UVA reaches out to high schoolers
At UVA, Sara Larquier was a scholarship softball player from California, a politics major and your typical busy student, stuck with other Wahoos in the bubble of the Corner and Grounds.
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UVA reaches out to high schoolers
Program for low-income students to go national
At UVA, Sara Larquier was a scholarship softball player from California, a politics major and your typical busy student, stuck with other Wahoos in the bubble of the Corner and Grounds.
McIntire School No. 2 in nation
Business undergrads are walking with some extra swagger this week thanks to news from BusinessWeek that the McIntire School of Commerce is ranked No. 2 nationally. BusinessWeek magazine ranked UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce second among the nation’s undergraduate business programs. Not bad, given that the top-ranked program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School […]
Banishment remains only punishment
The UVA student body has opted to save “single sanction,” referring to the only punishment for honor code violations: permanent expulsion. Critics of the system got a referendum on the ballot for spring elections, asking whether single sanction should be abolished in favor of tiered consequences. Though the resolution would be nonbinding, it would have […]
What’s in your backpack?
Jodi Meyers Year: Third Majors: Philosophy & mathematics Hometown: Fort Thomas, Kentucky What’s in your backpack? Nail clippers, tissues, Eclipse gum, Chapstick, sheet music for “Redline Tango,” applications for teaching positions in Ohio, umbrella, Nalgene water bottle, broken 256-Mb flash drive, multicolor book tabs, Elements of Modern Algebra & Complex Variables textbook.
Looking for the Charlottesville touch
Former Mayor Maurice Cox gives a tour of the 10th and Page neighborhood to a group of leaders from Moss Point, Mississippi, a town of 16,000 that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Biscuit Run: To phase or not to phase
Whatever mistakes might be made by the county in rezoning for Biscuit Run, they at least want to avoid the mistakes of Hollymead—where huge swaths of green land were made red, causing erosion and sediment-control issues for neighbors and watersheds; where the commercial property was built long before residential, undercutting the principles of the county’s […]
Stocks and bondage
Dear Ace: I was walking on the Downtown Mall the other day and I saw a guy in stocks in front of Zocalo. What’s the deal?âThor Churr
Keep Your Silver Shined
A week after their annual Valentine’s Day show, Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri sit side-by-side at Café Cubano, looking mostly at each other while they speak with me about
The Violet Hour
stage It’s April 1, 1919, and John Pace Seavering has a problem. This idealistic young member of the Lost Generation has used his share of the family fortune to set up a publishing firm in Manhattan (think James Laughlin of New Directions Press), and finds his office crammed with manuscripts. His less privileged Princeton classmate, […]
“Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne, A Retrospective”
art There’s a stereotype, an unfortunately potent one, that says artists do their best work before they’re 40, then enter a period of fading talent. When you walk into the Hedda Sterne retrospective, you joyfully confront an artist who utterly shatters that myth. While she’s at it, the now nonagenarian Sterne debunks the one about […]