Mad cow. SARS. Avian flu. Swine flu. What's next? The never ending saga of epidemics has played out repeatedly in the media to the deep chagrin of the American public.
It's Saturday afternoon and I'm at the football game. As far as the eye can see, the entire scene is full of orange-clad students.
First, I would like to state that I was not in a fraternity at U.Va. I knew SPE brothers during my time at the University, but anyone who knows me would say that I had a very diverse social circle. Yes, SPE would throw bottles off of their roof, break things, cause a ruckus, and liked to fight a lot.
As an alumna and current graduate student, I was dismayed to read the Sports section on Tuesday and see Dan Stalcup's article ("Hokie for a weekend," Sept.
As a fan of Virginia Athletics since birth, I was incredibly disappointed in Dan Stalcup's article "Hokie for a weekend". It was truly disheartening to read about "a Wahoo at heart" who had no problems with donning a maroon shirt, cheering for our arch-rivals, and storming Worsham Field after a Virginia Tech victory.
Risky business University fraternities must actively deter hazing to avoid the threat of disbandment Two long-standing fraternity chapters recently disappeared from the University.
When Thomas Jefferson first founded the University, the institution served as America's only beacon of secular learning in a sea of theologically based higher-education.
Welcome to purgatory, more commonly known as the second floor of the AFC, where girls make an art of torturing their cardiovascular systems without breaking a sweat or replacing a single hair clip.
AFTER witnessing the antics from members of both major parties during the last election, more Americans are now familiar with the ways partisan politics play a part in American government.
In the weeks ahead, the Honor Committee will discuss and decide on a proposal to change its definition of plagiarism.
What would Jefferson do? In my previous article, I concluded that the presidential search was in the hands of the wealthiest alumni.
Never before has finding news and information about the University been so easy. In recent years, there has been a proliferation in both the quantity and breadth of new media outlets used by administrators and Public Affairs staffers. The scope of these new media publications is exhaustive.
Lawyers can be so much fun. Take Kyle Miller, who describes himself as "a skilled writer, holder of a journalism degree, and an attorney." Miller wrote to The Cavalier Daily recently to take issue with, insult, and, arguably, threaten Reed Arnold, author of a letter to the editor that appeared in The Cavalier Daily. Miller also wrote a short, accusatory and threatening e-mail to the editors of The Cavalier Daily. Arnold's subject was football
Student Council issued an executive report on its new Contracted Independent Organization consultant program Tuesday night.
Stress. For many fourth-years, this insidious word has already crept much farther into their daily lives than they could have anticipated after three years of relatively care-free living at Mr. Jefferson's University. "Job," "graduate school," and "interviews" have become dirty words while formerly harmless letters have taken on new meaning when strung together in certain dreaded sequences ("LSAT," "MCAT," and "GRE"). It's as if, suddenly, without warning, somebody flipped a giant switch in the basement of the rotunda sometime over the summer and the fourth-year class collectively came to remember that we will have lives outside of the University next year. Stress. Yes, it is hunting season again - the season of hunting for jobs (or even careers if we're lucky) and applying to graduate, law, and medical school.
If President Obama is worried about selling his health care plan to the American people, he should ask Kanye West to explain it.
How many of you have received a ticket from University Parking and Transportation? How many of those were, on your honor, factually incorrect tickets?
Representative Wilson of South Carolina's outburst against President Obama during his Wednesday evening address has stirred up strong emotions for Republicans and Democrats alike, which is exactly the opposite of what Obama had wished to achieve with his address to a joint session of Congress.
The Board of Visitors' meetings Thursday and Friday were riddled with financial discussions. Administrators and Board members examined the endowment spending rate, talked about the status of alumni giving, looked into the new AccessUVa fundraising initiative and the increase in students qualifying for need-based financial aid, and grappled with state budget cuts.
