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U.Va. announces death of fourth-year student Kurt Hilburger Hilburger dies Wednesday morning following weekend car accident Katherine Wilkin News Editor

Fourth-year College student Kurt Hilburger died this morning from injuries sustained in a car accident which occurred

this weekend, the University announced Wednesday.

Hilburger, an Archaeology and Anthropology double major, was a resident of Brown College and was very involved in the life of the residential college by serving on the governing board, according to

a release from Dean of Students Allen Groves.

“Our thoughts are with the family and Kurt’s many friends in the University community,” Groves said in the release.

In an email to the University, Groves encouraged students to

support one another.

“I encourage you to reach out to one another for comfort and support in this time of sadness and grief,” Groves said. “With the death of Margaret Lowe on Sept. 1, the fourth-year class has lost two members in one month's

time. I recognize the impact these losses have upon our shared community.”

Hilburger is survived by his parents, John and Jill Hilburger.

No information regarding a funeral service has been released at this time.

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ON-GROUNDS HOUSING Location: The four residential buildings of the International Residential College

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house 300 students, 40 percent of whom are international. The IRC is located next to Alumni Hall and is across Emmet Street from Memorial Gym.

Proximity to Grounds: Students can walk to most places on Grounds within 10 minutes.

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layouts. All buildings are air-conditioned except for Gwathmey, the largest residence.

Munford Hall houses approximately 100 female residents in a hall-style singles and doubles. The first floor is primarily made up of meeting rooms and study spaces, including the Munford Gathering Place, which is a communal space for all IRC residents, and often holds social events. The second and third floors are fully residential.

Gwathmey houses about 120 residents, both first-years and upperclassmen. Floors are separated by sexes and have both singles and doubles, as well as a kitchen and bathroom. The first and second floors also have study lounges.

Lewis houses 60 upperclassmen residents in suite-style rooms as well as singles and soubles, some of which have private bathrooms. Each of the three floors has a kitchen.

Hoxton houses 40 upperclassmen residents in two co-ed floors of suite-style rooms. Each floor also includes a kitchen.

Cost: The IRC ranges from $5,690 for a double occupancy room to $6890 for a single occupancy room for the 2015-16 academic year.

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Location: The 174 apartments in Lambeth’s 24

buildings are located between Lambeth Field and Emmett Street, close to Arts Grounds and the Architecture School. Over the last six summers, the Lambeth apartment buildings have been under renovation, recently completed.

Proximity to Grounds: Most students can walk to Grounds in 10 minutes, take the Northline or Green Route at the Lambeth bus stop, or catch the Inner Loop at Beta Bridge.

Floor Plan: Each apartment in Lambeth is composed of two or three double rooms with a kitchen and common room. Each apartment also has one-and-a-half or two bathrooms.

Cost: Lambeth apartments cost $6,130 per student for the 201516 academic year.

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Bice Hall is located south of New Cabell Hall on Brandon Avenue.

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Bice is a five minute walk from Grounds, and is very close to the Nursing School and Nau/ Gibson Hall.

Floor Plan: Apartments in Bice are composed of two or three bedrooms — each with two beds — a kitchen and common room.

Cost: Bice apartments cost $6,130 per student for the 2015-16 academic year.

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the Lawn is home to Mr. Jefferson’s original buildings. Every year, 54 “Lawnies” experience the University as it was originally envisioned.

Proximity to Grounds:

The Lawn is at the center of the University, and is close to both classes and nightlife.

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Each room is furnished with a twin bed, desk and chair, built-in closet, rocking chair and sink. Most rooms have a fireplace.

Cost: A single room with a fireplace costs $6,390 for the 2015-16 academic year, while a room without a fireplace costs $6,040.

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Location: Brown College at Monroe Hill is the University’s oldest residential

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college and is located on McCormick Road, right next to Newcomb Hall.

Proximity to Grounds: Brown is located on Central Grounds, so students can walk to Newcomb, classes, or the library in less than five minutes.

Floor Plan: Each resident has a single room in a suite of two. Three or four of those suites share a bathroom. The buildings, called portals, have multiple lounges, a computer lab, kitchen, library and laundry facilities.

Cost: Brown College costs $6,610 for the 2015-16 academic year.

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The farthest dorm from Central Grounds, Copeley Apartments are located in North Grounds, opposite the Law School and close to Darden, North Grounds Recreation Center and Barracks Road Shopping Center.

Proximity to Grounds: A lengthy 25 minute or more walk to Central Grounds means the most viable option for Copeley residents is to use the Northline or Central Grounds Shuttle.

Floor Plan: As of the 2015-2016 academic year, all apartments are two-bedroom, single occupancy. Each unit contains 1.5 baths, a kitchen and living room.

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Hereford is a 20 minute walk to Central Grounds. The Northline and Hereford Express serve Hereford at 10-minute intervals during peak hours.

Floor Plan: Residents can live in hall-style single or double occupancy rooms.

Each co-ed or single-sex floor has a shared bathroom and common area.

Cost: A single room in Hereford costs $5,920, while a double costs $5,690.

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Floor Plan: 27 undergraduate students live in 17 bedrooms, excluding rooms occupied by one or two graduate students, staff and French assistants. The Maison also includes a living room, a library, a seminar room, a dining room and a kitchen.

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Proximity: Close to South Lawn, La Casa Bolivar is a five to 10 minute walk to Central Grounds.

Floor Plan: Approximately two dozen residents live in single and double occupancy rooms in la Casa Bolivar.

Cost: A single room runs at around $6,890, while a double is $6,130.

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Proximity to Grounds: A short five to 10 minute walk to most buildings in Central Grounds.

Layout: Shea House houses 75 residents committed to foreign language in single and double occupancy rooms.

Floors are hall-style, each with its own common room. The building also has study rooms on the second floor and a kitchen.

Cost: Single occupancy rooms in Shea House cost $6,890, and double occupancy rooms cost $6,130 for the 2015-16 academic year.

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Range has less than half as many applicants as Lawn Selection chair cites “varying levels of awareness” about option Alison Phanthavong and Tim Dodson Staff Writers

The Range is part of the University’s Academical Village. It is proximate to the Lawn and similar in appearance. Only graduate students, however, may apply to live in the space.

Graduate students apply to live in one of 51 rooms on the Range each year. There are typically between 70 and 100 applications each year, said Elizabeth Walker, the vice chair for selections at the Range.

The housing rate for the 201516 year is $710 per month.

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plied to live on the Lawn for the 2015-16 academic year.

“I imagine that there are many reasons for the varying levels of awareness surrounding the Range,” Walker said in an email statement.

“But I would posit that it has to do with the fact that the Range is intended for graduate students.”

Walker enumerated three reasons graduate students may not apply for the Range.

Graduate students may not have the financial ability to live on the Range, may be unaware of the Range until arriving in Charlottesville, and may not have an interest in living in a less typical graduate student residence, she said.

The Lawn is considered a central part of the University under-

graduate experience — which is not necessarily the case with graduate students and the Range, Walker said.

“For a grad student, school becomes a very different experience that may not need to be heavily influenced by the University culture,” Walker said.

The application process is the same for all applicants, regardless of whether or not they attended the University as an undergraduate.

Currently, there are 10 graduate students living on the Range who completed their undergraduate degree at the University, but are not enrolled in a five-year masters program. Walker said there are five Commerce school graduate

students, six accelerated Batten students and two graduate Batten students.

The selection committee only does a spring selection process for the upcoming fall semester. The committee holds a series of events in order to encourage graduate students to apply, Walker said.

