AS A STUDENT, life at the University can sometimes feel like living in a bubble.
THE PRINCIPAL goal of a university is to oversee the education of its student body with the hope that each pupil will leave with increased knowledge of multiple subjects while being intellectually stimulated.
THERE?S nothing like turning on Saturday Night Live at the end of another long week of hearing political attack after political attack.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD that not everyone is going to be on the same page about certain issues; that is the joy of being a student of the University.
SEX. Everyone has an interest in that, right? I mean, if it weren?t for sex, none of us would be here ? test tube babies excepted.So it?s no surprise that a ranking of colleges and universities according to their sexual health would appear in college newspapers all across the country, including The Cavalier Daily.
AH, MID-OCTOBER. The leaves are falling, the weather is changing, and you?re finally starting to get back into the rhythm of school.
TODAY, the United States faces many serious challenges in the realm of national security.
THE PAST eight years have transformed America from one of the most respected countries in the world to an international joke.
LAST SPRING, Satellite Ball room?s impending closing produced an outpouring of student grief.
FOR ALL the painstaking deliberation that goes into planning the federal budget, there?s only one side of fiscal policy that voters truly respond to en masse: those nasty little things called taxes.
OCTOBER 10, University President John T. Casteen,
IN 1932, Herbert Hoover lost his reelection bid against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, setting the course of American politics for the next quarter century as Democrats dominated the presidency.
AFTER a scary downward spiral, the economy seems to be looking up, at least for now. Two weeks after the so-called ?bailout? bill passed, the federal government finally decided what to do with the money it had been begging for.
I REMEMBER from my younger days in church that our priest would note the conventional wisdom that rich patrons generally donate less money than those who aren?t so well-off.
UNLIKE most partisan hacks, I don?t go into cardiac arrest when John McCain quizzically wonders who the real Barack Obama is.
IN AN E-MAIL to the University community this week, President John T. Casteen, III discussed the impact of state budget cuts on the University in light of the economic downturn.
THIS SUMMER, the University lost five black faculty members. At the end of this year, three more will be added to that list.
WITH SO much attention focused on domestic issues, one may have been surprised to learn that United States had removed North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states this weekend.
THIS MONDAY, Student Council and the Arts & Sciences Council flooded the University with 1,500 copies of the New York Times and USA Today.
