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University bids Wood farewell

Beloved media relations official departs following 17-year term, intends to telecommute until December

By Krista Pedersen Cavalier Daily News Editor

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University spokesperson Carol Wood will depart Charlottesville this week to join family in Birmingham, Ala. Wood will officially retire in January.

A single sheet of white, standard-sized paper with unadorned and purposeful type seemed out of place hanging on a door in the University’s centerpiece property. “2008 Resolution: Unless the Rotunda is on fire, we are out of here by 6 p.m.!” it read, with the “2008” crossed out and each successive year through 2012 handwritten and subsequently stricken down the side of the page.

University spokesperson Carol Wood attributes the running joke to a lack of discipline in leaving

the office. This week, however, Wood leaves the office, and Charlottesville, behind for her new home in Birmingham, Ala. She plans to telecommute through December.

The running joke is that Wood, so used to working, may have her toughest job yet in retiring.

“I’ve never known nine to five,” Wood said in an interview at her home Sunday. When she arrived at the University, she and coworkers in public affairs would sometimes look around in the evening, surprised to find Please see Wood, Page A3

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Celebrity CEO purchases deceased billionaire’s Albemarle countryside mansion The Trump Organization , owned and operated by celebrity CEO Donald Trump, purchased Albemarle Mansion last week.

The mansion in the Albemarle countryside belonged to entrepreneur and TV mogul John Kluge, who was worth $6.5 billion in March 2010. The property sold for $6.2 million, said Roger Voisinet, an associate broker at RE/MAX Realty Specialists.

“John Kluge was the wealthiest man in the country at one point,” said Eric Trump , the Trump organization’s executive vice president for development and acquisitions. “There is no more beautiful piece of land than that piece of land anywhere in the country.”

After Patricia Kluge, Kluge’s first wife, lost the house to foreclosure, Bank of America repossessed it. The Trump Organization began incrementally purchasing the estate two years ago when it bought the front yard and the land surrounding the home, Trump said.

“We were the first people who got in there,” he said. “After we bought that front yard, it almost made the notion of anyone else buying that house [impossible].”

The land the organization purchased two years ago includes the largest winery east of the Mississippi. It has won awards for its wine and is a popular spot for weddings, which are already booked through next September

and October.

The Trump Organization saw potential in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County area because of population growth driven by the University and because of the booming wine industry.

“Wine is something very sexy that represents the brand very well,” Trump said.

Kluge donated more than $63 million to the University. He helped fund the Medical School and Children’s Hospital. In 2001 he gave Morven Farm and a number of nearby farms to the University. The properties totaled nearly 7,400 acres and were then valued at $45 million.

—compiled by Joseph Liss

University sets $750,000 fundraising goal; Virginia institutions partner, support 1,300 philanthropies

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University faculty raised almost $1 million last year to support charitable organizations through the Community Relations Office, pictured above.

The Trump Organization purchased Albemarle Mansion last week. The property, formerly owned by TV mogul John Kluge, sold for $6.2 million.

By Alexander Stock Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

The University Monday launched its annual drive to raise money for the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, a collective effort of Virginia public employees that aims to raise money for more than 1,300 charities worldwide.

Last year University faculty raised $982,143 , a record for the campaign. This year the campaign is shooting for $750,000.

“We are cautiously optimistic

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[about reaching that target],” campaign spokesperson Jim Fitzgerald said.

The University last year was the top contributor in Virginia. Sixty-five of the University’s departments last year boasted 100 percent participation rates, with 3,957 donors averaging about $250 each.

The campaign looks to offer a safe way for individuals to donate without fears that their money will be used to fund non-charitable costs, Please see Commonwealth, Page A3

Sullivan to join City’s commerce board University president among eight nominees slated to enter chamber’s policymaking, financial decision-making governing body

By Emily Hutt and Claire Fenichel

Cavalier Daily Associate Editor and Staff Writer University President Teresa Sullivan was among eight people nominated to the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors last week. The nominees are expected to be confirmed this month and will serve three-year terms starting Jan. 1.

The Board spearheads the

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chamber’s policymaking and financial decisionmaking. The chamber aims to promote business and represent private enterprise in Charlottesville. The department has in the past supported businesses on the Downtown Mall, worked to develop the entrepreneurially focused Charlottesville Business Innovation Council and established economic development partnerships, the chamber’s president,

Timothy Hulbert, said in an email.

The Board currently has 26 members but the terms of eight members are set to expire in January.

Members of the current Board created a nominating committee to select Sullivan and the other nominees.

The University is the largest member organization of the chamber. The Board in 2002

endorsed Virginia legislation that provided nearly $70 million for facilities projects at the University.

Sullivan is eager to work with the Board and with Charlottesville businesses, University spokesperson Marian Anderfuren said. “The president certainly appreciates that the relationship between the University and business community is very deep and broad, and will wel-

come the opportunity to work more closely with the board on ways to elevate the entire region,” Anderfuren said in an email.

Sullivan will have to balance the Board meetings with her many commitments as University president: administrative and planning responsibilities, as

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Darden defies U.S. graduate enrollment decrease While the number of applications to graduate schools in the United States continues to rise, first-time enrollments are dropping, according to a study the Council of Graduate Schools released last week.

U.S. graduate programs witnessed a 1.7 percent drop in firsttime student enrollments from fall 2010 to fall 2011, according to a press statement by the Council of Graduate Schools, a national

group that advocates for graduate education . The dip marks the second consecutive year of decreases in graduate school enrollment.

The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences’ enrollment rates matched the national trends, as the school enrolled fewer students in recent years, said Assoc.

Politics Prof. Jeffery Jenkins , director of graduate studies in the politics department. The change

reflected the College’s decision to cap graduate enrollments to increase the amount of money allocated to graduate students in financial aid.

The number of applications to University graduate programs, however, has not changed significantly, Jenkins said. But the quality of applicants has improved, he added.

Enrollment rates at Darden have increased by 33 percent in the last

six years despite national trends, said Sara Neher, Darden School assistant dean of admissions.

“While the full-time MBA program has stayed relatively the same over that time, we have added two new degree formats,” Neher said in an email. The expansion of degree formats has allowed Darden to serve more graduate students.

The study does not consider structural changes in university

departments, such as the expansion or addition of degree formats, council spokesperson Julia Kent said.

“The survey does not allow us to prove that or show that the decrease of enrollments has anything to do with tougher admissions or even with the numbers of candidates being admitted,” Kent said.

—compiled by Katherine Balling-

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Wood | ‘I always looked at it as my job to help reporters’ Continued from page A1 other offices deserted. “It was like, ‘Where’d everybody go?’”

Wood’s decision to leave the University, she said, was a long time in the making, yet also an accident of chance. She arranged to put up her home for sale — only “for people who are really interested in a big, funky old house in the middle of Charlottesville,” she said — immediately before the June leadership crisis erupted.

Wood’s kitchen is filled with well-wishers who have come to help her pack, clean and drop off the day’s lunch while she grants me an interview. Her home, filled with neatly packed boxes, retains its aesthetic décor. We sit in the library, its shelves emptied, and she slowly shreds the label of her Perrier water bottle as she speaks.

“My responsibility is to be

honest, transparent as possible, in responding to anything ... from the very silly to the most serious,” she said. “I feel that is a heavy responsibility, and I don’t think of it as being the face or the voice of the University. I just think of it as my job to do that as best I can ... It’s not just Carol talking; it’s the University.”

Having spent more than 17 years working in Charlottesville, Wood has become a prominent yet approachable figure on Grounds. She is usually the first person tasked with responding to media scrutiny of the University, not all of it positive, and commands great respect from those for whom she is a reliable and oft-used source.

“I’ve had a wonderful give-andtake with many reporters,” she said. “I don’t mind doing that.

I’ve gone toe-to-toe with many reporters, but we always end up having a good laugh about

things. It’s never personal.”

Wood, to her credit, humors all questions. University President Teresa Sullivan at a retirement reception held Friday in Wood’s honor described the public affairs professional as her “trusted advisor,” calling her the “go-to person for information, both for reporters and for people inside U.Va.” Wood, who cuts a figure of stylized and inexhaustible professionalism, has earned more influence within the institution than her spokesperson title implies.

“I know a lot of people do come to me, and maybe it’s because I listen,” she said. “It’s kind of in my nature, I think, to try to help people, and so maybe it just evolved into that. It’s not something I sought.”

