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New chapter unfolds

By Mike Greenwald | April 21, 2000

Long gone are the days when fraternity brothers would joke about having All-You-Can-Eat mixers with Alpha Phi. The re-colonized University Alpha Phi branch officially moved from being a colony to a chapter again Sunday, joining the sorority's other 146 chapters throughout the United States and Canada. Three years ago, Alpha Phi's unflattering reputation began to take its toll on their recruitment efforts as the University chapter experienced a steep decline in the number of women accepting rush bids.

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Wading through rough waters

By Cynthia Calgaro | April 20, 2000

For the past 40 years, Arnaldo and Gloria Rodriguez, owners of the Arlington, Va., Cuban restaurant "La Cantanita," have seen their family and friends leave Cuba and Fidel Castro's regime. One of Arnaldo's employees ran through a minefield at age 17 to escape. "The boy in front of him had his leg blown off," he said. Arnaldo and Gloria are two of many Cuban Americans who think Elián Gonzalez, the six-year-old Cuban boy thrown into a politically-charged custody battle between the United States and Cuba, belongs in the U.S. "I'm the first one to say that a father should be with his son.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 20, 2000

RE: Acceptance High school seniors no longer have reason to run obsessively out to the mailbox, hoping for notification letters from their prospective colleges.

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Exam 'Wasteland' proves

By Kate White | April 20, 2000

With less than a month left in the semester, papers demand to be written, projects call out to be completed and exams loom on the horizon.

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Small towns: short on size, but big on charm

By Emily Kane | April 19, 2000

(This is the fifth in a weekly series of articles on road trips within reasonable reach of the University.) Back when he still was the Cougar, rocker John Mellencamp belted out odes to small-town America, and he did it well.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 19, 2000

Lights out College students nationwide are notorious for keeping night-owl hours, and students at the University are no exception.

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New Cybercafé serves more than just coffee

By Christa Dierksheide | April 19, 2000

Black and white pictures on the walls of the Alderman Café depict the library 30 years ago -- containing little more than rows of card catalogs and a checkered floor.

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Hippies, socialists descend on D.C. for IMF protests

By Cavalier Daily Associate Editors | April 18, 2000

WASHINGTON-They hastily piled rusty wheelbarrows, planks of plywood and anything else they could find to block the intersection between D.C.'s New York Avenue and 14th Street Sunday, tying the makeshift barricade together with thin pieces of twine. Some pounded on five-gallon oil drums while women, scantily clad with faces painted brightly, chanted various anti-International Monetary Fund slogans. With all the coffee shops and clothing stores on the street shut down early, the heart of downtown D.C., it seemed, was under cardiac arrest. A woman, clad in a pair of dirty white overalls, the front emblazoned with the blood-red, roughly painted slogan "No IMF," flicked off the incessantly humming helicopter overhead; two other women, topless, covered their nipples with anti-IMF stickers and stared at the helicopter ponderously. The protests in Washington D.C.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 18, 2000

IMF World Bank walkout fizzles In the spirit of last weekend's massive protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C., University students planned an 11 a.m.

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Life

Dockter Duval's Advice Column

By Dockter Duval | April 18, 2000

Dear Dockter Duval, My roommate sleeps all the time. I don't understand it. How can someone be perpetually sleeping?

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O-Whole new world of dining

By Stephanie Batten | April 17, 2000

O-Hell, Ocrappatory Hill, O-Thrill - anything but O-Hill. Dining Services hopes to do away with this dining hall's less-than-flattering nicknames once and for all.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 17, 2000

Missing mouse balls What could anyone possibly want to do with mouse balls? Massive amounts of mouse balls?

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Coffee shop scene proves too hot to handle

By Lee Camp | April 17, 2000

With the sudden ubiquity of coffee, coffee shops, coffee houses and coffee ice cream in our society, we the consumers find ourselves asking one question, "How many times am I going to burn my tongue before I realize that coffee is as hot as %#$*?" Coffee is the only food product I can think of that is extremely painful to consume until several minutes after it has been purchased.

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Life

Lions, students and service, oh my!

By Josie Roberts | April 14, 2000

With over 200 Contracted Independent Organizations on Grounds, why would a fourth year with only a few months left at the University endeavor to start something new? "Honestly, I was intimidated by the idea of beginning a club," said Cathy Crawford, fourth-year Architecture student and founding president of the University's branch of the Lions Club.

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Two Moons takes twist on traditional Mexican

April 14, 2000

Mexican food: for some people, the mere mention of the stuff makes their stomachs churn faster than they can say "Taco Bell." After being bombarded with countless urban legends concerning the quality of this cuisine's ingredients, who hasn't ever left a Mexican restaurant without wondering exactly what they just ate? But at Charlottesville's Two Moons Kitchen, it is virtually impossible that such questions will ever cross patrons' minds.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 14, 2000

Jefferson's playground The center of Thomas Jefferson's original Academical Village is about to take on a new role.

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Drama queen imparts stage savvy to teaching

By Adam Justice | April 13, 2000

The energy displayed by fifth-year Education student Megan McNulty transcends everything she does, which, on a typical day, includes teaching a dance class for five to seven-year-old girls, student teaching high school special education classes and working the box office of Culbreth Theater -- all this on top of her academics. "I get all of my energies from my father.

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Cell phones: intruders in the midst

By Kate White | April 13, 2000

Spring is here and I truly believe that warmer temperatures are right around the corner (although I could just be in major denial) so when the mercury rises, I intend to be ready with a killer spring/summer wardrobe. In an attempt to reach my goal, I headed to the mall with my sister Abbie.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 13, 2000

Virtual Voting Think video games only include bad guys and guns? Guess again. A politically-minded CD ROM, complete with virtual reality voting, is the newest brainchild of the Center for Governmental Studies, a center run by Larry J.

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Odds and Ends

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 12, 2000

Last call If a professor knew they had only one remaining lecture to impart their ideas upon students, what exactly would they say? Tonight's Last Lecture Series, sponsored by First Year Council, IMP Society, Inter-Fraternity Council, Inter-Sorority Council and Residence Life, gives three distinguished faculty members this opportunity.