I RECENTLY learned that it's impossible to be handicapped. If you ever refer to deaf or blind people as handicapped, then you will have deeply offended them and, most egregious in an academic setting, said something politically incorrect.
LAST MONTH, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer dropped his plan to give driver licenses to illegal immigrants.
ON THE Friday before Thanksgiving break, hundreds of high school students from around the country arrived on Grounds.
IN THE United States, we're serious about our voting. Sure, on November 4, 2008, you can expect about half of eligible voters to avoid the polls, but for the rest, casting a ballot represents the culmination of a two-year battle for the highest office in the land in a process that is at once unbelievably preposterous and distinctly American.
JOHN F. Kennedy once said "a young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living." For much of the twentieth century, a variation of this sentiment was applied in presidential elections.
AFTER the peaceful respite Thanksgiving afforded from the pell-mell pace of this past semester, I returned to Grounds with renewed steely resolve.
IN THE last few years, the University community has discussed at length plans to "internationalize" the curriculum to better prepare students to compete in a world that seems to be rapidly shrinking.
AT THE end of a column several weeks ago I took what some might feel is a cheap shot at the Purple Shadows when I compared their sartorial predilections to those of the Ku Klux Klan.
WE DON'T balk at some of the most bitter truths modern science teaches and even propagandizes: for example, that mindless subatomic particles govern all things, or that whatever is eternal is indifferent to us, if it exists at all.
THE CIA'S assassination plots against the regime in Cuba during the last four decades read like a comic book.
TWO WEEKS ago Queer and Allied Activism (QuAA) held an event titled "Live Homosexual Acts" in the University Chapel as part of the biannual "Proud To Be Out" week celebrations.
AS ALWAYS, a Virginia loss brings out the Al Groh haters, once again claiming that the old ball coach has let the Wahoo faithful down.
"ALL OUR social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really." The speaker of this quotation taken from an article appearing in the Times of London is not a white supremacist or neo-Nazi, but a once-brilliant scientist James Watson -- co-discoverer of DNA's double helix -- whose recent bigoted and unsubstantiated claim created a firestorm of controversy.
IS THE "not gay chant really controversial? Before Alex Cortes wrote his guest column ("Not gay and proud of it," Nov.
CONTRARY to popular belief, Ann Coulter and DavidHorowitz do not form thebedrock of conservative philosophy.
WITH Christmas fast approaching, I thought I'd use this column to get everyone in the holiday spirit.
JEFFERSON would not be proud of our internationalization efforts to date." So proclaims the presumptuous report released by the Committee on Curriculum Internationalization last month.
RIGHT-WING demagogues have been blabbering for years about that legendary "liberal bias" in American higher education.
BEGINNING this week, I am writing as the ombudsman for The Cavalier Daily. Instead of roaming over the whole opinable realm, as I've done in these pages since last semester, I'll be offering my opinions on one subject: this newspaper. The overarching question with which I will be concerned is: How well is the newspaper serving the whole University community?
LAST WEEK my column was about gay marriage. The column got a lot of response, both in letters to the editor and to me personally.