She arrived at the University in 1995 after a 25-year career as a reporter and editor primarily at The Virginian-Pilot. In Norfolk

she met her husband Bill, another Pilot editor, and joined the ranks of working mothers in 1977 after the birth of her son, Zach. In 1993 the family left for Charlottesville so Bill could take the helm of the newly-created Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership.

“I came along for the ride,” Wood said.

She telecommuted for two years for the Pilot’s parent company before taking a job in the University’s news department because she missed working alongside others.

“It’s the flip-side of journalism, if you will,” she said. “I always looked at it as my job to help reporters do their stories.”

Wood had always planned to retire earlier, whereas Bill wanted to keep working “until he was 90.” His diagnosis of dementia seven years ago slowly halted that plan.

“It changed many things yet it

changed nothing,” Wood said.

“His approach was ‘we’ve had a great life’ and we had had a great life ... the last four years have been a decline to the point where he doesn’t really talk anymore but we still get smiles out of him and laughs.”

Wood, who will turn 65 in November, was not present for the birth of her third grandchild in July down south. She will leave a wide and supportive inner circle in Charlottesville to join her son, daughter-in-law, and three children in Alabama.

McGregor McCance, the former managing editor of The Daily Progress, will serve as the temporary University spokesperson until a permanent replacement is located.

“I just want to be for a while,” Wood said. “I just want to be still for a while. Some people say ‘you’ll never be still’ — and I say, I’m going to try it for a while.”

Commonwealth | Albemarle SPCA among top donation recipients Continued from page A1 Fitzgerald said.

“No charity can have an administrative fee of over 25 percent,” he said. The campaign’s website offers a

b r e a kd o w n o f a d m i n i s t ra tive expenses at each charity, allowing donors to give to charities where their donations will do the most good.

The campaign runs from Oct. 1 to Dec. 14 to give the

administrative office time to process the donations for the year’s end.

Individuals donating money through the campaign can either specify a particular charity they want their money

to go to or donate a lump sum.

The charities that receive the highest proportion of designated gifts will also receive the highest proportion of undesignated gifts, Fitzgerald said.

Local charities such as the Charlottesville Free Clinic and the Albemarle County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have been among the top 10 recipients of donations statewide.

Commerce | President must balance previous, new commitments Continued from page A1 well as various speaking engagements.

“The Board meets early mornings 11 times a year, and President Sullivan is looking to make as many of those meetings as possible and will send a delegate

when she cannot,” Hulbert said.

Sullivan has served as chair of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The other nominees include Glenn Rust , CEO of Virginia National Bank ; Liza Borches ,

president of Volvo of Charlottesville; Rondi Furgason, CenturyLink’s vice president for Virginia; Peggy Echols, vice president of operations at State Farm Insurance ; Stuart Armstrong , executive director of the Piedmont Housing Alliance; Gregory MacDonald, executive director of

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MacDonald, who was among the nominees announced last week, is currently finishing a three-year Board term. He commended Sullivan’s interest in serving on the Board and said

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her skill set as a University president would benefit the governing body.

“As the leader of the largest employer in the Charlottesville region, her knowledge, insight and experience will be invaluable to the Board,” MacDonald said in an email.

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Opinion Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Cavalier Daily “For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”

—Thomas Jefferson

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Their survey says An Honor Committee survey reveals mixed feelings about single sanction The results of a survey the Honor Committee conducted were released Sunday night. It was the body’s first University-wide study since 2008 and solicited double the amount of responses. Though the 2008 survey featured a more comprehensive bevy of questions — including those about readership for The Cavalier Daily — the most recent iteration is a useful endeavor for the nature of feedback it furnished.

Distinct questions about how students feel about the Committee, and how they would use it, show a fundamental chasm between the theory and practice of honor, especially regarding the policy of single sanction.

Out of the 1,700 undergraduate and graduate students sampled through email, 1,250 responded.

This nearly 75 percent response rate is already a preliminary indication that students are committed enough to the honor system to respond to a series of questions. Moreover, in addition to the historically popular inquiries, the survey also asked a series of targeted questions about informed retraction legislation that will give the Committee a better pulse on the subject should it come up again for a vote.

Now to the answers themselves. The survey opened by asking how students felt about honor. A fairly high number, 73.8 percent, said they felt very positive or somewhat positive about the honor system, as opposed to 79 percent in 2008. This year, 68.4 percent of students felt very or somewhat informed about the Committee’s procedure in handling honor offenses.

This is a marked contrast to the 49.7 percent of students who felt equally informed in 2008, though the disparity may not be as large as it seems because that survey had four instead of three options.

A later question in the survey asked how students “feel” about single sanction. Answers indicate that

about 60 percent of students “support” the single sanction. But about 45 percent of that 60 supports the sanction “with some reservations.” Again, by having so few options — “Fully support,” “Support with some reservations,” “Do not support” and “other” – the Committee gave a disproportionate space to answers that supported the sanction. It seems asymmetric that students could support the sanction with qualifications but only disapprove it entirely.

The most important question gauged whether students would file an honor charge with the Committee.

Here the discrepancy lies: though nearly three-quarters of students felt positive about the honor system, only 40 percent of them would actually report an offense. The factor most accounting for this hesitancy was the belief that an offense is too trivial, which 1,142 of 1,250 respondents said might stop them from beginning a case. Additionally, 1,039 respondents balked at the notion of expulsion as punishment and said this would discourage them from starting a case.

Yet, to this same question, only 398 students said they did not believe in single sanction and that it would keep them from filing charges.

To expel someone from the University is what the single sanction entails. The responders did not seem to realize that if you are uneasy about expulsion, then neither should you have reason to believe or support single sanction.

There is thus a disconnect between students feeling supportive of single sanction and being against expulsion in practice. The Committee should ignore how students feel about single sanction and note how the threat of expulsion deters student participation.

If the idea of expulsion prevent such a majority of students from turning someone in, then it is not a feasible policy.

Editorial Cartoon by Stephen Rowe

Featured online reader comment “Why would 3 quarters be satisfied with the current system while only 40% would report?

That makes no sense although I don’t dispute the actual numbers, just the fact that the people answering the surveys contradict themselves so much.

If 60% fail to report, then the system does not work. That means only serious offenses are generally reported and even then it is a long process to expell (as it should be for such a serious punishment). That means that essentially there is a defacto process of letting go anything that is not serious. Thus all minor offenses are green lighted which in my opinion is wrong.

Also, it is enlightening that 18 percent witnessed an honor offense while only 5% admitted committing one. I suspect if the sampling is uniform, those numbers should be equal if everyone is being completely truthful (the same number witnessing should be committing unless there are multiple witnesses to a single event).

In any event, I suspect that the witnessing and committing admissions in the survey are lower than reality.

You can spin these numbers to make them look good but I don’t think these are good numbers for an effective system.”

“Jeff,” responding to Grace Hollis’ Oct. 1 article, “Honor releases survey results, finds 4-of-10 would report offense”

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The United States’ military support of Israel is necessary, given the impending threats from Iran

AST THURSDAY at the United moud Ahmadinejad said: “Sanc Nations General Assembly, tions cannot stop the Iranian Israeli Prime Minister nation. The Iranian nation is Benjamin Netanyahu again able to withstand the pressure of expressed his concerns about the United States and its allies.”

He went on to say an Iran in possesthat “while we do sion of a nuclear SAM NOVACK not welcome sancweapon. He urged OPINION COLUMNIST tions, we do not the assembly to fear them either.” take a definitive How has President Obama stance against Iran’s growing nuclear program, to draw a “clear responded? He has done little red line” over which Iran cannot more than continue to hope that step. This is not the first time sanctions will stop Iran’s nuclear Netanyahu has voiced such senti- ambitions. On “60 Minutes,” Presments, and it is unlikely to be the ident Obama stated that when it last. And yet, or so it seems to me, comes to his decisions on national the global community is taking security the only pressure he his words less and less seriously, feels is the pressure “to do what’s even as his message becomes right for the American people” — he said he will block any other more and more urgent.

