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(01/23/01 5:00am)
YEARS from now, when my children ask me what I thought about Bill Clinton, I'll say that I agreed with his impeachment and was disappointed, though not surprised, that he remained in office. Yet I was pleased when Special Prosecutor Ray made a deal with Clinton to avoid his indictment for perjury. Is this a contradiction? Absolutely not. This country went through enough of a circus, and we need to move on.
(12/06/00 5:00am)
GOING to my roommate's for Thanksgiving was really fun -- with my small family, I had never experienced the phenomenon of eating the traditional meal with 15 other people. But then I woke up the next morning and felt immediately homesick when I saw her mom putting up the family Christmas tree.
(11/28/00 5:00am)
REMEMBER these proud words from childhood: "I did it all by myself, nobody helped me." Maybe it was when you read a book or made a cake. And your parents probably were proud of your independence. At some point, however, it also became apparent to you that sometimes it's necessary to ask for help.
(11/21/00 5:00am)
FEEL-GOOD politics really irritate me. Each time we have a major disagreement in this country, commentators come out of the woodwork, pleading for "bipartisanship," which in this context essentially means that nobody is allowed to disagree about anything, no matter how substantive the issue. These last two weeks, election officials in Florida have come under fire for their partisan affiliations. The accusations made by both campaigns imply that only an independent can make fair judgments.
(11/14/00 5:00am)
MOST OF us feel conflicted about the brouhaha surrounding the presidential elections. We're sick of it because we want a resolution, but it's so exciting we can't stop talking about it. Hard as it may be to believe, though, the White House race wasn't the only important news of the week.
(11/08/00 5:00am)
RICHMOND, Va. - When Sen. Chuck Robb (R) took the stage last night to the cheerful strains of a John Phillip Sousa march, I could have sworn I was about to witness a victory speech. But as anybody reading this paper knows, it was a concession.
(10/31/00 5:00am)
PUNDITS nationwide complain about the American electorate's apathy. Maybe it's because inspiration for one-liners has virtually disappeared with Ross Perot. But GrUVA, this University's Green Party, is anything but apathetic.
(10/17/00 4:00am)
MONEY talks at this school - very loudly. Where the school allocates its money speaks volumes about its priorities. Too often, we speak idealistically about our traditions but fail to spend the money needed to maintain them properly.
(10/10/00 4:00am)
I'M FED up with the kissing on TV recently. No, I'm not talking about sexually explicit programming. I'm talking about the fact that Vice President Al Gore and Sen. George W. Bush (R-Texas) have replaced President Clinton's bimbo eruptions with constant public displays of affection.
(10/03/00 4:00am)
MOST college students will watch TV at some point tonight. Some of you will watch the presidential debates. Shame on the rest of you.
(09/26/00 4:00am)
RAPE IS not something I like to think about on a Friday afternoon. Except for when deciding if a first date is safe to be alone with, women generally repress the thought. It's something men often avoid thinking of altogether. But on Sept. 15 One in Four brought the subject into the light with their only open presentation of the year. This group deserves credit for its efforts to be part of the solution, and its critics should work with it instead of trying to silence it.
(09/19/00 4:00am)
WHAT WAS your first summer job like? Like many people, mine was at a yogurt shop, the type of place that hires high school kids. It was an eye-opening experience, not because of the work, but rather how little I was paid for it. More shocking was the realization that adult workers supported themselves on this wage full time.
(09/12/00 4:00am)
THE REFRAIN of teenagers everywhere, "But mom, everybody else is doing it!" is often used and rarely successful. More complex forms of this argument crop up on college campuses. After Albermarle County's announcement that it has raised its minimum wage for county employees to eight dollars an hour, we will doubtless hear that the University must follow suit.
(09/05/00 4:00am)
OR MOST of us, the choice of which college to attend involves a great deal of our ego. Where we apply shows a what we think of ourselves, and most of us enjoyed hearing people's positive reactions when we told them we were coming to the University. So naturally, students have some personal stakes in the school's rankings.
(08/25/00 4:00am)
THE BEGINNING of school is an extremely hectic time. Between untangling schedules and unpacking boxes, it's easy to get caught up in immediate details at the expense of larger goals. Yet this type of thinking wastes precious time that could be used to solve ongoing problems. Students must get involved in University problems early.
(07/27/00 4:00am)
ALL THOSE people on Gov. George W. Bush's "short" list must feel pretty dumb, losing the job to the interviewer, Dick Cheney. There's nothing about Cheney that will make him a poor running mate. But his selection by Bush is a disappointingly safe choice.
(07/24/00 4:00am)
WHEN MY college acceptance letters arrived, I quickly weeded out those expensive schools and my state school and got to two choices: here and Rice. Rice was small but was in my hometown. I liked the University, but it was far away. I finally took my aunt's advice to "get the hell out of Dodge."
(06/29/00 4:00am)
WHEN I tell people I'm interning for my Senator this summer, I generally get two responses. First, they say that it's a great opportunity and that I must have worked very hard to get it. Often, though, they make snide comments about Congress as an institution that are loaded with cynicism. Nearly six weeks on the Hill has told me that these attitudes have little factual basis.
(04/25/00 4:00am)
ONE BILLION dollars is a lot of money. The fact that the University has surpassed its $1 billion goal for the Capital Campaign is a huge achievement. Yet even $1 billion -- much of which remains in an investment fund -- can't pay for everything the University wants.
(04/18/00 4:00am)
DAYS LIKE last Wednesday really make students from states other than Virginia wish they could vote. After the 6 percent cost hike last year that financed a tuition cut for Virginians, it seems that the administration would give non-residents a break this year. No such luck. It turns out the administration recommended a 4.7 percent rise for total University costs for 2000-01. Whether or not the hike in overall costs was warranted, forcing only out-of-state students to pay for it is not.