I read a novel last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially because, within the first few pages, I found myself reintroduced into the world of recreational reading.
Google and Facebook have recently removed content from websites with an Indian domain to protect that nation's "religious sensibilities." The two Internet giants were among 21 other groups forced to take down offensive material within 36 hours of the Indian government's request. Comparable to the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), India's press law states that companies, not individual users, are responsible for the material uploaded and shared through their web services.
The nation has been abuzz of late concerning new legislation which would mandate employers fork over the cost for their employee's contraception.
Charity Harrell was the first person we interviewed, but made a lasting impression; Jonathan Lim is, in his spare time, a trained police officer in his native Singapore.
The idea that one has a moral obligation to demand a living wage for University workers is simply false.
68-44: The final score of the Virginia men's basketball team's Wednesday night victory against Wake Forest, which moved the Cavaliers to 6-3 in the conference, keeping them in the top 25 overall 71-28: The tally of votes for House Bill 189 in the House of Delegates, which allows state-funded private adoption agencies to discriminate against potential parents based on their religious or political beliefs.
Those dystopias imagined by Plato or Huxley wherein the beliefs of children were assigned and dictated at birth were never realized.
The University recently began a pilot program to determine the feasibility of using e-books in place of traditional textbooks.
Recently, a friend of mine showed me a YouTube video titled "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." Though many of you may have seen the video, I will nonetheless offer a recap. In the video, Jefferson Bethke recites a poem he wrote arguing against institutionalized religion and the misconceptions which it spreads.
In a report issued Monday on domestic donations given last year, The Chronicle of Philanthropy found that approximately half of the largest U.S.
Imagine it is the year 2030.
Who knows what Tyler Molander was thinking - probably not that he was pushing envelopes, as he slid letters stamped with smiley faces under dorm rooms doors at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
I hate to make it seem like all I do is watch the local news, but guess what, I do. And so it did not escape my notice that a new bill has made its way through the Virginia House of Delegates and is waiting for the State Senate's verdict.