According to White House Press “noise” that is out there. He went Secretary Jay Carney, President on to say that he feels “obligated” Obama has spent more time in to stay in touch with Israel over discussion with Netanyahu than the Iranian issue, but I think with any other leader. But for his feelings on the matter are all of this time spent in discus- quite clear. Netanyahu’s frequent sion with Netanyahu, the Obama warnings and his insistence that administration has yet to put the U.S. take a clear stand have forth a clear plan for dealing been little more than background with the growth of Iran’s nuclear noise for our president.

So where does that leave Israel? program. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Iran has made It is looking at Iran as a nation its intentions exceedingly clear. that believes that Israel “must be In 2010, Iranian President Mah- wiped out from the map of the

world.” These are the sentiments United States needs to express of Iran’s religious leader, Ayatol- openly its willingness to support lah Khomeini, later echoed by Israeli military action against Ahmadinejad. Iran is a theocracy, Iran’s nuclear program, and furgoverned by religious, rather than thermore, its willingness to align itself ideodiplomatic, logically and motivations — “The United States needs militarily with and it is lookIsrael should ing forward, to express openly its push come to according to willingness to support shove. I am Ahmadinejad, Israeli military action not calling for to “a world immediate war without the against Iran’s nuclear on Iran — this United States program, and furtheris the very and Zionism.” more, its willingness to situation I am If they obtain nuclear weapalign itself ideologically sure all parties ons, are they and militarily with Israel wish to avoid.

But the Obama likely to be conshould push come to administrastrained by the tion’s current same internashove.” approach is gettional ties that ting the situahold so many nations in a relative peace? I tion nowhere. President Obama’s doubt it. Iran has expressed its recent demand that Iran give up disdain for the U.N., and its desire plans to obtain nuclear weapfor an end to Israel. It logically ons was openly scoffed at by follows that there are few checks, Ahmadinejad. “It does not impact other than Israel’s own mili- our policies in the slightest,” he tary intervention, to prevent an said.

The U.N.’s approach holds no attack on Israeli soil. Netanyahu’s “noise” sounds quite warranted menace for Iran either. The U.N. is a good idea, but it has rarely given the circumstances.

It is high time the United States played much more of a role than got on board with Israel. The that. Its consistent unwillingness

to become militarily involved — or even to threaten military action — has given it a weak reputation among aggressive nations like Iran. And as long as China and Russia — close commercial allies with Iran — sit on the Security Council, weakening the already ineffective sanctions, the U.N.’s role in Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons will be a largely useless one.

“The sanctions have hurt the Iranian economy, but they haven’t stopped the Iranian nuclear program,” said Netanyahu. “That’s a fact.” And as long as those in power in Iran laugh off the sanctions and the condemnation of their activities, it is unlikely the situation will change for the better. President Obama needs to do the job he was elected for and make the United States’ position strong and exceedingly clear.

Until a military line is drawn, the U.S. and the U.N. will be just as much “noise” to Iran as Netanyahu has been to our own president.

Sam Novack’s column appears Tuesdays in The Cavalier Daily.

He can be reached at s.novack@cavalierdaily.com.

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A fourth-year trustee advises students to approach professors and TAs with questions, academic or not

EOPLE are the University’s will develop friendships with your classmates. Instead, I want greatest resource.

You don’t need me to to encourage you to actively tell you that. It’s intuitive; you meet and develop relationships arrive to college imagining all with your professors and TA’s.

I s ay a c t i v e l y the best friends because it takes you’ll make, roomJESSICA HAYS an effort on your mates you’ll live GUEST VIEWPOINT part, a worthwhile with and possible effort. romantic interests As a fourth year, here is the you’ll meet. At the beginning of first year, I remember being best advice I can give you: Take overwhelmed by just how many advantage of the spectacular people I didn’t know, but the teachers around you. The largreality is that the number of est untapped resource availfaces I eventually recognized able to students at the Univergrew exponentially, almost sity is our faculty. Think of the immediately. Within the first things you’ve learned in the month, I knew who the RAs in past month, year, or years at the my dorm were. I recognized University. How much more do hall-mates, suite-mates, friends- you know now versus when you first stepped foot on Grounds? of-friends and classmates.

As your time progresses at the Now imagine all the tips, guidUniversity, your social network ance and advice someone more of friends and acquaintances experienced can share. Today, will keep expanding. Even with- this resource will be at the head out trying, you find yourself of your classroom waiting for meeting even more students. you to approach.

So, why don’t you? Are you It is inevitable, and wonderful.

However, your peers are not intimidated? Do you not know whom I want to encourage you what to say?

I was intimidated first year by to meet. You already know you

the thought of approaching my field. Why else would they be professors. I couldn’t help but here? Even better than that, think, “Why would they want to every professor I consulted with talk to me?” I considered myself writing this article wishes more too inexperienced to know what students initiated conversations with them. to say and felt They’re waitlike I couldn’t g o t o o f f i c e “As a fourth year, here is ing for you.

Last semeshours unless I the best advice I can give ter, I stepped had a specific you: Take advantage of out of my comquestion. What the spectacular teachers fort zone and I realize now is around you.” specifically that it doesn’t asked a promatter if you fessor to meet have a queswith me about tion about that week’s lecture. Professors are getting an internship. She sugthere to answer life and aca- gested we talk over lunch. I was demic questions too. The most nervous, changing three times valuable advice about deciding and printing ten extra copies to major in architecture came of my résumé. I brought a notefrom a TA I had as a first-year, book with me outlining how and the most helpful assistance I imagined our conversation I’ve received about what I want going, complete with specific to do after graduation came bullet points I wanted to menfrom my professor this fall. tion, and ideal phrasing written Without speaking to them, I down beside it.

I never opened the notebook. wouldn’t have that knowledge.

As far as I can see, our profes- The first ten minutes we spent sors are experts who choose to chatting about how my semesteach. They have an interest in ter had been, and how her son’s students and the future of their college search was going. She

asked my opinion on how the changes to our department had been received by students, and eventually I broached the topic of applying for internships.

She was helpful, and I left the meeting feeling as though I had answered some questions she had, as well.

When you speak to a professor, treat him or her like a friend of your parents. It is important to be the most polite and charming version of yourself; but, be yourself. Be honest, if you are unsure about what major to choose, ask your professors what they think.

If you want to know good classes to take, ask their opinions of their colleagues. If you enjoy their classes, ask what else you can do to keep learning more.

Ask for suggestions if you don’t know what to do this summer.

I have yet to meet anyone who isn’t flattered by genuine interest in his or her opinion. And you won’t get it unless you take the initiative.

Jessica Hays is a fourth-year trustee.

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Assimilation has proven difficult for Muslims in Europe because of the close bond between Islamic religion and politics

So the problem is not immigra CCORDING to a recent survey conducted by The tion, but integration. Europeans French newspaper Le blame Islamic immigrants for Monde, 56 percent of French living in secluded enclaves, citizens feel as though there holding strong cultural ties to their home counis an “anti-white” try and commuracism developDENISE TAYLOR nicating only in ing in France. The OPINION COLUMNIST their native lansurvey found that France’s influx of immigrants guage.

But although Islam seems to be from North Africa and elsewhere has allegedly left the the common denominator, it is white majority feeling threat- not the religion itself that bothened with a new phenomenon ers Europeans, but the resulting lack of effort to adapt to a of “reverse racism.”

Of course, it’s not just the new environment. A “Global French. Over the past half cen- Views on Immigration” survey tury, most of Western Europe in 2011 found that Belgium has experienced some cultural and Great Britain held the most byproduct of immigration. Ger- negative opinions on Muslim many’s Turkish “Gastarbeiters” immigration, and also happened now number 3.5 million and to foster the least integrated continue to grow, and a 2010 Islamic populations in Europe. study by a German think tank To go a step further, a majority found that more than 30 per- of Europeans agree that immicent of Germans believed their gration has “placed too much nation was “overrun by foreign- pressure on public services” ers.” The Pakistani presence in and accuse immigrants of taking Great Britain, having crossed 1.2 advantage of their government million, has infamously pushed welfare systems.

