"TheExamination period had always been a time of turbulency and strife -- a strange mixture of real scholastic endeavor and of genuine hell-raising.
The first time I set foot in Japan, I was five years old. My parents and I had a brief layover at the Tokyo airport.
I used to be a girl with a plan, and everything was very predictable. I had the "be well-rounded plan" that necessitated playing sports and music throughout high school, the "go to the University of Virginia plan" and the "study abroad in Italy plan." It all went very smoothly, from acceptance to this fine institution all the way through Italian 202.
Eats, sweets and idle feats Whirling dervishes and belly-dancers are past tense in Istanbul. Yet it is commonly said that Turks have an identity crisis in which tradition is in constant conflict with more cosmopolitan sensibilities.
"April is the cruellest month." T.S. Eliot wrote that. I mean. I think he did. I mean. I really don't know much about poetry if that's what you're thinking.
By Michelle Jamrisko Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Assuming cold April weather doesn't kill the spring mood -- or the newly planted flowers -- a wealth of new landscaping projects may soon provide a fresh look on Grounds. Facilities Management Superintendent of Landscape Rich Hopkins said the landscaping projects around Grounds are "endless" and the staff is currently focused on preparing the Lawn for commencement exercises. "That explains the ropes and stakes on the Lawn," he said.
"Even the most passionate man will go crazy in this city," wailed cab driver Abdullah Ayaz as he stomped on the accelerator, swiped the shopping bag of a pedestrian and shot a glance at his crowded rear-view mirror.
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The goodbyes begin this morning. I wake up knowing that it's time to write my last column. It's the first of many goodbyes I'll make in the next two months before graduation, and I don't know if I'm ready yet. I lace up my New Balance shoes and pull my ponytail through the hole of my U.Va.
Muddy ground and gray skies didn't dissuade University students from flocking to Mad Bowl Saturday for Springfest. Planned and organized by the University Programs Council, the event featured performances by The Wailers, Better Than Ezra and several other bands.
Perhaps best known as Danny Tanner on the family sitcom "Full House," Bob Saget is nothing like the obsessively clean, fatherly character that made him famous.
Over the course of the year, we have taken you, (or, ahem, ourselves, but wrote about it for you) to a plethora of unique, gourmet, elegant restaurants throughout the Charlottesville area.
When 2003 alumna Sole Salvo visited the Grounds five years ago, the artist in her was disturbed. "The art at this campus is really minimal," Salvo said.
I write in defense of one of the greatest television series of our time.While sitting around last night with my fellow columnist Mr. Meeks, trying to find some topic for our little spar, his comment that "'Sex and the City' is really just HBO's version of porn" suddenly solved all of our brainstorming problems. I've always been interested in what guys think of the show.
It starts out as a humorous idea. Slowly, it gets talked up more and more, the idea growing and growing.
University athletes like senior basketball guard Todd Billet, swimmer Ed Moses and quarterback Matt Schaub, whose achievements and reputations make them a hot commodity on the dating market, may seem out of reach for most University students. With Kappa Delta Sorority's Athlete Date Auction, however, these three and many other athletes will be up for bid tonight at O'Neil's from 8 to 10 p.m. Not only will money buy bidders a date with select athletes, it also will benefit Prevent Child Abuse America, a charity dedicated to eliminating child abuse in American households. "Preventing child abuse is really important to me, and the more we help prevent the problem now, the less likely children will grow up to be abusive as adults," said first-year College student Kristen Coffield, a member of Kappa Delta. "It's most important that we raise money for such a great cause, but it should be really fun too," she said. Of the money raised, 80 percent will benefit child abuse prevention centers in Charlottesville, while the rest of the money will be given to the national charity, said third-year College student Mary Hamner, one of the sorority's program organizers. "It started off as a small event a few years ago, but it has really picked up steam," Hamner said.
When Megan and I were vexed with trying to find an issue on which males and females have different opinions -- an issue that would still remain in context with the subject matter of the Life page -- it took us quite a while to find a topic.
Another page will be torn from the calendar on Thursday. While some University students celebrate the approach of April and continue daydreaming about lying out in the summer sun, others are feeling the pressure to finalize summer internship or job plans. Third-year Engineering student Cat Kennedy said that while she is still in the process of interviewing, she senses that "a lot of people are going for a few jobs." Several students noted that their parents are sources of added pressure. "I'm going to Spain for five weeks and then I'm going to scrounge for a job," first-year College student Kyla Coyle said.
Whether viewed as a symbol of the value placed on University traditions or the source of long-standing controversy, endowed Lawn rooms remain an integral part of the Lawn selection process. Seven rooms in Jefferson's Academical Village are home to students who have been selected not by the standard Lawn selection procedure, but by alternate processes laid out by the organizations or causes that have endowed these rooms.
"The recently announced Gay Student Union (GSU) boycott of the Virginian and other Corner restaurants raises more important questions than simply that of who one might find sitting next to him at lunch.
