WELCOME to reality according to the Bush administration, where scientific evidence is irrelevant, intelligent design is just as legitimate as evolution and credentials don't matter if you have the right politics.
WHEN THE Cavalier Daily published a cartoon last semester that offended African-American students, the paper was met by vocal protests and demands for a discussion with the editor-in-chief.
JUDGING BY the amount of space on the front page of this newspaper given to the article with the headline "Council calls for [domestic partner] benefits in resolution" (Feb.
FOLLOWING a series of racially charged incidents reported in the fall, there was an outpouring of solidarity based on the belief that black students at the University should not be subject to bias or intimidation.
NOT EVERYTHING works out as planned. I planned to write last week's column on Friday and send it to the editors for Monday's paper.
MY FRIENDS never heard me breathe a word about The Cavalier Daily before my first article was published, but it is pretty much all they have heard from me since.
IT'S STRANGE to think that these words are likely the last of mine to ever appear on The Cavalier Daily's Opinion pages.
I WANTED more hate mail. As a lowly first-year Opinion columnist, I never felt I got my fair share of e-mails that ended with an expletive or an insult toward my mother.
MY FIRST year, I intended to give up journalism. I had spent so many nights in the past two years worrying whether I had enough stories and writers at the Lee High School Lance, that I promised myself once I got to U.Va., I would try something new and different.
THREE AND a half years ago, before I was a part of The Cavalier Daily, I would get annoyed when the paper was not in production after holidays and during exam periods.
THIS WEEK, Congress and the American people got their first look at a much-anticipated document: President Bush's proposed federal budget for the fiscal year 2007.
The lead editorial Feb. 7 ("For serious") described the honor trial standard of seriousness as "if 'open toleration of such an act impairs the community of trust enough to warrant permanent dismissal from the University.'" While that phrasing is sometimes cited, that is not how the standard is written in the Honor bylaws, which read, "An act is considered to be serious if open tolerance thereof would be inconsistent with the community of trust."
ADDING Honor Committee members to the jury would substantively improve our current system. That has been my belief since this summer, and that is why I formed an ad hoc committee on the issue last fall.
PUBLIC institutions of higher learning enroll only 12 percentof their students from the bottom quarter of income in the United States.
THE RECENT passing of Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks reminds us that collective action is as indispensable to social change as is the courageous leadership of a few.
WHEN FACTIONS at the opposite ends of the political spectrum join forces to promote an issue, one can't help but take notice.
IN 1912 coal miners in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek fields of the Kanawha coal district went on strike for company recognition of the union.
STUDENT elections have a reputation for being largelyinconsequential to the student body. Voter turnout is notoriously pitiful, and each year's elected representatives seem to produce little more than lines on their own resumes.
THREE years ago, the Virginia General Assembly followed New CarHampshire's lead banning "internal possession" of alcohol.
PRESIDENT Bush's State of the Union address last Wednesday struck at the heart of the potential problems for America's economic future, and it offered the solutions necessary to generate both strength and prosperity in the future.
