RIGHT NOW, most first-years have just settled into the University. They've figured out which dining halls they like, which activities they think they'll stick with, what classes they want to take next year and -- oh yeah -- where they want to live.
THE REFRAIN of President Bush is that the United States does not torture. Sadly, he is lying. According to Human Rights First, a non-partisan human rights advocacy group, at least eight people in American custody have actually been killed during interrogations.
"Explain why George Bush is a war criminal," read an essay question in a criminology class at the University of Northern Colorado.
IT'S 4:15 p.m. I stand amazed at the doorstep of my friend Karl's room as I survey the Lawn teeming with hundreds of kids in their adorable costumes, tailing one another in an interminable line to receive pounds of sweet love.
SATURDAY, the University hosted the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and a crowd of more than 60,000 for a football game that came complete with pre-game pyrotechnics, two marching band performances and, yet again, late game heroics by the Cavaliers.
YOU WOULD think that people supposedly dedicated to honor and integrity would be more allergic to chronic deception.
THEY ARE as much a part of University culture as Greek organizations, libraries and popped collars: coffee, caffeinated beverages and energy drinks.
A WOMAN may be the next president of the United States? For a growing part of the world, news of this possibility will elicit little more than a collective, "So what?" Last week, Argentina elected its first ever democratically elected woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
IF THE University administration wants to find the best way to initiate its plans for a slew of new structures across Central Grounds, they can take a cue from Stonewall Jackson. The larger-than-life statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson occupies a prominent position next to the historic Albemarle County Courthouse in downtown Charlottesville.
WE ARE all well aware of Dining Services on Grounds and complain at least weekly about many aspects of its mediocrity.
WHAT HAPPENS to a woman after she undergoes an abortion? What does a woman experience in the days, months and years after she is driven out of the clinic parking lot?
LAST TUESDAY, the Center for Politics at the University hosted a panel on health care reform. Considering the number of Americans who either don't have insurance or don't have enough, moderator Wyatt Andrews understated the case when he said "this is an extraordinarily important topic." In fact, an August 2007 Kaiser Poll puts health care as second only to Iraq in importance to voters.
THE PAINFUL memory of endless hours of studying for midterms is quickly fading away for most students at the University.
As we try to assess the challenges of the future, students and officials are thinking about a variety of ways to further develop the range of classes available at our institution.
A REMARKABLE thing happened last week in the great City of Charlottesville. The police arrested an individual suspected in two armed robberies that occurred last Monday.
ALMOST exactly a year from today, on November 4, 2008, millions of Virginians will travel to their local polling places to vote.
RECENTLY, several students crossing the railroad tracks encircling Charlottesville have received an unwelcome surprise: a ticket and a court date.
THE UNIVERSITY of Virginia's Culbreth Theatre is located off Rugby Road, but it's easy to miss the center of drama amidst the disarray and squalor of the construction site that envelops it.
I'VE WRITTEN for the past two weeks about secret societies, arguing that their tags have no place on Grounds and that tradition is an inadequate justification for the secret societies' prominence in the University community.
THIS PAST week, Rudy Giuliani lost my vote. He's probably not that upset about it. After all, I'm what one of my friends recently called "something to the left of Democrat." Still, I was keeping pretty close tabs on the Republican side of the race, and Giuliani already had me pretty nonplussed -- what with the two divorces, daughter threatening to campaign against him and mentioning Sept.
