LAST WEEK, President Bush pledged to allocate a paltry $674 million in foreign aid to Africa. While this is a positive step towards funding development, the amount offered falls woefully short of potential. British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with President Bush over the last week to discuss progressive action towards eradicating poverty on the world's poorest continent.
CHINA'S position in the modern world is an incredible paradox. On one hand, China is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, an organization devoted to maintaining peaceful relations between countries, promoting justice and progress and ensuring human rights.
IN THE tranquil dog days of summer, the oasis of exciting political news often dries up to resemble a desert, but this year, have no fear, Howard Dean is here.
IT WAS totally worth it. The 25-hour weeks, the late nights, the windowless office, the dining hall/Pav diet, the much-abbreviated workout schedule, the awkwardness after dating a fellow staff member and the pathetic lack of social life compared to friends with more free time.
WE ALL have a different reaction to the uninvited reality of graduation. Some of us would rather face a weed-whacker vasectomy.
AS A FIRST year, I thought that the University's trademark racial tension was all my fault. Minorities are often accused of exacerbating race problems through self-segregation, and I believed it.
WHEN I THINK back on the girl that wandered into Tuttle with her arms full of belongings nearly four years ago, I cannot help but feel a mix of protectiveness, pride and thankfulness. Protectiveness because that girl had no idea what she would encounter over her next four years at this school -- how much she would grow.
ONE THING about being an opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily is that the position affords the columnist a small degree of notoriety at theUniversity.This, however, can be both a good and a bad thing.
Gregory J. Scanlon Commencement Address University of Virginia May 16, 2032 Thank you, President Sabato.
TWO YEARS ago I had an epiphany. That little white lab coat hanging in the front of my closet, stylish as it was, needed to be exported to the very back, somewhere between the rainbow-striped blouse and polka-dot skirt my mom had bought me the previous Christmas.
AT THE beginning of his lecture, visiting author Bill McKibben admitted, "There's a way in which I'm a depressive fellow." Indeed, it's difficult to put a positive spin on the destruction of the planet and the end of civilization as we know it, but although McKibben's warnings may be uncomfortable, we should listen. McKibben argued that in recent decades, humans have become "bigger than we should be, bigger than it makes sense to try to become." Our impact on the environment has increased dramatically, with dangerous results.
HONOR is a word constantly debated around the University, as it means so many different things to so many different people.
ON MARCH 20,2005, the University Judiciary Committee officially created the Ad Hoc Subcommittee for Sanctioning of Hate Crimes.
AS MANY states make significant headway in embryonic stem cell research, little progress towards researching one the most promising fields of medicine is being made at the federal level. On Tuesday, a report released by the National Academy of Sciences highlighted the need for regulations governing research involving embryonic stem cells.
SEVERAL OF the administrators at the University are often the subject of controversy and sometimes even public outcry.
IN THE PAST few months, there have been a spate of attacks against prominent conservative icons -- not from the liberal media establishment (what a shock!), but this time from, not surprisingly, campus activists.
AS THE spring semester comes to a close and things wrap up around Grounds, we often become so busy with our own lives that we forget to give serious consideration to events going on outside of our own community.
LAST WEEK, Mohammed Kenbib, Professor of History at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, came to the University to speak about Morocco's history of Jews and Muslims living together peacefully.
LAST FRIDAY, as John Negroponte began his first dayas the nation's first ever Director of National Intelligence, Charles Duelfer spoke at the University's Miller Center on his experience as a weapons inspector in Iraq.