So how is Islam the indirect for the practice of Islamic law within the sphere of their sub- source of the problem? For communities, sparking uproar one thing, it’s fundamentally among British lawmakers and political when compared to Western Christianity. Islamic citizens alike.

schools of thought — stretching that shows how integration does back to its founding in 622 A.D. not necessarily mean a com— have functioned upon the plete renunciation of faith. Yet existence of the “Ummah” — or as we have seen with France’s Islamic “people group.” Thus for Burqa ban and Germany’s headscarf ban most Muslim comfor teachers munities in Europe, “Europeans blame and civil sert h e i n t e ra c t i o n s Islamic immigrants vants, there between oneself for living in secluded is a staunch and God translate difference to a larger scale of enclaves, holding societal order. strong cultural ties to bt hee t Uwnei tee nd This is not to say that today’s Muslim their home country and States’ idea s e g r e g a t i o n i s communicating only in of “freedom of religion” a direct result of t h e i m m i g ra n t s ’ their native language.” and Europe’s political hisconscious desire tory of “freeto maintain an dom from “Ummah.” On the contrary, many of them are used religion.”

As stated in the First Amendto strictly secular governments such as that of modern Turkey. ment, the making of any law But as social scientists like Toc- “respecting an establishment” queville have stated, the spread or “impeding the free exercise” and practice of Islam relies so of religion in the United States is much on political order it would not only prohibited, but also one be nearly impossible for Islamic of the original actions that govsocieties to fully thrive under ernment was told specifically not to take. secular rule.

Europe, on the other hand, is But what, in theory, is the wrong with that? The United filled with governments that States is the pinnacle of the were constructed prior to the reformed, Western nation with wave of Muslim immigration. millions of Muslim inhabitants As a result, the secular, national-

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ized constitutions like those of France and Germany reflect a formerly homogenous, secular citizenry that no longer exists.

So while Islamic “immigration isolation” is not a threat to the American way of order, it is a threat to the European one.

Here we see how “reverse racism” is really a two-sided deal. While Islamic sub-communities threaten Europe’s understanding of a national identity, European governments do little to account for their presence.

Because of this, Europe’s Muslims are caught in a loop of self-segregation, which means Europe’s natives gather in opposing unison. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated, the push toward multiculturalism has been an “utter failure,” and although semi-permanent solutions will continue to be offered, it is clear that for Europe the answer involves a change in faith, a change in government, and most likely, a change in both.

Denise Taylor’s column appears Tuesdays in The Cavalier Daily.

She can be reached at d.taylor@cavalierdaily.com.

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Great Barrier Reef loses coral Hurricanes, coral-eating starfish, coral bleaching, other factors spur reef cover’s depletion, study shows

By Juliet Eilperin The Washington Post

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Patients of Luccene Desir, director of the Center of Research for Filariasis, or elephantiasis, gather on May 25, 2012 at a hospital in Leogane, Haiti. The patients, from left, are Amise Placide, Poline Guerrier and Momose Louissant. Research suggests that 40 percent of the population in Leogane, Haiti, suffers from this malady, caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes.

Fish data lacks depth Current ecological assessments ignore 80 percent of global fish stocks

By Jop de Vrieze

Adapted from ScienceNOW Overfishing is a major global concern but that concern tends to focus on just a few well-studied fish, such as salmon and herring.

Current assessments cover only 20 percent of the world’s fish stocks, so the true state of most of the world’s fish populations is still murky. Now, a new method based on catch data and fish characteristics suggests that those unstudied stocks are declining but also that better management of global fisheries could boost the status of many of those stocks and could also increase the global sustainable fish harvest by as much as 40 percent.

When fisheries are managed

well, they can be a source of large amounts of food and economic value without irreversibly disrupting ecosystems and depleting fish numbers. But industry lobbying, corruption, fears that reducing fishing capacity will lead to unemployment, and other economic and political obstacles have made sustainable fisheries management difficult in practice.

Meanwhile, even as they discuss measures for sustainable management, conservation scientists and fisheries scientists are locked in a disagreement about whether global fish stocks are in crisis.

In 2006, marine ecologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and colleagues published a paper in Science that

projected that if current practices remain unchanged, all fish stocks would collapse by 2048. This projection received heavy criticism from fisheries scientists, who said that the number of recovering stocks actually shows an overall improvement.

Fish like salmon and herring are, in general, strictly managed. Their condition is assessed through sampling to determine stock size, as well as through catch data and population models that examine factors such as the fish’s growth, how often they reach maturity, and how quickly they reproduce.

But no such assessment takes place for 80 percent of current fish stocks, which include more than 7000 populations.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, according to a new study published Monday. The loss has been spurred by a combination of factors including hurricanes, coral-eating starfish and coral bleaching.

The paper, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the most comprehensive survey of a reef system over such a long period. The researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science found that reef cover fell from 28 percent to 13.8 percent over the past 27 years, with two-thirds of the decline occurring since 1998.

The sobering findings highlighted how even the world’s most protected marine areas are under assault from natural forces and causes linked to the human activity that is resulting in climate change. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, featuring nearly 3,000 individual reefs within 133,205 square miles. A third of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is off-limits to fishing and collecting.

“We are basically losing an ecosystem that is so iconic for Australia and the rest of the world,” said institute scientist Katharina Fabricius, one of the paper’s authors.

Storm damage accounted for 48 percent of the decline, scientists said, while crown-of-thorns starfish contributed 42 percent.

Coral bleaching, caused by warmer water, accounted for 10 percent of coral loss.

Researchers warned that Australian officials will have to step up efforts to curb controllable

threats, such as coral-eating starfish, because they are easier to target than intense storms and rising ocean temperatures.

John Gunn, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said scientists need to learn about the periodic population explosions of crown-of-thorns starfish, a native pest.

“The study shows that in the absence of crown-of-thorns, coral cover would increase at 0.89 percent per year, so even with losses due to cyclones and bleaching there should be slow recovery,” Gunn said in a statement.

Nutrient runoff appears to be fueling the crown-of-thorns starfish boom: The authors note that these outbreaks occurred once in every 50 to 80 years before European agricultural runoff began.

They now average once every 15 years.

Nancy Knowlton, a coral reef biologist at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, said the finding will be “a shock to the system” that could force Australians to focus on improving their water quality.

“If anyone’s going to do it, it’s going to be the Australians, because they really care about the Great Barrier Reef,” she said in an interview. She added that these measures will “buy you real time but not infinite time,” at which point countries will have to cut the carbon emissions that are raising sea temperatures and making the ocean more acidic.

At a conference on ocean acidification in Monterey, Calif., last week, Fabricius told reporters that tourists often get a distorted view of the reef because they visit the more pristine areas.

Gene-altered cow makes protein-rich milk New Zealand scientists prove possible genetically modified food, offer hypoallergenic qualities, nutritionally enhanced products

By Elizabeth Lopatto Bloomberg News

Scientists have altered the genes of a dairy cow to produce milk that’s rich in a protein used in numerous food products and lacking in a component that causes allergies in humans.

Using a process called RNAinterference that turns certain genes on or off, scientists from New Zealand produced a cow whose milk had increased

casein, a protein used to make cheese and other foods, and almost no beta-lactoglobulin, a component in milk whey protein that causes allergies. The female calf was also born without a tail, according to the report Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study can be seen as a proof-of-concept that tinkering with nutritional content genetically is possible, said William Hallman, director of the food

policy institute at Rutgers University. More testing will be needed to determine the milk’s full dietary content, and scientists must consider the effects of breeding gene-altered animals, he said. The field has been controversial because of safety and environmental concerns.

“Could you clone a breeding stock that would allow for a herd with milk of this type?” Hallman, who wasn’t involved in the study, said in a telephone inter-

view. “There are lots of issues about what might happen in the next generation.”

Monday’s research represents a road map for other groups that may wish to knock out proteins, and not just in milk, he said.

Farmers in the United States earned about $35 billion in 2011 from dairy sales, said Christopher Galen, a spokesman for the National Milk Producers Federation.

Aside from the hypoallergenic

qualities, the genetically modified cow’s milk may also be valuable for its higher content of casein. The milk protein is used in a range of food products, including cheese, thickening agents in soups, salad dressings and whipped toppings. It’s also used in adhesives, cosmetics and some pharmaceuticals, Hallman said.

“In terms of dairy economics, casein is the most profitable part of the milk,” he said.

Putin mandates rural support Regional elections approach, Russian president, party demand countryside officials’ allegiance

By Kathy Lally

The Washington Post Earlier this year, on a tour of the countryside in the western Urals, a local chieftain offered a blunt reminder about the workings of the Russian government: Let demonstrators march on the streets of Moscow and protest all they want. But if a village desires so much as a long-promised school playground, it had better support President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party — big time.

