Despite the 90-degree days a mere week ago, it's starting to feel a little bit like fall. Considering it's October and we're about to embark on Fall Break, I'd say it's about freaking time.
In your tenure at the University, you have no fewer than 60 opportunities to soak in the last particles of dust scrubbed from bodies that fixed the stars. You can do it every other Friday, beginning an hour after sunset.
Your neighbor to the left is crunching on an egg roll and eying a thick wedge of cherry pie. Stephanie is talking about who got drunk last weekend, and how drunk, and Alexandre is correcting everyone's grammar.
Woodbridge Cabernet Sauvignon, 2005 (Calif.) Price: $7 Grade: D Woodbridge is the wine most likely to be found at a public event.
I may have railed about the horrors of saturated and trans fats in processed foods in my last column, but I'm flipping to the other side this week to discuss a topic plentiful in saturated fats -- cuts of meat.
Featuring exhibitors and food vendors, the 11th annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival was held Saturday in Lee Park.
Corn & Black Bean Salsa Makes: 5 servings You will need: large bowl Ingredients 1 15 oz. can corn, drained 1 8 oz.
Every three seconds somebody breaks the honor code. In fact, I broke it in the last sentence. It's only every four seconds that somebody breaks the honor code.
Each school year, the thoughts on the minds of many upperclassmen are about getting an internship for the summer or a full-time job for their life after college.
Student musicians are just like every other student when it comes to balancing play and work in a way that ensures some degree of satisfaction and sanity.
I feel trite and unoriginal writing an article about dining halls. These buildings are inspiration for thousands of polemic columns berating them for volatile nutrients, urine-like odor and, in an unfair attack, their propensity to harbor most every disease listed in the dictionary.
Only women take SWAG classes. This has become a common stereotype at the University in recent years.
OK, how cool would it be if this were actually a class? Much more useful than making English majors take science courses.
Amid a pan of frosting, plastic spoons and rolls of paper towels lay an open magazine illustrating various styles of piping.
You've seen it in pink writing on a purple background in alternating capital and lowercase letters in an AIM profile.
Let's talk about how I got to go to the ballet for free. Friday was simply a bizarre day in general: in the morning, I completed my final registration at the Université de Lyon, so of course I ran all over creation, turning in this form here, paying for health insurance there, making a photocopy in that office there.
Some people just talk about environmentalism. You've heard them -- the ones who preach about saving the polar bears but consider recycling too much of a hassle.
Oh man, do I ever love Wikipedia. I'm gonna arbitrarily assign old 'Pedia a male gender for the purposes of this rant because, in fact, he's like my pal. Anyway, the guy is amazing.
There I was, standing in front of my television, screaming like a madman to encourage the men in helmets I saw moving before me.
If college is about one thing, it's about tailgate parties. But if college is about 70 things, one of those must be studying.
