Community leaders inundated by green efforts
With 500 buildings and more than 40,000 students and employees, UVA is a big consumer of water and energy. But, as Director of Energy and Utilities Cheryl Gomez explained when […]
What's in your backpack?
Erin Conroy Age: 21 Hometown: Purcellville, Virginia Year: Senior Major: Anthropology Erin Conroy What’s in your backpack? Laptop, cable charger, wallet, gum, iPod, cell phone, lip balm, sunblock, gum, ziplock […]
Rebricking dishes up anxiety about cafe space
Downtown businesses have been anxious about the long winter ahead: Starting January 2, the City of Charlottesville will commence rebricking the entire Downtown Mall, a construction project sure to deter […]
Don't leaf me
Dear Ace: Based on trends from the past few years, what’s the projection for leaf peepers this year? I think it’s going down.—Ray King-Leeves Ray: Last week, with cold weather […]
Passing leafy time
For several years, I’ve known Tamra Harrison Kirschnick as a painter of tangled plant life. The pieces of hers I’ve seen in the past have been large, single canvases, so […]
Virginia for Obama? Inconceivable
With the increasingly consequential presidential election of 2008 just one nerve-racking
Novelties in the new HR plan divide staff
The current financial crisis has forced Americans to revise their family budget
Finally official, conservative student group hosts first speaker
Months after a First Amendment controversy threatened the association, Thomas Jefferson now keeps the company of Edmund Burke. UVA’s branch of The Burke Society, a student group dedicated to understanding […]
What's in your backpack?
Peter Oliver Age: 24 Hometown: Morehead City, North Carolina Year: Third year medical student What’s in your backpack? Wallet, hospital ID, ophthalmoscope, Tums, Ibuprofen, Band-aid, ear plugs, laser pointer, three […]
Speed racer
In the early ‘80s a class of fifth graders from Stonewall Elementary School in Clear Brook, close to Winchester, took a field trip to White Post Restorations, a car restoration […]