WE ARE all familiar with the history of western civilization. The Greeks invented democracy, and possibly reason itself.
SEVENTY-TWO percent of American college and university faculty describe themselves as liberals. This, according to a recent study in the political science journal "The Forum." Meanwhile, the campaignmoney.com Web site shows that professors have contributed more than 10 times as much money to Democrats as to Republicans over the past six years.
IN ADDITION to the blinding panic that comes with impending graduation, fourth years who hope to attend graduate school must add the Graduate Record Examination to their list of headaches.
THE U.S. House of Representatives is currently giving consideration to a resolution with great implications for both the University and the world of higher education.
STAY THE course: this is the lesson of the Iraq war and the ongoing rebuilding process. On Saturday, millions of Iraqi citizens turned out to vote on the country's constitutional referendum, which is being reported as likely to pass.
The Arts and Sciences Council is raising its fee for students in the College of Arts and Sciences from four dollars to $10 over three years.
AS HE watched Tim Kaine and Jerry Kilgore duke it out in last week's gubernatorial debate, Independent candidate Sen.
AS WE go about our business, a pandemic that threatens to kill millions is gathering steam. As we speak, scientists are crying Cassandra about the bird flu and the growing threat of a worldwide pandemic.
THE ENTIRE premise of "freedom of speech" is that there is no absolute truth, no absolute orthodoxy.
DO THE math on 87 percent of 8.5 percent of the undergraduate body. It's no mandate. Public opinion is fickle, and student referenda in fall elections carry very little weight.
WITH TWO consecutive losses to ACC rivals, criticism of Virginia's football coach Al Groh has become quite common.
THE UNITED States House of Representatives is scheduled later this term to consider authorizing a so-called "Academic Bill of Rights," a bill that the creators believe will force additional amounts of time and funding to be spent in universities to represent "pluralism." Additionally, the bill would have professors appeal to a wide variety of methodologies among differing viewpoints, according to the Students for Academic Freedom Web site.
THIS PAST weekend I was schooled in the art of being profoundly shamed by another university's newspaper.
IMAGINE walking by a flyer threatening the lives of you and your family if you were to vote. As you are reading it, in the distance you hear an explosion and horrifying screams.
THE UNIVERSITY of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's decision last week to raise its standards regarding steroid use within its athletic programs recognizes the necessity of a single sanction response to athletic dishonesty.
LAST WEEK, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales all voiced vehement opposition to a measure passed by the Senate that would clarify the country's standards for interrogating detainees and ban the use of "cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment" of prisoners held in custody by the U.S.
IN RELATION to the lead editorial "Referendum Ridiculousness" published on Oct. 5, we think that the intent of the initiatives that Pavan Gupta and Rami Samo led should not be undermined.
ALTHOUGH illegal immigration has only recentlybecome an issue in the Virginia governor's race, it has long been simmering across the country.
IN A TUESDAY article about escalating violence in Baghdad's Green Zone, The New York Times continued to use the term "insurgent" to describe individuals who resist the U.S.
THERE IS a growing trend in our fast-paced world to look for an immediate fix to a problem rather than to address its long-term causes.
