 Dispense with the Old: A new season has begun for Phil Gosselin and the rest of the UVA baseball team, who racked up a 7-3 victory last Wednesday against Old Dominion. |
Tuesday 2/26
NFL backs down from churches
Last year, the NFL told an Indianapolis church to cancel a Super Bowl party because it planned to show the game on a 12′-wide screen, violating the league’s policy against “mass out-of-home viewings” on screens larger than 55". This year, the Rutherford Institute pushed back by enlisting the support of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.). On February 19, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a letter to Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) stating that the NFL would not object to religious organizations showing the big game as long as the viewings are free.
Wednesday 2/27
Mountain lion terrorizes Crozet
State gaming officials have told some residents in Crozet not to go outside for fear of a mountain lion attack, but so far, only a few dog food bowls and trash cans have been disturbed, according to WCAV-Channel 19. “From its nose to its rump is about five-foot long,” Marlene Humphreys said of the presumed villain. Just a few weeks ago, Humphreys watched as the mountain lion tried to claw its way into one of her bedroom windows. Now she is waiting for the state gaming department to catch the cat. “I’m praying,” she said.
Thursday 2/28
Van Halen reschedules concert
 Stop yer cryin’, Jamie. Van Halen’s comin’ for a make-up concert on March 11. |
Van Halen postponed their February 22 gig at John Paul Jones Arena, but fans need not fear: The band will return to make up the show on March 11. Tickets and parking passes from February 22 will be honored on the new date, according to JPJ’s press release. If you already have tickets and can’t rock out on a Tuesday night, you can still get a refund at the point of purchase. And, if you haven’t snagged your ticket yet, they are still available, so grab a few and get ready to run with the devil.
Friday 2/29
UVA’s McIntire School No. 2
The March 10 issue of BusinessWeek ranks UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce at No. 2 in undergraduate business schools. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School took the first slot, but UVA is hot on its heels. “In several of the measures we use to determine our ranking, the two schools were virtually the same,” says BusinessWeek. UVA received the highest ratings from students out of all of the 96 schools ranked, based on the “fact that graduates’ average starting salary increased by $5,500—or more than 10%—to $58,000.”
Saturday 3/1
Car business booming at Colonial
Auto sales are down, but not at Colonial Auto Center. That’s according to an AP story that quotes Colonial’s president Kip Rowe, who says that sales of foreign brands will save his company from lower February numbers than it posted in the same month last year. Overall, the auto business is expected to be down 7 percent compared with a year ago—one more piece of evidence that a recession is indeed upon us.
Sunday 3/2
Former local comedian drinks absinthe
Back from a trip to Los Angeles, 27-year-old Trevor Moore, former host of local public access comedy show, “The Trevor Moore Show,” and currently one of five members of New York-based sketch comedy troupe, The Whitest Kids U’Know, decided to introduce his colleagues (and New York Times columnist Amanda Stern) to a few rounds of absinthe. What Moore forgot is that, in the U.S., the hallucinogenic drink is sold without grande wormwood, which robs it of its mystical effects. Cue the laugh track.
Monday 3/3
The juice is loose
The national media spent much of February expressing its shock (and titillation) about JuicyCampus.com, a website started by a Duke grad to air dorm room gossip publicly and anonymously. But the hits keep coming as lurkers scope the site following a Washington Post column by Marc Fisher. Fisher contacted several UVA students labeled promiscuous by anonymous posts, and he discovered that none of them “saw any purpose in trying to silence the site.”
