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(05/20/00 4:00am)
FREE, FREE at last. Four years was plenty and, believe me, one more might kill me. My love-hate relationship with the University of Virginia ends here. "Forever learning, forever leading" should be the motto of this school. As the band Living Colour once sung, however, "when a leader speaks, that leader dies." I don't want to die. Instead, I hand my pencil to my friends.
(04/24/00 4:00am)
THE PUBLIC discourse at the University often runs itself. The leaders of one organization know the leaders of others and, very often, "the others" include the publications that students pick up everyday. Like so much at the University, this relationship between leaders and the media is a small-scale version of the real world: An elite few run the show while the rest piss and moan. Luckily, for me, I'm one of "the rest" who has a very public space to piss and moan.
(04/17/00 4:00am)
PUBLIC gardens ... yeah that's the ticket. We'll put up some public gardens. Yeah. And some of us will buy our own plots in the gardens. Yeah. And we'll be able to plant tomatoes and azaleas and morning glories. And it will help solve some of the University's problems ... or at least it will be an innovative attempt at solving the University's problems.
(04/10/00 4:00am)
THE FREAKS came out three different nights this past weekend and they put on three student-written one-act plays. "Wrights of Spring," the contest which gave life to these three plays, offered definitive proof of the existence of a University subculture and of that subculture's penchant for quick creativity.
(04/03/00 4:00am)
ROLLING Stone once gave the world 17-year-old Britney Spears in Daisy Dukes with BABY written across the back. Thanks. Now they've treated us to one of the worst political commentaries I've ever read. No thanks.
(03/31/00 5:00am)
FOR CENTURIES, the voice of America and the voice of male America have been one and the same. The shape of the Washington Monument is proof enough. Last Thursday, the federal government paid $508 million for its sexist legacy in the largest employment discrimination settlement ever -- a settlement that could have been avoided just as easily as the hypocrisy that caused it.
(03/06/00 5:00am)
WHAT DO you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. What do you call a single lawyer that falls asleep during his client's capital murder case? Joe Cannon.
(02/28/00 5:00am)
IT'S EASY to put on a drab suit, gather in Newcomb Plaza, and praise presidential candidate Bill Bradley for supporting welfare. Many University liberals did this Tuesday and many more "limousine liberals" have built their stock portfolios and appeased their consciences doing similar things. The problems these liberals solve are foreign to them. This lack of knowledge is noticeable and the destitute have every right to point that out once in a while.
(02/07/00 5:00am)
OH WHAT a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to hate. Bob Jones University in South Carolina specializes in hatred. Three presidential candidates have chosen to speak there -- one last week and two more in the weeks to come.
(01/31/00 5:00am)
THOMAS Jefferson was not only a prolific writer. Recent evidence regarding his affair with his slave Sally Hemings suggests he was prolific in the bedroom as well. According to a study done by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Jefferson may have fathered all of Hemings' six children in addition to the six he had with his wife. He was "gettin' jiggy" before jiggy was even a word.
(01/24/00 5:00am)
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy was sentenced to probation and counseling Thursday for putting soap in his teacher's drinking water, months after the teacher filed charges that the boy attempted to murder him with the soap -- death by Dial. Thursday also saw Washington, D.C., add itself to a list of cities that are suing the gun industry for expenses resulting from the use of illegally distributed firearms. Though neither case warrants a moment in court, at least the sudsy-intestined teacher didn't sue the janitor who filled the soap dispenser.
(01/24/00 5:00am)
A 10-YEAR-OLD boy was sentenced to probation and counseling Thursday for putting soap in his teacher's drinking water, months after the teacher filed charges that the boy attempted to murder him with the soap -- death by Dial. Thursday also saw Washington, D.C., add itself to a list of cities that are suing the gun industry for expenses resulting from the use of illegally distributed firearms. Though neither case warrants a moment in court, at least the sudsy-intestined teacher didn't sue the janitor who filled the soap dispenser.
(11/22/99 5:00am)
TO ANYONE who has compared Engineering School women to Rottweilers with graphing calculators: Watch out. The Rottweilers are planning to bite back.
(11/15/99 5:00am)
ONCE, DURING my senior year of high school, my friends and I huffed three cartridges of model airplane propellant and tried to go to a football game really high because we heard a few seniors had done it the year before. On the way there, we decided the hospital was a more appropriate destination. After three weeks of respirators and sponge baths we were released a little bit stupider, a little less healthy, but a lot more proud for having upheld a tradition.
(11/08/99 5:00am)
ONE WONDERS if a $17 million increase in federal spending on "promoting character education efforts" would have prevented Texas Gov. George W. Bush from making the "mistakes" he has admitted to as a result of youthful indiscretion. Such a spending increase is part of a campaign the Republican presidential candidate outlined Tuesday in a speech to the Northern White Mountain Chamber of Commerce in Gorham, N.H. on increasing the teaching of morals in education. Though certain moral guidelines definitely have a place in the undercurrent of education, Bush's plan to authorize their overt inculcation could have dangerous side effects.
(11/01/99 5:00am)
A GROUP of white supremacists at Northwestern University is seeking that university's recognition as a campus religious group. It is imperative to race relations in the United States that this group, and those like it, be granted recognition.
(10/25/99 4:00am)
THE UNIVERSITY community should be grateful for the ethnic diversity the Board of Visitors ensured by voting to retain affirmative action. Without it we might be treated to only one fraternal faction instead of several.
(10/11/99 4:00am)
FOR THOSE who find the prospect of a corporate position at best, mind numbing, and at worst, morally depraved, there exist a number of alternatives. Two of these alternatives, AmeriCorps and one of its member groups, Teach For America, offer opportunities to serve the community and gain invaluable life experience while earning a livable salary.
(10/04/99 4:00am)
THE UNIVERSITY community is extremely fortunate that flags haven't had to be lowered to half-mast in recent weeks. If the alleged hazing incident that put Phi Delta Theta then-pledge John Cox in the hospital had put him in the morgue, present concerns would not be with maintaining diversity -- they would be with maintaining life. Luckily, fate smiled on Cox and the entire community Sept. 16 and granted us a second chance. Fate might not be so kind next time.
(09/27/99 4:00am)
THEY DON'T mention that to get an education you actually have to spend four years at an institution about which they provide you no information. They can only help you get admitted. Nonetheless, eCollegebid has cropped up on the Internet advertising itself as the place "where you bid for a college education."