I am the first to admit that I am not the type of person you could accurately refer to as "intellectually curious." This is not to say that I am without interests.
So I was rummaging in my fan-mail bag this morning, and I happened to stumble upon a rather derogatory letter by a student named "Dan." Now, this wasn't my first hate letter -- far from it.
"Would you drink out of that?" fourth-year College student Meredith Powell asked a group of young children Friday afternoon. They responded with a resounding and definitive, "No!" Powell, an art history major, had just shown the children a picture of a work of art by surrealist Meret Oppenheim.
Have you ever wished you could trade that "long-time-no-see, buddy" in for a much cooler "what's up dude"? I know I have ... a lot.
We don't really know why we wanted to go to Disney on Ice. We just knew we wanted to attend. And the price was right, $12 for "100 Years of Magic." That's only, like, $0.12 per year of magic, for those of you who aren't good at identifying a bargain. The premise was a simple one: In just two hours, performers were going to present 100 years of Disney's best music and magic, and they were going to do it on ice.
Alderman: Phew, am I glad that week is over. The work never ends! McCormick: Dude, I feel you.
When wandering in the Newcomb Hall basement, one might notice films being shown in the theater. Quite often, these films are ones created by students who are a part of the University's Film Makers Society (FMS). For instance, a movie called "Roskosmos" premiered last weekend in Newcomb, which drew a crowd of about 100, fourth-year College student and Vice President of Production for FMS Steve Robillard said. There are about 60 active members in the society, but many more students are associated with FMS, working on projects at different times during the year, Robillard said. "We're really just trying to encourage student film in any shape or any form," Robillard said.
Things are getting weird. My life is usually confined pretty clearly within walls of unpredictability.
With the recent violent crimes and burglaries in which members of the University community were victims, some question the degree to which students feel safe at the University.
This weekend, the University will undergo an "invasion of the parents," also known as Family Weekend.
The task seemed simple enough: Spend a week "living on air." No credit cards, no trips to the ATM, no pulling that dough out of my wallet, no rendezvous with Ben Franklin, Abe Lincoln, John Adams or any of my friends of old.
I've been getting the same old question a lot lately: "Where are you living next year?" My response is invariably, "Quit being so nosy.
I believe it was the girl with the Technicolor dreams, cute shoes and yappy dog who told us "there's no place like home." And though I love the college life, I must say going home every several months is such a relaxing and comfortable experience that I think Dorothy had it right, even though she was semi-delusional.
This will be associate politics Prof. Paul Freedman's fifth election here at the University -- for the layman that translates to nine years. "I count in elections," Freedman said. As a person who said one of his passions is the political process, Freedman's counting style makes sense. Freedman teaches the American politics class "Mass Media and American Politics." "My real area of interest has to do with the political community," Freedman said.
Upon applying to the Uni-versity of Virginia, students are asked to sign a statement pledging their allegiance to the honor system -- not to lie, cheat or steal -- on penalty of expulsion. But, are refraining from lying, cheating and stealing the only ways to live an honorable life? Webster's dictionary gives "honor" 10 definitions, including "a keen sense of ethical conduct" and "one's word given as a guarantee of performance." Second-year College student Erin Golden said she believes honor "involves a way of lidfe with values such as honesty and integrity," and second-year College student Christina Aquilina said honor is "something that everyone at U.Va.
Although it is something I'm not proud of I am just going to come out and say it: I love infomercials.
I'm sure you've had something explained to you at one point in your life that was followed by the phrase, "It's not rocket science." The implication was that whatever task you were being asked to perform or understand was simple and uncomplicated since rocket science represents the pinnacle of complicated-ness. After doing a little research, I discovered this term surfaced in the Han Dynasty in China between 206-220 AD.
What do J.R.R. Tolkien and Noam Chomsky have in common? It is not a trick question: Both were notably involved in linguistics, the systematic study of language. While Tolkien is perhaps most famous as a fantasy writer and some people are more familiar with Chomsky for his political ideologies, their individual careers help to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the field. Linguistics at the University reflects this nature as it is a program and not an actual department. Students here have a chance to learn about different disciplinary perspectives, Anthropology Prof.
So when was the last time a book about drugs or sex put you to sleep? Doesn't happen very often, does it?
Sorry, George Allen. It was too easy. Moving on, I think it's a good time to talk about today's political issues.
