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(09/13/05 4:00am)
THE ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 terror attacks inspired a number of memorials and tributes in remembrance of the dead, perhaps none so tacky as the Pentagon's "Freedom Walk," which culminated in an "America Supports You" concert starring country music sensation Clint Black and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
(09/09/05 4:00am)
WELCOME to another year of single sanction debate, in which reforms will be proposed, and the Honor Committee will respond by vaguely promising to involve the community in a discussion about the meaning of honor at the University. This semester is off to a typically lame start: In response to the overwhelming passage of a referendum in favor of alternatives to mandatory expulsion for honor offenses, Honor formed an ad hoc committee that promises to study the effects of the sanction yet again.
(09/02/05 4:00am)
THANK God for the lieutenant governor's race. As we wind down another long summer of Virginia politicking, the most thrilling controversies in the gubernatorial smackdown have involved the third-party candidate and the logistics of setting up debates. Between Jerry Kilgore's vapid promises to "always trust the people" and Tim Kaine's desperate avoidance of social issues, one could easily fall asleep on the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Thankfully, Leslie Byrne and Bill Bolling are here to give Virginians the kind of contentious, unapologetic discussion that citizens deserve.
(08/26/05 4:00am)
YOU HAVE to feel for military recruiters, stuck patrolling parking lots and shopping malls in hopes of attracting America's youth to a life of discipline and early-morning exercise. They have a thankless job even in peacetime, but as the war in Iraq drags through another hot summer, few able-bodied young people seem eager to sign away their lives. Unfortunately, the desperation to meet monthly quotas has prompted recruiters to resort to bribes and manipulation of young people who are considered most vulnerable.
(08/20/05 4:00am)
DIVERSITY is a word much discussed at the University as a new generation of earnest egalitarians strives to correct the racist and sexist injustices of our past. We are fortunate to attend college in a time of great consciousness on issues of discrimination, but unfortunately future generations will look back on these years as a time when bigoted state laws prevented the University from moving toward equality for gay and lesbian members of the community.
(08/04/05 4:00am)
"I'M EMBARRASSED that there's so much air time absorbed by the latest missing-girl story," Michelle Malkin recently lamented to American Enterprise Online. So, it has finally come to this. Malkin, who defends Japanese internment camps, is the voice of reason. We really are screwed.
(07/25/05 4:00am)
DESIGNING your dream schedule is easy. The University offers hundreds of challenging, fascinating courses on all of the subjects you could ever want to study. If you're in the College, you probably salivated at the thought of taking provocative courses on politics, history and culture, rounded out with a chick lit seminar and maybe a painting class for karma.
(07/21/05 4:00am)
ON SUNDAY, the New York Times printed full color photographs of people who died in the London suicide bombings, held up by devastated family members and friends. The images drive home the cruelty and the injustice of these attacks, and the story details the loss of 55 "diverse and promising lives" that were cut short decades too soon.
(06/30/05 4:00am)
THE UNIVERSITY'S Jeffersonian image took a hit this month when The New York Times reported that only eight percent of students come from families in the bottom half of the national income distribution. The Daily Progress reported that members of the Board of Visitors were shocked -- shocked! -- to learn that our public university has become a bastion of privilege. But this news should come as no surprise to even the most oblivious of our leaders. The University has a smaller percentage of low-income students than any flagship university in the nation, and one merely has to observe the iPod-toting masses on Grounds to realize that our student body has money.
(04/29/05 4:00am)
AT THE beginning of his lecture, visiting author Bill McKibben admitted, "There's a way in which I'm a depressive fellow." Indeed, it's difficult to put a positive spin on the destruction of the planet and the end of civilization as we know it, but although McKibben's warnings may be uncomfortable, we should listen.
(04/25/05 4:00am)
It's a sign of these highly competitive times when the new basketball coach's salary of $925,000 per year is considered conservative, compared to the $3 million that the University was reportedly considering paying another candidate. In its effort to keep up with other schools, the University unwisely solicits millions of dollars in private donations for athletics, even while academics remain underfunded.
(04/15/05 4:00am)
SCREW you, world. This is the message that President Bush has conveyed in his selection of nominees to fill high-level intelligence and security positions. In a time when multinational cooperation is essential for our own national security, the president has managed to nominate a U. N. ambassador who despises the United Nations, while his nominee for national intelligence chief is a war criminal.
(04/08/05 4:00am)
HAVING secured the presidency, the legislature and the corporate media, the Republicans have focused their wrath on our nation's judiciary, the last bastion of reason and restraint that stands between right wing crazies and happy fascist fun land.
(03/31/05 5:00am)
CONGRATULATIONS to the students of the Living Wage Coalition at Georgetown University, who successfully shamed the administration into granting a raise and new benefits to Georgetown staff members. After nine days of a widely publicized hunger strike, the Georgetown administration agreed to almost all of the students' demands.
(03/24/05 5:00am)
DAVID Horowitz, the dean of conservative campus paranoia, is having a rough month. First, the right-wing activist's latest attempt to expose the left wing conspiracy was received with gleeful ridicule throughout the blogosphere. Next, one of his favorite "academic freedom" stories turned out to be mostly false Then Horowitz found himself rebutting comparisons to Mao Dzedong. It almost feels cruel to pile on a guy who is so good at embarrassing himself, but Horowitz's recent activities provide irresistible insight into the mentality behind the campaign against liberal professors.
(03/18/05 5:00am)
PUBLIC universities are becoming less and less public. Declines in state funding have driven universities to seek private sources of funding, creating a permanent tension between open market competition and the purpose of public education.
(03/03/05 5:00am)
PERHAPS my standards are pathetically low, but I actually thought the Social Security debate was going reasonably well. Cheered on by a relentless blogosphere, the chronically spineless Democrats have put up a decent fight, and the Bush administration has been forced to address fact-based criticism of its privatization scheme.