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From 1985-88, a serial killer targeting young black women ravaged the greater Los Angeles area. After a failed attack in November 1988, the murders, connected by DNA and ballistics evidence, stopped. Fourteen years later, they began again.
The movie menu for this millennium's 11th summer offered up some promising fare across the genre spectrum to please both comedy fans and action addicts, or lovers of thrillers or light animated flicks. If June represented the appetizer round, one could say it was a mixed bag.
[caption id="attachment_33948" align="alignleft" width="274" caption="Leonard Sandridge, executive vice president and chief operating officer, will have his name attached to the University Department of Human Resource's Outstanding Contribution Award.
The Academical Heritage Review - a new, student-run undergraduate research journal for historical scholarship - will debut the first week of April. The University Historical Society, the newly formed contracted independent organization behind the journal, aims to provide students interested in history with a new outlet to display their work through the publication. "I think part of what makes the experience at the University so special is that students have opportunities for undergraduate research almost anywhere they could want to find it," President Thomas Howard said.
When it came to eating out this semester, I originally intended to branch out and expand my palate after a steady two-year diet of Corner cuisine.
The University awarded Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards to 35 students this year, studying topics as diverse as investigating shipwrecks off the Carolina coast to researching edible rain gardens. The awards provide grants to support independent study projects during the coming summer.
Virginia football. It was on the verge of becoming an oxymoron after that infamous opening loss to William & Mary.
Ahh, la vida Valenciana. Lounging on the beach by day, discovering new dives by night. These first eight weeks studying abroad in Spain have been some of the best of my college career - and mainly for reasons outside the classroom.
It's hard to be me. Lingering stares as eyes touch on my perfectly proportioned face and tan, chiseled body.
