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(05/17/03 4:00am)
THE INDIVIDUAL who penned the aphorism, "It's not the destination that counts, it's the journey" had no connection with the real world. The destination, in fact, matters a great deal. It is often the difference between choosing a potentially fulfilling career or a vacuous, insipid, but well-paid existence. Occasionally, it is the choice between good, evil and boredom. The destination also can include deciding whether to write for a well-regarded, daily university newspaper.
(10/16/02 4:00am)
Former President James Earl Carter is a quiet Southerner with a peanut-eating grin. In the last 20 years, he has amassed a record of not offending certain nations and criticizing the United States on a regular basis. These qualities made him a perfect candidate to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The head of the Nobel Committee laid out the motivations behind Carter
(09/25/02 4:00am)
Pbs has generously chosen to re-broadcast Ken Burns' "The Civil War" over the course of the upcoming week. In watching the first few hours of the documentary, one is struck at Burns' ability to draw upon traces of facts from a previous time and construct a compelling, factual narrative.
(09/18/02 4:00am)
Cavalier Computers, the University-affiliated computer store, presumably likes customers. Tragically, only one model of laptop is offered for law students. To increase its customer base and to give unwitting law students entering the laptop market a choice, the store should offer other models.
(09/11/02 4:00am)
A media cliche repeated time and again is that "the world changed on September 11." That is inaccurate. The world did not change in that dramatic of a fashion. America's perceptions of it did. America, as a whole, has not changed greatly either.
(09/04/02 4:00am)
IN THE world of golf, Augusta National Golf Club has stood as one of the great traditions of the game. Every year, it hosts The Masters, one of the four "major" golf tournaments of the season. Augusta has traditional, fundamental ties to the basics of golf. Nowadays, Augusta National has had to face new creatures that seek to intrude on its hallowed ground: women. While Augusta is not amused, the battle between the two groups should amuse the rest of us. We should also wonder about the state of the modern civil rights movement.
(08/28/02 4:00am)
THROUGHOUT America, the prospect of an impending baseball strike has captured the hearts and minds of sports talk show hosts. Radio shows air callers complaining about how they intend to abandon the game for eternity if another work stoppage begins. Although a strike (tentatively set for Friday) would be regrettable, the players, owners and lamenting commentators should look at their place in the world and realize that Major League Baseball, taken in context of the last year, is really not that important.
(07/22/02 4:00am)
ONCE AGAIN, we bring you Ask Mr. Dating Expert, a relationship advice column in which we provide answers to real, unsolicited questions from the Virginia community. It also gives us a chance to write in the second person. Given our readership and advertising base, we focus on questions from students who will attend Mr. Jefferson's Academical Village and Dating Service in the fall.
(07/18/02 4:00am)
THE UNIVERSITY prides itself on its constant ties with its tradition. The Lawn, the Range, serpentine walls and all things Jefferson are obvious examples of the community's love of historical buildings, people and activities. Earlier this morning, I was reminded of the University's love of another antiquated procedure: course registration. Specifically, I was reminded of the abject loathing students have toward ISIS, the Integrated Student Information System.
(04/17/02 4:00am)
O N WEDNESDAY, April 10, President Bush strongly encouraged the Senate to adopt a blanket ban on human cloning. This request has been opposed by many disability advocates, research scientists and some senators. President Bush's proposed ban on cloning is measured, reasoned and philosophically consistent. The Senate should approve this request immediately.
(04/03/02 5:00am)
HATE CRIMES laws are the Marshmallow Peeps of progressive social change. They look nice in the box and taste remarkably syrupy sweet. They have no nutritional or substantive value and seem unmanageably gooey when actually put into use. The Peeps ultimately rot the teeth of those trying to enjoy them, while the hate crimes laws actually cause the effectiveness of those pushing for social change to rot.
(03/27/02 5:00am)
CATHOLIC archdioceses throughout the country have faced mounting accusations that they ignored allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of their priests. Some of these allegations, including those in Boston and Florida, have proved to be true.
(03/20/02 5:00am)
MARCH Madness, the NCAA basketball tournament, has many sounds associated with it: Dick Vitale's incessant yapping; coaches' shouting; fans' obscene cheers. The tournament also generates the sound of money changing hands. Ticket sales, television contracts and licensing fees give schools and the NCAA vast sums of money. Despite these organizations' success, one athletic group perennially has failed to benefit: athletes. Provided the NCAA toughens its academic standards somewhat, it should allow schools to pay athletes a stipend specifically for their work as athletes.
(03/06/02 5:00am)
VIRTUALLY every week, a new medical procedure makes the front page of America's newspapers. Some procedures purportedly may correct birth defects in the womb, while others promise vaccines for horrible diseases such as AIDS. Given the current climate of medical advances, I would like to suggest a new task for ambitious doctors: transplant a spine into the bodies of Virginia politicians.
(02/27/02 5:00am)
ENTERING the final day of University elections, some likely have engaged in last-ditch efforts to protect the unblemished sanctity of things like Honor (one should never leave this word un-capitalized, for that degrades Honor as well). Columnists have traded barbs primarily about the informed retraction referendum. "You're destroying my system!" cries one side, clutching a Beanie Baby of Thomas Jefferson. "Get with it!" screams the other side, wearing leather motorcycle jackets.
(02/20/02 5:00am)
UNDOUBTEDLY, Gov. Mark R. Warner recently has engaged in regular episodes of cowering under his desk. Following the dramatic attacks levied against him from the Opinion pages of The Cavalier Daily, he likely has run to the safety of the Virginia State Police, begging for assistance against collegiate-level criticism. In reality, if anything has reached Richmond, it likely has been the incessant whining of college students being forced to make value judgments. If they considered the larger context of the current state budget controversy, they would place their worries elsewhere.
(02/13/02 5:00am)
VALENTINE'S Day may be the only holiday in America in which federal employees do not receive paid vacation. They receive a paid vacation for Presidents' Day, a day devoted to allowing car dealerships to suggest that George Washington would have driven a Kia, had he been alive today. They also receive money not to go to work on Columbus Day, an event that celebrates Christopher Columbus' discovery of the J.C. Penney linen department. They do not, however, get paid to celebrate the modern American festival of hormones and other fluids.
(02/06/02 5:00am)
EVEN FOR the standard non-environmentalist, certain uses of paper rarely can be justified as reasons to cut down a few hundred trees. Such magazines as Redbook, Martha Stewart Living, and The New Yorker immediately come to mind. I recently came upon an old literary acquaintance that, if its publishers had any shame or semblance of a soul, would cease production immediately. I write, of course, about Student Leader Magazine.
(01/30/02 5:00am)
IF THE Enron mess has failed to elicit excitement in the hearts and minds of most voters, another issue has appeared on the editorial pages of major newspapers. Last Thursday, four more members of the House of Representatives signed a discharge petition to force a vote on the current version of campaign finance reform.
(01/23/02 5:00am)
THE LAST few weeks have seen more than the falling of fresh snow upon the ground. Something more scintillating, more thrilling and more scandalous than any beret-wearing intern has walked into our nation's capital. It's Enron-gate! Can you feel the excitement?