“We value personal interaction very highly when considering applicants,” Walker said. “If a meeting is not physically possible, this is, of course, not held against the applicant.”

There is also a written application involved in the process of applying to live on the Range.

Application season ends at the end of April, when the Selections Committee has a meeting in

which it compiles all parts of the application, including the event attendance and the written application, and determines who will be offered a spot for the upcoming year. The Range has a rubric which it uses to guide the process, but Walker said it is a very collective, organic process invested in personal interaction.

“The Selections Committee is intended to reflect the desires of the Range as a whole,” Walker said.

“So the application process is very much rooted in the Range Community itself.”

The demographics of the Range are heavily influenced by who applies and who accepts, Walker said.

Jesse Matthew back in court, Harrington case trial date set Trial date originally set for Oct. 17, anniversary of Harrington’s disappearance Chloe Heskett and Hannah Hall Staff Writers

Jesse Matthew appeared in Albemarle County Circuit Court Wednesday for a status hearing on the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington cases.

During the hearing, the court heard motions filed by the defense and set the trial date in the Harrington case for Oct. 24, 2016.

The trial date was originally scheduled for Oct. 17. The trial was rescheduled after it the court received notice that the date coincided with the anniversary of Harrington’s disappearance.

Matthew is charged with the capital murder of Graham and first degree murder of Harrington, as well as abduction with intent to defile in both cases.

A letter from an ex-girlfriend of Matthew, which says he was raped repeatedly as a child, was made public Tuesday. The letter was not addressed during the hearing, but Harrington said she does not believe the circumstances, if true, should impact sentencing.

“We as human beings have been given free will,” Harrington said. “Many people come from very difficult circumstances who have not gone out and abducted, raped or murdered."

After the hearing, Harrington spoke briefly with Matthew’s mother — the first contact she has had with the family. She said she expressed her condolences and understands that they are also go-

ing through a hard time.

“It was a mother-to-mother moment,” Harrington said. “I can see that they are suffering. I don’t have any animosity or beef with his family — our case is against him.”

Harrington said Matthew’s mother was receptive, and it felt like the right thing to do.

During the hearing the defense presented three motions, Nos. 14 – 16, to the Court in the Graham case, only the first of which was granted. The defense has now filed a total of 16 motions in the case, the majority of which have been denied.

Defense motion No. 14 Judge Cheryl Higgins granted the defense motion requesting permission to file future motions and responses under seal, making these court documents inaccessible to the public until the time of the hearing when they will be reviewed. This motion is necessary due to the intense media coverage of the Graham case, said Virginia Capital Defender Douglas Ramseur, Matthew’s defense counsel.

Ramseur said he is concerned about prejudicing information being released to the public when court documents are posted online, as well as the identity of witnesses, who may then be contacted by reporters.

Defense motion No. 15 Higgins denied the defense motion to allow the appointment of an expert to assess Matthew’s risk of future dangerousness.

Ramseur said this information is significant as a mitigating factor in sentencing, and he would like

this evidence to be on record during the trial.

Carrene Walker, assistant Commonwealth’s attorney in Albemarle County, said the evidence admitted from such a review is not admissible or relevant under Virginia standards, which only assesses a person’s threat to society, “not prison society,” Walker said.

The motion was denied for this reason.

Defense motion No. 16 Higgins denied the defense’s fi-

nal motion to release the last four years of grand jury records as well as permission to hire an expert to analyze them in comparison with census data. Ramseur said the motion was filed in order to ensure that the jury would be chosen without discrimination.

Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney Denise Lunsford said the process of selecting grand jurors should be the first item reviewed, and the Court should not release identifying information

for past jurors.

The court took the motion under advisement, but Ramseur said he asked the Court not to delay a decision, at which time the Court denied the motion.

In addition to reviewing these three motions and setting the October 2016 trial date, three hearings were also scheduled for the remainder of 2015: Oct. 7, Nov. 10, and Dec. 17.

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Gil Harrington, Morgan Harrington’s mother, said she expressed her condolences to Jesse Matthew’s mother after the hearing.

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Natalie Bausback touched off her Virginia volleyball career in 2012, coming to Charlottesville from Carlsbad, Calif., where she played in the Division II state finals as a senior at La Costa Canyon High School. The Cavaliers’ star middle hitter delivered a team-high 18 kills in that five-set title game, but her Mavericks fell to 42-win Presentation High.

Now a senior, Bausback is no stranger to the collegiate game.

She and her classmates — outside hitter Kayla Sears, setter Lauren Fuller and defensive specialist Manon Fuller — have already played through three ACC schedules at Virginia, and they only have one more.

But in their three-plus years at Virginia, Bausback and company have yet to taste the NCAA tournament.

“There’s a lot of things that I want to accomplish, individually and as a team,” Bausback said.

“You know, we always talked about wanting to make it to the

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Volleyball entertains Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech Cavaliers back home after month away; Bausback, senior class in final run through conference play tournament. And I think now, being a senior, you realize how important every single match is to make it to that goal.”

Bausback and Virginia (9-4, 1-1 ACC) battle conference rivals Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech this weekend, tussling with the Panthers at 7 p.m. Friday and the Hokies 24 hours later. The Cavaliers have a long way to go before tournament time, but a pair of wins certainly couldn’t hurt Virginia’s confidence at this intermediate stage.

The Cavaliers haven’t played at home since Sept. 5, when they dispatched Iowa State and Appalachian State to claim the Cavalier Classic. In the interim they’ve traveled all over — to Tuscaloosa, Ala., Washington, DC and Durham, N.C., where they knocked off Duke for a streak-breaking win at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Virginia had lost 17 consecutive matches against the Blue Devils, and the Cavaliers had not won at Duke since 2003.

“For the program it’s big, and it’s a big step for these kids, because obviously Duke has been one of those programs that has been dominating the ACC,” Virginia coach Dennis Hohenshelt

said.

But the going gets no easier in week two of conference play. Pittsburgh (12-3, 2-1 ACC) received four votes in this week’s AVCA poll, and the Panthers have won five of their last six matches.

“Pitt’s really, really good right now,” Hohenshelt said. “Pitt’s interesting [in] that it’s not fancy, but it’s efficient. And so, they have six kids that they really play — actually eight kids, with two setters — so they’re bringing three attackers against us at all times. And they’re just really good, they don’t make a lot of mistakes, and they’re like us — they’re a physical team at the net.”

The Pittsburgh attack includes three players — graduate student outside hitter Kadi Kullerkann, senior middle hitter Amanda Orchard and sophomore outside hitter Mariah Bell — who have posted 100 or more kills this season.

Orchard has been particularly strong with her chances, putting down 122 kills while committing just 21 errors.

The Panthers defeated reigning ACC champion North Carolina in straight sets Sunday, which Hohenshelt said indicates how strong the conference is at present.

“This league’s really good right

now, and it’s really, really tough to count on wins right now,” Hohenshelt said. “And so, you’re going to have to play really well every weekend — and every night on top of that — and just be on top of your game or else you’re going to lose.”

Virginia Tech (11-4, 2-1 ACC), meanwhile, capped a six-game homestand with a four-set win Wednesday night against the Panthers. Junior outside hitter Lindsey Owens came up big in the victory, registering a 20-kill, 11-dig double-double.

The Hokies beat Virginia last November in Charlottesville, though the Cavaliers came out on top a month earlier in Blacksburg. “[Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech] are both really good teams,” Bausback said. “So, I mean, honestly we just have to show up and play.”

Virginia Tech, Hohenshelt said, plays a style of volleyball distinct from Pittsburgh’s.

