WHEN YOU'RE counting pennies, every penny counts .The announcment by University President John T.
THE CURRENT borders of Iraq were created at the end of World War I as a League of Nations mandate to be controlled by the United Kingdom.
IT"S NOT alwayss possible to get all the answers. Often-times conflicts comedsown to he said, she said,arguments.
AT THE national and state levels, America's immigration policies are coming to a head. Currently in Congress, there are proposals to completely fence off our Mexican border and to prosecute businesses and charities for employing and aiding illegal immigrants.
COLLEGES ALL ACROSS the country, including the Universityof Virginia, proudly host a branch of the ROTC.
IT WAS barely a year ago when the Bush administration trumpeted its "triumphs" in the Middle East as elections sprung up in scattered capitals.
IMAGINE you are sitting in thepassenger seat of a car in heavytraffic next to an intimidating middle-aged man you have never met.
IT IS ALWAYS with us. Whether in the whispers of polite political conversations, in the shouts of protests or dressed in coy names like "reproductive rights" or "right to life," the abortion debate is always with us.
A COLLEGE degree is an essential prerequisite to make it in the fiercely competitive workforce. But "what counts to a degree in the College of Arts and Sciences?" wonders Frank Papovich, Assistant Dean for International Studies.
EACH YEAR, the University's diversity pie includes a certain slice of admitted students who left their race blank on their applications.
LAST WEEK Iran decided to create animosity for animosity's sake. One of the Iranian delegates for the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Association promised "harm and pain" to the United States if they allowed the U.N.
WHEN CANADIANS went to the polls earlier this year and elected a government led by the Conservative Party, relations between Canada and America barely skipped a beat.
IF RHETORIC is the only standard, then American universities are certainly the most tolerant places in the world.
OVER THE course of President Bush's time in the Oval Office, he has tried to tear down the constitutional wall of separation of church and state.
I NEVER dreamt I'd be defending a holocaust-denier. But then again I never thought I would need to.The "denier" in question, David Irving, a precocious British historian (aren't they all?), was jailed recently in Austria for denying the Holocaust -- a crime that in Austria, along with 9 other European countries warrants years of prison time. A rather toadish looking fellow, Irving claimed that the number of Jews murdered at Auschwitz might be lower than originally claimed.
For the second time this school year, The Cavalier Daily has run into trouble by printing a cartoon lambasted as racially or religiously offensive.
IMAGINE that you're a 20-year- old University student -- this should be a relatively easy exercise for many of you.
LAST SATURDAY, Bolivian President Evo Morales gave Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a guitar decorated with leaves from the coca plant.
INSTEAD OF catching your attention with a unique and clever introduction, I am just going to say what I need to say in the first sentence: Be safe over spring break. You may think that I am simply going to list a series of guidelines for your wild and crazy spring break, but before I offer some helpful advice, I want all University students traveling this break to recognize that you are an important component of the University of Virginia community.It is of the utmost concern that you stay safe over spring break.
THE UNIVERSITY'S faculty is upset about a new program, and with good reason. The administration recently adopted Semester at Sea, a study abroad program that makes a cruise ship a "floating campus" as students tour the ocean.
