Soda Pop

Add another title to the University of Virginia's bragging rights: they're the first university to have a soda pop named after them.

The Pepsi Cola Company, it appears was so impressed by the size of the soda drinking population there that it decided to produce a limited-edition "Cavalier Orange" to supplement its more traditional drinks.

Area merchants report sales of the soda, which features portraits of Ralph Sampson and Terry Holland on the can have been brisk.

"Sales are fantastic," said Everett Anderson, marking director for the local bottling company. "We can't keep it on the steves."

Only 18,000 cases of the "limited edition" soda were camed, he said and there are no plans to produce any more.

"This is the last of it" Anderson said.