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(04/15/03 4:00am)
Something important has been missing from the affirmative action debate ever since three white students filed suit against the University of Michigan in 1997 -- something that is dreadfully obvious yet has been ignored consistently by both sides. In short, the heated battle over the proper role of race in college admissions policies has left economically disadvantaged students to pick up the pieces and move on.
(03/25/03 5:00am)
Affirmative action supporters lost some ammunition last week after the appearance of a new study in the spring issues of The International Journal of Public Opinion Research and The Public Interest. The study found that higher percentages of minority enrollment at universities do not correlate with higher quality of education or with fewer incidences of racial discrimination.
(03/18/03 5:00am)
Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors launched the school into an uproar last week when it voted to eliminate race, gender and other factors from consideration in admissions and hiring. The board also struck out all references to sexual orientation from its non-discrimination policies.
(03/11/03 5:00am)
Since last June, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because it contains the words "under God," the nation has hotly debated the precise meaning of this phrase and all of the implications that go along with it.
(02/27/03 5:00am)
LEADERS of the Living Wage Campaign at the University should recognize that artificially high wages are not a viable solution to the problem they perceive: That the lowest-paid University employees do not earn enough to live comfortably. Campaign leaders would do better to advocate a decrease in the minimum wage paid to the University's workers.
(02/18/03 5:00am)
As University students begin casting their votes in spring elections today, one issue continues to cast a pall over this year's election process. The recent conduct of the Student Council Executive Board has given student self-governance a poor image, and Council is likely to reduce student interest in its activities after last week's petty squabbling.
(02/11/03 5:00am)
Students are getting better and better at cheating, and it's time for college faculty and administrators to do something about it.
(02/04/03 5:00am)
Percentage of U.S. college students who are women: 56. Percentage of U.S. college varsity athletes who are women: 42. Percentage of college varsity positions and athletic scholarships that must go to women in order to comply with federally mandated Title IX: 56.
(02/03/03 5:00am)
"Good writing is spiritual. Bad writing is clinical."
(09/11/02 4:00am)
In the year following the tragic events of Sept. 11, Americans have had to confront a new enemy that kills indiscriminately, jumps quickly from victim to victim and operates outside the paramaters of conventional warfare.
(08/01/02 4:00am)
Last month, I officially became a yuppie - well, sort of. I finally got a cell phone, the kind that folds in half so it doesn't look like I'm storing a brick in my front pocket.
(07/25/02 4:00am)
No one in their right mind would ever want to go to a meeting. Why? Because employees and executives have better ways to waste time, like surf X-rated Internet sites, play FreeCell or commit accounting fraud.
(07/18/02 4:00am)
Sitting in traffic is bad. It's hard on your car. It wastes your time. And for those of us who choose not to read books, eat a five-course meal or give birth while driving, sitting in traffic is the most boring activity on the planet.
(07/11/02 4:00am)
T here are certain distasteful things all humans might have do at some point in their lives, like sitting down in the bathroom and realizing there's no toilet paper. Or just not using any toilet paper at all.
(07/03/02 4:00am)
K ids say the darndest things. "How old are you, 40?" one asked me not too long ago. The kid was 8 years old, and she obviously needed a pair of glasses, or some sort of medication, such as valium.
(06/27/02 4:00am)
T he Bible has its Ten Commandments. Einstein had his theory and Jack Handey has his Deep Thoughts - which at times aren't so deep.
(06/20/02 4:00am)
College kids are like desert nomads - mostly because they drink lots of (alcoholic) fluids and don't know where they're going. During the summer, nomadic college students actually form themselves into small tribes, hoping to find the cheapest sublease in town.
(06/13/02 4:00am)
M TV, you are dismissed. It was a tough choice, but I would rather watch reruns of "Touched by an Angel"than suffer through another one of your reality shows.
(04/11/02 4:00am)
ALL COLLEGE students should spend at least one semester in another part of the world. Most students who study abroad find their experience an unparalleled opportunity to become immersed in another culture and rediscover their own. Unfortunately, the University's stingy policy regarding foreign transfer credit throws up tall fences that block students from experiencing such cultural enlightenment.
(01/24/02 5:00am)
You know the routine, and you fear it. It strikes every winter, leaving scores of suffering humans in its path of destruction. First comes the sneezing followed by the stuffy nose and finally the pounding headaches that heap even more misery upon your already wretched existence. You have a cold.