The following new story was published in College Topics, the predecessor to The Cavalier Daily, on Oct.
After Thanksgiving, Christmas, Yom Kippur, Ramadan, Kwanzaa and Chinese New Year, Halloween is my next favorite holiday.
Hurricane Katrina caused widespread, incomparable damage. People lost many of their possessions in a matter of a few days to the water that covered parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Cobwebs and spiders adorn railings and doors; jack-o-lanterns and painted pumpkins are lined up against the windows; candy corn and skeletons make their annual appearance. It's that time of year again. Little girls dressed up as princesses, teenage monsters determined to scare everyone they run into, mountains of chocolate, unexpected (and unpleasant) jokes -- along with Halloween comes the potential for both tricks and treats. But no matter which prevails, nearly everyone enters November with many a memory to share in later years.
Celebrities on television, in magazines and on billboards are easily recognized by the general public with a simple glance at their well-known faces.
I'm very much looking forward to the day in the Seinfeld-predicted future wherehumanity sheds its notions of fashion and adopts the one-piece jumpsuit uniform as the intergalactic standard.
On Oct. 8, land stretching from Afghanistan to Bangladesh was hit by a 7.6magnitude earthquake that pounded mainly Pakistan and also parts of India.
Weather.com never lies. And this week, it looks like fall is here to stay at last. With the end of midterms, the return of cold nights and the mischief of Halloween just a few days away, October is a time of renewal, rebirth and revitalization. Forget that loss to UNC! Go pumpkin picking with your hip, alternative college friends.
M id-afternoon on Saturday, a quickscan around Grounds revealed that the University was abuzz, teeming with anticipation: Restaurants were crowded, parking spaces were scarce.
In less than a week, every Bobby First-Year and Susan Sociology-Major will don a disguise and for one night -- or two, or three -- become a different person entirely.
Each week, The Cavalier Daily asks a student 25 Questions and allows him or her to eliminate five of them.
Devastation. Pure and simple. There are no other words for the feeling I had when I watched UNC intercept Hagans' pass with two minutes to go.
There are some at the University who find the move toward cooler weather as delightful as a canceled 8 a.m.
"I have a bestseller. It's a bigsurprise," Thomas Frank, author of "What's the Matter With Kansas," said.
In the middle of environmental science Prof. Jim Galloway's office, two gourds sit on top of the table. "Would you like one?" he asked.
The mission of the Life columnist isa tricky one to define. Many of us like to recount our more salacious activities mixed with a fair portion of self-deprecation.
As the Virginia gubernatorial race continues to rage on, negative campaigning strategies between Democratic candidate Tim Kaine and Republican candidate Jerry Kilgore can be seen in increasing amounts.
I feel like I'm showing off my home, and not just my school," fourth-year College student Jade Craig said. Craig, a Lawn resident, looks forward to this year's Family Weekend even as he looks back to his first Family Weekend at the University. "In first year, I was more excited about the novelty of my mom seeing where I was going to school for the first time," Craig said.
There's a reason why writers write and baseballplayers play baseball.It's called my batting swing. The Virginia Baseball Media Day Tuesday made me glad that I learned how to type at a very young age.
Have you ever wondered which populations have the least access to basic health care and how corporations are trying to overcome these health disparities?
