Life

Dance fever: Bringing back the steps

I have a calling in life. No, I'm not joining a convent or teaching English in Malaysia, but the voices tell me my duty is just as important: To create a national dance movement. The life-changing moment occurred this summer, when I was sharing a bottle of white wine with my best friend while we perused one of those insanely irrelevant, girly, coffee table books entitled The Bad Girl's Handbook to Having Fun.

Cook Buzz

Few people have witnessed the University's changes over the decades like Dorothy Mae Harris, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity's 77-year-old cook. She can recall the dress code when the University required males to wear khaki pants and ties, only donning casual shorts when they were headed to Memorial Gym to work out.

Smart eating

Sitting at the very back of the Chemistry auditorium, it often can be hard to hear your professor's lecture, let alone discern his or her exact facial features.

A New Yorker in Virginia

There is nothing like the smell of a New York City subway. Walk 13 steps beneath the sidewalk on the first hot day in May and the odor will change your life.

It Was A Dark and Stormy Night

Dangerous Slip-and-Slide "The hurricane was a rather painful experience for me," third-year College student Kate Malay said.

The Cavalier Daily Crossword

Across 1. Christmas story opener 5. Object of worship 9. Body part 14. Muscle relaxant? 15.

Seeing diversity

Students from all backgrounds will come together tonight to participate in "U.Va. in 20/20, how is your vision?," a program sponsored by the Minority Rights Coalition and Student Council. The Coalition is comprised of the Asian Student Union, the Black Student Alliance, the Latin Student Union, the National Organization for Women and the Queer Student Union. Third-year College student Katy Shrum, president of the University chapter of the National Organization for Women, said the purpose of the Coalition is to build community and to help students realize that all oppression is interrelated. M.

Checking Out of Hilton Hell

Just shoot me in the sinus with a Prozac-laced blow dart already, because I've had enough.The Hilton sisters absolutely destroy me.

Odds & Ends

Hurricane Isabel came and went this weekend, leaving behind her a trail of downed trees, flooded roads and pools of candle wax.

The Collar Conundrum: Up or Down

Icome from a preppy public school about 15 minutes outside of one of the most conservative cities in the country -- our nation's capital: Washington, D.C.

Biker Biologists

It is a biologist's office -- there can be no doubt about that. Textbooks line the walls -- "Embryology," "Developmental Biology," "Genetics," among many others.

South Lawn cinema

Streaking is a University tradition, but not many students would expect to be belligerently jogging in the buff down Main Street at age 30 with a jiggling beer gut and a receding hairline.

Move-in day: After a long day of carrying all the necessary equipment a first-year student needs for survival (laundry basket, sheets and a poster showing the many different kinds of cocktails one can make with orange juice), the exhausted 18 year olds sit in a circle around their RA. As they move from person to person, participating in the often cheesy ice breakers, they exchange names.

Fourth-year last resorts

Like the enigmatic odor of the Castle, there is a cryptic tale that wafts from the mouths of the ramen noodle-praising first years.

The Sweetest Sound

Whether or not they choose to admit it, many University students take Joe Raposo's advice to heart.

'Hoo cares about Isabel?

It's hard to complain about nice weather. Take yesterday, for example. Students lounge in the sun, posing with their books while enjoying the feeling of sunglasses on their faces.

You're so vain

Last May, as my friends and I caravaned down to Wilmington, N.C. for Beach Week, we enjoyed the usual stellar sights of I-95 South -

Fear and Roaming

They told me I was the first white boy who'd ever said more than "hi" to them. Me, I was just looking for some shade.

Sharing Spaces

It is the stereotypical dream home -- that comfortable little pale blue house adorned with a white picket fence, vibrantly colored flowers stretching across the front porch, the smell of fresh cookies baking in the oven and the family dog running around the yard.

Speed learning

University Programs Council wants to teach you how to bartend, belly dance and breakdance, among other things.