WRITING for The Cavalier Daily can be a lonely enterprise. If you're reading this column, it's probably because you found the paper on a classroom floor and turned to the Opinion page after discovering that the previous reader had already completed the Sudoku.
MAYBE it's just my inner tree-hugging minimalist coming out, but in the past two weeks of moving in and getting settled for my final year of college, I've been confronted by the amazing amount of stuff that students own.
THE UNIVERSITY is expanding rapidly. It seems like you can't go anywhere these days without running into a construction zone.
WHEN I was a little girl, I refused to wear bows in my hair. I shuddered at the pink dress my mother picked out for me to wear for my first day of kindergarten.
THE UNIVERSITY has long prided itself on the diversity of its student body. Women make up 55 percent of its undergraduates; another 35.7 percent of undergraduate students are from non-white American backgrounds.
LAST WEEK the recording industry decided that it was easier to extort money than adapt to changing technology.
ON SATURDAY I flipped on my television hoping to watch a little college football, and though our contest with Wyoming barely qualified as such, I found a match-up worthy of my attention in the Virginia Tech--East Carolina game.
OUTSIDE the world of sports, the country rarely finds itself consumed with college rankings. One of those occasions came in August, when the newest edition of U.S.
AS MANY returning students remember, it was not too long ago that the University acquired the academic rights to the Semester at Sea (SAS) program.
FOR LIBERALS such as myself, it is both immensely gratifying and deeply saddening when a gay-bashing Republican is revealed by some tawdry conduct to be a homosexual himself.
THE IMPACT of the Virginia Tech shooting has provoked a variety of concerns about campus safety across the nation.
LAST WEEK, a University representative informed me that due to a senseless post-Virginia Tech policy change, I would have to pay $66 per year for my corpse to be sent back to Malaysia in the event of my death.
THE START of a new school year brings with it another round of complaints over the inordinate cost of school books.
LAST WEEK I flipped on CNN after I got home from classes, expecting to hear the latest update on Iraq, or what was going on in Turkey after the first Islamist president was elected after decades of secular rule.
I HATE money and if I never had to think about it again, I'd be perfectly happy. Unfortunately last week's announcement that state funding to Virginia's public universities will be cut by 7.5 percent brought my blissful ignorance to a halt.
NOTHING illuminates reality quite like bad movies. In the Cold War classic "War Games," a young Matthew Broderick accidentally hacks into the U.S.
WITH KARL Rove and Alberto Gonzalez having resigned, these are not the best of times for the Bush administration.
AS HONEST as most students try to be with their academic work, many may be cheating without even realizing it.? While the most common forms of cheating brought to trial concern collaboration on tests and plagiarism, there is another form of cheating that plagues this university but rarely, if ever, goes to trial.
A DANGEROUS political strategy is weakening Westerners' moral fiber and may ultimately threaten the very people it is intended to serve.
MOST READERS probably remember the hit '90s television show, "The Wonder Years." And most readers probably also remember the dream girl next door from the show, Winnie Cooper.
