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(02/11/02 5:00am)
THE HONOR Committee needs to get back in touch with students. Less than a year after students soundly rejected the Honor Committee's proposed changes to the way trials work, Honor representatives now have voted not to place a referendum on the ballot for this spring's elections. Maybe the representatives are too afraid to taste defeat again, or maybe they're scared students will pass a change they don't all approve of. Whatever the excuse, students need a proposal to vote on come Feb. 24.
(02/04/02 5:00am)
IT'S NO surprise that ... oops, let me try again. It's no secret ... well, as my MB knows, it's no secret that after a year of edit writing, all my opinions start to sound the same. There's only so many remotely attention-grabbing ledes to be written, and I'm out. I'm also pretty much out of awe-inspiring advice at the moment - I have, after all, already told incoming first years how to make the most of their University experience, provided the University with a wish list for improvement, and, most importantly, told my successor everything I can think of about how to be EE. In short, I've spent a year pointing out any number of problems and trying to offer solutions, so I'm not going to do any more of that here.
(12/06/00 5:00am)
FOR THOSE of you who are really on top of your Christmas tunes, I lifted this line right out of a Raffi song: "Christmas time's a'comin' and I know I'm going home." And while "Deck the Halls" and "Jingle Bells" also are parts of my Christmas repertoire, it is the quirky, not-so-universal traditions, those unique to my family, that provide this holiday with its comfort and joy.
(10/10/00 4:00am)
THE WOOING of the women -- that has turned out to be an appropriate title for this year's presidential race. We are the undecideds, we have the swing vote, the focus is on us. And apparently, the way to win us over is through kisses, charm and perhaps a few "women's issues," because we could care less about anything else. Funny, I thought that equality stuff had been worked out in the '70s. Unfortunately, the media and the candidates still think that being touchy-feely and super sensitive is the way to win women over -- an insult to any woman's intelligence.
(09/26/00 4:00am)
WHICH is more important, comfort or diversity? Which is worse, separation or forced integration? Choosing between the lesser of two evils is never a pleasant task. But this time, there is an alternate path.
(07/24/00 4:00am)
THERE are definitely things I wish I'd known at the start of my first year at the University. I'm not talking about earth-shattering revelations or what the college experience has taught me on some deep level -- that's unique to each individual, and you'll have to make those discoveries for yourself. But getting the heads up early on some little things won't hurt, and could smooth your transition to life in Charlottesville and at the University.
(06/15/00 4:00am)
MY FIRST-GRADE math class often had a 60-second timer clicking at the front of the classroom. I was typically bent over my desk, quickly filling out a sheet of addition problems. I always set my pencil down promptly at the sound of the buzzer. Timed tests were a staple of elementary school math -- and for good reason. Students should have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide easily and quickly, and timed tests measure such skills. Standardized tests are valuable as a measure of knowledge in many subjects. The recent revelations of cheating shouldn't be used as a reason to eliminate testing. Individual immoral acts should be dealt with individually -- not by scrapping the entire system.
(04/27/00 4:00am)
THE ISIS man's electronic voice and his closed courses have been replaced by another, silent annoyance for College students registering for classes on-line. It's the red, capital letter message at the bottom of the window that reads: "You have exceeded the maximum number of credits. Course not added." It's likely to have popped up on a screen near you -- possibly destroying your plans for next semester's schedule. The College's policy of prohibiting students from registering for more than 15 credit hours is flawed and should be ended.
(01/25/00 5:00am)
I'M ALL for holidays. Like most people, I enjoy receiving time off from work or school -- time to visit relatives, catch up on work, or simply sleep. But, alas, the University remains in session during most of the long weekends federal employees enjoy -- holidays that once offered me winter months full of four-day weeks.
(12/08/99 5:00am)
IT'S getting to be that time of year again -- the season when snowflakes begin to dust the bare branches of trees, sparkling lights decorate houses and shopping centers, and everyone is overtaken by the spirit of giving -- and buying. It's The Cavalier Daily's last week of the semester and my last chance to speak my mind for a long while. So although I'm a whole month early, I'm going to take this opportunity to compose an In/Out list for the year of 1999.
