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UTS shines in competition

By Cavalier Daily Staff | July 18, 2002

By Adam Justice Cavalier Daily Life Editor John Rogers-Cotrone and his teammates knew the competition would be fierce. "It was kind of intimidating," the bus driver and fourth-year College student recalled. No, Cotrone wasn't anticipating a marathon or athletic competition. He, along with fellow University Transit Service bus drivers Damie Holligan, Chris Andino and Mike Goddard, was preparing for the Virginia State Transit Roadeo - the annual event inviting transit organizations around the state to compete in appearance judging (of the uniforms), safety quiz examinations, identifying problem with a defective bus and navigating an obstacle course. Cotrone placed 15th out of about 40 drivers in the obstacle course, and had to face down competitors from professional transit services across the state. Preparation involved reading through Virginia's commercial driver licensing manuals.

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Welcome to the jungle

By Derek Richardson | July 18, 2002

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2006 - bring a blanket! Sage advice to visiting first years, from the 28 current students who are hard at work this summer as Orientation Leaders.

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The tradition behind Midsummers

By Cavalier Daily Staff | July 11, 2002

By Adam Justice Cavalier Daily Life Editor The streets of Charlottesville usually grow quiet during the summer months after students pack their bags to head off to the beach or take on that lucrative internship. But one weekend out of every summer all that changes and the town once again is bustling with students. Midsummers - being celebrated this weekend - marks both a break between the two summer sessions and the midpoint of the summer. It seemingly is a hallowed University tradition and students flock to Charlottesville in droves to celebrate it. Yet few appear to know just how Midsummers got started or even what it is they're celebrating. "I think it had a lot more history, but now it's just an excuse to come back," Inter-Fraternity Council President Phil Trout said.

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Playful summer festival

By Bryan Maxwell | July 11, 2002

It's not quite round-the-clock theater, but it comes close. July means it's time again for the Summer Theatre Festival at Live Arts, a whirlwind saturation experience that makes it possible to see 13 performances in about a week.

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Down and Dirty

By Adam Justice | July 3, 2002

With sun-dried dirt smudged all over his T-shirt and khakis, Adam Vandervort painstakingly sifted the newly dug dirt.

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Training the next pop sensations

By Sam Bresnahan | July 3, 2002

K ids say the darndest things. "How old are you, 40?" one asked me not too long ago. The kid was 8 years old, and she obviously needed a pair of glasses, or some sort of medication, such as valium. I say this because she was jumping up and down, making pigeon-like noises and shoving her classmates all at the same time.

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Becoming a true

By Sam Bresnahan | June 27, 2002

T he Bible has its Ten Commandments. Einstein had his theory and Jack Handey has his Deep Thoughts - which at times aren't so deep.

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STOPPING THE MONSTER

By Adam Justice | June 27, 2002

S pray-painted in black letters against a white wooden back ground, the message on the makeshift sign stuck in front of a house on Cameron Lane could not be clearer. "HELP STOP UVA GARAGE ON IVY BEFORE IT GETS YOU!" These types of signs along with emblazoned blue banners appear in the yards of many residents of the Lewis Mountain neighborhood, an area within a stone's throw of the University's proposed parking garage. On March 12 of this year, the University officially unveiled its plan for a piece of land slated for development down Ivy Road: a 1,180-space, five-story parking garage.

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"Windtalkers" appeals to John Woo fans

By Bryan Kasik | June 20, 2002

If there's one thing audiences weren't exactly screaming for, it's another war movie. We've seen Black Hawks rise, we've seen Black Hawks fall, we've seen soldiers go behind enemy lines, we've seen enemies at the gates, and we're all quite aware of the fact that war is not too pretty. That's why "Windtalkers" is such a surprise.

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Hollywood Hoos

By Cavalier Daily Staff | June 20, 2002

By Derek Richardson Cavalier Daily Associate Editor WHOO TV, a University student-run film production group, is hard at work this summer filming the dramatic miniseries "Stratagem." The miniseries is set at fictional Blackwood University, where five students conduct psychological research during the summer for Prof.

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Summer of Love

By Bryan Maxwell | June 20, 2002

Do six plays in seven weeks sound hectic to you? Heritage Repertory Theatre, the professional company-in-residence at the University's Drama Department during the summer months, helps keep theater alive in Charlottesville by adopting a repertory mode of production. With irregular, sporadic summer schedules, vacations interrupting things and with friends and family around for shorter chunks of time, many theaters adapt by turning to this model.

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Icarus flying away?

By Cavalier Daily Staff | June 13, 2002

By Adam Justice Cavalier Daily Life Editor The Icarus statue - the University landmark that once loomed over daily gossip sessions as students scrambled to Clemons - now has a new location. Beers-Skanska, the contracting company the University hired to construct the new special collections library, moved the statue 20 feet to its current location, in front of the bushes to the left of the steps of Alderman Library, said University project manager Don Riggins. "The statue was sitting in the footprint of where we'd have to expand for the new building," he added. While the statue's current location is only temporary, it will not - unfortunately for rising third and fourth years - be returned to its old site for another two years. "Generally it'll be [placed] where it was before we had the new building built," Riggins said. According to Philip A.

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