We asked UVA alumni to reflect on student self-governance. They mentioned the University Judiciary Committee, the Pep Band and more.

Running back Wali Lundy (Col class of ’06) burst into the end zone, adding to the Virginia onslaught and further souring the mood of thousands of West Virginia fans on hand in Charlotte, North ...

As midnight neared, 2,000 antiwar activists surged up Carr’s Hill to the steps of the University president’s darkened mansion. The radical lawyer William Kunstler spurred them forward, shouting, fist ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col class of ’23, Grad class of ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the ...

When it comes down to it, E.D. Hirsch would argue that it’s mostly facts that end up separating rich kids from poor kids. He says its facts like the meaning of “common denominator” or understanding ...

In 1925 “The Cavalier Song,” written in 1923 by then-student Lawrence Haywood Lee Jr., was chosen in a College Topics contest as UVA’s best fight song. The song inspired a moniker for the athletic ...

Rector Helen Dragas gathers UVA deans and vice presidents together to announce that Sullivan has agreed to resign. "The Board feels the need for a bold leader who can help develop, articulate and ...

In September 1950, Gregory Swanson entered the UVA Law School, becoming the first black student to attend the University of Virginia. Swanson, who had already earned a law degree from Howard ...

Chip Apperson ate his first Grillswith when he was 17. The high school senior had finagled a visit to UVA in 1973 for that once famous, since-disbanded annual party weekend known as Easters. He ...

Every May, thousands of students walk the Lawn in processions filled with black gowns, colorful tassels and deep slashes of rich velvet. Beyond that official regalia, students also express themselves ...

For many former students, the sight of a blue (or green) examination book might cause stomachs to churn and bring back memories of frantic essay writing and cramped hands. With the permission of some ...

The inventory of bones is brief: part of a hand; part of a foot; fragments of a forearm; two pieces of two ribs. To the anatomists who probably discarded them: left second metacarpal; left fourth ...