“Tech is relying on these upperclassman right now,” Hohenshelt said. “It’s a little bit different offensively in that we’ll have some hitters going in different directions where Pitt’s just sort of coming straight ahead at you.”

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after a long wait, Bausback and Virginia have two big opportunities this weekend. The team, Bausback said, is glad to be home.

“We’re really excited to be back at home in front of our fans and family,” Bausback said. “We always get a great crowd, and we feed off energy from the crowd, so it’ll be nice to be back.”

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The Cavaliers play Pittsburgh Friday night.

Men’s soccer takes on Louisville Friday night Virginia’s fourth ACC match could get sloppy with three-inch rain forecast

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Freshman Derrick Etienne scored against VCU.

Following up a crushing road conference loss is no simple task, but for the 11th-ranked Virginia men’s soccer team, a cancellation and a week off may provide the rest needed to bounce back.

The Cavaliers (5-1-2, 1-1-1 ACC) welcome ACC rival Louisville (4-3-3, 0-0-3 ACC) Friday night in what is shaping up to be one of the sloppiest games Klöckner Stadium has seen in recent memory, with meteorologists calling for nearly three inches of rain on game night.

“If it’s that much, our game plan might [change],” senior midfielder Todd Wharton said. “Me personally, I like playing in the rain. I’m going to have fun doing it, you just have to take it as it is, you can’t help it.”

To further complicate Friday’s pre-long weekend matchup, Virginia will be dealing with a strong but unpredictable Cardinals team. This season, the preseason Atlantic Division favorite has tied three times in conference, beaten then-No.15

Kentucky and lost to a sub-.500 Ohio State team.

“We know they’re a good team,” Wharton said, “[and] coach [George Gelnovatch] has said that they’re a lot like us so it should be a good, entertaining game.”

Louisville is led by freshman forward Tate Schmitt, who has burst on to the collegiate scene and currently leads the ACC in goals with six. To deal with that — as well as find answers for their 3-1 defeat last week at Notre Dame — the Cavaliers will need to make numerous adjustments.

“Playing more as a team … [and] getting back defensively [are key],” Wharton said. “I think we’ve given up too many shots in recent games, and obviously three goals in one is never going to be beneficial to you, so once we tighten down defensively we’ll be a little more efficient going forward.”

That defeat — Virginia’s first of the season — was a bit of a wakeup call, as the team struggled with effort and discipline, and its lack of concentration was the nail in the coffin.

“Unfortunately, there was a red card and things went a little downhill after that,” freshman midfielder Der-

rick Etienne said, “But we take away the little things; the things we can learn from a loss, and we … work on those things in training so that won’t happen again.”

Though it is often best to work in practice after a loss, the Cavaliers were slotted to square off in a midweek matchup with George Washington Tuesday, which likely would have been good for their confidence as the Colonials are 3-5 in the Atlantic 10. Unfortunately, the weather had other plans, and Virginia was forced to cancel the game.

“It was a letdown; we look forward to playing every game,” Etienne said. “When it’s cancelled we’re upset, but it gives us more time to prepare for the game on Friday, and we’re looking forward to that one.”

Friday’s matchup with Louisville will allow Gelnovatch to once again utilize his arsenal of freshman talent in dynamic ways, integrating them into a system and program that, just 10 months ago, produced a national champion.

Leading that group is the highly touted freshman forward Edward Opoku, whose play has produced

numerous chances but no goals.

Etienne and fellow freshman midfielder Jean-Christophe Koffi have each scored a goal and are gaining an increasing presence in the Cavaliers’ counterattack-style offense.

“Learning a new system, playing in college — it’s kind of different. It’s a lot more physical,” Etienne said.

“We’re coming along. I think the team is really making strides in getting into the full swing of things and I think we’ll be looking strong coming into the ACC tournament.”

While the ACC tournament is the end goal,, the Cavaliers will first have to jump over their next hurdle, or puddle, Friday night under the lights at Klöckner Stadium against the Cardinals.

“If the ball is getting stopped from puddles then you’ll have to play more direct to get it out of your own end,” Wharton said, “Because you’re not going to be able to work it up from the back. I’ll definitely try to play regular but if we have to be more direct we will.”

The game is set to start Friday at 7 p.m.

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Offensive report card: Fairchild’s unit inconsistent Severin, Thorpe lead receiving corps, offensive-line play crucial to improving team’s attack Matthew Wurzburger Senior Associate Editor

In recent times a lack of continuity has characterized Virginia’s offense. 2015 has been no different for the Cavaliers, a team transitioning to a power-run offense and featuring a new starting quarterback for the fourth time in as many years.

Last season, Virginia’s offense rode a stifling defense to five victories. Entering the conference portion of the 2015 season the Cavaliers’ offense has been excellent, dismal and all points in between. With eight games remaining on the slate, let’s take a look at the unit’s performance.

Quarterback

Junior quarterback Matt Johns was well on his way to making the Dean’s List before a disastrous outing against Boise State. In that game, Johns went 12-for-25 — a 48 percent completion rate — for only 199 yards.

This was not entirely the Chalfont, Penn. native’s fault as the Broncos’ defense had him under pressure throughout the game — Johns was sacked three times. For better or worse, the Cavaliers’ signal caller is a

bit of a gunslinger and is not afraid to put the ball in the air.

Sometimes Johns’ fearlessness pays off — see his 75-yard touchdown bomb to senior T.J. Thorpe, which was a desperation lob off his back foot. Other times, it leads to turnovers, like the game-opening pick-six thrown against Boise State.

Still, Virginia ranks fourth in the ACC in passing yards per game with 255.8, is ninth with a 138.2 efficiency rating and is doing this without the benefit of a running game. Johns averages 247.2 yards per game, which is second in conference and significantly better than the mark of 181.3 set by Greyson Lambert in 2014.

Grade: B-

Offensive Line

The offensive line has been a mixed bag thus far. Offensive Coordinator Steve Fairchild promised a return to a power-rushing attack, but the line has not reached expectations. The Cavaliers find themselves dead last in the ACC in all major rushing categories — yards, yards per carry, touchdowns and yards per game. With only 375 yards gained on the ground, Virginia has 144 fewer rushing yards than Wake Forest, the second-most inept running team

in-conference.

The Cavaliers’ front-five has been more successful in pass protection.

Through four games, opposing defenses have recorded only seven sacks. Virginia had allowed one sack per game in its first three games before Boise State’s deep and talented front seven accrued four sacks.

With Johns apt to make damning mistakes while under pressure, the offensive line must make a concerted effort to keep the pocket clean for its man under center.

Grade: D-

Running Backs

I touched on the woes of Virginia’s running game above. The Cavaliers are averaging only 2.98 yards per carry, are sixth-from-last among all FBS programs in yards per game and have rushed for only three touchdowns — one coming on a goal-togo scramble by Johns.

In his third season, tailback Taquan Mizzell has yet to live up to his moniker of ‘Smoke’ or his fivestar rating coming out of Bayside High School. Mizzell has received the most handoffs, averages 3.4 yards per carry and leads the team with 157 yards on the ground.

Mizzell’s backups have not fared

any better. Junior transfer Albert Reid has been a total non-factor in the ground game thus far, gaining only 2.9 yards on 27 attempts. Redshirt freshman Jordan Ellis showed his potential with a 39-yard touchdown scamper against William & Mary, but has yet to make an impact in a game against FBS competition.

Sophomore Daniel Hamm did not record a touch in the Cavaliers’ first two games due to a hand injury and has yet to find his footing in the backfield.

