Football adds revenue but subtracts fans
Even though the UVA football team has played relatively well at home this season, going 4-2, Scott Stadium has appeared somewhat empty.
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Football adds revenue but subtracts fans
Seating restructuring has its costs in old fans
Even though the UVA football team has played relatively well at home this season, going 4-2, Scott Stadium has appeared somewhat empty.
Dining hall piles up compost
Before a group of UVA students became interested in developing an alternative for leftover food from the Observatory Hill dining hall, uneaten mac and cheese or wilted salad was ending up in the garbage can. But that was then. On November 11, UVA kicked off the first of perhaps many trips to Panorama Pay-Dirt in […]
UVA better than Kentucky?
By way of the transitive property, the Cavaliers are better than the storied Wildcats. Kentucky blew its homeopener to the Virginia Military Institute on November 14, losing 111-103 to the Keydets, but the Cavaliers weren’t about to let the same thing happen to them, winning 107-97 in their first game of the season. Sophomore power […]
Little bit of hate brings out a lot of love
Just by threatening to show up in Charlottesville to put on their tired “God Hates Fags” routine, the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church spurred hundreds of students to protest the protesters on November 14. Westboro had posted on its website that the church, led by Fred Phelps, would come protest UVA’s performance of The Laramie […]
What's in your backpack?
Sandra Peso Age: 20 Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey Majors: Economics and Drama What’s in your backpack? Laptop, charger, calendar, glasses in case, headphones, purse, wallet, phone, keys, pencil, Natures of Scandinavia hand cream, $4.25 receipt from Bodo’s, $10.82 receipt from HotCakes. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.
It's in the cards
Dear Ace: I heard Shenanigans is outselling Toys R Us! Can it be true?—Meryl Lynch Meryl: At first, Ace thought maybe this was a rouse. A rumor. Idle gossip, perhaps. Or maybe just a flat-out lie started to stir up trouble. (He’s nothing if not a dubious investigator.) And so, after a straight shot of […]
Still angsty after all these years
A few songs into the Nine Inch Nails’ set at the John Paul Jones Arena last Wednesday, I found myself utterly unable to summon any authentic anger to match the brutality that frontman Trent Reznor and company dished out. C’mon, Trent: Obama just won the presidency, putting an eight-year nightmare to rest and making history […]
Correction from November 4 issue
Due to a reporting error, the story “Better by the bottle” [October 14, 2008] referred to the “homogenization” of milk where it should have referred to “pasteurization.”
Wild blue yonder
At one point during the past few months, every political prognosticator worth his or her salt had a moment when they knew, deep in their slimy, election-lovin’ guts, that the
Hereford will house first-years only
Only chirping birds disrupted the complete silence that reigned over Hereford College on a sunny morning while sleepy students hurried to class.