Ben Hackney Year: Freshman Major: Environmental sciences What’s in your backpack? The Craft of Argument, Puntos en Breve 2, Spanish notebook, Nature Valley bar, two pencils, two pens, one highlighter, Zicam cough spray, environmental science notecards, pack of Wrigley’s Stay Alert caffeine gum, bank deposit slips, clicker, 160 flyers.
Within a month, Provost Arthur “Tim” Garson expects to have names from external firms conducting searches for the open deanships for the schools of nursing, medicine and arts & sciences. The hunt is still on to fill two vice presidential posts, for research and for international, as well as for the deanships of the School […]
The sky over the practice field next to Klockner Stadium rained UVA students, staff and faculty members last Tuesday, as The Golden Knights, the U.S. Army’s skydiving demonstration team, made tandem jumps with the lucky 10 who were selected from a pool of volunteers. Pictured here are student Taylor Richardson and Golden Knight Bill Vansoelen. […]
It’s a good Monday to be Overton McGehee, director of the Charlottesville branch of Habitat for
Margaret Virginia Gibson fell after stepping into a “large depression” on Second Street. Plaintiff: Margaret Virginia GibsonDefendant: City of CharlottesvilleCourt: Charlottesville Circuit CourtWhat’s at issue: Whether the city is responsible for the “severe, painful, and permanent” injuries the defendant suffered when she stepped into a “large depression in the sidewalk” on the east side of […]
March melancholy overtakes Hooville today, after the UVA men’s basketball team didn’t make it
The New York Governor Eliot Spitzer prostitution-ring debacle is making waves even down here
Sure, we in the press love nakedness and heavy drinking. Especially when they come in the
We felt kinda odd ordering a grilled cheese sandwich with turkey, and even odder choosing the focaccia bread over wheat or rye. But in the offbeat menu at Feast! we trusted. Sure enough, this is the kind of grilled cheese sandwich that our grandmother should have offered us—or that Martha Stewart hungered to teach the […]
We asked a couple of local restaurants to share some of their hot (and cold) ideas for incorporating bacon into food—and, as it turned out, drink. The Blue Moon Diner, in addition to a highly creative sandwich, gave us the recipe for something called a BLTini. And Revolutionary Soup showed us how to get on […]