Two running backs — Mizzell and freshman Olamide Zaccheaus — are making impacts in other parts of the game. Mizzell is Johns’ second-favorite target behind senior Canaan Severin, with 22 receptions for 292 yards and three touchdowns.

Zaccheaus emerged as London’s kick returner against Boise State, and the Philadelphia native shined.

Zaccheaus set a new program record with 231 kick return yards, including a 54-yarder.

Virginia’s tailbacks need a stronger O-line to run behind in order to be effective, but Mizzell and Zaccheaus are proving their versatility and worth in other facets of the game.

Grade: D+

Wide Receivers/Tight Ends

The Cavaliers’ passing attack begins and ends with Severin. The roommate of Johns, Severin leads the team in catches and receiving yards with 23 and 298, respectively.

Outside of Severin, Johns has lacked a reliable wideout or tight end to target — no one in this group has more than six catches.

Virginia’s wide receiver corps got a shot in the arm with the return of Thorpe from a fractured clavicle suffered during the summer. Thorpe saw the field against the Tribe, but the UNC transfer did not record his first reception until the game against the Broncos — the aforementioned touchdown bomb. Thorpe’s speed provides Virginia’s offense the means to take the top off the defense, which adds a new level of dynamism to the offense.

Grade: B-

Overall Grade: C

Much remains up in the air when evaluating Virginia’s offense, and which unit shows up on Saturdays — the one that moved the ball effortlessly at times against Notre Dame or the one that was shut down by Boise State — will determine how the Cavaliers fare in ACC play.

Defensive report card: Tenuta’s group struggling Kiser, Dean provide bright spots for Virginia, but Cavaliers have yet to record takeaway through four games Robert Elder

Senior Associate Editor

The 2014 rendition of the Cavalier defense was one of the best in the ACC in almost every category.

The unit racked up 34 sacks, 78 tackles for loss and 29 takeaways.

When the offense struggled, the defense was normally there to pick up the slack.

But fast forward to 2015, and the Virginia defense cannot be trusted to stop the run against FCS opponent William & Mary, much less carry the team.

As the Cavaliers enter the bye week sitting at a 1-3, defensive coordinator Jon Tenuta’s bunch grades out poorly.

Defensive Line

The days of defensive ends Eli Harold and Max Valles beating tackles around the edge are over.

Both declared early for the NFL Draft, with Harold going in the third round to San Francisco and Valles in the sixth round to Oakland. The duo combined for 16 sacks and 27 tackles for loss a year

ago.

Their replacements at defensive end — seniors Mike Moore, Kwontie Moore and Trent Corney — have been disappointments.

Corney has flashed his strength and athleticism, but in four starts, the Canadian has just a single tackle for loss. Kwontie Moore, a former four-star linebacker, finally found his home at defensive end, but he lacks the speed of an edge rusher. Tenuta has experimented with Mike Moore at end and linebacker, although his better fit seems to be on the interior of the defensive line.

At tackle, senior David Dean remains a reliable space eater, while also having logged 2.5 sacks — already 1.5 more than a year ago.

However, for all of their offseason hype, junior Donte Wilkins and sophomore Andrew Brown have barely seen the field.

The group has failed to stop the run and cannot generate a pass rush on its own. Even considering the departure of Harold and Valles, the line has underwhelmed.

Grade: D

Linebackers

Like the defensive line, the linebackers lost steady veterans in Henry Coley and Daquan Romero to graduation. Coley was the heart and soul of the team last season, recording eight sacks and 12.5 tackles for loss in a second-team All-ACC effort.

While Coley’s replacement — sophomore Micah Kiser — does not deliver the same thump as Coley, he might be a better allaround linebacker. Kiser is effective covering tight ends and running backs, and also has a knack for getting to the quarterback, leading the team with 4.5 sacks in addition to his seven tackles for loss.

But the rest of the group has struggled. Junior Zach Bradshaw cannot seem to wrap up the ball-carrier. Meanwhile, heralded freshman C.J. Stalker — a starter in training camp — has appeared in one game, recording a single tackle.

Kiser’s emergence makes the group average, but nothing more.

Grade: C

Secondary

The safety duo of Anthony Harris, now on Minnesota’s practice squad, and then-freshman Quin Blanding combined to form one of the top safety tandems in college football a year ago. The cornerbacks, meanwhile, were not spectacular, although now-senior Maurice Canady provided a physical presence in the slot.

But the secondary, like the defensive line, has been one of the most disappointing position groups of Virginia’s 2015 team.

Laden with talented veterans, the unit ranks 110th nationally in passing defense, giving up 285.5 yards per game. To make matters worse, Virginia has yet to intercept a pass.

From blown assignments to lost man-coverage battles, neither the corners nor the safeties have fared well through four games. Allowing the 39-yard, game-winning touchdown reception with just 12 seconds remaining against Notre Dame only adds to the frustration.

As a unit with such proven veteran leaders, the secondary’s poor play has drawn the ire of the Cava-

lier faithful.

Grade: D

Overall Grade: D

Virginia ranks 110th in scoring defense, allowing 38.3 points per game, and comes in at 100th nationally in total defense at 445.3 yards per game.

And perhaps worst of all, Virginia’s minus-9 turnover margin is 125th in the country. Virginia and Wake Forest are the only teams yet to record a takeaway this season.

A regression from 2014’s allaround solid performance was expected, especially after losing five of its starting defensive front seven. But this year, the unit has been torched by two true-freshman quarterbacks in addition to allowing 145 rushing yards and 29 points against William & Mary.

The Cavaliers cannot be pleased.

When Virginia opens conference play Oct. 10 at Pittsburgh, the defense needs to show improvement. If not, junior quarterback Matt Johns and the Virginia offense better be prepared to put up 40-plus points per week against ACC foes.

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LEAD EDITORIAL

The need for on-Grounds living space

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Unless the University invests in more upperclassmen housing, students will be short-changed

Comment of the day “The essence of a Halloween costume is to dress up as something you are not. It is supposed to be satirical and irreverent.”

“Publius” in response to Alexander Adames’ Sept.

28 article, “Halloween is no excuse for cultural appropriation.”

As we approach the middle of the semester, University students are already preparing to sign (or, in some cases, have signed) leases for the upcoming school year — a symptom of the stressful early-signing dates of off-Grounds real estate companies. That private companies dictate leasing plans is nothing new; but the number of students opting to live off-Grounds may be symptomatic of the University’s lack of options for upperclass students.

The University guarantees housing for rising second-year students, as well as housing for any students who have lived in University housing the year prior. And generally speaking, the University invests significantly in housing — but as of now, this seems limited to areas that apply solely to first-years. Over

the summer, the University built Gibbons Dorm in Alderman Road dorms, and there are ongoing plans to revamp firstyear residences. These are necessary investments, especially as University class sizes increase.

But increasing living space for first-year students inevitably requires increasing living space for older students, as incoming first-year students will one day be second-, third- and fourthyear students. The current options for housing cannot hold all University students, but logically should be able to accommodate the same number of students who attend our school.

Many University students prefer to live in off-Grounds housing, which may be a matter of housing preferences, proximity to Grounds or other factors.

Because of this, the University

has had no significant pressure to invest in upperclass housing. It is hard to know, of course, whether the lack of upperclassmen students living in on-Grounds housing is a matter of demand or supply — especially since the pattern of living off-Grounds has existed long enough now to entice new students to pursue that option.

But as the undergraduate population expands and rent prices for non-University housing increase, having enough living space for older students will likely become an issue in the near future.

