You’re looking at country
I’m getting spooked,” says Anna Matijasic, the 26-year-old fiddler for Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees, and I know the feeling, a dull pounding in my gut. More: Country GrammarRecords […]
Country Grammar
More: You’re looking at countryJim Waive readies his second record “I just came in here from force of habit. I don’t intend to spend too much time in here,” sings […]
Some faculty bristle at emergency memo
Marge Sidebottom had no idea the e-mail she sent several weeks ago with a page-long list of “Basic Classroom Emergency Procedures” would raise the hackles that it did. But by […]
Prof sees rift between students and athletes
One of the goals of the UVA athletics department is to graduate 100 percent of the student athletes who complete eligibility at the University. And while the department is on […]
The hidden life of UVA
Lindsay Parra Year: Sophomore Major: Economics Hometown: Burke, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Red Blackberry, third generation iPod nano, five pencils, four pens, two highlighters, wallet, keys, legal pad, pepper […]
Follow-up
A story we ran two weeks ago on a General Assembly bill that would require state universities to report annually on “academic freedom” won’t go away. Last week, we left […]
Know your presidential primary
Depending on just how super Super Tuesday turns out to be, the Virginia presidential primaries might just become meaningful.
Tracking down the homeless
Once every year, for the last six years, the Thomas Jefferson Coalition Against the Homeless (TJACH) has undertaken a three-day census of the area’s least fortunate, to find out things […]
Assembly can’t kill HPV vaccine
Last year, Virginia joined Texas as the only states to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated for the human papillomavirus (HPV), a move that outraged social conservatives in both places. […]