SEXUAL assault has been a source of heated debate and grave concern within the University. However, one twisted form of this phenomenon has been so institutionalized that it has gone largely unnoticed despite its obvious assault on the very foundations of morality.
I AM a conservative. Many people believe this means I should be ready and able to defend the Republican Party at every point.
BEWARE OF writers who try to resolve an issue like same-sex marriage in 800 words. I won't try to do it, nor should anyone else be so foolish.
The "living wage" debate has been discussed at length on Grounds and beyond over the past few years, and has often proven to be a polarizing issue. As this topic is argued, the federal minimum wage has remained unchanged for 10 years.
IT'S GOING to sweep the nation. Or at least that's what you'd think about progressivism if you visited the University for a day.
THIS PAST weekend witnessed the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown, in which a combined Franco-American army and a French fleet in the Chesapeake Bay forced the surrender of 7,000 British troops at Yorktown and effectively ended the American Revolution.
FOR A party whose President has said he is "not concerned" about Osama bin Laden, the Republicans certainly want to remind voters that they should be.
ALTHOUGH it's understandable that there were longstanding repercussions from the destruction of the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings, it has been far too long since any visible progress has been made. When we look back at the attacks on Pearl Harbor before the United States entered the Second World War, we see that the Japanese crippled the U.S.
AS OCTOBER gives way to November, those with political acumen anxiously await the onset of election season.
LAST YEAR, every time I crossed the street from Jefferson Park Ave. towards Old Cabell Hall, I felt I was engaging in a dangerous gamble.
HANGING on for dear life, aperson clutches a lone branch on the side of an enormous cliff, struggling to hold on.
THE VIRTUE of honor is fundamental to the University as a Southern institution and to the character of the University student body.
A GENUINE open debate on sexual assault is a rare occurrence. After all, no one wants to appear apathetic about the crime or unsympathetic towards the victim.
FOR A CONCEPT that didn't even exist a few years ago,the "blogosphere" has redefined journalism and political engagement.
ON AN imaginary scale of enormity, the pederasty of ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., ranks slightly below any conspiracy to conceal it, and even further below the manipulation of the scandal to appropriate American homophobia as a "wedge issue" in the upcoming mid-term election.
FINALLY, Student Council is discussing "globalizing" the academic curriculum. This long overdue discussion is, however, only a small part of the bigger picture.
SINCE when did abortion, the killing of nascent human life, become a point of pride? Women don't exactly party in the streets following an abortion, but this month, a campaign in Ms. Magazine has initiated an effort to shed the stigma associated with abortion and, it seems, to celebrate it.
THE LAST time I saw Mark Warner, he was standing at the front of an enormous receiving line, shaking hands and posing for photos with the dedicated admirers who had waited patiently for their few brief moments with the former governor.
THE BIGGEST thing in Virginia politics lately other than George Allen's racial faux pas is the Marshall-Newman Amendment.
MUCH HAS been written about combating terrorism on an international, national and state scale. But in considering terrorism on the larger scale, we have neglected a more unorthodox form of what might be termed terrorismat this University.
