THERE are a lot of things about the University that surprise me. Having spent my undergraduate years in the withering - and seemingly interminable - winters of upstate New York, beautiful weather that lasts well into November is somewhat of a pleasant novelty for me.
A 40-3 VICTORY against William & Mary seemed like a pretty good way to start off my four years of college.
Today marks the final day of the Board of Visitors' September meeting. Although the Board has not announced any major news, its gathering should serve as a reminder to students of its importance in setting the policies and making the decisions that structure much of University life.
WEDNESDAY before last, the foremost contenders for the Republican presidential nomination met to debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
WITH THE Palestinian bid for statehood in the United Nations approaching, the Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine group at the University decided to paint Beta Bridge on the night of Sept.
At next Tuesday's Student Council meeting, a contracted independent organization application will be presented to the representative body on behalf of a group known as the Student Alliance for Sexual Healing, or SASH.
IDEALLY, eating is a positive experience. Food should be nutritious and should keep us healthy. Agricultural lands around cities and towns should provide the eye with a relief from suburban monstrosity, as well as support local economies.
BY THE time this column is printed, U.S. News and World Report will have published its 2012 Best National University and Liberal Arts College rankings.
Since the beginning of the semester, students have been adjusting to a variety of alterations to University Dining operations.
WHAT HAPPENS when the government accuses a mother of murder? In State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony, the charge transformed a sideshow into a sickening three-ring circus. While the trial was occurring, Anthony became an object of intrigue for the millions of people who followed the case with morbid curiosity.
IN A 2002 speech about the Iraq War, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld infamously said, "There are 'known unknowns'... but there are also 'unknown unknowns'" - the things we can find out and the things we are not even remotely aware exist.
College students and administrators throughout the nation will engage in one of higher education's most well-known traditions when they delve into U.S.
UNTIL the day I became one, I always found graduate students to be a rather odd breed. Constantly harried, with a pronounced tendency toward world-weariness and addiction to near lethal levels of caffeine, my graduate school friends tended to be as much fodder for undergraduate jokes as they were mentors to whom I would turn for advice.
Editors at The Cavalier Daily discovered last week a pending article that featured words and phrases copied verbatim from at least two other sources without attribution.
IT IS OBVIOUS that some hard work and some big stories went into The Cavalier Daily last week. There were articles about former University Environmental Sciences Prof.
