DEMOCRATIC people value choice. We value it both because we distrust authorities' potential to abuse power, and because we believe that, generally, individuals can make good choices for themselves.
THE IDEA of progress is perhaps the least valuable weapon in the liberal arsenal. Often criticizing conservatives for trying to live in the past or refusing to accept today's world, liberals use the word "progress" in a way that betrays a deep naiveté about the world and their beliefs.
OUR NEIGHBOR and distant relative, The College of William and Mary, has been through a trying controversy.
LEROY Comrie, a New York City councilman, recently asked his fellow Council members to abolish "the n-word." To make his point, Comrie formalized his plea by submitting a resolution to the Council requesting a "symbolic moratorium on the use of the n-word in New York City." Abolish just the n-word?
THE MYTHS, stereotypes, and concerns surrounding on-grounds housing are trivial but serious enough to consider for discussion.
ASIANS and Asian-Pacific Americans comprise about 17 percent of the University population, represent 50 CIOs on grounds, and have the highest graduation rate among all minority groups.
EVERY year students and policymakers alike bemoan rising college costs. Experts at Wells Fargo expect a six percent annual increase on average.
A FEW MONTHS ago, a respected professor approached me and asked me to tell him the main editorial advocacy of our Managing Board.
A WISE Cav Daily man once pondered, "It's true; you never can mix business with pleasure. But I was thinking the other day -- what if your business is the business of pleasure?" I would like to suggest the CD is such a fusion. I'm not going to lie -- sometimes it's hard to imagine that The Cavalier Daily office is the place where these two worlds of business and pleasure collide. There's a Xerox machine that singes and devours human flesh.
THE CAVALIER Daily has been the defining experience of my time in college. I sat through a year of excruciatingly long Board of Visitors meetings, covered the arrest of the Living Wage protestors and culled through the minutiae of Honor Committee proceedings.
TWO AND a half weeks ago, I, like most University students, returned to Charlottesville after enjoying a month of winter rest and relaxation.
With all the attention that has been paid lately to our next presidential election, it can be difficult to remember that it is still almost two year away.
MISS AMERICA represents the highest ideals. She is a real combination of beauty, grace, and intelligence, artistic and refined.
DUKE BASKETBALL, a lightning rod for all those who follow college sports, polarizes students into two groups: those who love Duke and those who loathe it.
GO FIGURE. The Honor Committee passes one of the most important reforms of its investigation processes in -- well, a long time -- and we do it after the Cavalier Daily has gone on vacation. Maybe if the "Transformation Proposal" had been called Tremendous Reform of Monumental Proportions, we could have better publicized the debate last semester.
LEAVE IT to the Virginia General Assembly to make George Orwell turn over in his grave. This session, Delegate Steven Landes (R.
GIVEN THE ease and speed of modern communication, it is pretty much inevitable that a story will not only be reported on, but will quickly be broadcast into living rooms, offices, and anywhere else with internet or TV access.
TRANSPARENCY is the new buzz word in journalism and as The Cavalier Daily begins its 118th year of publication new editor-in-chief Herb Ladley pledges clarity and focus. In a story in Monday's newspaper, Ladley was quoted as saying he wanted to make The Cavalier Daily "not only a forum for students, but a place they can see themselves fitting in
ONE IN FOUR: Not coincidentally, the name represents both the number of women who are sexually assaulted at the University as well as the on-grounds CIO working to ameliorate the problem.
