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(11/07/07 5:00am)
SATURDAY, the University hosted the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and a crowd of more than 60,000 for a football game that came complete with pre-game pyrotechnics, two marching band performances and, yet again, late game heroics by the Cavaliers. The only thing missing was the "not gay" chant, an insidious "tradition" that is undergoing a surprising transformation in the face of sustained opposition by groups as varied as Student Council, The Cavalier Daily and the Purple Shadows.
(10/31/07 4:00am)
"IF WE'RE an arrogant nation, they will resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they will welcome us." - George W. Bush, Oct. 11, 2000.
(10/24/07 4:00am)
WE'VE ALL read the e-mails. "Student robbed on 14th Street...Be alert, trust your instincts, walk in groups and keep to lighted pathways." "Student assaulted on Wertland...Be alert, trust your instincts, walk in groups and keep to lighted pathways." The reports in this newspaper aren't much different. "Student fends off attacker on Jefferson Park Avenue...Police advise students to be alert, trust their instincts, walk in groups and keep to lighted pathways."
(10/17/07 4:00am)
AL GORE can't stop winning. Less than a year after accepting an Oscar for his film about the imminent threat of global warming, the former vice president picked up a Nobel Peace Prize last week for his efforts to raise public awareness of the same issue. Seven years after his disheartening loss in the 2000 presidential election, Gore has found his consolation prize in the adoration of Hollywood, the Nobel Committee and the innumerable Americans who want him to run again.
(10/03/07 4:00am)
KARL MARX once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and second as farce. He wasn't right about much, but this quip might prove an accurate summary of American foreign policy under the Bush administration, which is moving in the farcical direction of war with Iran even as we remain tragically mired in Iraq.
(09/26/07 4:00am)
IN 1796, George Washington announced that he would retire upon completion of his second term as president, declining to seek a third term that he likely would have won. His decision, remarkable in an age when much of the world was ruled by life tenured monarchs, established a precedent so enduring that only one subsequent president was elected to a third term of office, despite the fact that the Constitution was not amended to forbid this until 1951.
(09/19/07 4:00am)
WHEN THE air turns cool and the leaves turn colors, University sports fans gear up for that timeless rite of autumn: the annual debate over whether to fire the football coach. For the past three weeks, supporters and opponents of head coach Al Groh have waged a war of words stretching from Beta Bridge to the Cavalier Daily as the team lost its season opener to Wyoming and won close games against Duke and North Carolina. And while a raucous public debate is always good for the University, I've got just four words for those naive Wahoos who still get upset when our team loses: Get used to it.
(09/12/07 4:00am)
WRITING for The Cavalier Daily can be a lonely enterprise. If you're reading this column, it's probably because you found the paper on a classroom floor and turned to the Opinion page after discovering that the previous reader had already completed the Sudoku. You'll probably stop reading once your class begins and if you make it to the end, you'll probably conclude that I'm nothing but an ill-informed attention seeker whose opinions are vastly stupider than your own.
(09/05/07 4:00am)
FOR LIBERALS such as myself, it is both immensely gratifying and deeply saddening when a gay-bashing Republican is revealed by some tawdry conduct to be a homosexual himself. The sight of an intolerant leader laid low by his own hypocrisy appeals to our sense of justice, yet we can't help but sympathize with a person so tormented by his sexual identity that he would join others in denouncing it.
(04/24/07 4:00am)
THERE ARE few sights sadder than that of a powerful person incapable of admitting a mistake. The Bush administration has treated us to that sorry spectacle many times over the past six years, but the Senate testimony of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez last week was perhaps the worst case yet.
(04/17/07 4:00am)
WHILE YOU were watching Access Hollywood, I was watching Ralph Nader. Yes, that old warhorse of the left brought his act to Charlottesville last Thursday, delivering his new lecture, "While You Were Watching 'Big Brother,' Big Brother Was Watching You," to a full house at Old Cabell Hall. "Civic values always contend with commercial values," Nader told his audience, and it's the task of students to combat the creeping corporatization of modern life by engaging in the political process and bettering a society in which they are, by virtue of health, wealth and education, among the best placed to make a difference. In a few short years we'll all be old, so the time for action is now.
