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.
RELIGIOUS and political conservatives should chant "not gay" at football games in "support for our natural heterosexuality given to us by God." This claim was made in a recent guest Opinion column in The Cavalier Daily by a "Catholic" who believes in natural law.
STANDING before Iran's parliament earlier this year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked his countrymen one question: "Who are our enemies?" His answer: godless America.
WITH THE holiday season looming, I feel as though now is as good a time as any to address one of the black marks that spoils Thanksgiving break.
CRUISING through the COD on a recent Saturday night I got a little disoriented. There's so much there, and so little to guide us, it's as if down is up and north is south. That may not be far from the truth.
TWO FRIDAYS ago, political scientist and well-known blogger Daniel Drezner spoke at the University.
OVER THE last month, the Charlottesville Transit Service endured a 20 percent increase in passengers.
AMERICA is bored with the culture wars. After years of heated division over high-minded issues such as the placement of 10 Commandments statues and the preservation of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, it appears as though the politics of division no longer arouse Americans' political passions.
THERE ARE many times at this University where I've felt slightly uncomfortable. These are generally times when I'm walking -- or running -- around alone at night in sparsely populated areas.
MONDAY, former Sen. Rick Santorum addressed a group of students about the threat radical Islamic terrorism poses to the United States, about how the problem arose and about how the world is failing to combat it.
I HAVE a confession to make. I'm a bad football fan. On game day, I show up late if the tailgate is rocking and I leave early if the team isn't winning.
While I have strong objections to the political ideology that former Sen. Rick Santorum propagated in his lecture on Monday, my primary problem with his presentation was with his use of the term Islamic fascism.
Marriage is indeed vitally important, and I can agree with Marta Cook's statement in "Marriage is a Human Right" (Nov.
I was interested to read Josh Levy's opinion column "How best to silence homophobes" (Nov 12). During my time at the University, the chant was quite pervasive and was sometimes clearly audible even on televised broadcasts of games.
We want to applaud Lindsay Huggins's assertion that "all women deserve the right to be in control of their own bodies" ("Politics of the womb," Nov.
I feel that this initiative is long overdue. The ability for us to explore such a wide array of (sometimes controversial) subjects and even our ability to go to class are due in large part to sacrifices that others made.
The "not gay" chant has been completely written off on Grounds. Some call it a drunken joke while others refer to its adherents as homophobes.
I felt uneasy reading Reece Epstein and Robert Martin's column, "Stars and stripes in every classroom" (Nov.
MAO Zedong,the charismatic leader of the People's Republic of China, was known for his mesmerizing ability to handle and resolve seeming "contradictions" regarding certain principles.
