I picked up a copy of today’s Cavalier Daily. I’m mildly amused by some of the mind-numbing editorials. Plus the front page headlines caught my attention: “Student Book Store robbed by ‘gypsies’”, “Police issue summons at block party”, and “Beta Theta Pi fraternity loses charter status over summer”. Beta is apparently doing themselves no favors. The chapter VP said “They want us to be a model fraternity with the best, gentlemanly guys with the most class and the least amount of drinking. . . It’s almost like taking away what fraternities are about — People getting together and having a good time, and most times it involves drinking.” Priceless. Unfortunately the article ends with this paragraph, and I quote, “IFC President Ross Kimbel said it is a long and difficult process for a local fraternity without a”. Yes, I copied that exactly.
Then I laughed at an editorial about how universities should focus on curing social ills. Students should be taught to serve their community not to become successful CEOs who will eventually employ foreign slave labor. In summation, UVA should become more like Berkeley.
But I finally stopped reading when I hit the front page of the sports section. There is a football team here, and it’s coach of 4 years, Al Groh, has recently received a contract extension.
Since coming back home in 2001, Groh has led the charge to re-energize the student body about football — and he has succeeded, transforming Virginia from a “basketball school” to a “football school” in the blink of an eye.
[emphasis mine]
Do any of you, at all, think of UVA in any way as football school? They have a team, clearly. The facilities aren’t bad, but the stadium isn’t “football school” large. However, having the (now former) basketball coach put his team in the toilet and flushed twice (once for the bulk, and again for the remainder) and a football team that has managed to go 16-9 over the last two seasons, is not the same as being a “football school.”
Thank you, try again.
And to close, I ask, what is a student newspaper other than a blog on paper with bad editors and actual press credentials?
I’ve been to UVA for a football game–actually ran into Nobrainer at the ticket line (by accident). It’s the diet coke of Clemson in almost every way. Granted, they won last year, but the all-time record is something like 35-8-1 (someone please double check that one). So yeah, flash in the pan not equal to “football school.”
“once for the bulk, and again for the remainder” made me fall out of my chair.