"IT WAS obvious from day one that he was troubled," Michael Grassie told Newsweek. A teacher at a highly praised magnet school in Cleveland, Ohio, Grassie was recently shot by his student, Asa Coon, in his world history class.
IN THE last two weeks, three students were robbed at gunpoint, one was stabbed and another was sexually assaulted in off-Grounds areas where many students live.
I HAVE some surprising news, dear readers. Recently, I went on safari throughout northern Africa, a journey that took me past the pyramids, down the Nile and into the seedy nightlife of Cairo.
THE UNIVERSITY'S two most important administration initiatives for the twenty-first century include the goal that in the future, 80 percent of undergraduate students study abroad.
STEPHEN COLBERT is running for president. In South Carolina. Maybe. Anything the ironic pundit says should of course be taken with a grain of salt, but according to a New York Times article yesterday, Colbert has talked to party leaders in the state and it seems -- at least for now -- he seriously intends to get his name on the ballot.
DIVERSITY has, in my time at the University, been a hot-button issue frequently associated with unpleasant events perpetrated by one student on another.
DID YOU know that this year is an election year? Last fall, Grounds were ablaze with the political pulse surrounding the U.S.
THE UNIVERSITY should stop permitting its public spaces to be sullied with the tags of organizations that are not representative of its values as a leading institute of public education.
THE IDEA that men and women react differently to war has been around almost as long as war itself.
"THERE ain't no such thing as a free lunch." That is what economics teaches, and some might even argue that wisdom itself is nothing more than the genuine understanding and acceptance of that unglamorous principle.
DURING four hiring cycles, the "star" hires strategy (i.e., hiring members of the national academies or comparably distinguished scientists) has produced better than solid results.
I LOVE baseball, but I cringe during every Cleveland Indians playoff game. Their mascot and logo, Chief Wahoo, depicts Native Americans as grinning, bent-nosed morons.
AL GORE can't stop winning. Less than a year after accepting an Oscar for his film about the imminent threat of global warming, the former vice president picked up a Nobel Peace Prize last week for his efforts to raise public awareness of the same issue.
AS THE European Union tightened sanctions and analysts called for an "international coalition against Myanmar," the junta in Rangoon will begin to crawl back into its isolationist shell packed?
Described as early as 1813 as a place "where all the useful sciences should be taught," U.Va. is recommitting itself to science as it rounds out its second century.
AS NEWS of bloodshed and conflict turns Americans' attention to the Middle East, an under-reported energy crisis unfolding in the region threatens the foundations of the international economic order. Recently respected media outlets have begun to turn their attention to reports coming out of the Arabian Desert that petroleum production in Saudi oil fields may be peaking and could fall into decline in the near future.
SUPPOSE A certain old man has, for the past half century, made a career of fighting for justice, taking up causes before they were popular and becoming a well-known hero. Now suppose that, torn by the contradiction between his public image and his self-image, he comes forward with a confession: At the age of 22, he killed another man for coming on to his girlfriend, and it was the shock of guilt that followed that drove him to dedicate his life to justice.
IN THE quiet coal-mining town of Logan, W.Va., there's a gravel road that leads to a little white, ramshackle shed; to Megan Williams, it was a makeshift torture chamber.
TUCKED AWAY in prisons across America, about 3,000 convicted murderers sit on death row. As average, law-abiding Americans, we tend not to think about their plight or their punishment and instead happily ignore the barbarism inherent in the convicts' sentences.
ARE YOU happy with the way you look? Is your nose too big? Your breasts too small? Your stomach too round?
