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The Mayor of Summertime
Bob Oakes (Col ’84) serves as mayor of Nags Head

Leap of Faith
Jenny D'Agostino (Com '03) takes plunge with ropes course

Lending a hand
A first-hand account of an alumnus working for Kiva in Africa.

U.Va. Profs that Provide a Brush with Celebrity

A Portrait of the South in Black and White
Paul Gaston recounts his role in the civil rights movement in Charlottesville.

Famous
How celebrity and the media have changed over the past 300 years as told by the American History Guys from the radio show Backstory.

1976: Block Party
The dawn of Charlottesville's Downtown Mall.

School of Rock
U.Va.'s Battle of the Bands face off. Hear music clips and watch a video.

Lane DeGregory (Col ’89) wins a Pulitzer Prize for her article about a feral child
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Building Haiti
by Ania Turnier (Col ’13)

Fear paralyzed me. Although questions about my family’s safety clawed at me, I felt nothing. I sat in front of the television watching headlines projecting the devastation of the 7.0…
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Bookplate collection illuminates merger of art and literature - A Portrait of the South in Black and White
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