GENEVA, SWITZERLAND We're going to have to make this quick. My eyelids won't be open much longer. Abroad Lesson No.
You may knowthat Edgar Allan Poe was one of the University's most famous students, but do you know what happened to his dorm furniture?
With Turkey Day around the corner, I always think of my family's time-honored tradition of saying what we are each most thankful for as we sit around the dinner table.
Most students probably spent this past Satur-day thinking about the upcoming Thanks-giving break or finishing that last paper before heading home.
This holiday season, Americans will spend an expected $5 billion on video games. Odds are, at least $50 of that $5 billion will come from you -- video games make great gifts.
It's a familiar story. It's 9 p.m., your stomach is rumbling and you're trapped on central Grounds.
In a Washington Post article published yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he fears Iran soon will put to use its nuclear weapons program -- a program most had considered inactive. Powell's increasing suspicions about Iran's nuclear weapons activity were published just two days after several European nations negotiated with the Iranian government to ensure that Iran will "suspend its uranium enrichment program," according to the article. The news on Iran has left some concerned with how the Bush administration will handle the perceived threat. "I don't want to see another intervention by the U.S.," second-year College student Vivek Ayer said.
I know that this is not virgin territory, but honestly, the housing situation here is preposterous.
At the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people worldwide -- 2.7 million of them children younger than 15 years -- were living with HIV/AIDS.
With noon sun glowing on her freckled face, Claudia Ford sipped on a freshly made strawberry smoothie and glanced at three girls wearing pastel-pink tutus last Monday. "Oh, my daughter loves to wear those!" said Ford, a visiting environmental sciences scholar at the University, with an excitement normally reserved for kids in candy stores. She was talking about Vyanna, her three-year-old adopted daughter and the inspiration for her book, "Why Do I Scream at God for the Rape of Babies?", which she will be signing at Quest Bookshop today. Ford is also a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and works in international development. Ford met her future daughter at a hospital in Johannesburg on Dec.
Style... I'm not sure any one event or any one entity could epitomize the word "style" and what it means more appropriately than The Fashion Design Club's Fall Fashion Show, "Collective Chic." It was a cold, rainy night.
The University's Thursday night social scene is no longer dominated solely by long lines at bars and beer-covered frat floors.
And the only cure ... is more cowbell. So for those of you living under a rock, this weekend was our last home football game of the season.
What's your Facebook personality? Are you a poker? Do you join hundreds of clubs just for the hell of it?
By Katie Couric Sporting khaki pants, a yellow buttondown shirt, a mustard colored bow tie and a navy blazer, he takes a seat on his Alumni Association armchair.
As Thanksgiv-ing approaches and students get hit with a second wave of midterms and papers, they may feel completely swept up in current projects.
I recently started making lists of great ideas. That is to say, I carry around my artsy-fartsy black notebook and write in it instead of paying attention in class. Some examples: Leaves falling off of trees in autumn is a great idea.
By Michelle Jamrisko Cavalier Daily Associate Editor The varying rumors surrounding Yasser Arafat's health were extinguished yesterday with the announcement of the Palestinian leader's early Thursday morning death.
I've been writing this column for year or so, which translates to about 20 columns and occasional alienation from the dudes.
"Whiteness" is an elusive concept. In an attempt to address this often times confusing and debatable social construction, a group of artists have decided to present their own perceptions and ideas of whiteness through paintings, sculpture, photography and collage. The University's Bayly Art Museum currently is home to an exhibit titled "Whiteness: A Wayward Construction." According to the Bayly Art Museum Web site, the exhibit was initially organized by California's Laguna Beach Art Museum, and the University will be the only Eastern venue for the celebrated collection. The exhibition features a variety of artists' interpretation of whiteness, and as a whole, addresses not only the racial and social construction of whiteness, but also how that construction relates to history, class, region and gender. Several observers in the museum said that the whiteness exhibit was beyond anything they could have imagined and unlike anything they had ever seen. The exhibit "is not something you would see everyday in an ordinary art museum," said Charlottesville High School student Kaleigh Gilpin, whose Advanced Placement English class was touring the museum Wednesday. One room of the exhibition housed a large and incredibly detailed piece called "Mulatto Nation," by Lezley Saar.
