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(10/10/01 4:00am)
AT ABOUT 12:30 Sunday afternoon, America dropped bombs on the Taliban and entered a new phase in the fight against terrorism. While we have a very clear objective of stopping al-Qaida's violence, it's not entirely clear at what point we will think that we've accomplished it, and how we expect to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
(10/03/01 4:00am)
AFTER the chaos of last year's presidential election, all elections may seem anticlimactic by comparison. In Virginia, however, we will elect a new governor in November, which will affect how the state's treasury shapes up.
(09/26/01 4:00am)
AS THE United States continues this week to deal with the loss of life incurred Sept. 11, it also is beginning to calculate the economic impact of what happened. With a recession almost guaranteed, the government understandably is looking to help out.
(09/19/01 4:00am)
LIFE GOES on. It must go on, and that's not something Amer-icans should feel guilty about. Most Americans didn't know any of the people who were killed and injured. But in thinking about what happened Tuesday, we still felt sad, sick or angry, even after we turned the TV off.
(09/12/01 4:00am)
ONE THING I really hated when I lived on Grounds was leaving immediately after finals. I never had enough time to pack up. But at least I wasn't forced to leave in the middle of the semester. Unfortunately for students at George Washington University, this isn't the case. Students learned last Thursday that the administration had granted a police request to shut down the entire campus - including residence halls - for five days during the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings that begin Sept. 29.
(09/05/01 4:00am)
MONEY is a very touchy subject in modern life, from cocktail parties to politics. Americans probably seem obsessed with money to the rest of the world. But is has always been a rule of etiquette that people have the right and duty to keep private their personal income.
(08/29/01 4:00am)
BEFORE I went to France this summer, I didn't really understand why a lot of Europeans think Americans are idiots. Arrogant, yes. But stupid?
(06/14/01 4:00am)
MANY of you went out last weekend. I sat in my Houston home mesmerized by the images on my local TV stations, hoping that my house wouldn't flood. The one blessing of the situation was that I could avoid the exhaustive coverage of the countdown to Timothy McVeigh's execution on Monday.
(04/24/01 4:00am)
ONE OF the best feelings in the world is the relief of finishing final exams. Unfortunately, this feeling is soon ended by a trip to the bookstore, where you find out just how little your books are worth. Getting $3 for a book you bought for $20 new is demoralizing. Yet it's hard to say which is worse: the low buyback price, or the sticker shock of buying those books new in the fall when there weren't enough used books.
(04/17/01 4:00am)
THE BIGGEST thing I will miss when I graduate next year and truly live the adult life is my health insurance. Mom and Dad pay, and they have to worry about picking from all those confusing plans, not me. But at least I probably will have a job where my employer subsidizes my costs, and confusing choices are better than none at all.
(04/10/01 4:00am)
I THOUGHT that Congress had discontinued witch hunts. I also thought that this country supports intellectual curiosity among all nationalities.
(04/03/01 4:00am)
THREE weeks is not a lot of time. Ask any fourth year looking for a job - it can take longer than that just to get the interview. I became very nervous this week realizing I had less than three weeks to research an important paper. Three weeks definitely is short when you're trying to get in shape for the beach. Anything worthwhile takes time.
(03/27/01 5:00am)
THERE are some people that just can't accept that the fight is over and they've lost. I've always found creationists who fight teaching evolution instead of accepting that the scientific community has embraced it puzzling. Add to their ranks Virginia Confederate heritage leaders. They insist on a proclamation that honors Confederate soldiers and deny the role slavery played in the South. The worship of the lost cause has ended.
(03/20/01 5:00am)
THE UNIVERSITY is a pretty scary place for first years. Each of us arrived full of questions. Yet we also had several days of orientation. For me, the biggest problem was digesting all the answers.
(03/06/01 5:00am)
SOME DAYS, I start to think people of color are too defensive about racism. Then there are days when I realize they're not overreacting at all. The Center for Equal Opportunity has cited the University as an institution whose affirmative action program discriminates against white and Asian American students in favor of "less qualified" black and Hispanic applicants.
(02/27/01 5:00am)
UNLESS you've been under a rock lately, you know that University elections are going on; the fliers make it hard to miss. Just as important, however, are the historic referenda submitted by the Honor Committee on four proposed changes to the honor system. Probably the two most controversial are the removal of the seriousness clause from cheating cases and changing the role of counsel.
(02/20/01 5:00am)
I REALLY didn't enjoy taking the SATs. I scored well, but I hated all the drills to prepare, hated getting up early for it and hated those people who wanted to compare scores when we got them back. And the thing I dread most about going back for another degree is taking more standardized tests.
(02/13/01 5:00am)
AROUND the University and in Char- lottesville, we like to quote Thomas Jefferson. From daily exercise to self-governance, we use "what Mr. Jefferson would have wanted" to justify anything we want to do. Unfortunately, however, we sometimes take a little too much license with our founder's legacy.
(02/06/01 5:00am)
BETWEEN the continuing ethical lapses of the Clintons and the hoopla over whether or not President Bush is living up to his promises of bipartisanship, most University students -- like the country as a whole -- have become skeptical about government. Unfortunately, this distaste seems to factor into our views about student government as well.
(01/30/01 5:00am)
MOST OF us don't like to acknowledge our prejudices, but we have them. I remember my attitude when I started college and my grandma offered to recommend me for membership in her sorority. Instead of really thinking about it, I made some flip comment about sororities being a waste of my time.