That message is being sounded ever more loudly as regional elections draw near. In Moscow, Putin has ordered the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the country by Monday, accusing it of meddling in Russia’s internal affairs because it offers financial support to election monitors and human rights activists. Out in the hinterlands, local officials have been showing who is boss, too.

Putin’s system of top-down control — he calls it “the vertical of

power” — gives those in the governing rungs below him authority and privilege in return for steadfast allegiance.

In Izhevsk, 600 miles east of Moscow, officials are busily demonstrating their loyalty, pouring extra cement into the foundation of the power structure. For Putin’s allies, the Oct. 14 election for the regional legislature must serve as an affirmation of his presidency, which he reclaimed in an election in March, and not as an opportunity for voters to express discontent.

“They believe Putin’s victory is their victory and their politics are correct,” said Mikhail Estrin, a media analyst in Izhevsk. “So they have permission for whatever they want to do.”

Izhevsk is the capital of a 1.5million-strong region called the Udmurt Republic, where Alexander Volkov is president. Out on the hustings, he carries with him a notebook showing how each community voted in the December elections for the national parliament.

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Evidence used against snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo in court included a shell casing, walkie-talkies and a tarot card. During 21 days in October 2002, the two ambushed 13 strangers, killing 10 of them, in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

World Cup winners Swanson, Brian miss early soccer season to claim Under-20 title in Japan

By Michael Eilbacher Cavalier Daily Associate Editor

As its 2012 season began, the Virginia women’s soccer team was missing two key members: head coach Steve Swanson and All-American sophomore midfielder Morgan Brian . While the Cavaliers readied for another promising season in Charlottesville, Brian and Swanson were halfway around the world, leading the United States’ Under-20 World Cup team in Japan.

As a highly touted prepschool prospect, Brian had trained with the national team

since her senior year of high school and balanced college life with international play.

“It was obviously really hard over the two years, going in and out of school, playing with those players — they’re such good players — and all the work you had to do on your own,” Brian said.

Like Brian, Swanson’s chance to lead the U20 team came after years of experience with various levels of the national team. A former head coach of the U16 and U18 teams , Swanson had served recently as assistant coach of the U20 team before being tapped as

head coach last summer.

“It’s an honor,” Swanson said. “It’s everything you think it would be to serve your country. There are not too many world championships that happen in our sport.”

But for both Brian and Swanson, the decision to head to Japan was not any easy one.

The timing of the tournament meant they would miss a significant portion of the college season.

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Sophomore midfielder Morgan Brian teamed with coach Steve Swanson for the United States’ U20 World Cup run. In her first game back with the Cavaliers she recorded a crucial assist in a 2-2 tie against North Carolina.

Virginia upsets No. 4 Maryland

Redshirt senior midfielder Michele Vittese sliced through the Terrapins’ defense for two unassisted goals in a 3-2 victory.

After missing last season to compete in the 2012 Olympics, Vittese currently ranks fourth on the team with 7 goals and 19 points.

Vittese powers first win against Terrapins since 2001; team overcomes St. Joseph’s Sunday

By Matthew Comey

Cavalier Daily Associate Editor History meant nothing to the No. 7 Virginia field hockey team last Friday night as it upset the two-time defending national champion No. 4 Maryland 3-2.

The Cavaliers (11-2, 2-0 ACC) had not prevailed against the Terrapins (8-2, 2-1 ACC) since 2001, and despite twice taking Virginia to the NCAA tournament semifinals, coach Michele Madison had never bested Maryland.

With Friday’s break-through win, however, the Cavaliers solidified their place as contenders for an NCAA championship.

“What’s hard about our team right now is that people don’t take us seriously enough,” red-

shirt senior midfielder Michelle Vittese said. “This win really legitimizes our ranking and puts us out there. It’s really good for the girls, because this win is such a big confidence booster.”

Six minutes into the game , Vittese ignited the Cavaliers’ offense with an unassisted goal as she took the ball from midfield, splitting through Maryland defenders and completing the play in the circle with finesse.

“She was determined,” Madison said. “She doesn’t call herself a goal-scorer, but I think she proved that she could be tonight.”

Maryland answered later in the half when junior forward Thomas Bynum Cavalier Daily

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Change we can believe in First of all, let me be clear. I never wanted this to happen.

I was the one defending Virginia quarterback Michael Rocco through all the chants and signs proclaiming “We Want Sims!”

I consistently asserted that Rocco should remain the starter ahead of backup Phillip Sims even after consecutive games in which Rocco threw two interceptions and failed to reach 150 yards through the air.

“He’s getting no help from the defense,” I said. This was true.

Through five games, the Cavalier defense has forced just one turnover and has been gashed for more than 400 yards of offense per contest. In case anyone missed it, Louisiana Tech scored 34 — yes, 34 — unanswered points in Saturday’s game, flipping the script from a 24-10 Virginia lead to a seemingly insurmountable 44-24 deficit.

Such defensive performances undoubtedly caused Rocco to force throws, contributing to his eight interceptions against just

if not spectacularly. Lee threw six touchdowns this season.

“He’s getting no help from the for just 156 yards per game running game,” I said. This was through the first eight tilts. But on a team whose offensive focus also true. was heavily runVirginia’s ground based, Lee’s gameattack, touted before SEAN MCGOEY management the season as the key skills impressed to Virginia’s football resurgence, is averaging 124.6 me most as he notched 13 touchyards per game, down 40 yards downs to just one interception.

Then, in the Tiger’s regular-seaper game from last season and good for 99th in the Football son slugfest with Alabama, Lee Bowl Subdivision — out of 124 was pulled at halftime after tossing two interceptions on seven teams. pass attempts, and Jefferson But I’m done.

The Cavaliers sit at 2-3 after was reinserted into the lineup. three straight defeats, and I am He led LSU to a 9-6 win, and officially withdrawing my vote LSU completed an undefeated regular season. Jefferson took of confidence in Rocco.

To explain why I supported the helm for the remaining three Rocco in the first place — and regular-season contests and the why I’m done doing so now — I SEC Championship Game. Lee have to rewind a season and didn’t take another meaningful look at the team I grew up sup- snap all season.

In the national championship porting: LSU. LSU’s senior quarterback rematch against the Crimson Jordan Jefferson was suspended Tide, however, Jefferson strugfor the opening of the team’s gled mightily, achieving a pitiful 2011 campaign. Fellow senior 3.1 yards-per-pass attempt and Jarrett Lee replaced Jefferson in taking four sacks. If ever there the lineup and performed solidly was a time for a quarterback

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switch, that game was it. But LSU coach Les Miles couldn’t return to Lee — not after shattering the senior’s confidence by yanking him after one bad outing. Jefferson finished out the ugly 21-0 defeat to watch Alabama hoist the crystal football as national champions.

The 2011 LSU team is a cautionary tale for any team with a quarterback controversy.

Before you pull one starter, you must consider its repercussions — you cannot go back to that quarterback again; it is a binding, season-long decision. Being benched is a confidence killer, and that player might not be able to perform under pressure anymore. Switching quarterbacks is a delicate operation that should not be performed rashly or without cause.

This brings us back to Virginia football, 2012.

The clamor for Sims to assume starting duties began the minute he transferred from Alabama to Virginia. The Sims contingent quieted, but only a bit, after

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Rocco turned in solid performances against Richmond and Penn State.

Then Virginia started losing, and the shouts of “We want Sims!” magnified. Rocco threw two picks against Georgia Tech, and the cries grew louder when Sims came in and threw two garbage-time touchdowns. Rocco’s performance was clearly hurt by a defense that gave up 56 points and nearly 600 yards of offense; he had to force throws to keep Virginia in the game.

Rocco threw two more picks against TCU, and Sims once again tossed a late-game touchdown meaningful mainly as the only points Virginia scored. Still, that game was played on the road against a top-20 team that jumped to an early lead on the defense, again obliging Rocco and company to play catch-up.

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Citizen Burger Bar

New Downtown restaurant offers high-end food, urban vibe Courtesy citizenburgerbar.com

By Parker Rhodes Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

New burger joint Citizen Burger Bar joined the ranks of restaurants on the Downtown Mall when it opened in June across from the Paramount Theater at 212 East Main Street .

Described on the restaurant’s website as a “classic American burger joint with a pulse and a palate,” this new establishment holds dear certain basic freedoms, not least the enjoyment of a great burger and a beer with friends.

