Life

Life

Preaching to your peers

By Daniel Reinish | October 4, 2006

Though it may be a job most traditionally associated with graduate students, a number of undergraduates at the University have taken on the added responsibilities of being a teaching assistant. One student said working as an undergraduate TA can feel a little awkward at times. "I don't feel like I'm in a very different position than [the students] are," said second-year Engineering student Christina Stamper, who is a TA for a course taken by first-year Rodman Scholars.

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A passion for the written word

By Nicole Ponticorvo | October 4, 2006

By Nicole Ponticorvo Cavalier Daily Associate Editor English Prof. Jessica Feldman said she can pinpoint the time her passion for modern literature developed -- after she read "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats and "Remembrance of Things Passed" by Marcel Proust toward the end of her high school career. "It really was just as if I had discovered my life's work," Feldman said.

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Life

A Capital Campaign plan to call my own

By Mary Baroch | October 4, 2006

I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say the lovely fireworks celebration last Friday that kicked off the Capital Campaign inspired love and respect in all of our hearts for the beauty and tradition of our fine University.

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Life

In the SWAG of things

By Lindsey Wagner | October 3, 2006

The Studies of Women and Gender Department may conjure images of women burning bras, but Interim Director of SWAG Rina Williams seeks to put that stereotype to rest. In short, SWAG is an "interdisciplinary program that studies women and gender from multiple women perspectives in an international context," Williams said. The international component of the University's SWAG department sets it apart from other women's studies programs nationally. "We have a strong contingent feminine theory for the United States, but we also study the Middle East, Africa and South Asia," Williams said.

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Life

How do you like them apples?

By Lindsey Wagner | October 3, 2006

Fifteen minutes and 1,120 feetseparate the Uni-versity from a place where life moves slower -- Carter Mountain Orchard. Carter Mountain Orchard, known for its pick-your-own apples and famous for its apple cider donuts, has been owned and operated for 40 years by the Chiles family, according to manager Cynthia Chiles. The orchard is home to between 15 and 20 different varieties of apples, which are differentiated by their flavor, color and the time they ripen, among other factors. "All have very unique flavors," Chiles said.

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Life

Hunger pains

By Clare Ondrey | October 2, 2006

It's 4:45 p.m. right now, and I'm starving. I don't like to use the term "starving" in general because I feel like it demeans Angelina Jolie's work.

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Life

Help me help you

By Brendan Collins | October 2, 2006

For some reason I've been getting a buttload of letters from various University celebrities the past few weeks.

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Life

Faculty Meeting

By Kristin Hawkins | October 2, 2006

Administrators are charged with overseeing and improving various facets of the University. Many of these people work behind the scenes in roles that are not clearly defined to outsiders.

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Life

Potter familius

By John McNamee | September 29, 2006

I'm going to preface this column with a statement: I love Harry Potter. I didn't want to, it just kind of happened.

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Academical inferno

By Defne Gunay | September 29, 2006

As the University prepares for a night of fireworks at the Rotunda for the kickoff of the largest capital campaign in University history, some benefits of which will be dedicated to the South Lawn Project, one is reminded of another event at the Rotunda involving fire, crowds and much activity -- albeit of a different, and more devastating, nature. As it is infamously known, Thomas Jefferson's focal point of the Academical Village was seriously damaged in a fire Oct.

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Life

The skinny on everyday style

By Alex Jospin | September 29, 2006

The truth about skinny jeans: I don't care what all the magazines say, you cannot wear skinny jeans.

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Life

The classics continuum

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | September 28, 2006

While the University is home to 72 academic departments, the classics department has the honor of being one of Jefferson's original 10 academic disciplines.

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Eatin' good in the neighborhood

By Lindsey Wagner | September 28, 2006

You've finished classes for the day and are just settling down to tackle your homework when your stomach starts rumbling.

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Life

Going somewhere

By Winnie Chao | September 28, 2006

I have just started my fourth and final year of college. I haven't finished my majors, I don't know what "area requirements" are, and I haven't bought a single book for class.

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Your mom's an Easy Bake oven

By Laura Sisk | September 28, 2006

The English language is full of terrifying phrases: "You have an incurable disease," "Your credit card bill is past due" and "You don't know me but I love you." Quite frankly, all of these statements pale in comparison to that question asked so frequently in Charlottesville this time of year: "Do you want to live with me next year?" (We both know you just heard the theme from "Jaws" and had to create a makeshift paper bag from The Cavalier Daily to stop hyperventilating.) I keep coming back to my house here in Charlottesville and wondering why all of my roommates are not at home, even though all four of them are in the living room.

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Life

NES: Never-ending splendor

By Daniel McNally | September 27, 2006

The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was the most successful gaming console of the 1980s. Anyone with a happy childhood knows first hand how great it was and can attribute countless hours of fun to it.

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Vote Dooley-Burger in 2008

By Dan Dooley | September 27, 2006

They say to write what you know. I know words. Hence the following campaign speech, which explains my platform as a candidate for the next U.S.

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Trotting tall

By Daniel Reinish | September 27, 2006

They walk and trot. Some of them canter. Some of them jump. The horses may be asked to do many things, but the students who make up the Virginia Riding Team are the ones being judged. Riding is a club sport at the University whose members compete at shows sponsored by the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. Members compete in different classes based on experience.

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Star light, star bright

By Bailee Barfield | September 27, 2006

Mr. Jefferson's University embraces just about every activity, interest and whim of its diverse student population.

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System restore

By Daniel Reinish | September 26, 2006

The big paper you just finished writing is due by Saturday at 8 a.m. All you need to do now is e-mail it to your TA.