The main obstacle the University faces — apart from budgetary constraints — is finding space it can purchase or where its existing housing can expand. But with the creation of Gibbons Dorm, it seems the

University has both the capacity and desire to expand and improve housing options. For upperclass housing, the University could invest in living space near first-year dorms, expand apartment-style options vertically (building up) or purchase property and buildings in the Corner area or by Jefferson Park Avenue. All of these projects would be long-term — but it is important to think in the longterm here. At the University’s founding, the student body was comprised of 68 men; over time we have had to expand our facilities to keep up with a student body that now consists of nearly 15,000 undergraduates. When it comes to maintaining enough resources for these students, we should always think a step ahead, not find ourselves catching up.

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Is upperclassmen dining a scam? veryone has to eat, especial- Some third grade math will illuly we perennially hungry minate the situation.

University students. Increasingly, Calculating the cost of each however, University meal swipe allows for students are enticed a comparison between BEN YAHNIAN into purchasing dining the cost of paying for a Viewpoint Writer plans that overcharge meal with a Semester and restrict student 50 swipe versus using flexibility. An analysis cash or credit. Thus, of the Semester 50 dining plan re- subtracting $350 from $860 and veals that not only can these plans dividing by 50 yields $10.20 per be cost-inefficient but they also swipe. First, let’s examine a stucontain ridiculous requirements dent who uses one of her 50 swipes that lead to higher revenues for on a meal exchange. Chick-Fil-A’s the University at the expense of meal exchange includes a delistudents. cious chicken sandwich, fries and While I am going to focus on a drink while Subway’s similarly the Semester 50 plan to illustrate includes one of five sandwiches, my points, keep in mind this eval- chips and a drink. Either of those uation can apply to the Semester delicious food bundles can be 100, too. With a cost of $860 for yours for the price of just one meal the semester, the Semester 50 swipe! Or, for someone paying contains essentially two compo- with a cash or credit, a total price nents. First, a student receives 50 of $6.45 for the Chick-Fil-A meal meal swipes that can be used at or $6.65 for Subway. Huh? That’s pre-determined meal exchange right, students with the Semester locations or at dining halls. Sec- 50 almost always overpay for meal ond, a student receives 350 plus exchanges and, in this case, by dollars which can be used at any almost four dollars. While some food-selling location on Grounds might think that no one would fall and certain off-Grounds locations for this seemingly obvious price like Dominos. I, along with many gouge, the truth is many students other students, purchased this do, myself regrettably included. plan in the hopes it would create In addition, variety of choice is value while saving some money. limited for dining plan students

to the cheapest sandwiches while “requiring” chips and a drink.

Thus, for a Semester 50 student who wanted only a sandwich, she would be paying $10.20 for meal when a $3.75 Subway sandwich could satisfy her preferences.

What about a student who uses a meal swipe at a dining hall?

With breakfast at dining halls universally priced at $8.25 pre-tax, students who use one of their 50 swipes for breakfast similarly find themselves overpaying. With pretax lunch and dinner at $10 and

on their card at the end of the semester find that any accrued financial savings have been erased.

While the meal swipe component of this dining plan certainly raises questions, I have yet to mention the crown jewel of the whole operation: plus dollars. Ah yes, the famed plus dollar. It’s the same as a real dollar except it must be spent on food, at certain locations, by the end of the school year, or else it is reclaimed. Students who purchase the Semester 50 plan for two semesters know they must spend these 700 plus dollars by the end of the year. For this reason, students change their normal spending preferences in order to use the $350 that has alAlthough I have been critical of the Semester ready been paid. In the absence of a pre50, all the dining plans have potential to save paid dining plan, I, and many others, money.” probably wouldn’t have spent that $350 $10.50 respectively, there actually on those same food choices. I only is potential for students to save used those plus dollars because some money. However, this con- the University had already lured dition assumes all 50 swipes are me into paying. Semester 50 stuused. In reality, many students dents are further harmed by the who leave just two or three swipes unused plus dollars students just

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The supposed “cost saving” in many plans is an illusion don’t use. Multiplied over thousands of students, these leftover dollars roll back to the University and like that — poof — your money is gone.

Although I have been critical of the Semester 50, all the dining plans have potential to save money. It really just depends on one’s dining preferences. Maybe you cherish convenience or perhaps because you consume a lot of food, the dining plans are perfect for meeting your needs. For those considering the Semester 50, however, consider the caveats. If you truly think you will use all 50 swipes, at a dining hall, for lunch or dinner, and that your spending preferences are unaffected by the pre-paid nature of the dining plan or the knowledge that all plus dollars unspent will be reclaimed at the end of the year, then by all means purchase away. If not, weigh the costs and benefits. Do some research. For me, next time I’m asked to purchase a dining plan, I’ll let them know that I’m keeping the cash.

Ben Yahnian is a viewpoint writer.

Dress codes are shaming young women ow that we are at the end of determine the observations (or September, public schools lack thereof) that take place. are in full swing. Children all over Dress codes are not inherently the United States are problematic. They can attending classes to serve as a useful tool ALYSSA IMAM learn lessons that will for ensuring the enviViewpoint Writer hopefully prepare them ronment maintained to eventually enter uniis suitable for academversities and the workics, and can help teach force, and to become responsible kids how to dress for different and well-informed citizens. Un- occasions. However, rather than fortunately, one of these lessons discussing how both boys and seems to be that girls’ bodies are girls can dress in a manner approtempting by nature, and that, as a priate for school, they often focus result, objectifying and harassing on ensuring girls are not dressed them is predictable, and possi- too revealingly. As a result, they bly unavoidable. This perspective present a double standard to comes as a result of dress codes young students. While many dress and the ways in which they are codes have recently been altered enforced. to forbid leggings and yoga pants, Dress code policies not only re- few have done so with basketball flect society’s views, but also shape shorts, which hardly constitute them by holding those subjected professional attire. to them to a certain standard. The Enforcing dress codes meant to numerous and diverse interac- keep boys from getting distracted, tions kids experience shape their rather than making certain everyviews and actions as adults. Most one is dressed in a manner apof the interactions we learn from propriate for an academic setting, are really observations, whether sends the message that a boy’s edthey are made consciously or not. ucation is more important than a As is the case with the imposition girl’s. By placing the emphasis on of these dress codes, policies can ensuring an environment free of

distraction for boys while making so many girls feel ashamed, administrators communicate that an optimal learning environment is of utmost importance for one gender only.

When it comes to enforcement, girls are punished for the slightest violation of school policy while boys routinely get away with wearing objectively crude clothing. At the Everyday Sexism

dance, turning away over two dozen whose dresses reportedly violated their rules.

Such behavior among adults toward girls as young as 12 shames them by communicating that their bodies are dangerous and inviting of unwanted attention. At the same time, it also tells young boys that the way girls dress and behave is responsible for how they react to them. As a senior at Palo Alto High School put it, “The worst part is by calling a girl’s clothing ‘distracting,’ you imply that she is responsible for any disruptions.” In doing so, Girls are punished for the slightest violation of this rhetoric also school policy while boys routinely get away with conveys the expectation that boys are wearing objectively crude clothing.” naturally inclined and predisposed to Project, where people share their objectify women, and potentialexperiences regarding gender in- ly harass them as a result. In the equality, over one hundred girls words of Laura Bates, an advocate have recounted feeling unfairly for sexual harassment and gentargeted. Another school’s staff der discrimination victims, these allegedly lined girls up against a codes have started to feel “less wall as they arrived at their school about protecting children and

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Blaming girls for being “distracting” perpetuates misogyny more about protecting strict social norms and hierarchies.”

