Cavalier Daily: If you've traipsed across Grounds during the past week, you've surely heard the whispers. The stifled screams of frenzied fans. The murmured moans of hapless souls scrambling for tickets.

"Everyone is talking about the concert and asking who is going and who has a ticket," first-year College student Wilson Pillow said. "I hear something about it everyday."

Lady Gaga's concert at John Paul Jones Arena is one of 31 stops she will have made by the end of the 2010 North American leg of her Monster Ball tour, described by the artist as "the first-ever pop-electro opera." The concert will primarily feature songs from her recent album, "The Fame Monster."

But the University of Virginia community's obsession with Lady Gaga does not stop with tonight's concert -- the pop star has made her way into the classroom, as well.

In Graduate Arts & Sciences student Christa Romanosky's ongoing ENWR 1510 class, "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity," students analyze how the musician pushes social boundaries with her work. For this introductory course to argumentative essay writing, Romanosky chose the Lady Gaga theme to establish an engaging framework for critical analysis.

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