirty and having a cold and being tired, let's have a frank discussion about everyone's favorite continent.

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Ambassadors from the Academical Village

By Matthew Warring | March 13, 2007

It seems that the first few weeks of school are packed with orientations for new students, instructing them on all the ins and outs of interacting with the University and their fellow students.

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Students go the distance

By Bailee Barfield | March 13, 2007

Taking global issues into their own hands, University students became involved with Building Tomorrow, a national program aimed at expanding educational opportunities for some of the world's less fortunate youth.

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Spring break done right

By John McNamee | March 1, 2007

Wooo! Spring Break! As a young person, this is the highlight of my life: hitting the beach, drinking some brews and making time with the ladies.

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Happiness is a warm sun

By Erik Silk | March 1, 2007

My title was going to be"Last Week in Brazil, I Was Unwittingly Groped More than Once by Dapperly Dressed Transvestites: Anything Goes in Carnavale!" I scrapped it because I'm not sure it would work so well as a title.

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On the merits of dialogue

By Chris Hall | March 1, 2007

My father and I used to stand in the kitchen and talk after he got home from work -- he having the customary after-work cocktail while I paced restlessly.