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WELL THIS is it. This is the last time that I will be enlightening the University community with my insightful prose and the last time that I will be writing an opinion column for The Cavalier Daily.
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WELL THIS is it. This is the last time that I will be enlightening the University community with my insightful prose and the last time that I will be writing an opinion column for The Cavalier Daily.
AS A FOURTH year, when coming upon the last few weeks before graduation, I'm beginning to think about all the things that I didn't do during my four years at the University. I really begin to see all this place has to offer and wonder why I did not notice it and take advantage of it while I could. Last week, I saw something for the first time in four years and wished that I had known about it before.
WE'VE ALL seen it. We've all stood in the stands and watched as athletic trainers knelt by the side of a 250-pound lineman who had been reduced to a scared boy who can't move or feel his legs. We've been those fans who cheered for that lineman as he was driven off the field, hoping that his football career would not end with a tragic injury. But would we, because of that injury, contemplate eliminating tackling from the game of football? No, we wouldn't. Without the rough and tumble element, it just wouldn't be the same.
I LOVE the Class of 2002, my class, at the University. I really do. But a phone call I received the other night made me think twice about supporting my class by giving to the class giving campaign, something I was most likely going to do. Most of all, though, it made me think about the job the Fourth-Year Trustees have done this year in raising money for the campaign - or, better put, the poor job they've done.
IT IS NOW confirmed. Andrea Yates is a murderer and will spend the rest of her life in prison for systematically drowning her five children last year. The jury did not take the bait presented in her defense and declared that mental illness was no excuse for breaking the bonds of motherhood through murder.
HONOR at the University is dying. The informed retraction can save it. Students must show the Honor Committee, administration and the world that the University cares about preserving this principle that we hold dear. No longer can we endorse dishonesty within our community. This is why we must pass the informed retraction proposal.
IN THE Virginia General Assembly, constitutionality has just flown out the window. In an attempt to levy their own religious beliefs on Virginians during the past weeks, many of the Commonwealth's lawmakers have forgotten the freedoms a non-secular state guarantees to its residents.
OF ALL the honors the University bestows upon its students, being selected to live on the Lawn quite possibly is the greatest. But the process that the University, and we as students, use each year to select these stand-outs is anything but that. As a member of the committee that chose the 47 students to live in the non-endowed Lawn rooms next year, I was skeptical of the secretive process in the beginning, and unfortunately my reservations were not put to rest wholly upon completion of our task.
A WOMAN'S right to choose to have an abortion is a godsend. With abortion's legalization through Roe v. Wade, American women truly became citizens and gained freedom over their own bodies. The approval last week of the abortion drug RU-486 or mifepristone by the Food and Drug Administration expanded this freedom to give women not only control over their own bodies, but control over their own abortions.
THERE are thousands of them. They live in government-supported institutions, without caring guardians, each day growing more mentally detached or medically unstable. This is the plight of drug-addicted children, many of whom are born to severely impoverished mothers with drug habits of their own. These children, who often do not survive the first few months of life, are left to face a multitude of health problems in the hopes that they will be adopted by a family that has the means to love and care for them.
PART OF the fun of first year was waiting up each weekend for my drunk hallmates, and watching them fall and fumble around before going to bed. But there were girls on my hall who never went out and never drank or smoked. It just wasn't something that they wanted to do. Whether it was a moral or personal choice, they decided to live substance-free.
EXPERIENCING sorority rush as a sister has taught me a lot. I've learned that you can forget about hunger and that hurting feet eventually go numb. But most of all, the process has reinforced in me the time-honored adage that you can't judge a book by its cover. First impressions can be lasting, but they almost never tell the whole story. Getting to know people is what counts, and people never should be qualified based on their behavior, especially by a president.
IF YOU'RE not going to stay in school, I don't want to fund your college education -- not on my tax dollar, that is.
I'VE NEVER put a cigarette to my lips, but I've probably smoked a thousand or so in my lifetime. Second-hand smoke was a part of growing up in my house -- it's one of those smells that takes me back to the good old days. And I'm no stranger to seeing packs of cigarettes lying around either. Both my parents smoke, and have done so throughout my life.
COLLEGE is an interesting environment to analyze. During this tumultuous transition from adolescence to adulthood, elders take a big step back and students run a great deal of life in and around the University on their own.
RICHMOND-Virginia is known for its colorful history, and now, a historic election can be added to its laundry list of momentous political events. For the first time since the Reconstruction Era, the Republican Party has control of both houses of Virginia's General Assembly.
IT'S HARD enough to understand how we can lose someone so early in life. It's even harder when that someone stood out in a crowd and effortlessly effected change in the world. Why do the great ones, the truly superhuman, leave us before using every bit of their limitless talent and enthusiasm?
IT'S HARD enough to understand how we can lose someone so early in life. It's even harder when that someone stood out in a crowd and effortlessly effected change in the world. Why do the great ones, the truly superhuman, leave us before using every bit of their limitless talent and enthusiasm?
AS OF THIS weekend we're all batting for the same team. No, students divided over the Major League Baseball playoffs haven't agreed on which ball club is best. But the Board of Visitors did make a key play this weekend that hopefully will create a greater sense of unity among students.
RACE HAS become a dirty word at the University these days. In recent news concerning admissions policies, the presence of racial preference has created more bitter conflict and name-calling than constructive discussion. But now, a new area of contention concerning racial preference has come up. On Sunday the honor system was featured in The Washington Post's Metro section ("Questioning U-Va.'s Honor," Oct. 3).