4Better Or Worse
The week in review
Published on Mar 6th, 2003
0 comments Worst UVA election casualty: Daisy Lundy, candidate for Student Council President, is assaulted early February 26 by an assailant who allegedly says, "No one wants a nigger to be president," the...
The week in review
Published on Feb 27th, 2003
0 comments Worst week for clubbing: Twenty-one people are killed when club-goers stampede to the exits in a Chicago nightclub February 17. And at least 97 people die in a Rhode Island nightclub on February 20...
The week in review
Published on Feb 20th, 2003
0 comments Worst snowstorm: Seven inches (although it seems like more) blanket Charlottesville, the worst since two feet fell in 1996. Best opportunity to skip class: UVA cancels classes for the first time...
The week in review
Published on Feb 13th, 2003
0 comments Best resurrection: Kay Slaughter's seemingly doomed nomination to the State Water Control Board is saved by the House of Delegates in an 86-1 vote in her favor February 6, prompting the Senate to...
The week in review
Published on Feb 6th, 2003
0 comments Worst homecoming: The space shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven, 15 minutes from a scheduled landing in Florida, disintegrates over Texas February 1. Best outcome for Foxfield from the ABC's...
The week in review
Published on Jan 30th, 2003
0 comments Best sign of new blood in the city Democratic machine: Josh Chernila, Waldo Jaquith's campaign manager in his bid for City Council last year, is elected vice chairman of the Democratic Committee on...
The week in review
Published on Jan 23rd, 2003
0 comments Best protest: Between 30,000 and 500,000 peace lovers mass January 18 in Washington to protest a war with Iraq. Best local protest: The Center for Peace and Justice estimates that 1,300 gather that...
The week in review
Published on Jan 16th, 2003
0 comments Best real-life drama: Virginia's General Assembly is in session through February 22. Worst waste of time in the General Assembly: Debate over approval of each of the 27 specialty license plate bills...
The week in review
Published on Jan 9th, 2003
0 comments Worst whining: West Virginia Governor Bob Wise demands an apology from UVA for a pep band parody at the Continental Tire Bowl that he says "perpetuates the unfounded stereotypes that we in West...
The week in review
Published on Dec 26th, 2002
0 comments Worst Santa behavior: Robbing a Chester drugstore of OxyContin on December 14. Best price on a letter by Jefferson or any other president, for that matter: $1.4 million for a three-page letter to a...
The week in review
Published on Dec 19th, 2002
0 comments Worst case of armed and dangerous: SWAT teams arrest four men who are suspects in a crime rampage that includes a burglary, rape, and the shooting of two men on U.S. 29 north. According to Reed...
The week in review
Published on Dec 12th, 2002
0 comments Worst flashback to the Nixon era: President George Bush appoints Nixonian Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to head a commission to investigate the events of September 11. Best break with party...
The week in review
Published on Dec 5th, 2002
0 comments Worst cheating scandal: The last honor trials of the 158 students accused of cheating 18 months ago in Professor Louis Bloomfield's "How Things Work" physics class are complete. Twenty students are...
The week in review
Published on Nov 28th, 2002
0 comments Worst fraternity hijinks: Kappa Alpha and Zeta Psi are suspended November 18 by their national headquarters and UVA's Inter-Fraternity Council after the frats post Halloween photos of an Uncle Sam in...
The week in review
Published on Nov 21st, 2002
0 comments Best sign we won't run out of water– this year: Governor Mark Warner lifts state bans on car washing, refilling swimming pools, and watering golf courses November 12, and City Council lifts...
The week in review
Published on Nov 14th, 2002
0 comments Published November 14, 2002, in issue #41 of The Hook Best midterm election for Republicans: While Virginia's Republican incumbents were expected to win, the party claims enough elections across the...
The week in review
Published on Nov 7th, 2002
0 comments Best university demonstration: Four hundred students, including members of the Black Student Alliance and the Griot Society, gather outside the offices of the Cavalier Daily at Newcomb Hall October...
The week in review
Published on Oct 31st, 2002
0 comments Published October 31, 2002, in issue #39 of The Hook Best collective sigh of relief: Two suspects, John Allen Muhammed and John Lee Malvo, are arrested October 24 in the sniper shootings. Worst...
The week in review
Published on Oct 24th, 2002
0 comments Worst blow to the local economy: Despite this area's much vaunted desirability, Technicolor, Greene County's largest employer, announces its manufacturing division is heading for the greener pastures...
The week in review
Published on Oct 17th, 2002
0 comments Worst side effect of sniper terror: Police at schools and highway overpasses, and tips on how to avoid getting shot while pumping gas, such as crouching behind the gas tank or walking in a zigzag as...
The week in review
Published on Oct 10th, 2002
0 comments Worst terrorism since last October's anthrax attacks: A sniper in the D.C. to Fredericksburg area kills six and wounds two people as they pursue the normal activities of daily life. Worst budget news...
The week in review
Published on Oct 3rd, 2002
0 comments Best reversal of a trend in drought-stricken Charlottesville: On September 30, the water supply increases rather than decreases, thanks to last week's rains. Worst result of recent rains: Residents...
The week in review
Published on Sep 26th, 2002
0 comments Best rumor for students: That UVA will shut down November 30 because of the water shortage. Provost Gene Block emails everyone in the university community September 23 to deny that one. Worst rumor...
The week in review
Published on Sep 19th, 2002
0 comments Worst downward trend: The water level of local reservoirs, despite last weekend's rain, continues to fall. Best NIMBY story of the week: John Grisham, keynote speaker at a September 14 Piedmont...
The week in review
Published on Sep 12th, 2002
0 comments Best lawsuit to make one wonder, "What would Jesus do?" More than 1 1/2 years after she quit teaching at Red Hill Elementary, Michelle Frilot sues Albemarle County for religious discrimination...
The week in review
Published on Sep 5th, 2002
0 comments Best evidence that this drought is nothing compared to the summer of 1930: While one 100-degree day per year is average, 1930 recorded 21 days over 100, including Virginia's high of 109 degrees,...
The week in review
Published on Aug 29th, 2002
0 comments Best official indication the drought is no joke: Mandatory restrictions went into effect August 23 for Charlottesville and Albemarle Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority customers. Forbidden are lawn...
The week in review
Published on Aug 22nd, 2002
0 comments   Worst display of the state slogan, "Virginia is for lovers": A Virginia couple is arrested in New York after allegedly having sex in the vestibule of St. Patrick's Cathedral while another man...
The week in review
Published on Aug 8th, 2002
0 comments Worst jail outbreak: Scabies, which had male Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail inmates quarantined for several weeks after the under-skin burrowing mites were brought into the jail in early...
The week in review
Published on Aug 1st, 2002
0 comments   Best reckless, multiple-life-endangering police chase in a 30-foot motor home: Michael David Keys, accompanied by a seven-year-old child, flees from Augusta and Albemarle County police on July...