WHEN YOU can get the Pope, the head of the Nation of Islam, a former Democratic President, a Republican congressman and 183 countries all to agree on a single issue, people need to pay attention.? Since the early 1960s, the United States has exercised an economic and travel embargo against the country of Cuba.
THE 2008 Day of Dialogue on Race occurred two weeks ago with little fanfare, its call for increased awareness of issues of racial prejudice and discrimination on Grounds drowned out by the rallying cries of fraternity brothers welcoming new members into their midst.
AROUND Grounds and Charlottesville, I've seen so many environmentally conscious people driving hybrids.
IN A WORLD that's becoming increasingly "green," I often find myself fed up with the environmentally-motivated campaigns against convenience that are pushed on students and citizens alike.
FRIDAY afternoon's attempts to get the Board of Visitors to take "Curriculum Internationalization" seriously must be met with a certain amount of skepticism.
IF YOU caught a glimpse of Thursday's paper, you probably saw the front-page headline announcing that a University student was being charged before the University Judiciary Committee "for music piracy." If you read the first two lines of the story, you learned that the student in question was Rob Froetscher.
LAST Week, an article in The Cavalier Daily (
WHILE many Virginians vote today in the presidentialprimaries, feverish campaigning is occurring here on Grounds.
ON SUPER Tuesday, more than 30 million voters under the age of 30 visited the polls, breaking records in over twenty states.
"INTERNATIONALIZE now!" we cried. The lilt of our voices crescendoed up the stairs of Old Cabell Hall and reverberated down the Lawn.
BENEATH both the perceived negative aspects and real positive aspects lies a problem with Greek life that people often overlook.
DOZENS of students from the University spent Monday in Richmond lobbying for higher faculty salaries and more higher education funding.
LIKE MOST of us, I appreciate a good play on words. There is nothing wrong with a little innuendo from time to time, and even as most people roll their eyes in mock disgust, few things lighten a mood and get a chuckle as consistently as a corny pun.
THE OVERARCHING ideology of our day calls University students to rise above individual idiosyncrasies and opinions in order to engage with and learn from those who are different from us.
SINCE WHEN did the word "change" become a synonym for "improvement?" Maybe I missed out on this etymological development, but I have always been under the impression that things can change for the better or the worse.
WHEN WE think about AIDS, most college students probably worry about a disease that has become a global epidemic, a disease that is under-diagnosed, under-treated, and threatens to wipe out whole age demographics in certain parts of the globe if drastic action isn't taken.
I AM used to being called an 'anti-Semite' for my criticisms related to Israel. Pointing out that the Jewish state had a terrorist prime minister in Menachem Begin, or was far too brutal in its treatment of Palestinians, has made me the target of some heated column responses.
PICK A subject, any subject. Who is the world's leading expert? And how do you know? Universities are well supplied with people who've spent years studying their particular fields, sometimes rather obscure ones -- "the mating habits of the green frog in the Brazilian rain forest," as a university president, once put it.
HAVE YOU heard? A woman or an African-American will likely be the next president of the United States.
ALTHOUGH hybrid-driving environmentalists have long warned of the dangers of our dependence on fossil fuels for the planet, recent events should make even the staunchest pick-up driving conservative reconsider the significance of the threat foreign oil dependence poses to our economic sovereignty and national security.
