Happy Easter, I'm your host Bif Brinkley, broadcasting live at our new sky box on top of the Rotunda for the 99th-annual Golden Egg Hunt.
Before I say another word, I'd like to make one thing clear: this week, I'm guilty as charged. Granted, I like to consider this a minor infraction, but there's still no escaping the fact that this time, I'm (egad!)
If you walk by the amphitheater before 3 p.m. today, you will see something other than the usual mud-pits and people studying.
This is the second article in a two-part series looking at how the University community confronts war, both in the 1970s Vietnam conflict and the Sept.
India is.... Hmmm... elegant and gaudy; ancient and modern; familiar and foreign; extraordinary and ordinary; full of rickshaws with photos of Hollywood stars and gold streamers, ghee, street urinals, lentils, unparalleled generosity, Green Apple Fanta, yogurt, stray dogs, and water buffalo... All at the same time! -- Shulamit Warren Eric Littlepage In this article, my study abroad companions and I will undertake an impossible task.
This is the first article in a two-part series looking at how the University community confronts war, both in the 1970s Vietnam conflict and the Sept.
It's 6 p.m., you're hungry and you're broke. Coincidentally, tonight you're also in luck. Beginning this evening at 6, the psychology department will hold Psychology Experiment Night in Gilmer 190.
A gavel pounds and a roundtable discussion ensues. Sixteen people, identified by the countries they represent, sit and decide the fate of the world. It is the year 2025 and a troop of Manoan super-soldiers has just invaded Austria - or so it appears within the confines of the Emergency Bioethics Committee, one of the 11 committees within the 2002 Virginia International Committee Simulation.
Concepts like tradition, scholarship and practicality compose the very core of University life. The Office of Admission strives to find the most driven and goal-oriented students.
At age 21, Jimmy Santiago Baca entered prison illiterate. Five years later, he came out a poet. He has transcended the odds - and survived to tell about it - through writing that is praised internationally for its style, cultural richness and honesty. Baca came to Charlottesville this past Friday as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book.
My Spring Break should have been a Beach Blanket Bingo fiasco to remember. Unfortunately the bingo ball caller that is my conscience got all triflin' and went SPF 5 million on my fun in the sun.
Last night at 7, area air waves got an international infusion of music that rocked the globe with the premier of "Culture Shock," a new radio program sponsored by the International Studies Office and WUVA 92.7 Kiss FM.
Over near the 900 block of Preston Avenue, the area has recently turned into fertile ground for new restaurants and food stores.
By Alexandra Valint Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Imagine using a few easy clicks to upload an entire novel into a portable, convenient technological device.
He stood on the Lawn early one November morning, surveying the University's architectural jewel, wondering how he could transfigure Jefferson's legacy. "This can't look like a carnival or a barber shop," Ralph Himelrick said to fourth-year trustee Michael Huneke.
From sweeping the carpeted hallways, to cleaning the bathrooms, to hanging ready-to-use trash bags over each student's door knob, the housekeeping staff cleans up after the messes left behind by residents daily. These housekeepers, who work daily in first-year students' living quarters, encounter the same students day after day in their robes, running to class or brushing their teeth. And the relationship gets personal.
A University graduate will return to his old stomping grounds today to talk about his book, "How I Learned to Snap." Kirk Read, who graduated in 1995, is a free-lance journalist for various gay publications and the former editor of "Our Own Community Press," Virginia's gay and lesbian newspaper. "How I Learned to Snap" is the story of Read's experiences as an openly gay student at a small southern high school in the Shenandoah Valley. Read began writing at age 13 and had three plays professionally staged while he was in high school, including, appropriately, one play about coming out in high school. His book addresses this and other experiences.
It's March Madness, BABY!" Dick Vitale's words ring in my ears as I reach for the remote control. Mute. Much better now. There has not been a more irritating voice than Dick Vitale's since Steve Urkel hiked up his pants and flooded TGIF with his nasal sound. As I look outside my window, it is March Madness indeed: tender white blossoms hang on the limbs of a nearby tree.
Twenty-five. No, it's not the number of pages my upcoming research paper has to be, and it's not the number of days until Easter.
Today at 4:00 p.m. at the New Dominion Bookshop, author Gary Kessler will tell the stories behind the story.