(04/10/07 4:00am)
ACCORDING TO U.S. News & World Report, the University of Virginia School of Law is the 10th best law school in the nation. This tidbit, and the unfortunate fact that we have slipped two positions from last year's eighth place ranking, was announced during my International Law lecture last month, to the general bemusement of the class and, perhaps, the consternation of several admitted students who were visiting that afternoon. For those who haven't heard, and there can't be many, the University ranked 24th this year on the list of best colleges.
(04/03/07 4:00am)
IN APRIL 2001, a task force convened as part of the Virginia 2020 initiative recommended that each varsity sport be assigned to one of four tiers, based primarily on their revenue production and competitive track record, in order to better allocate funding among them. Teams in the first and second tiers were to receive the lion's share of the money in hopes that they might compete for national championships. Sports in the third tier were to receive moderate support, while those in the fourth tier, including baseball, wrestling and other worthy but unglamorous sports, were to be cut off almost completely, receiving only need-based financial aid, along with limited travel opportunities and minimal coaching staff.
(03/27/07 4:00am)
IF YOU spent the past week wagering on whether Alberto Gonzalez will still be attorney general come April, you may have missed another Washington scandal almost as depressing as the secret campaign by the Bush administration to replace federal prosecutors perceived as politically disloyal. At the center of the squall, which ended almost as soon as it began, was Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small, who resigned yesterday amid allegations that he misused institutional funds throughout his tenure in office.
(03/20/07 4:00am)
BEFORE JABERWOKE was Jaberwoke, it was The Greenskeeper, a nondescript bar and restaurant frequented by underage students and, in the fall, by visiting football fans. Sometime before my 21st birthday, I was having a beer there when I heard two young men exchanging angry words. The argument subsided and one walked off toward the back of the room, but voices were soon raised again and I looked up just in time to seem one man strike the other in the head with a pool cue. The bartender dragged them both out while the waitress, a friend of mine, cleaned up the blood. I don't remember what either man was wearing, but I'm glad I didn't have to drink with them that night.
(03/13/07 4:00am)
IF THERE is a big story to the nascent 2008 presidential campaign, it is the battle between senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL) to lock up big donors and establish front runner status in the Democratic field. But the past few months have witnessed the emergence of another Democratic leader who could potentially pose a threat to both of them. I'm talking, of course, about Al Gore, that other heir to the Clinton legacy who was given up for dead after the disheartening election of 2000 left George W. Bush in the White House and Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill.
(02/27/07 5:00am)
I ONCE witnessed an honor violation. In the fall of 2002, I was enrolled in Concepts of Physics, a "for non-science majors" course taken by hundreds of undergraduates anxious to put three hours of core requirements behind them. The final exam was administered in a large lecture hall in the physics building, with students seated side by side for the duration of the test. I was among the first to finish and, as I crossed the front of the room on my way out, I took a passing glance at the other students still at work. I was nearly to the door when my eye caught upon a girl in the third or fourth row. Her head was turned halfway to her right and she was staring directly at her neighbor's paper in what, I can only assume, was an intentional act of cheating. She looked up as I passed and we made eye contact. I like to think that, in that moment, she was terrified at having been caught in a crime that might have led to her expulsion from the University, but she probably thought little of it.
(02/22/07 5:00am)
IRAQ IS looking a lot like Vietnam these days and not just because Americans are dying there for a cause the locals don't believe in, sapping our moral standing and military might to the benefit of our enemies in the region and the consternation of our allies around the world. Increasingly, the domestic political struggle has come to resemble that of the late Vietnam era, with the White House seeking to commit ever more money and manpower to the conflict, and perhaps widen it to neighboring states, while Congress wrings its hands despite a popular mandate to end the war.
(04/20/04 4:00am)
IN YET another sign that the death of personal responsibility is at hand, a Nevada woman filed a lawsuit against the Coors Brewing Company last week, claiming that its promotion of "youth, sex and glamour" was at fault in her son's death two years ago. Jodie Pisco, whose son Ryan was killed in a traffic accident after drinking Coors Light at a party, has also accused her son's girlfriend and the girlfriend's mother of contributing to the accident by lending him the car that he drove into a light pole at a speed of 90 miles per hour.
(04/13/04 4:00am)
IN A televised address following the capture of Saddam Hussein last December, President George W. Bush proclaimed the dawn of a new era in Iraqi history, in which the fear, violence and ethnic rivalry of the past would be replaced by the peaceful cooperation of all Iraqis in building a better future. "A hopeful day has arrived," he said. "All Iraqis can now come together and reject violence and build a new Iraq."