When I first learned of this restaurant, it seemed strikingly similar to Boylan Heights. As a loyal devotee to the Corner’s gourmet burger-slash-

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sports bar , I was a little hesitant to try somewhere new. After going (twice!) and sampling the menu, though, I gleefully realized I would not have to play favorites, since the two establishments lie at opposite ends of the burger-joint spectrum.

Boylan provides a true sports-bar feel, serving bar food such as nachos and buffalo wings alongside its more gourmet burgers . Citizen incorporates an urban warehouse feel with a comfortable homey vibe, along with outdoor patio seating, to serve higher-end food in a more upscale environment.

The theme of the restaurant appears in a mural featuring a burger incorporated into the American flag. The

The Plague

t only seems appropriate we really can’t expect premed I take this time to discuss students to know what to do the plague. I’m sure you’re when someone’s sick.

So begins the sad story of familiar with it. After all, it’s only been 650 years or so since how I found myself waiting the bubonic strain took out a for an ambulance outside of third of Europe’s population. my dorm on a Sunday night.

I am almost certain the epi- I’ve made it sound a bit more demic afflicting first years on melodramatic than it actually Grounds is equally if not more was — I really only had to wait severe. To give you a sense about two minutes. Those guys are prompt. And of perspective, by guys, I mean the plague is Hoos on First the third-year followed, in boy and girl who descending were the EMT order of severtechnicians pickity, by swine flu, ing me up. mad cow disN o w, p l e a s e ease and Ebola. do not think I We d o n o t am in any way laugh about the disparaging plague. the work of the I haven’t had a lovely students real fever since who volunteer “the war.” I was for this position. eight, and my I have boatloads mothe r and I JULIA HOROWITZ of respect for we r e f ig ht ing anyone who can about my allotted television time. So, when I look at needles without faintboasted a healthy temperature ing — a category of superhuof 101.8 degrees Fahrenheit mans of which I am not a part. last Sunday, it became increas- I am simply saying it is megaingly apparent my smorgas- super-awkward to be sitting in bord of symptoms signalled the back of an ambulance with a much more serious illness. someone roughly your age As I lay in bed, shivering, when they’re not, say, resusciaching with what felt like tating you.

We need not delve into the death looming, it hit me: It was details of my hospital experithe plague.

In my fever-induced hal- ence. Let’s just say they ran lucinogenic state, the intense a lot of tests, came up with lower abdominal pain I was no satisfactory results, and experiencing could only mean my doctor looked like he just one thing: appendicitis. Truth walked off the set of Grey’s be told, I was in a lot of pain Anatomy. It was a blessing and and I was a bit scared. Though a curse — a blessing because it wasn’t an outlandish self- he was honestly just so attracdiagnosis by any means, it was tive, and a curse because I’m probably not reason enough to pretty sure I was modeling the latest in hobo-chic. Fun fact: go to the emergency room.

So I went to the emergency There is no way to make hobo room. The clock read 11 p.m., look chic.

About 1 a.m. I was ejected and my Resident Advisor Extraordinaire — that’s not from the facilities. I sat on a sarcastic, she’s actually won- bench, pajama-clad and shivderful — pointed out that it ering, because I am a first year couldn’t hurt to get a doctor’s and we don’t have cars, a realopinion, since I looked like hell ity that takes on new shades of and Student Health was closed. fun when you’re pajama-clad This was, I believe, a more at 1 a.m.

“You in the hospital?” the appropriate response than the one I got from the first RA taxi driver asked.

Yes, blatantly obvious quesI ran into, who took one look at me sprawled across our tion, taxi man, I was clearly in hall, handed me an Aleve and the hospital. You are the one left. I can let it slide, though, because of her major. I know Please see Horowitz, Page B6

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management strives to keep historical aspects of the Downtown Mall in the building, including pieces of the original wall visible on the righthand side.

The exposed kitchen and bar area show the restaurant has nothing to hide. Citizen, like many Charlottesville restaurants, uses as many local ingredients as possible in their dishes, joking on its website that “as soon as they start catching lobsters in the Rivanna, you can bet we’ll drop our Maine-based source like a bad habit.” The restaurant’s beef, chicken and dairy products come from local Timbercreek Organics , Davis Creek Farm and Mountainview Farm , respectively. The restaurant

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How To Dress Transitionally

hate to disrespect the great Andy Williams, but I have to say that fall is truly the most wonderful time of the year. I do, however, apologize for the far-too-early Christmas song reference. Let’s face it: Nothing is better than waltzing down the Corner wearing a cozy sweatshirt with a pumpkin spice latte in hand, in the shade of the newly changed trees’ redgold leaves. And that’s saying something because I don’t even like coffee — or Starbucks for that matter.

Unfortunately, even though it’s officially “fall,” it’s still a steamy 70 degrees out there — which simultaneously makes this the worst time of the year. There is nothing worse than transitional weather. You wake up and it’s perfectly chilly with a hint of sunshine, but by the time you make the trek from Monroe to Wilson you’re sweating the fleece off your Patagonia. And if the people who walk under my balcony every morning are any indication, there is a bit,

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also has a feature that allows diners to scan a barcode on their menus and be redirected to the website of the farm where the menu item comes from.

The appetizers set the tone of the menu as a southern-influenced burger joint with a gourmet twist.

The fried shishito peppers provide a nice alternative to nachos or chicken fingers, and every guest at my table loved the distinctive dish. The light batter coats a spicier inside, which was perfectly balanced by the sweet soy dipping sauce. The crispy fried pickles and fry board, including four

maybe even a lot, of confusion If you’re absolutely dying withon how to dress in a season- out your winter footwear, kick ally appropriate way during up the cowboy boots instead. this in-between time. I would Paired with a skirt or dress be happy to clarify and rant a they’ll keep your feet comfy and the rest of your little bit about look on point. the appropriHow to Hoo On a similar note, ate fall attire. push those flanIf it is warm nels to the back enough to wear of your closet for Nike shorts, it is a while. I saw so way too warm many fleece vest to bust out the plaid shirt combiriding boots. nations this week I’m always you would’ve amazed when thought it was I look around November. If it’s my lectures chilly and you’re and see the girl feeling the long on my right s l e e v e s o pt f o r decked out in s h o r t s h o r t s ANNE-MARIE ALBRACHT something more seasonally neutral and the girl to such as a nautical my left in her shiny brown boots. I’m sorry, do white and navy striped shirt we live in the same city? I know or, even better, a denim buttonwe’re all so excited to bust out down. If you’re looking for the equestrian-esque gear, but layers, jean jackets and light keep the boots in their box for cardigans were made for this just a few weeks and save your feet from massive overheating.

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The Value of Wasted Days

n this day and age we value burnout, but after three succesbeing busy. This is nothing sive days of leaving my house new. We admire the people at 8 a.m. and returning after 8 who barely have time to breathe p.m. I was worn out. Oftentimes, in between their extracurricular I then try to spend the weekend meetings, their 18-credit class cramming in visits with my schedule, their dedicated work- friends who I can’t see during out regimen and their full-to-the- the week since I am so extremely, mind-blowingly brim social life.

Those students get At the End of the Day busy. My friends are understandour respect and ing, but at times I probably induce can tell my scheda lot of introspecule and the diffition. I’ll admit it, culty it puts on our I’ve found myself hangout time even wondering if I stresses them out. should be doing This pattern more. Do I join has worsened my another club, take fourth year as I up an impresattempt to prepare sive hobby? I’ve myself for the packed my schedSIMONE EGWU real world and set ule fuller than ridiculously lofty my suitcase when going home for the summer, and goals, like trying to get a 4.0. As I’ve been to so many extracur- I bulldoze through the week, ricular meetings in one day that attempting to accomplish the I left my house at 10 a.m. and many tasks on my to-do list, I wear down. By the time Friday didn’t get back until 10 p.m.

But finally the extra-busy hits all I want to do is go to bed.

This past weekend was a prime lifestyle has started to take its toll. Perhaps I’m suffering from example. After realizing my

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workload was light this weekend, I let myself off easy Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

Call me a loser, but these nights are typically reserved for getting a decent amount of homework done and preparing for the week ahead.

