W hat I need is a good defense, 'cause I'm feeling like a crim inal..." The deep voice of Fiona Apple floats around Ann Taylor Loft in the Barracks Road Shopping Center, enticing people to share her burden.
I'm scared. You might be carrying a gun under your veil," said a University student when Women's Studies Professor Farzaneh Milani decided to wear a traditional Iranian chador to class in the spring of 1994.
Mary Humphrey stepped back and carefully sureyed the long table full of misplaced mail in Station No.
A sunny outdoor patio, murals on the wall, gospel music and mimosas. This is the way breakfast should be.
The percussion section starts its cadence and about 120 members of the pep band take off and do anything and everything on their way to take their positions for the first song. The Virginia Pep Band consists of students from every year and every school - and even some alumni that are only students at heart - and plays at men's basketball and football games. "Basically you take out everything that sucked about marching band in high school," said third-year Education student Heather Pozun, the director of the pep band.
"There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
I finally understand where Steve Martin was coming from. As the movie "Father of the Bride" opens, his character reclines in an oversized chair, removing his shoes like Mr. Rogers, and explains that he once thought a wedding was a simple case of boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, they find a ring and a dress, then say "I do." Having just experienced his daughter's wedding, the exhausted father of the bride says he was wrong.
All you can eat By Daniel Stern Cavalier Daily Associate Editor It's a Thursday night and your wallet is a bit too thin to fund a trip to Cafe Europa or a call to the College Inn.
RICHMOND Yellow and black "Win with Warner" billboards lined the streets of Virginia's capital yesterday as the state went to the polls to elect the future governor and other state representatives.
RICHMOND Mark Earley is a family man. At 3:00 p.m. on Election day, Earley canvasses Short Pump Middle School with two of his sons.
Rarely have two words caused such controversy in the University community. However, the addition of the chant "not gay" to the University's "Good Ol' Song" has created a ferment of opinions, campaigns and editorials from those defending or criticizing it. The University's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, nationally a group motivated by defending individual rights and liberties, recently launched its own effort to eradicate the chant. Five black and white flyers read: "not gay," "not black," "not Asian," "not female" and "not Jewish." A picture of a person meant to represent one of the respective characteristics stares out at passersby. "We wanted to show people that saying a racial slur like 'not black' is analogous to saying 'not gay,'" said third-year College student Andrew Borchini, president of the University's ACLU.
10:10. A time. A place. A message. It's Wednesday night in Jefferson Hall, and, even though it's Halloween, the religious discussiongroup 10:10, which derives its name from the time it meets each week, is ready to start. Fourth-year Engineering studentPhil Helin tosses a few loaves of sunflower wheat bread to the gathering of about 30 students.
Grateful Dead drummer revives style By Daniel Stern Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Mickey Hart, the long time Grateful Dead drummer, will be coming to the University tomorrow night in a University Programs Council-sponsored event. The concert kicks off at 8 p.m.
When I saw all the cute little toddlers in crazy costumes marching from door to door and stuffing their mouths with candy, I have to say I was a little frightened because it was two days after Halloween.
Working for the World By Julie Hofler Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Graduation.
Winding down the narrow mountain road, small rocks can be heard tumbling down the steep, tree-covered slopes.
You may have been tricked. You may have been bribed. You may even have been threatened or physically forced.
Garbed in orange and blue, he can be seen on horseback or on foot. He stirs up the crowd and encourages the sports teams.
Concealed behind the frosted windows and Deutsch exterior, like an Alpine pass buried within the heart of the mountains, the Schnitzelhouse Restaurant offers a wonderful world of exploration for those willing to brave the journey.
Akanksha Sanghi cannot leave home without them. They give the first-year College student a sense of place, a reminder of her native home of India - 10,000 miles away from the University.
