Life

Life

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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Life

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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Life

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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Life

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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Life

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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Life

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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Life

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.

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Life

Textbook tantrum

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | January 19, 2006

With every new semester comes a reunion with friends, suitcases and boxes full of all sorts of random odds and ends, the anticipation of beginning new classes ... and textbook shopping. With so many bookstores, deciding where to purchase textbooks can be quite the challenge.

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Life

Twelve credits is plenty

By Lindsay McCook | January 19, 2006

New year. New semester. New opportunity to bring up that GPA and fulfill your wild-est academic dreams.

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Life

My reggae protégés

By Bayless Parsley | January 19, 2006

In my utopian vision, everyone listens to reggae music. There's just something about it that you can't not love.

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Life

An Avenue of Prospect

By Amber Davis | January 18, 2006

This past Christmas, the inside of Memorial Gymnasium was transformed into the biggest Christmas party in Charlottesville for the sixth year in a row.

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K. Fed Rocks the Oh-Six

By Eric Cunningham | January 18, 2006

Greetings from the year 2006. Today marks the morning when everyone wakes up and thinks, "What? It's not 1:30 in the afternoon, why is my alarm -- Oh God no ... break is over." Yes, today symbolizes the end of half of a school year and the beginning of the part of 2006 when you do something other than channel surfing (or "Law & Order hunting," as it's referred to in the Cunningham household). Smack in the middle of break was a little holiday known as New Year's.

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Life

A perspective in motion

By Hannah Woolf | January 18, 2006

The following is an account of third-year College student Hannah Woolf's journey from her home in Maryland to Nantes, France, where she is studying abroad this semester.

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Life

The Castinator

By Dan Dooley | December 2, 2005

I saw President Casteen at Alderman Café on Tuesday afternoon. His striking figure was unmistakable; his gait conveyed import.

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Tough love

By Daniel Reinish | December 2, 2005

A creatively designed curriculum may be able to bring diversity from the outside world to the students in the classroom, but some members of the University community have chosen to try this the other way around. By joining the Peace Corps, University graduate student Amanda Hildt and University alumna Tina Schuster chose to interact directly with unknown cultures. These are two of many University students who made the same decision.

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Life

A strategy or a tragedy?

By Amber Davis | December 2, 2005

President George W. Bush, in the recently updated report entitled the "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq," is redefining the policies concerning continued American intervention in Iraq. This 35-page document outlines Bush's plans for economic, political and military success in the region.

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Life

A rewrite

By Chris Garland | December 1, 2005

A favorite author of mine once wrote something along the lines of this: If a certain type of story has a moral to it, do not believe it. I had my column for this week written a month ago.