Scattered showers put a slight damper on the 179th year of “Final Exercises,” UVA’s graduation exercises, where 6,400 degrees were conferred May 18 by University President John Casteen, but the masses still poured down the Lawn for the traditional walk. Hunter R. Rawlings III, a visiting UVA classics professor and former president of Cornell and […]
One night last summer, Gary Hoffman’s two sons went to the Corner with two friends to hang out. While in the Biltmore Grill, his 22-year-old son Jason somehow got into an argument at the upstairs bar with some UVA wrestlers. Shortly thereafter, the fight spilled out front onto Elliewood Avenue. As a result of the […]
Dear Ace: Did I read something in C-VILLE about UVA’s first mascot being a dog? That seems awfully far-fetched to me.—Joan Clawford Joan: Pardon Ace, but aren’t the whys and wherefores of UVA in the first chapter of your Charlottesville 101 study guide? Ace thought this sort of Hoo-related question was a no-brainer! Or maybe […]
Here’s a dilemma for you: Let’s say you’re a mean-spirited municipality that doesn’t cotton much to outsiders, and prefers to scapegoat a powerless group of caramel-colored folks for all of its (largely self-inflicted) problems.
It took the Atlanta hip-hop chemists in OutKast five albums to record 2003’s hit single “Hey Ya!” and hijack both the rhythm of the public consciousness and the Billboard Hot 100. The following year, OutKast became the first hip-hop act to win Grammy awards for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album on the […]
To that inevitable social gathering/getting-to-know-one-another question, “What do you do?” Lisa Russ Spaar has more than one answer at her disposal. “I’m an English professor at UVA,” is a sure-fire choice. And here’s a good backup: “I’m a poet.” Not too many people find that vocation odd these days. But let’s hope that at least […]
Dear Ace: Am I allowed to ride my bike on the sidewalk?—Nancy Armstrong Nancy: Ace understands that you just want to ride your bicycle and ride it where you like. And, trying not to hit you brave bikers when cruising around town in the Acemobile, Ace would definitely be amenable to the idea that you […]
1. How many books does the UVA Library contain? [answer] a. A little over 5 millionb. 2.5 millionc. Counting would spoil the Library’s magnificence d. The only book necessary, partner, the Bible 2. Who was the last UVA basketball player drafted into the NBA? [answer] a. Roger Mason Jr.b. R.J. Reynoldsc. Ralph Sampsond. George “Peach […]
As Virginia universities’ tuitions continue to climb, they do so amid calls from Republican U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, for universities to spend more of their endowments to make college more affordable. The total price of education for in-state students at UVA will increase next year by 7.3 percent. […]
Despite the big hoo-ha from students when President John Casteen gave fundraiser extraordinaire Bob Sweeney a spot on the Lawn, the pavilions still serve as an all-star gallery for UVA professors. But just who are these powerful few? The list includes a well-known talking head, an endowment head and a handful of deans. All pavilion […]