Finals Weekend 2004

Photo by Jim Carpenter

By Carol Wood and Kathleen Valenzi

On the morning before Finals weekend, two fourth-year women stretched their arms around one of the hefty, white columns that line the Lawn and clasped hands.

When asked what they were doing, they replied: “We’re hugging the University.”

So run the emotions about the University of Virginia.

Students sometimes have a difficult time tearing themselves away — even when their four years have come to an end.

The Class of 2004 is no exception. They arrived in Charlottesville in the late summer of what was heralded as the new millennium, and quickly began calling the University home, the Lawn their front yard. Full story.

Employees earn degrees

By Dan Heuchert

As many as two dozen University employees have earned something even more significant than a paycheck: a U.Va. degree. When they walked down the Lawn May 16, each was cloaked in not just caps and gowns, but in their own personal stories. Full story.