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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 23, 2000

Big Man on Campus ... in a robot suit? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a stunt required of a fraternity pledge? The robot walking around grounds, with his aluminum boxed head, tubular pants and electric tape holding his costume together, has created quite a rumbling in the University community. "Did you just see that?" said an exasperated Ralph Schultz, University language technology specialist, to a student studying diligently in a window in Cabell Hall.

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'Good grief,' what a bittersweet farewell

By Rupa Mishra | March 23, 2000

Chances are, you know who Peppermint Patty is. You have laughed at Woodstock and sighed with Charlie Brown.

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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 22, 2000

Book it Today marks the opening of the Virginia Festival of the Book, a five-day program promoting literacy and celebrating reading.

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New advertising technique pays off for internet junkies

By Stephanie Batten | March 22, 2000

College students around the globe spend millions of hours each month with their noses glued to computer screens, sometimes doing homework, but more often than not just surfing the Internet.

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Answering the call of the open road, discovering home

By Emily Kane | March 22, 2000

"Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road." So sings Walt Whitman in his meandering, brilliant ode to experience, "Song of the Open Road." He's absolutely passionate in his love for the road, and he extols its beauty as something that expresses him better than he can express himself.

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No. 1 UC-Berkeley disregards rankings, traditions

By Michael Greenwald | March 21, 2000

BERKELEY, Calif.-They are No. 1, and they couldn't care less. The University of California-Berkeley, crowned by U.S.

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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 21, 2000

Buh-bye Parking Garage woes The days of clogged traffic at the Central Grounds Parking Garage are no more. While students were relaxing in tropical climates and going to wild beach parties during spring break, the University's Department of Parking & Transportation installed a new gate and electronic sign to indicate when the Central Grounds Parking Garage is full. The new sign and gate should help alleviate the choking state of traffic flow into and out of the popular parking garage. "Unfortunately, people were backing out into Emmett Street and people didn't know what to do," Becca White, asst.

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Dockter Duval's Advice Column

By James Duval | March 21, 2000

The advice column feature is brand new to the Cavalier Daily. Here are some sample questions asked to candidates trying out for the CD's advice columnist position.

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Spring fever sends Frisbees flying wayward

By Katie White | March 9, 2000

Technically, March is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. There's something wrong with Charlottesville's climate though, so we're getting an early spring.

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Beneath the layers of Beta Bridge

March 9, 2000

It's 5 o'clock on a Tuesday morning, and while most University students are nestled snugly in their beds, three early risers are standing on Rug-by Road armed with three paint rollers, a paint brush and two cans of paint. They are braving the cold to share in a University tradition: painting Beta Bridge. Constructed in 1855, the paint-battered bridge has witnessed decades of social and political history at the University, and in the last 30 years it has advocated everything from anti-war sentiment to views on the abortion debate. It is a medium of self-expression, a bold and noticeable means by which anyone can say anything. It was not until the 1970s that bridge-painting became adopted as a University tradition.

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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 9, 2000

Run-in about Student Council run-off Amid the hype of yesterday's run-off election for Student Council President, flyers lining the Bryan Hall walkway bombarded passersby with a different message: "Don't Vote." "It's disturbing that someone would discourage voting.

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Rescue effort unites students, community

By Christa Dierksheide | March 8, 2000

Fourth-year College student Katie Bolcar is used to leading search and rescue groups through the woods.

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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 8, 2000

Rated X for extreme Forget Hollywood movies. This stuff is the real deal. Monday, March 20, the "Best of Banff Mountain Film Festival" rolls into Charlottesville with a collection of awe-inspiring videos to amaze outdoor enthusiasts and thrill-seekers alike. The lineup includes films by "amateur and professional filmmakers from around the world," said John Holden of Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, the local sponsor of the event. This year, moviemakers submitted 138 films from 22 countries to the festival.

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Dr. Hostler: Renaissance woman

By Julie Hofler | March 7, 2000

Medicine is not the only thing well-rounded University doctor Sharon Hostler prescribes. With a broad range of interests and hobbies, she advises students to "take the time to enjoy the journey, not just the destination." Hostler, the medical director at Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center (KCRC) here in Charlottesville, also is a professor of pediatrics at the University Medical School. With a look of nostalgia on her face, Hostler referred to college as a "banquet table of opportunities" from which students should "enjoy classes and recognize that the clock is artificial." Hostler received the Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award this February, an award the University gives annually to one woman at the University based on her contributions to the community. Hostler sat in her office, wearing a long black dress, a red cardigan sweater and Birkenstocks.

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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 7, 2000

Roughing it up in D.C. "This is our first major accomplishment standing on our own as a club," said a triumphant Brennan Holmes, second-year College student and president of the men's club rugby team. On Sunday, the newly-formed undergraduate rugby team won the George Mason-sponsored "Brawl on the Mall" tournament in Washington, D.C. Before this year, both graduate and undergraduate students participated in the sport and played on the same team.

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Dockter Duval's Advice Column

By James Duval | March 7, 2000

Congratulations! You have been fortunate enough to stumble upon the first appearance of the Life section's new advice column.

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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 6, 2000

Camping out for the game Most people who want floor seats for Virginia basketball games show up a few hours before the game.

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Lifting the veil of silence

By Linnisa Wahid | March 6, 2000

(The opinions expressed in this article are those of Linnisa Wahid, who is writing a personal account of the conflict in Sierra Leone.) When my grandmother came to live with my family in 1997, she told me about a particular moment when she knew that she had to flee her country.

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Illegal firecrackers satisfy male craving for explosive devices

By Lee Camp | March 6, 2000

Well, Mardi Gras is almost here. It is bearing down on us like that giant boulder that almost crushes Indiana Jones in the movie where he's raiding a lost ark.

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By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 3, 2000

Fuming over Hume "A devoted Virginian who served his native state in Civil War and Legislative Hall." These words stand eternally etched on the Frank Hume Memorial, the marble memorial fountain located in between the Commerce School and Brown College.