Not this week. Thursday night, I did the unthinkable and rented a movie. I proceeded to watch this movie without a second glance at my backpack, though I did guiltily think about schoolwork from time to time. The next day, I considered doing work. I really did. But instead I found myself recovering from a long week by running errands and performing normal human tasks like preparing breakfast and washing my hair. It amazed me how I had been missing these necessary, simple tasks for the sake of one more extracurricular meeting. But now, washing my hair without the looming danger of a missed deadline, I was able to appreciate the task.

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SPORTS For at least one weekend, “The U” returned to the national spotlight. Miami quarterback Stephen Morris passed for an ACC-record 566 yards, including a 62-yard Hail Mary to steal a 44-37 win against N.C. State.

Saturday marked the second-

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AROUND THE ACC straight game in which Al Golden’s squad outlasted a conference foe for a last-second victory. Last week, the Hurricanes did what the Cavaliers could not against Georgia Tech — they halted quarterback Tevin Washington on fourth-and-

inches to set up a game-winning touchdown in overtime ... The suddenly free-falling Yellow Jackets continued their slide Saturday, losing 49-28 to Middle Tennessee State. The Blue Raiders have rebounded from a season-opening loss

against FCS-opponent McNeese State to win their next three games, whereas Georgia Tech fell to 2-3 ... A year after nearly upsetting Virginia in overtime, Idaho found a less accommodating ACC host in North Carolina Saturday. The Tar Heels

obliterated the Vandals 66-0 to break North Carolina’s scoring record. Idaho has now won just one of its last 12 games since playing in Charlottesville Oct. 1 of last year.

—compiled by Ashley Robertson

W Soccer | Sophomore’s score lifts U.S. to title match Continued from page B1 and it takes an amazing staff,” Swanson said. “You have to have certain things in place: a great university, a great athletic department and a very supportive team.”

The roster As Swanson adjusted to leaving his Cavalier team for a new one, he found solace in a familiar face among the 21-player roster.

“We’ve been together for a while now, and I’ve been fortunate enough to coach [Brian] for two years,” Swanson said. “It’s great to see your players being recognized on these national teams. It’s hard, because you have to be careful [not to play favorites], but deep down inside, there’s a real pride there, that she’s one of our own here at Virginia, and there’s a bond there.”

Swanson and Brian also had to adjust to competing with players who normally serve as rivals.

Multiple competitors from the Atlantic Coast Conference — including athletes from Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest and Florida State — played on the

U20 team alongside Brian.

“I have been paying with those players since before I was in college, so it didn’t play a big factor until my freshman year when we started playing each other and being rivals,” Brian said. “When we went back [to training] and started competing, it was kind of weird, but we’re so close now that it didn’t play a factor in it.”

The run The United States opened the World Cup with a 4-0 win against Ghana. Following a 1-1 tie against China, the team found itself matched against a formidable German squad — the reigning champions who had yet to concede a goal. The U.S. team lost to Germany 3-0.

“It was a tremendous German team,” Swanson said. “I thought it was our best performance in the World Cup up until that point. We felt real positive about the way we played for most of the game, how consistent we were, that we could move the ball against them and created chances.”

Advancing from group play,

the U.S. corrected its mistakes from the Germany game to beat North Korea 2-1 in quarterfinals and advance to a semifinal berth against Nigeria.

“If we don’t lose the Germany game, we don’t beat North Korea in the quarterfinal,” Swanson said. “Maybe if we don’t lose the Germany game, we don’t learn the lessons we need to [learn] as quickly as we need to go into the knockout stage.”

Against Nigeria, the U.S. took the lead in the 22nd minute when Brian fired home her first and only goal of the tournament in front of more than 25,000 spectators at the Tokyo National Stadium, helping propel the team to a 2-0 win. Brian scored 186 goals during her high school career, but this goal was on a much larger stage.

“Anytime you can score for your country in a big game like that it’s really humbling,” she said. “I‘m glad I could score for our team, and it was a goal [early in the game] so that helped us.”

Advancing to the final required a rematch with Germany, but the team used the first game to its advantage, minimizing

the errors that had previously derailed it.

“We made some mistakes [in the first game] that we fixed during the tournament,” Brian said. “Then in the final game, we just didn’t make those mistakes, and we scored early on them.”

The team had learned its lessons. In the Sept. 8 final game, the U.S. beat Germany 1-0. The squad was able to celebrate as the top U20 team in the world, and the coach who had worked to not play favorites finally swelled with Virginia pride.

“It didn’t come out until right after the final,” Swanson said.

“Then I think [Brian and I] shared a longer embrace than most and I was real proud of her. The fact that I was there and knew all the hard work she put in makes it even more significant.”

The return With the World Cup behind them, Brian and Swanson returned to a Virginia team that was already in full swing.

Without their coach, the Cavaliers began their season 0-2-1

but recovered to win their next seven games. Brian had to rejoin an already cohesive Virginia team, but her first game back left little time for jet lag — she debuted with the Cavaliers during a high-stakes Sept. 16 match against ACC rival North Carolina.

“I missed 10 games for them, so they already had those games under their belt, so I feel like I’m in the preseason with them, but they’re not,” Brian said. “I kind of have to deal with that adjustment, and try to get acclimated with them faster than I might have thought.”

Brian notched an assist in her first game back to help Virginia tie the Tar Heels 2-2. She has yet to tally another point for Virginia this season. Although she and her coach know getting back into midseason form will be demanding, it is a trade-off they deem worth making in exchange for a World Cup win.

“Anytime you can compete for your country and wear the jersey and the U.S. crest,” Brian said. “I think it’s something any player wants to do in their lifetime.”

Field Hockey | Defense weathers three late penalty corners Continued from page B1 Jill Witmer found wide-open sophomore forward Katie Gerzabek, who shot the ball past sophomore goalkeeper Jenny Johnstone. The teams finished the half tied 1-1, both having tallied seven shots.

After a lengthy stalemate in the second half, the Terrapins took the lead with 20 minutes remaining. Five minutes later, rain began pouring hard as the Cavaliers came alive.

“It was so dramatic with the rain,” Vittese said. “It almost gave us a sense of enthusiasm.”

Minutes into the downpour, Vittese scored an unassisted goal almost identical to her first one. Two minutes later, redshirt senior forward Paige Selenski

amazed the crowd with an unassisted goal of her own. With the lead in hand, an exhausted Cavaliers team used its remaining stamina to hold its advantage.

“That was probably the hardest lead I’ve ever been in,” Vittese said. “I was cramping and everything was hurting. It was kind of nerve-racking. I looked at the other girls and told them, ‘This is the time we can either choke or do something we’ve never done before,’ and I think those words had everyone tune in.”

Maryland held possession in Virginia territory for the majority of the game’s last 10 minutes and had multiple opportunities to score. In the span of two minutes, the Terrapins were awarded three penalty corners,

but a Cavalier defense led by Vittese stopped each one.

“It was very stressful,” Johnstone said. “We had been practicing the corners that they would run against us, so we were really good at blocking them out and reading what they were going to do. Michelle Vittese got some great blocks in there as well when they adjusted, so I think we did really well.”

With five minutes remaining in the game, Maryland pulled its goalkeeper. But even the oneman advantage was not enough as Virginia hung on for the victory. Johnstone played the complete game for Virginia and was awarded the win.

The following Sunday the Cavaliers returned to the Turf Field to take on Atlantic-10 foe St.

Joseph’s. Although Virginia won 6-3, the Hawks (2-9) provided a difficult test.

“It was very, very bad,” junior back Elly Buckley said. “It wasn’t our best performance and we didn’t really stick to the game plan. It’s still a win though, so we’re happy I guess.”

Buckley scored the first Cavalier goal on a penalty corner just three minutes into the game, and Vittese extended the lead with her third unassisted goal of the weekend. In the waning moments before halftime, however, St. Joseph’s sophomore forward Nicole Gerdes scored two goals in one minute to tie the game.

“We had a good start, but we went into a lull after we went two goals up,” Madison said.

“We were too soft on pressure and St. Joseph’s took advantage of it.”

In the second half, the Cavaliers stormed out with four unanswered goals: two from Selenski, one from Vittese, and one from Buckley. Virginia held the lead as time expired, but the Hawks were awarded a penalty corner with no time left on the clock, allowing them to score one last goal. The three goals for St. Joseph’s marked the team’s highest total of the season.

Freshman goalkeeper Rebecca Holden played a complete game for the Cavaliers, earning the victory with two saves and three goals allowed. The Cavaliers now ride a six-game winning streak and are tied for first place atop the ACC standings.