(11/16/99 5:00am)
IMAGINE a four-year-old toddler in a black and white checkered dress, black patent leather shoes and ribbons in her swinging braids. She's laughing in her grandmother's arms -- until another woman wrenches away the frantically kicking and screaming young girl. Imagine this happening twice: Two happy children torn from their homes and forced to live with strangers.
(11/09/99 5:00am)
ISOLATED in our college world, the University community as a whole doesn't tend to pay much attention to the everyday workings of the federal government. But today it's definitely worth sitting up and taking notice. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that will affect public universities throughout the country. If the Court makes the wrong decision, it could endanger the future of student-run organizations.
(11/04/99 5:00am)
NEED-BLIND. Anyone who's been on a college tour or read a book about universities has heard this term. A need-blind school professes not to use a student's ability to pay to attend as a criterion for admissions. The University claims to be need-blind, but by tracking students based on financial status, the administration has shown that this clearly is not the case. The University must stop its practice of tracking in order continue to call itself need-blind.
(11/03/99 5:00am)
A FIRST glance at Paul Harris' victory party shows what you might consider a surprising amount of diversity for a Republican event. The crowd that gathered in support of the only black Republican delegate in the state legislature appeared to indicate that the Republican Party had breached racial boundaries in Charlottesville and appealed not only to its traditional constituents - middle- and upper-class whites - but to blacks as well. But upon further examination, it became clear that marketing his political party to blacks is not on Harris' agenda.
(10/26/99 4:00am)
SAFE SEX? Or save sex? Which message should schools' sex education programs teach kids today? Although it's a personal and passion-filled issue, activists and politicians are getting the final say on classroom curricula. And by advocating abstinence-only sex education, they're not choosing wisely. These kinds of programs deny students valuable information that they need for effective decision-making, ultimately endangering those they seek to protect.
(10/19/99 4:00am)
I'M NOT black, I'm not poor, I'm not disabled -- but I face discrimination. It isn't because I'm female, either. The University discriminates against me based on a physical characteristic intrinsic to who I am that I have little power to change. But where's the uproar, the camp-out, the strongly-worded letter to the editor? No one gives a second thought -- nor even a first -- to how the University violates my rights simply because I'm left-handed.
(10/12/99 4:00am)
IMAGINE if you didn't need any ID to get into a football game, write a check, or get a passport. Sure it'd be convenient sometimes, but the potential for abuse would be great -- especially in the honor code-free world outside the University. The Virginia state legislature recently passed a law requiring that potential voters provide identification before proceeding to the polls. It's in the best interest and for the protection of all registered voters, but Virginia's Democrats oppose the law anyway -- without real reason.
(10/05/99 4:00am)
PACKED like sardines, students scream and cheer, jumping in time and risking their very lives. No, you're not in the mosh pit at your favorite rock band's concert. Instead, you're in the student section at a University football game.
(09/28/99 4:00am)
THE POINT at which life begins is hard to identify, especially from a legal standpoint. Abortion is one of the most contested issues of our time because people define the start of life differently -- at the time of conception, viability, or when the fetus is able to feel pain, for example. But however you define life, partial-birth abortions are cruel and unnecessary. Despite this, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that three state laws banning the procedure are unconstitutional, a significant blow to well-intentioned laws.
(09/21/99 4:00am)
THIS WEEK, just like last week and next week, there are tons of things to do at the University. I could listen to speakers on the history of nursing, cohabitation and non-marital child bearing, the muse at war, and soft gamma ray repeaters. I'm not close to being an expert on any of these topics, but most of them sound fascinating to me. No doubt, there is much to be learned from each of these speakers, who are either professors or other specialists in their fields. But will I -- or most of the students at the University -- attend any of these lectures? Not likely, considering my burden of academics and extra-curricular activities. I'd like to, but I just won't find the time -- unless it's required, that is.