SINCE entering the Virginia House of Delegates in 2002, Rob Bell, (R) who represents all of Greene and parts of Albemarle, Fluvanna and Orange Counties, has consistently prioritized tax cuts at the expense of the University and our community.
AS THE University grapples with the recent outbreak of racial intolerance, we are confronted with conundrum upon conundrum.
Last week University president John T. Casteen, III announced the choice of William Harvey to be the University's Chief Diversity Officer.
AMERICAN college students must frequently contend with puritanical legislators who wish to control their behavior long past the point where such control is necessary or realistic.
AT THE start of a new year, a series of hate incidents have once again exposed the seedy underbelly of hatred at the University, bringing about a cycle of demonstrations and vociferous condemnations against intolerance.
THIS WEEK provided some wonderful reading material -- an academic soap opera of sorts. That which seems antithetical to emotion has created a fantastic outpouring of rage, love, bewilderment and hope.
YET ANOTHER federal judge has struck down the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional. U.S. Judge Lawrence Karlton's decision from last week has once again become the occasion for condemnations and outrage leaders across the political spectrum.
THE ULTIMATE endeavor at this University is without a doubt to be more like Thomas Jefferson. From student to professor to administrator, all hear and echo the cry "What would Mr. Jefferson do?" Sure enough, this is one of the central tenets of the current debate on the University's architectural plan and the effort by many of the Architecture School's faculty to have it reanalyzed.
FORTY years ago, the Voting Rights Act was passed to secure the voting rights of all Americans by preventing disenfranchisement by local, state and federal governments.
FOR CENTURIES, underpaid, rarely celebrated, but nevertheless highly trained architects have tended to wealthy and powerful laypersons.
ON THE previous three anniversaries of Sept. 11, 2001, we claimed to honor the victims through a mix of memory, resolve and a commitment to make sure that this never happened again.
"I CONSIDER a lecture to be a success if I'm asked so many questions that I can't finish." Many students of the late Stephen Innes will recognize these words to be his.
HAVING trouble choosing a major? Perhaps, like many other University students, you've bounced a lot of ideas around: first psychology, then English and maybe you're experimenting in art history while you desperately try to figure out what to fill in on your major declaration form due this spring.
LAST THURSDAY I had the opportunity to attend a welcome reception in a Pavilion hosted by the HUES Leadership Network for Women of Color.
THIS past weekend marked the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11. Many commentators have compared our response to that tragedy with the recent reaction to Hurricane Katrina.
BECAUSE of the rapid activist response to racial slurs and graffiti, it is clear that the University community will not tolerate this sort of bigotry.
THE ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 terror attacks inspired a number of memorials and tributes in remembrance of the dead, perhaps none so tacky as the Pentagon's "Freedom Walk," which culminated in an "America Supports You" concert starring country music sensation Clint Black and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The cringe-inducing Freedom Walk was possibly our government's worst perversion of the word "freedom" since they gave us Freedom Fries.
The words come in a drumbeat:Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, in a heartbroken opinion editorial, laments that "I've cried a lot of tears the past few days as I watched television -- to see somebody lying dead outside the convention center.
AFTER Hurricane Katrina, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R.-Ill., was asked if he thought flooded parts of New Orleans should be rebuilt.
WHILE Hurricane Katrina was a human tragedy of immeasurable proportions, in its aftermath it displayed the inhuman inequalities that put wide segments of the American public in desperate economic conditions.