This is very problematic, as slut-shaming and victim-blaming are central elements to the narrative of the sexual violence crisis our country is facing, with the United States having the sixth-highest rate of rape in the world, and one in five women in college in the United States reporting having been sexually assaulted.

It is true people are going to be naturally attracted to each other, and that can distract both sexes from focusing on studies at school, but it is also time to stop shaming girls into covering up to avoid unwanted attention and start holding boys to a higher standard. By focusing on making sure girls’ attire doesn’t distract boys, and enforcing them in a sexist manner, dress codes perpetuate some of the beliefs that are central to the rape culture that exists today.

Alyssa Imam is a viewpoint writer.

OPINION

Thursday, October 1, 2015

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White America wants you to conform — even at U.Va. wo things recently drew gories are used to defend White my eye while I was surfing America’s privilege by attempting the web. I saw an event called to demonstrate either that white the “Not a Model Miprivilege doesn’t exist nority Week,” which or is easy to overcome.

SAWAN PATEL is being hosted by the However, my experiOpinion Columnist Asian Student Union ences and the experifrom Sept. 28 to Oct. ences of many other 2. The other thing I saw was a groups paint a radically different new Diversity Initiative Award picture of the attainment of ecoby the Honor Committee which, nomic success. according to its website, aims to The fact that the ASU has “celebrate several of our minor- stood up to the “model minority” ity communities on Grounds… stereotype is refreshing because to increase minority students’ it shows a newfound unity in understanding of and engage- the struggle for minority rights ment with the Honor System.” in America. The ASU is rejectThe juxtaposition of these two ing the dominant ideas of hard events brought to the forefront work and cultural dominance of my mind the discord between to explain the success of model minority groups on Grounds and minorities. The model minority the dominant white majority. is a dangerous idea because it exAmericans often point to the plains the relative failures of cerdominance of certain ethnic tain minorities in terms of their groups economically as proof lack of hard work or a cultural racism and systematic discrim- phenomenon. ination are things of the past.

What I, and I’m sure many Some of their favorite groups to ASU members, believe is that reference include East Asians, success doesn’t come from hard South Asians, Jews and Lebanese work for these minorities but immigrants. These ethnic cate- rather from conformity. Case in

point: the Honor Committee’s Diversity Initiative to get minority communities to better understand and believe in the Honor system. What the Committee fails to realize is that it is creating conformity by pushing the Western ideals on which the Honor System is based on to minority

what my own culture has taught me about relativism and how under certain circumstances it is acceptable to steal, such as when the Lord Krishna steals in Hindu religious literature. The truism never to steal can be traced even further back to a Judeo-Christian origin in the Ten Commandments. The fact that Honor is trying to reach out to minority communities by making them adopt and learn their values is proof of the tendency to achieve The fact that Honor is trying to reach out to success through minority communities by making them adopt conformity. Instead of a well-rounded, and learn their values is proof of the tendency to adaptable approach achieve success through conformity.” to minority outreach, the majority is using scholarship groups that have different cultur- money to push Western ethical ally-based moral systems. ideas.

For example, the maxim never It is not just on an ideological to lie can be traced back to Kant, level that the pressure to conone of the fathers of modern form conflicts with minority valWestern philosophy. However, in ues and ideas. There is pressure my case even this conflicts with to conform in speech, dress and

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In pushing Western ethical ideals on minority communities, the Honor Committee’s Diversity Award supports conformism actions. Because I was raised in the South, I have a propensity to say “sir” and “ma’am” and an affinity for college football and small town life. However, every time I see that palpable look of relief on the face of a white person when I don’t have an accent and use Southern lingo makes me realize I am nothing to them if I am not like them. My father, who has a relatively thick accent, is well-received by most Americans only after they find out how much he likes football, beer and America.

Model minorities aren’t succeeding through hard work or dedication, they are succeeding because they are conforming to the white man’s way of dressing, acting and thinking which is unsustainable and diversity adverse.

Sawan’s columns run Tuesdays. He can be reached at s.patel@cavalierdaily.com.

When a fire starts to burn

moke is rising right now appears, no matter how small. from the trees of Wash- But in doing this, it overlooked ington state as the Okanoga the crucial role fire has in enComplex, the largest vironmental growth wildfire in state histocycles, where it acts ALEX MINK ry, continues to burn to signal tree growth Opinion Columnist through its forests. and provides new In its wake it has left habitat. The real dan305,000 acres of scorched land, ger, however, is that constantly 170 destroyed homes and three preventing fires on a small scale dead firefighters. eventually leads to the creation Tragic though this story may of a huge fuel load to power fube, it is no longer unique. In ture fires. As forests grow denser fact, wildfires like the Okanoga and fill up with dead and drying Complex have been occurring brush, they not only become with increasing frequency. This more susceptible to fire, but year is one of four in recorded create blazes that are larger and history in which wildfires have harder to control than their preburned more than 9 million decessors. acres of land, and the three reA subtle effect that is more maining years are all within difficult to quantify has come the last decade. The increase in from the advent of climate wildfire occurrence is not an change. Shifting weather pataccident but a trend that has re- terns leave forests hotter and sulted from human interference drier, a trend that will only conin a natural process. We have, tinue. A report issued by the through actions both well meant U.S. Department of Agriculture and nefarious, left forests vul- predicted that by 2050, wildfires nerable to the specter of wild- will consume 20 million acres fires. per year in the United States, Ironically, some of this vul- more than twice the current nerability comes from benign record. The price tag for dealintentions. In 1905 Theodore ing with this danger would be Roosevelt created the Forest Ser- shocking: up to $62 billion dolvice in a move meant to protect lars a year on fire suppression forests that ultimately backfired. alone. That number may sound Over the past century the Forest high until one considers the fact Service has made it its mission that the government tripled its to extinguish every blaze that spending on fighting wildfires

in just the last decade.

This prediction is made even more disturbing considering the fact that the relationship between wildfires and climate change is not unidirectional. In fact, wildfires contribute to carbon dioxide release and climate change on a scale that may not be fully understood. This was seen most visibly in the 1997 Indonesian Forest Fires, which released an amount of carbon anywhere between 13 and 40 percent of the mean annual global emissions from fossil fuels. This event helped to create the largest increase in carbon dioxide concentrations seen

ation due to burning by humans is contributing about one-fifth of the human-caused greenhouse effect.”

The effects of climate change are a danger we will likely have to deal with for decades at the very least, but there are moves to make on a local or state level that can still help. Key steps would be to implement preventative strategies on government-owned land, including controlled burning and forest thinning to reduce fuel load.

Both of these techniques are already in use, and the only change that must be made is the scale at which they are enacted. In fact, looser laws on tribal land have led to higher rates of controlled burning and commercial thinning, and as a result fires there are on average three times The government tripled its spending on fighting smaller than those on Forest Service wildfires in just the last decade.” land.

While the funding should be moving towards since records have been kept. prevention, it is in fact heading Moreover, fire use to clear land mostly toward fire control. In is a practice that goes back cen- 1995, firefighting made up 16 turies. In fact, a research team percent of the Forest Service’s at the University of Arizona at budget. In 2015, that number Tucson estimated that “deforest- has risen to 50 percent. The For-

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Climate change should make us re-evaluate our policy responses to forest fires est Service has been forced into this change by past mistakes.

Now, fires are too large and too fierce to burn free, and have to be stopped even if it means diverting funds. They are trapped in a deadly revolving door: the more fires they have the less they spend on prevention, and the less prevention the more fires they have.

