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Making a mark on the Corner

By Katie Sullivan | October 10, 2002

Good news for motorcycle enthusiasts, those who like their art on their bodies and people who want to shock their parents: Acme Tattoo is moving to the Corner. The tattoo parlor, which constantly posts funky flyers all over Grounds, is currently located on Allied Street, across the street from the skate park and the headquarters of the Charlottesville-Albemarle rescue squad. But proprietor Tim Forbus feels that the out-of-the-way location cuts into the parlor's student business. "There's not a lot of walk-in traffic," Forbus said.

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LIZ-ISMS

By Elizabeth Stanek | October 3, 2002

Last year, a friend and I were about 100 miles outside of Charleston, S.C., jacked up on Bojangles' sweet tea, when my Fall Break dreams splattered across the windshield like a swarm of fat flies. Yes, I had Fall Break dreams, big dreams.

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Here's your shot to take a shot

By Katie Sullivan | October 3, 2002

Imagine University Hall ablaze with lights, filled to the top row of seats with Cavaliers enthusiastically cheering -- for you.

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A Bonding Experience

By Meghan Moran | October 3, 2002

Will Kynes went to the Rock 'N Rally last Saturday for the music, but he came away with a little more than he expected. He left with the power to vote. "I'm not very politically active," the fourth-year College student admitted.

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Rotunda Stop...

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 2, 2002

Q: What are you doing for Fall Break? A: For Fall Break, I'm just going to JMU to spend some time with my best friend who just broke up with her boyfriend of a long time.

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FOOTING THE BILL$

By Angela Manese-Lee | October 2, 2002

During her first year at U. Va., third-year College student Paula Andrea Bolivar trekked from Hereford Residential College to the Barracks Road Shopping Center every weekend, rain or shine. Having arrived in Charlottesville with only $20 in her pocket and with no other source of income in sight, the Miami native went out and secured a job at Old Navy on her second day at school.

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Odds & Ends

By Laura Good | October 2, 2002

If you're craving dialogue about contemporary issues, Food for Thought -- a program sponsored by the Office of African-American Affairs -- is a new lunchtime option. The bi-weekly discussion series at the Luther P.

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RADical

By Lytle Wurtzel | October 1, 2002

The two recent assaults on women at Ivy Gardens and Georgetown Greens are reminders that even in a "college town" such as Charlottesville, attacks can and do happen.

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Drop by Drop

By Leslie Atchley | October 1, 2002

"Get out of my drinking water!" Novice crew team coxswain Suzanne Pinckney remembers the cry well.

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Out of Bounds

By Austen Givens | October 1, 2002

Having never lived in a big city -- and by this I mean a Wash- ington, D.C., or a New York -- coming to Rome, Italy was tough.

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Professor Profile

By Cavalier Daily Staff | October 1, 2002

School of Commerce COMM 341: Commercial Law I COMM 342: Commercial Law II Q: Where did you grow up? A: Amherst, Va. Q: Where did you go to school? A: Well for high school, E.C.

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Historian's Corner

By Cavalier Daily Staff | September 30, 2002

Most of the students that attend the University are proud to be Cavaliers for many reasons, whether it's because of the beautiful scenery, the atmosphere, the people or something of the like.

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'Waterworld' bombed at the box office, so why is Charlottesville reenacting it?

By Jake Hostetter | September 30, 2002

Fifty years from now, I'm going to sit down on a hovering rocking chair of the future and tell all my grandchildren to gather about my well-manicured feet.

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Sign on to sound off

By Lauren Akselrod | September 30, 2002

Lousy professors -- try as we might to avoid them, we've all had a bad experience at one time or another.

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Sam's Plan

By Caroline Bray | September 30, 2002

What else is there to do?" he asked. "I've never been able to sit life has to have a purpose, it has to be used.

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Sound Bytes

By Cavalier Daily Staff | September 27, 2002

First off, no one at this school knows where Akron is. Second of all, it's Homecoming, just go to the game.

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Odds & Ends

By Alexandra Valint | September 27, 2002

Babaloo defies labels. That's what happens when a band that expands its linguistic horizons by singing in seven different languages in the space of a single stanza. In between playing in Tobacco Road in New York City today and in Northern Virginia on Sunday, the seven member multilingual group is giving a free concert tomorrow night at 9 p.m.

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Hardware Store home to history, sub-par food

By Chris Makarsky and Thomas Ross | September 27, 2002

If you're into retro decor and gimmicky-theme restaurants, by all means, visit the Hardware Store.

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Spare Time

By Patricia Cooper | September 27, 2002

A bowling pin continuously twirls on top of the Always Means Fun (AMF) Xtreme machine, while small Sponge Bob key chains dangle inside the plastic casing of another.

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Rising star

By Cavalier Daily Staff | September 26, 2002

Tonight, people besides English majors can get excited about an author visiting the University -- the Peters Rushton Bequest to the Department of English is sponsoring a reading by novelist Chang-Rae Lee at the University Bookstore at 8 p.m. Lee is widely recognized as one of the rising stars of the Asian-American literary scene. "He has this way of bringing you into other cultures through his language," said Lisa Russ Spaar, director of the English Department's creative writing program.