Working over Thanksgiving Break is a joke. We all pretend we're going to do it, but then you end up watching every movie on cable.
While some may exhaustedly recite stories of heckling grandmothers and belligerent uncles with whom they were reunited over Thanksgiving dinner, third-year College student Michael Love has a different story. "Everyone gets along in my family -
When my mom's dad died, he left two things for my father.Alcohol and power tools. In the last years of his life, my grandfather would often take holiday dinners into his bedroom and eat in front of the television. Mom said he was "depressed." To me, watching TV on holidays instead of sitting at the dinner table in tight brown corduroys and an immeasurably itchy red sweater sounded like heaven. "Mommy, I want to be depressed with Poppy." "No you don't.
After spending slightly over a year at the University, I am always somewhat amused when others characterize it as "Southern." See, I'm not from around here, and when I say, "I'm not from around here," I don't just mean I'm not from Northern Virginia.
The claim to fame for Old Virginia Fried Chicken is more than just flavor. One University student, whose routine run-ning loop passes the restaurant's location at the intersection of JPA and Maury, said he is drawn by the smell.
As everyone is quite aware, the University is full of societies, clubs and other ritualistic organizations that are unique to our institution.
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?
