Life

Life

Graduate connection

By Lindsey Wagner | November 9, 2006

First-year students are easily spotted, tramping down Rugby Road on weekend nights with their entire dorm. Second and third-year students clog the libraries and infiltrate the leadership of CIOs, determined to be involved in as much as possible before their time at the University is up. Fourth-year students are found socializing on the Lawn and can be picked out in other locations by the sad gleam in their eyes, realizing they only have one more semester left at the University. But what about graduate students in the College?

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Life

Requiem

By Laura Sisk | November 9, 2006

When I was 12 and he was 15, I caught my cousin smoking in our grandmother's backyard. At first I thought I had discovered some great secret, one in which I could exploit to my selfish pre-teen advantage.

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Life

A tale of one city (and its outlying areas)

By Dan Dooley | November 8, 2006

In 2004, Frommer's rated Charlottesville as the best city in America to live in. That same year, Irated Charlottesville as the longest word I knew how to spell (that title still holds). So what makes this town the best?

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Life

Riding in style

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | November 8, 2006

A chilly breeze whipped against people's faces as streetlamps and lights from the restaurants lining the street illuminated a typical night on the Corner.

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Doing things her own way

By Nicole Ponticorvo | November 8, 2006

Having essentially crafted her own undergraduate and graduate career in interdisciplinary fashion, it is no wonder that Asst.

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Life

Broken telephone

By Daniel McNally | November 8, 2006

Jagshemash! Aren't familiar with my greeting? Then you desperately need to get yourself to a movie theater or at least log on to YouTube.

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FYI: From the Jeff. Society

By Lindsey Wagner | November 7, 2006

In a university setting rich with history, the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society holds a distinguished position.

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Life

In college, the books hit you

By Matthew Warring | November 7, 2006

When I came to college as a tender and innocent 18-year-old, I tried to pay heed to all the various warnings I received: "Don't eat too much -- it's easy to gain weight in college," "Get enough sleep every night," "Don't drink the punch, whatever you do." I've done pretty well with all of these, a claim that, as long as there are no scales around, no one can dispute. I received one additional mandate before leaving home: "Remember, you need to do more studying in college than in high school.

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Life

For the love of learning

By Bailee Barfield | November 7, 2006

At the University, the diverse student body not only includesstudents of varying race, gender and sexul orientation but age as well.

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Life

I know something you don't know

By Erin Gaetz | November 6, 2006

Usually, I am not one for making predic-tions, as I have learned by now that my predictive power about equals that of Miss Cleo.

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Life

Life Lessons

By Lauren Caldwell | November 6, 2006

Fresh-faced high school graduates, we entered college ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery.

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Life

Baby got bang

By Chris Shuptrine | November 6, 2006

Finally Switzerland has another claim to fame besides delicious chocolate and its cowardly neutrality during World Wars: the eradicator of mankind, the Earth, the Universe and perhaps even cockroaches.

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Under 21 and fun?

By Susan Fisher | November 3, 2006

Ever since my mother decided to place me in kindergarten at the age of 4, I have been cursed. I was the last person in my class to pass the five-foot mark, the last person to obtain a driver's license and the last person to reach that vital legality of 18 years.

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You can find me in the club

By Ed Cao | November 3, 2006

Tired of being accused of "just making things up" and "writing about nothing" by my Opinion columnist friend, I decided to embark on a journey to discover the true secrets of the place we call "Club Clemons." My original intent was to report back in the form of entries into my private diary.

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Life

Ketchup

By Maggie Jones | November 3, 2006

Trying to come up with a topic for my column this week was tough. There are many things in our lives, socks for instance, that are important but not worthy of space in this newspaper.

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Soul searching

By Lauren Pappa | November 2, 2006

I didn't dress up for Halloween this year. Maybe I was just being a party-pooper, or perhaps the quest to find the perfect costume, which for today's modern woman includes fishnet stockings and a "cute" corset of some kind, seemed like more trouble than it was worth.

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'Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'"

By Nicole Ponticorvo and Vinu Ilakkuvan | November 2, 2006

A raven sits on the windowsill, a stack of books beside it. In the corner stands a wooden desk, a book lying open on top. Alongside the hustle and bustle of students rushing to and from class, there stands a room different from all the rest: West Range 13.

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All the world's a stage

By Daniel Reinish | November 2, 2006

English Prof. Cynthia Wall said she tries to introduce a whole world when she teaches English literature. "I suppose it started with the fact that I have always liked old houses," Wall said. This interest in setting has translated into Wall's current work. Wall said her scholarly efforts often examine space and description in literary texts.

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Pour some sugar on me

By Connor Sullivan | November 2, 2006

So, Halloween is great. In every way and for all ages. It is an equal-opportunity funployer. Trick-or-treating on the Lawn, as I hope you all know from personal experience, is one of the best of the University's modern traditions.

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Life

Fair game

By Defne Gunay | November 1, 2006

As Students Promoting Fair Trade (SPFT) would tell you, coffee -- usually thought as a lifesaver during midterms or a constant companion while writing papers -- in fact has a much more interesting story than being a run-of-the-mill caffeinated drink. Fourth-year College student and Secretary of the SPFT Lizzie Heaney said it is important to distinguish what fair trade really means. "Many people mistakenly categorize Students Promoting Fair Trade as an anti-free trade group," Heaney said.