Something must be done, and politicians have not been unmindful of the need. Both the White House and Congress have proposed plans to introduce more federal assistance into fire suppression, most notably the Wildlife Disaster Funding Act currently on the floor of the House. But it is likely these bills will not move far enough or fast enough to stop wildfire. What is needed are aggressive measures in fire prevention, making it simple for the Forest Service to push through layers of bureaucratic rules and regulations to pursue necessary thinning and burning with the vigor they require.

Alex ‘s columns run bi-weekly Wednesdays He can be reached at a.mink@cavalierdaily.com.

L life

Margaret Mason Feature Writer

The first month of school is filled with constant adjustments and non-stop activity. By September, students breathe a sigh of relief as things begin to calm down — that is, until the great housing “crisis” begins.

Despite having just settled into their current dorms or apartments, students are thrown into a rush to find roommates, search for housing and sign leases, all before heading home for fall break.

To prevent you from being legally bound to a regrettable living situation, Countess Hughes, assistant director of housing assignments, shared with us the golden secrets to off-Grounds housing.

1. Know yourself

“You want to know what it is you want to come home to, because that will be where you probably spend the majority of your time, so you want to make sure that area is comfortable in location, in amenities, in people you’re living with,” Hughes said. “Know yourself and

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Charlottesville Housing Office of Housing and Residence Life gives crash course in off-Grounds housing pick what’s best for you...Don’t let anyone convince you what’s going to be best. If it feels uncomfortable, then don’t do it.”

2. Understand your priorities

“I talk to students about where do you want to live, who do you want to live with, and how much do you want to pay. Those are the three basic things you want to think about before you make a housing decision,” Hughes said. “I always tell students to think carefully about their location. Do you want the party in your backyard?

You might want that in August but do you want that in midterms and finals? Or do you want to feel like you’re leaving your academics and going home? Know which one of those things is your priority so you can begin to look based on whatever your priority is.”

3. Explore your options

“To try to make a housing decision so soon is really difficult. As Charlottesville builds up its offGrounds housing, there’s plenty to select from it just depends on what you’re looking for,” Hughes said.

“There are all kinds of options that come up. If you commit yourself,

you lose your flexibility...I think one of the biggest mistakes people make is they rush into making a decision and feel like they have to decide in September where they’re going to live next year.”

4. Carefully consider your potential roommates

“Maybe don’t live with your best friend. If you get in an argument with your best friend, then you’re in an argument with your roommate. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell your best friend to pick up after themselves or stop eating your cereal,” Hughes said. “When you get sick of your roommate, you can go visit your best friend and when you get sick of your best friend, you can go visit your roommate. Sometimes it’s not the best idea to put all of your eggs in one basket, because then if something goes wrong then it seems like your whole life [has] blown up.”

5. See the property

“You want to see the property not only in the daytime when everything looks good but you want to see the property in the evening or at night or whenever you might be walking or riding

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or driving to the property. You want to make sure that you talk to some current residents if you can find some there. You want to do your Google search and find out if there are any reviews out there or if there have been any issues,” Michelle said. “You have to weigh all of those things appropriately — anonymous reviews aren’t always reliable but it gives you some more information for your total decision making process. You should have all the input you can get.”

6. Read the lease

“The other part of the decision making is reading the lease and understanding that you are making a commitment. It should not be taken lightly. Once you sign a lease, stop looking. At that point, you are committed to that specific space,” Michelle said. “You want to make sure you read your lease, that you understand the terms and conditions, the length, what’s included, what’s not included, the security deposit, what you have to do to get it back — you want to make sure you document the condition of your apartment when you move in and before you leave.

Don’t skim your lease, this is not an email, this lease is not a tweet.

It is a legal binding document.

There’s also student legal services who will review your lease for free [if needed].”

7. Understand the costs involved

“Whoever is paying for your housing, you want to make sure that whatever monies you have are going to cover your expenses both your security deposit, your utilities, your rent. You want to make sure that whatever decision you’re making, that that money covers that,” Michelle said. “It all seems doable right now but you have to look at things in a realistic manner. Sometimes we’re not good at that because sometimes we get excited about ceiling fans and single rooms and queen beds and things that have just been built, and you pay for those. It’s expensive.”

At the end of the day, Michelle emphasized the importance of owning your housing decision and knowing yourself. Along with the guidelines presented here, the Office of Housing and Residence Life will host several more housing seminars in the following month to ensure all students are comfortable and confident in their housing decisions, be them on-Grounds or off.

New Housing and Residence Life: less space, more community Housing and Residence Life moves to Gibbons dorm in effort to consolidate staff Allison Turner Feature Writer

in an effort to consolidate its large staff, Housing and Residence Life has moved its central office from Dabney to Gibbons following the opening of Gibbons dorm this fall in the Alderman Road Residence Area. The new office is located in the annex or office wing of Gibbons, and the space provides Housing staff members a more cohesive work environment.

“In Dabney, all of the functions [of Housing and Residence Life] were split up,” fourth-year College student and Co-Chair for First Year Areas Emma Myers said.

“The move to Gibbons was to update our space, but it was also to bring all of the different functions together in one place.”

Program Coordinator DeAnza Cook, a third-year Batten and College student, said she values the new location because it provides an opportunity to collaborate with

other Housing and Residence Life staff members. “[T]he move was an opportunity for Housing to come together with other student-oriented organizations…under one roof,” Cook said. “It’s interconnected and gives us the opportunity to fulfill our mission of serving students around Grounds.”

The new office also allows student-staff members a greater ability to interact with professional and graduate staff members.

“We’re building a relationship with [the professional staff] that we didn’t have before,” Myers said.

“There is a stronger sense of community in the office now that some of those doors that used to separate us aren’t there.”

To further promote this sense of cohesion, resident advisors and senior residents have access to the new office. Third-year College student Amy Pressy is a resident advisor in Dunglison, which is located next to Gibbons House. “[The office] is more central;

it’s a phenomenal location,” Pressy said. “I get to interact with the people who work in the office a lot more than I did last year.”

Although the new office effectively consolidates the large Housing and Residence Life staff, it also comes with a much smaller workspace.

“We’ve moved to a significantly tinier space,” Myers said. “There is a lot of communal, shared office space both for professional and student staff, which changes the dynamic.”

Cook said Housing staffers are still getting used to the greater number of people in the condensed space.

“We’ve all had to adapt to having more people around and we’re still working on how to find that balance,” Cook said. “It’s a work in progress.”

As Housing and Residence Life adjusts to the new space, staff members are working on initiatives to accommodate increasing numbers of students in

on-Grounds housing and improve conditions of this housing. The building of Gibbons helped Housing and Residence Life fit the University’s largest incoming class yet in dorms, although the number of first-year students this year does not reach beyond housing’s capacity, Myers said.

The renovation of existing dorms is another one of Housing and Residence Life’s major projects for the upcoming year. Part of Gooch Residence Area is closed this year for renovation, and parts of the McCormick Road Residence Halls will close next year for similar updates.

“There’s a real push to update the spaces,” Myers said. “There is [also] a great focus in Housing and Residence Life on what new upper-class housing might look like.”

Though there may be future challenges regarding a lack of space to accommodate a growing number of students, current students and the quality of their housing facilities are higher priorities.

“There’s an understanding that as classes grow, there will be a need for more housing, but right now, we’re interested in what students want that housing to look like,” Myers said.

Courtesy UVA Dan Addison | The Cavalier Daily

Thursday, October 1, 2015

A&E arts & entertainment

Candace Carter

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Local band The Anatomy of Frank will release their sophomore album, “North America,” with a rousing hometown concert this Friday night. Accompanied

by Greensboro’s Lowland Hum and Charlottesville’s The Hill and Wood, the night will be a celebration of grassroots musicianship all around.

