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Posts Tagged with Old Dominion University

Call for AltDaily Interns!

By Alison Burdick

We are looking for editorial interns, marketing interns, web interns, and otherwise passionate and hard working souls.

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If You Read the Paper | Fri, Sept 30

By John McManus

The Lie That Tells the Truth Top story: I’m co-directing the 34th Annual Old Dominion University Literary Festival, which runs throughout next week. We’re bringing 17 world-class poets, fiction writers, playwrights, photographers, scholars, and musicians to Old Dominion to read and discuss their work. The events are all free, except for a concert on Monday [...]

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Fall Football = Finger Food-palooza

By Jennifer Bennison

I can almost smell it in the air, and I’m not talking about the Dismal Swamp fire. I’m talking about football season.

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Back to School: How to Keep the Freshman 15 Off, On a Budget

By Jennifer Bennison

In order to ward off the addition of any more weight to my body and to keep as many pennies in my wallet as possible, I have put together a nice set of guidelines to help get through the semester.

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August in GLBT Hampton Roads

By Dana Miller

OITP was a huge success and now The LGBT Center of Hampton Roads has had their grand opening and the DADT repeal is in place. What wonderful progress we’ve made!

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If You Read the Paper | Mon June 13

By Addy Smith

While ODU has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the surrounding neighborhoods, we should also not forget that several recent, high-profile crimes were student-on-student crimes.

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10 Reasons I Love Lambert’s Point Golf Club

By Jim Roberts

8. It’s as far from golf’s “exclusive” stereotype as you can get. Just like the rest of Norfolk — all are welcome.

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Get on the School Bus: Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers

By Alistair Bomphray

Grunwell gives the 2011 Darden Lecture in Education on April 6th at 7:30 p.m. at Old Dominion University.

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Core Theatre Ensemble’s ‘Brave New World’ @ ODU

By jESiO

It was like watching Wii come to life, but with sex, drugs, and politics.

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Learning Humility from the Lives of Soldiers Lost

By Joanna Eleftheriou

Reading “Final Salute,” Jim Sheeler’s account of Marines whose job it was to notify families of the deaths of their sons in Iraq, I was changed. For the first time I suffered a little. I felt, through the writing, enough of the pain of war to make me cry.

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Mini-mini Doc: George “Lights Out” Sheppard, Newport News’ Goofball Knock-Out Artist

By Jesse Scaccia

A short put together from CageFest 9 @ Old Dominion University’s The Ted. The fight was between undefeated George “Lights Out” Sheppard and Scott Monish.

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Hide the Philistines and Paper Wasps: ODU’s Literary Festival is Back

By Jesse Scaccia

It’s right now through Friday. The theme is “Writers in Peace and War.” With writers like Steve Almond, Mark Bowden, and Jane Mayer coming to our sleepy ultra militarized area, expect (literary) bullets to fly.

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Want To Have Your Book Published? Here’s How.

By Jesse Scaccia

“I opened the box from my publisher, saw my book, and bawled like a baby,” said recent ODU MFA grad Sarah McCoy about the culmination of the process.

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Prelude To the Big Show: Students Camp Out For ODU Football Tickets

By Jesse Scaccia

A crowd of students gathered on campus last night to snatch up football tickets. But what, really, are they expecting ODU (and by proxy, themselves) to gain from having a big time football team?

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Blue Goes Green: The Greening of ODU

By Amelia Baker

A primer on all the ways ODU is leading the pack when it comes to greening the campus, including such innovations as a water cistern under Foreman Field and using tree trimmings to feed hippos at Norfolk Zoo.

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Making the Band

By jesse.scaccia

Dr. Alexander Treviño’s office in the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center at Old Dominion University serves many functions: storeroom, office, de facto conductor’s chambers (where Treviño does his seamstress work), and military-style recruitment and operations center. It also has the only blue door in the building.

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Friday Featured Artist: Greta Pratt

By Julie Alvarado

The “Liberty” series is your most recent project. What are you currently working on and what will we see you explore in the upcoming year? Currently, I am working to finish up the “Liberty” series. I have ten new images ready for post-production. After that I will begin photographing a new body of work. I [...]

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