IN THE early 1900s, the United States saw the rise of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The organization was instrumental in the passage of laws banning drug use, alcohol and prostitution.
WATCHING our basketball team fall to the University of Tennessee Sunday, one of my friends commented that it sounded like the Tennessee contingent vastly outnumbered the Virginia fans in attendance.
DESPITE decades of hard work and progress, there are still those in the University community who cry racism at every opportunity.
THIS MARCH, almost 500 individuals participated in Alternative Spring Break with a goal of entrenching their community service mindset, broadening their outlooks and encouraging themselves to take their experiences further into their lives beyond college.
ATTRACTIVESS is a cultural value. It is important in the clothes we buy and wear, in our furniture, in cosmetics and any number of life habits or activities.
RACISM, racist and race itself are peculiar words, as their definitions change constantly and shift according to context.
BEFORE JABERWOKE was Jaberwoke, it was The Greenskeeper, a nondescript bar and restaurant frequented by underage students and, in the fall, by visiting football fans.
TAKE ANY early American politics or history class and you will easily learn that freedom was once widely considered a gift from the Creator, something to be tended and respected with limits and boundaries.
SOME BUZZ has been generated in the black student community over the last week concerning the implementation of a new dress code at Jaberwoke.
IT IS with great horror that I read Lindsay Huggins' incredibly irresponsible and error-filled column regarding Commonwealth v.
THIS YEAR has been an exciting journey for the University's men's basketball team. The team and its fans were first pampered by the unveiling of the cutting-edge John Paul Jones Arena.
TWO YEARS into its second term, the Bush Administration has shown a great aptitude for scandals, but little else.
WHEN I WAS a child, I often wondered what it would be like to have a time machine that could take me back to past centuries, to see what life was like back then.
THE UNIVERSITY Housing Division and its policies have been the subject of many a debate around Grounds recently.
ONE OF the most important aspects of any University is the quality of the dining services. After all, eating is one of the most basic needs for human beings.
LAST YEAR, we heard the story of Liz Seccuro, a former student of the University who received a haunting letter from fellow student William Beebe, apologizing for a crime that occurred more than twenty years ago.
FROM THE Honor Committee's "town hall" meeting the Sunday before spring break, one might have gotten the impression that honor is already dead.
FIRST-YEAR housing will see big changes over the next decade. Construction should start within a few weeks on Observatory Hill Residence Hall, the newest addition to the Alderman Road residences.
THOSE who believe that history has a sense of irony must surely be chuckling over the news that Russia, the country whose nuclear weapons kept the United States on alert during the Cold War, may end up being the key to halting Iran's nuclear program.
WHILE most are aware of the University's spotless academic record and chart-topping college ranking, few realize that it is one of the nation's best research institutions.
