A HUMAN being is either alive or dead. There is no gray area in between the two. Terri Schiavo is alive; as House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R
MANY STUDENTS who vote in elections have no idea who they intend to vote for before logging on to vote.
COLUMNISTS must be some of the most self-confident people in the world. While reporters relate the news, columnists purport to tell you what to think about the news.
THE STORY that many Virginia basketball fans had been waiting months to read finally showed up on the front page of Tuesday's Cavalier Daily -- Pete Gillen was out as head coach. Gillen resigned just days after the Cavaliers finished his seventh season at the University with a losing record, the team's first since 1998-99.
ONE OF the most marked and distinct trends that has emerged in constitutional law in recent years has been the increased citation of international law in interpreting the U.S.
WE OPINION columnists, unlike our colleagues in the Life section, aren't the type to self-reference.
OVER THE past week a diverse group of people ranging from talk show hosts to high-ranking government officials have united in warning that the Chinese dragon represents a growing threat to good old Uncle Sam.
STUDENT self-governance here at Mr. Jefferson's University dodged a huge bullet in this month's elections.
AS FIRST years arrive at the University, they are satisfied knowing that they have a place to live in dorms, and future housing seems an easy problem to solve somewhere in the distant future.
PRESIDENT Bush is once again attempting to appoint far right-wing judicial nominees to American courtrooms.
PUBLIC universities are becoming less and less public. Declines in state funding have driven universities to seek private sources of funding, creating a permanent tension between open market competition and the purpose of public education. Last month, The Futures Project at Brown University addressed this issue in a report titled "Correcting Course: How We Can Restore the Ideals of Public Higher Education in a Market-Driven Era." The authors found that universities throughout the country face "growing pressure to cut costs, measure and report on performance, and compete ever more strenuously for students, grants, funding and prestige." Unfortunately, this competition usually comes at the expense of academic programs and access for low-income students. In response to market pressures, public universities have sought new freedom from state governments, primarily for the purpose of raising tuition beyond state caps.
WHAT do you get when you put Michael Jackson, WorldCom, Enron and Bill Clinton under one roof? Why, the illustrious United Nations.
LIVING with a roommate or suitemates that you don't know well can often be a challenge due to conflicting personal preferences.
A13-YEAR-OLD student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school because he tossed a rubber band onto his teacher's desk after the teacher demanded he hand it over.
AMERICAN establishments have once again proved their bigotry and stupidity in responding to international disputes.
EVEN AS Chief Justice William Rehnquist is dying from terminal cancer, Senate Democrats are vowing to block President Bush's judicial nominees.
AS ELDERLY folks comprise an increasingly large percentage of the American population, health care costs will increase dramatically.
IT IS a little-known fact that when God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, a little asterisk appeared next to the fifth one, declaring that thou shalt not kill, "except when your wife has brain damage and you need a way to marry your long-term girlfriend without giving up your claim to hundreds of thousands of dollars." At least that's how Florida's Supreme Court interprets it in the Terri Schiavo case.
ONE WEEK and hundreds of gallons of piña colada removed from the 2005 Spring elections here at the University, it is easier to look back at our annual spectacle of student self-governance in action and wonder if this is really why we are here. Late February and early March bore witness to a familiar sight on Grounds: reams of bright flyers, gaudy chalked sidewalks, impassioned pleas on the pages of student publications -- a microcosm of the American electoral process.
SIX HUNDRED and ninety-one dollars can buy a lot of things. A spot check at www.froogle.com reveals that a pair of new K2 Apache skis, a Jamis Dakar full-suspension mountain bike or a 14-karat yellow gold chain in round weave pattern can all be boght for that amount of money.
