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On site with Katrina

By Daniel Reinish | January 26, 2006

"It was pitch black outside," second-year Engineering student Justin Starr said. The Amtrak train arrived late at night, after all, but as Starr explained, he was only five minutes away from the station stop in a major city. "It was surreal," he said, commenting on the darkness. A closer look revealed the cause: "If you really pressed your face to the windows, you could see rows and rows of houses ... all just abandoned," Starr said.

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Cry me a river

By Winnie Chao | January 26, 2006

People who cry usually make me laugh. Two teammates and good friends of mine, Fiona F. and Rachel W., broke into tears when reminiscing about their time spent at the University.

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On top with a laptop?

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | January 26, 2006

The little AIM icon in the lower right hand corner of the laptop sometimes has a seemingly magnetic pull on the mouse.

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Fear

By Chris Garland | January 26, 2006

Of all the scenarios in the world, I never thought I would be broken whilst wear-ing a bright yellow helmet that closely resembled the receptacle end of a banana-flavored condom. I was standing on a dusty street in Mexico, holding a "small" scooter that seemed to weigh at least three times as much as me.

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Hoos got scurvy?

By Eric Cunningham | January 25, 2006

Over break the University announced that it had been chosen to be the home port for the world-renowned Institute for Shipward Education's "Semester at Sea" program, to begin this summer.

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"Well, it could be worse."

By Daniel Young | January 25, 2006

Last week thousands of University students returned to Grounds for the start of the spring semester.

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Give me a break

By Lindsey Wagner | January 25, 2006

The winter holidays in Charlottesville offered brisk air full of cheer, a festively decorated Rotunda and plenty of work.

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Top flick picks of 2005

By Jessica Vanatta | January 25, 2006

A new year can mean many new beginnings. First of all, there are the popular resolutions about how to have a better year in 2006.

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A Movement for Microcredit

By Jessica Vanatta | January 24, 2006

Fourth-year College student CynthiaMangum traveled to Argentina in spring 2005 for a semester abroad and discovered something that compelled her to extend her stay through the summer.

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Dating, redefined

By Megan Fanale and Meghan Moran | January 24, 2006

Dating's not dead. It just got boring. This year, resolve to resuscitate your dating life -- and no, $2 pitchers doesn't count.

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Getting over the blahs

By AJ Aronstein | January 24, 2006

This is for anyone who happens to have the blahs right now. Because let me tell you, I'm there with you. I've been in a slump for a few days. You know, one of those inexplicable declines in self-confidence where the world just seems to be one step ahead. You seem incapable of having a normal conversation with anyone. You realize you forgot to button your fly about 25 minutes after walking out of the bathroom in Alderman. You find yourself telling friends a lot of stories that end with, "Well, I guess you had to be there." You go for a walk around our beautiful Grounds to clear your head only to find that Mad Bowl looks like the Verdun, circa 1916. You spend hours reading the Drudge Report's updates on a whale that wandered up the River Thames. And subsequently died. That poor little guy didn't stand a chance.

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20 Questions

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 24, 2006

Each week for the past year, The Cavalier Daily has asked a student 25 questions, allowing him or her to eliminate five of them.

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Jefferson lives

By Teresa Wood | January 23, 2006

At Thomas Jefferson's University, it's hard to walk around Grounds without being reminded of his enduring presence. But Peter Onuf, a Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, is brought into contact with Jefferson more often than most.

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Button your shirt, put on a long skirt and smile till it hurts

By Erin Gaetz | January 23, 2006

I would imagine that for most University students, going home for Winter Break is not something that causes a great deal of anxiety.

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Seasonal sarcasm

By Dan Strong | January 23, 2006

Though the calendar is well into January and the weather has jumped forward to March, the holiday season is still on my mind.

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In it for the kids

By Crystal Shin | January 23, 2006

As soon as I stepped into my classroom on the first teacher work day, teachers from down the hall told me about "this group of kids." Apparently, these fourth graders had been branded as one of the lowest achieving groups of kids and the worst behaved in several years.

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Publicizing privacy

By Amber Davis | January 20, 2006

Since Sept. 11, the government's efforts to enact regulations safeguarding the nation against future terrorist attacks while attempting to protect the privacy of American citizens has been a balancing act of national importance.

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Thinking politically

By Ashley Singh | January 20, 2006

While most students were busy study-ing for finals or perhaps falling asleep in Clemons, a new CIO silently emerged.

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Give me a break

By Connor Sullivan | January 20, 2006

I had a very good Christmas break, thanks for asking. Unfortunately, it seems that everyone had exactly the same Christmas break.

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Hallelujah

By Teresa Wood | January 19, 2006

With ice still clinging to the grass and the architecture illuminated by strings of lights, the Lawn was fairly quiet the night of Dec.