McGoey | Sims deserves starting nod after strong early effort Continued from page B1 a wide receiver’s miscue, but on another Rocco threw the ball directly to a Bulldog defender, who returned it for a touchdown to cap off Louisiana Tech’s 21-0 third quarter. Rocco’s poor decision-making overshadowed his 278 yards and two touchdowns,

putting Virginia in an almost inescapable hole.

London’s decision was clear before Sims entered and nearly led the Cavaliers to a comeback win. Sims must be the starter.

The LSU situation showed that a quarterback switch should only be undertaken with legitimate cause. We finally have that

cause. Sims has proven he is a better performer under pressure than Rocco, and Rocco has committed a stretch of consistently disappointing play.

LSU made a poor decision with Lee and Jefferson because it felt pressure to make a change for the present. They were an undefeated team vying for a berth in

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the national title game. In case you were still holding out hope, I assure you 2012 Virginia is in no such situation. Finishing this season even with a bowl berth might prove to be a struggle for the team this year.

But where 2011 LSU rushed into a decision made with only the present in mind, 2012 Vir-

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ginia has a chance to make a decision not just for this year, but next year.

Sims obviously was intended to be the starter for Virginia at some point, and “some point” should start this Saturday at Duke. If he is the future of Virginia football, why not let the future start now?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19. If you accidentally discover where you are weak, it’s a blessing. Now you can find the perfect teammate who is strong in that area. Together, you can make miracles happen.

association for the sheer novelty of it. Then again, your usual routine, is pretty novel too.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Swift and specific decisions allow you to maximize your talents and make money in an enjoyable way. Pisces and Virgo are among those who motivate and love you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’re a fan of people, and people respond enthusiastically to the attention you effortlessly give. But when it comes to one special person, a special effort must be made for this one to feel your love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re in a rather private, emotionally guarded mood.

It’s not such a bad thing to make others work for your trust and care. In fact, you’ll be glad you didn’t reveal yourself too readily.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s a party going on in your mind. All your favorite icons are invited! Ask them to stay and act as an impromptu “board of directors” to give you opinions about your latest dilemma.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The puzzling situations just keep coming, and you solve each one. Since it’s impossible to gain maturity without experience, by the end of the day, you are officially mature.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Intuitively, you know you need more discipline than you have. That’s why you get into highly structured situations. Though it appears you’re being molded by outside forces, you’re the one doing the work.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your planets offer up friendly, accepting vibrations. It’s a good time to test out your universal appeal.

Talk smilingly to strangers and watch them turn quickly into friends.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your sense of entitlement has wavered between the extremes of feeling unworthy and feeling “all that.” A sweet extravagance is offered to you, but will you take it? The choice sets a tone for the rest of the week.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Raise your community profile. It could be as simple as improving your yard or joining the chamber of commerce. Those exposed to your charms respond in ways that raise your energy.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 2). You’ve earned your place in the spotlight, and you’ll continue to dazzle from that sensational station. By November, it’s time to retreat, relax and get a new perspective. You’ll be pursued like crazy again in December.

A daring business move takes you on a wild ride in March. You share a special connection with Leo and Taurus. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 11, 34, 21 and 5.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). This is it, your perfect day. There’s some loving, some learning, a pinch of adventure and a dash of glamour. And, of course, a fine opportunity to make a little money.

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Citizen | Eatery provides fresh food, great atmosphere Continued from page B2 tasty sauces, were exceptional starts to the meal, which got better with each dish delivered.

For those who are not avid red meat lovers, the menu has plenty of non-beef options — from salads the size of a mixing bowl to chicken sandwiches and grilled cheeses. I decided on a beet salad, which came loaded with candied walnuts, freshly sliced apples, blueberries and

chevre and was more than generous as an entrée or a side to split. One of my fellow diners ordered the vegan burger, a blend of beets and grains, and was pleasantly surprised by its flavor — a variation from the usual, bland bean- or lentilbased veggie burger. The carnivores chose from three different types of beefs for their burgers, all deciding on the local grass-fed.

The menu has six specialty burgers, ranging from the

“American Classic” to “The Executive,” featuring wagyu beef, foie gras, an egg and rosemary aioli. My companions mostly built their own burgers from the bounty of typical and extraordinary toppings, including nine different cheeses, avocado, truffle butter, arugula and lobster. The sauces, including everything from bacon jam to Heinz ketchup, perfect the dishes and add a decadent element to the meal. The extensive beer list (there are more than

90 types offered) and variety of house-made cocktails make the experience even more enjoyable.

Owner Anderson McClure states on the website that “the name Citizen is pretty perfect for what’s happening here — it’s a way to explain our twopart mission: highlighting fresh, authentic, responsibly grown ingredients from the place we call home, and creating a laidback inviting atmosphere for our customers.” After visit-

ing this establishment twice, I would have to agree wholeheartedly with his statement.

The food is affordable, delicious and a step above a normal dinner out. The ambience is lively, inviting and comfortable. Citizen takes the straightforward concept of burgers and beer and combines it with a personal view and gourmet touch without losing sight of the simplicity of a good burger.

I will definitely return for a third round of Citizen.

Horowitz |Drug cocktail cures first year’s debilitating virus Continued from page B2 who picked me up here.

When two days later I was still riding a roller coaster of a fever, I called up good ol’ blatantly-obvious-question taxi

man to hitch a ride to Student Health. Turns out Student Health actually backs to the Lawn, and requesting a taxi is akin to requesting a limo to get to O-Hill. I paid in big bills because apparently that’s the

kind of lifestyle I lead.

At Student Health, my doctor literally ran in, opened my mouth, looked inside, ran out and came back with a prescription for a cocktail of drugs, one of which involved codeine. I

think he has a bright future ahead of him providing medical marijuana to people with “shoulder pain.”

Still, whatever he gave me, it worked. I have since been brought back to life — but it

was a close call. We do not laugh about the plague.

Julia’s column runs biweekly Tuesdays. She can be reached at j.horowitz@cavalierdaily.com.

Albracht | ‘Dress according to the weather,’ fashionista advises Continued from page B2 kind of weather. Topped with a light scarf you can go from morning to afternoon with no problem, shedding as needed.

Finally: no more pastels, no more flouncy sundresses and no more white pants. I’m serious. I hate to include the latter

because it’s so cliché, but for some reason people bring out the white jeans year-round here. Whenever I rant about white jeans someone inevitably pipes up to say this rule is outdated because winter white proves you can wear white all year long. Wrong. There’s a big difference between a

heavy white pea coat and a pair of lightweight white jeans. If you’re still feeling summery, capris (however mom-ish that word may be) are a marvelous option. For a break from the average dark wash denim, opt for a transition-friendly jewel tone like cobalt blue, magenta or even red if you’re feeling a

little saucy.

Finally, when all else fails, dress according to the weather forecast. What makes your look in season right now is fabric and color. No one’s saying you should be shrouding every inch of your body just because we’ve left the summer months behind. Follow your gut and

these guidelines, ask for help when you need it and you’ll be making it work Tim Gunn-style in no time.

Anne-Marie’s column runs biweekly Tuesdays.

She can be reached at a.albracht@cavalierdaily.com.

Egwu | Relaxing weekend, Saturday lie-in bring welcome respite Continued from page B2 OK, I’m being dramatic. But come on, sometimes washing your hair can be fun. Or maybe this is a sign of how much fun I’d been sacrificing for the sake of résumé-building.

Saturday I allowed myself an entire day to lie in bed and watch reruns. Not even allowed myself — I could not bring myself to actually pick up a schoolbook or text a friend. I needed time to myself. To remember what relaxation and no pressure felt

like. I berated myself for not getting ahead in my work as I knew I should be, but I was so exhausted I couldn’t lift a finger.

Sunday arrived, and the panic of a wasted weekend set in. But, I realized, I have the entire day

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to accomplish everything. My mind feels rested and my brain is filled with crappy jokes from “Everybody Loves Raymond.” I feel fresh. Maybe if I can strike the balance between busy and wasted time, I won’t be forced to binge-relax. Even though I

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have a lot of work ahead of me, the wasted weekend was worth it. If you ask me, wasted time deserves a lot more respect.

Simone’s column runs biweekly Tuesdays. She can be reached at s.egwu@cavalierdaily.com.