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Vegetarian co-op takes control of 2D room draw
21 February 2012, 10:45 pm
The Housing Department will no longer control room draw into the University-owned house at 2 Dickinson Street, informally known as 2D. This year, the draw will be controlled by the 2D vegetarian co-op, which cooks and eats meals in the house.
No. 15 Cavalier Men Set for ACC Championships
21 February 2012, 5:48 pm
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The Virginia men's swimming team will seek its fifth consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference championship this week in Christiansburg, Va. The event, hosted Virginia Tech, begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday at the Christiansburg Aquatic Center.
Swimming and Diving takes NEWMAC title
21 February 2012, 1:00 am
By Gordon Glober Our Engineers got off to a decisive start at this year’s NEWMAC swimming and diving finals this weekend. The men’s and women’s teams opened the meet winning a combined 8 of 13 events. By the end of the first evening, the men’s team led with an impressive 323 points to second place United States Coast Guard Academy with 220 points. The women’s team held a strong lead with 323 ...
Shared meal plan sees more popularity
20 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Despite the recent uptick in the popularity of shared meal plans, Colonial Club — which has offered the most out of any club — has scaled down its shared meal plan offerings, eliminating its nine-meals-per-week plan. Since the introduction of the four-year residential college system in 2007, the popularity of shared meal plans has grown year by year. Shared meal plans allow students to benefit ...
New Concentration Advising Corner Debuts for Freshmen
17 February 2012, 3:08 am
Professor Steven Caton talks to Liesl Ulrich-Verderber '15 and Domniki Georgopoulou '15 about Harvard's Social Anthropology department. Freshmen attended the annual Concentration Advising Fair in Annenberg on Thursday evening.
Students seek personalized advising system
16 February 2012, 2:43 am
By: Kate DeSimone Since a report on undergraduate education was released in 2008, the University has increased efforts to strengthen its advising and mentoring resources. While Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron has made student guidance and support a key focus sinc...
Meetings actually cause people's IQ to drop, say
7 February 2012, 9:21 am
Working in a group makes people perform worse on intelligence tests, as some people 'divert' their brain power towards maintaining their social status in the group, say Virginia Tech researchers.
FAMU death: Brutal rituals defied ban, band members say
5 February 2012, 10:52 am
FAMU drum major Robert Champion died because band members defied repeated warnings against hazing It's 7 p.m. on Aug. 22, 2011. A thunderstorm is passing through Tallahassee as 350 members of the Florida A&M University Marching 100 assemble for the first time inside the school's cavernous band-rehearsal hall.
NW Quadrant gets another public airing
27 January 2012, 10:22 pm
Two-and-a-half years after plans were introduced, interest is still running high on South Dakota State University’s Northwest Quadrant student housing project, and two prominent developers said Tuesday they and most of their colleagues remain opposed to it.
World - upperclass
The Dangers of Place and the Failure of Modernity - OpEdNews.com
22 February 2012, 1:20 pm
Most people who inhabit America's middle-classes and and lower, upper-class have a strong, but rarely explicated, faith that in the event of a crisis situation the US federal and state governments will conduct evacuation and rescue plans and procedures.
US headed for dark times - News-Star
20 February 2012, 12:08 am
During the 1800s, Russia had an upper class and peasants. For the upper class, life was at its best for those times. It never entered their minds the good life as they knew it would end. They exercised no concern for the masses that did all the work.
Masses warm to upper-class drama's charms - The Vancouver Sun
15 February 2012, 10:29 am
Damnably addictive. Mastercheese Theatre. Topsy turvy upstairs-downstairs drama at its jolliest. Guilty pleasure, what? Downton Abbey, said The New Yorker, "goes down so easily that it's [akin to] scarfing handfuls of caramel corn while swigging champagne.