The album is the first in a series of seven hopeful releases, marking the first step in frontman Kyle Woolard’s dream of recording an album on each of the seven continents. Arts & Entertainment sat down with Woolard to discuss the band’s history, hard work and vision for the future.

Arts & Entertainment: This album release has been a long time coming for The Anatomy of Frank.

What year was the band founded?

Kyle Woolard: The band was founded in 2010, though we took six months to play our first gig.

There was lots of secretive practicing late at night in New Cabell Hall

The anatomy of the Anatomy of Frank Local band embarks on global project with debut release and the Chemistry Building.

A&E: Many people don’t have an idea of what bands do before they release albums and tour in support of them. You all have toured places like Iceland of course, but what else do you do to promote the band? Does your daily life revolve around The Anatomy of Frank and your music?

KW: We do quite a bit of standard and guerrilla promotion. But the best promotion technique we know of is touring. There is nothing, save for maybe the random viral video, that rivals being on tour.

We've discovered that when we're on tour, things happen. When we're not on tour, they don't.

Milestones like getting a manager, booking agent and fans wouldn't have happened sitting at home on my computer.

As I go along, I try to find some balance between the band and my life. It consumes me in waves, but a lot of other things bring me pure, childlike joy. I enjoy mountain biking, writing, being around people I love and I'm also building a tiny house up in Vermont. So I really want to keep my heart filled to the brim with other forms of happiness. I'm glad to put the past

month behind me and start performing again, because it's been too many long days of typing and emailing.

A&E: What makes this album North America-esque? Did you focus on styles of music popular across the continent or the values present in the culture, or other things to inspire the album?

KW: Stylistically, we're not paying tribute to anything. I don't like emulating other styles because it's not really what I'm in the game for.

But there is so much that inspires me about this continent — its bounty of wonderful people, its incredible sprawl from the tropics to the high arctic, its bustling cities and its great swaths of emptiness. Add to that the memories and relationships I've had here, and it begins to seem impossible that I could ever stop writing songs about it.

A&E: How does Charlottesville fit into your idea of North America? Where do we sit in the grand scheme of things here — so to speak. How much has the atmosphere and vibe of Charlottesville influenced this album?

KW: It's funny to try to think about that, because I'm sure it has

A conversation with Waxahatchee Indie rock quintet to visit the Southern in mid-October

Noah Zeidman Senior Associate Editor

Indie-rockers Waxahatchee will be taking on the Southern Cafe & Music Hall Oct. 12. Arts & Entertainment chatted with the group’s singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Katie Crutchfield to preview the show.

Arts & Entertainment: Have you played Charlottesville before?

Katie Crutchfield: Yes, a few times, actually, but never at a venue.

It was always sort of like I would play solo in a living room or something like that. It’s been a while, though, it’s been years since I’ve actually even been to Charlottesville, but I like it there.

A&E: Your songs are varied in length and production style. Does that lead you to adapt them much for live performance, or do you try to do them more or less as recorded?

KC: Especially “Ivy Tripp,” but really both of my last two records were recorded at a house and we sort of just … put a bunch of different instruments on it as we were going

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because we were just trying things out and seeing what sounded cool. So replicating it would be really hard, it wasn’t like we sat in a rehearsal space and “practiced, practiced, practiced” and then all went to the studio and recorded it just the way we had played it. … Replicating what we had recorded would be damn near impossible. I don’t think I was even writing down what instruments we were playing or anything like that. … So, basically, yes, we do adapt them, and we try to get close to the recording. I used to not really care about that before “Ivy Tripp.” When I was putting together the band for touring this year off of that record, I took that more into consideration, trying to make it sound more like the record. So we added keyboards, and my sister is touring with us, Allison, and she’s doing all the backups, which I think are really important.

A&E: What kind of band are you touring with?

KC: It’s five people including me.

It’s really just three guitar players, including me — and sometimes I switch around or I don’t play guitar or I play keyboard — a bass player and a

drummer. So it’s actually kind of like a straightforward rock band. I think it surprises people because it’s more of a loud rock band than I think people expect.

NZ: Are you playing a lot of the “Ivy Tripp” material on this tour, or a mix of old and new, or different sets every night?

KC: We got really routine about it, playing the same set. We had gotten really tight with it and had been touring so much, so we just stuck with what was working … We do pretty much exclusively “Ivy Tripp” and “Cerulean Salt,” but we don’t really do anything off of my first record.

Sometimes if I do an encore I’ll play those songs … In different versions of the band, we have adapted those songs for the full band, but we haven’t really done that this year. But yeah, I did a solo tour not too long ago and I played all of the “American Weekend” songs a lot … I try to play the long game, and at one show I won’t play any of them and at the next show maybe I’ll play all of them, just to make sure people hear them because I know that material is just so different from the other stuff that I’ve done.

influenced me more than I know.

I have toured a great deal, which gives me ample perspective on Charlottesville, but at the same time I have been viewing the outside world through the lens of being here. Luckily, that lens has energized me and given me the confidence to go elsewhere.

A&E: At the show this week, you're sending one lucky audience member to Alaska, correct? Why? KW: Yes, one person at the show will be selected and flown round-trip to Alaska. We want someone who is celebrating North America with us to win a trip to its farthest reaches. I wanted to send them somewhere extreme — not

Sunset Boulevard or Disneyworld.

I feel that, in being so far from home and in such an unforgiving climate, one really starts to see our continent in a unique way.

A&E: Any idea when fans can expect the other six albums from The Anatomy of Frank?

KW: They're going to be coming a lot faster than this one did — that's for sure. We had a lot of growing up to do before this album came out, and I think we're in a place now where we can express ourselves sincerely.

Woolard and The Anatomy of Frank will perform Friday at Meade Hall.

Courtesy The Anatomy of Frank David Klein

NZ: You mentioned before that you have more of a big rock show sound than people expect. Can you talk a little more about the vibe at your shows, the experience one could expect to have?

KC: It’s funny: I don’t really know what the general vibe is. It kind of changes. Because the vibe at my shows like two years ago is totally different than it is now, I think … My friend Naomi told me that there’s a lot of girls at my shows, which is good, I like that! It’s usually pretty tame. People are usually respectful and nice, and that’s been my experience so far for the most part, … In Europe, I had a band from Philly called Pinkwash opening … and I personally had them open because they’re super loud and energetic and I thought it would be a great way to basically set the tone for the evening. I think that people come to see Waxahatchee and they think that it might just be a super quiet singer-songwriter thing, and sometimes it is, but I think I was specifically trying to set the tone so people would be ready for loud rock music. I don’t know — I’ve definitely found that some people don’t respond well to it because they weren’t expecting it. But for the most part, I think Waxahatchee fans trust me to do something that they’ll enjoy, so hopefully it’s enjoyable!

NZ: You’re obviously on the road a lot right now. What kind of music

do you listen to while touring?

KC: I actually have been listening to this podcast that I just finished that I sort of am obsessed with right now. It’s called “You Must Remember This.” There’s a bunch of episodes but the lady who does it just did a twelve-episode stretch of episodes about Charles Manson, and I’m … kind of obsessed with Charles Manson. I kind of already knew everything that I thought I needed to know … So I went into it super skeptical, like “I already know everything, I’m not going to learn anything from this.” And I was so wrong … I’ve been listening to a lot of Lucinda Williams.

I’ve always liked her, but I’ve been going through a major obsession right now. I’ve been listening to Lucinda a lot.

Courtesy Future and Drake

Waxahatchee brings personality, drive to stage.

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