AMONG other progressive leaders in Congress, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a top advocate for a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing the need for abortions by putting "prevention first." She was recently criticized by Tony Perkins of the conservative Family Research Council.
IT'S FUN to watch Democrats play make-believe. With the end of the 2004 election, many people had been suffering withdrawal from regular doses of liberal duplicity.
IN THE upcoming gubernatorial election, we Virginians will choose between two starkly different candidates, one who will continue to provide fiscally responsible leadership, and the other who will wreak the state's budget for short term political gain.
MODERN American newspapers adhere to a sacrosanct division between the news and opinion sections.
ON FRIDAY, the Collegiate Network issued its CampusOutrage Awards, given out each year for the most ridiculous instances of political correctness at colleges and universities across the country.
TAKE A deep breath and prepare yourself, because what I'm about to tell you may shock you: College students have sex.
NEARLY half of all women in the United States between the ages of fifteen and forty-four have experienced at least one unplanned pregnancy in their lifetime.
EVERY newspaper, from the community weekly to The New York Times, covers a set of newsmakers whose names appear frequently in its pages. These newsmakers are the government leaders, community activists and local celebrities whom everyone recognizes.
WHILE Congress is consumed with such pressing matters as the use of steroids in Major League Baseball, an economic crisis looms on the horizon that could dwarf any that this world has seen since the Great Depression.
THERE are numbers that do not need to be spoken for. Like two. As in the number of minutes that pass before a woman somewhere is sexually assaulted. Or one in five.
AS A particularly exciting NCAA tournament winds to its conclusion, much noise is being made about the graduation rates of men's basketball players. As it has for the past few years, the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports released its "Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2005 NCAA Men's and Women's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams," which, as in past years, shows what seem to be shockingly low graduation rates, including eight percent of basketball players for Michigan State and zero percent for LSU.
"SMOKING or non-smoking?" The question that we've all heard countless times in restaurants and hotels may soon be a thing of the past.
AFTER a semester's worth of collaboration and effort, a new set of sexual assault procedures have been released.
CONGRATULATIONS to the students of the Living Wage Coalition at Georgetown University, who successfully shamed the administration into granting a raise and new benefits to Georgetown staff members.
NEWS FLASH: Abortion clinics ignore rape. What may seem like a cruel irony is a bleak reality, and the actions taken by the abortion clinics in response to these charges are even more preposterous.
IN LIGHT of new technologies and interdepedent economies, there are global problems which transcend borders.
AMIDST all th attention given to Terri Schiavo, it was easy last week to overlook America's second deadliest school shooting in its history.
COLUMBINE was senseless. In the aftermath of the Littleton, Colorado school shooting in 1999, as this country searched for answers in the music, the gun laws and the violent video games, everyone seemed to agree that it was all so senseless.
EVERY TIME I hear someone around Grounds speaking an unfamiliar language, I'm thankful that the University truly is an international institution.
When I accepted this job last summer, then-Editor-in-Chief Chris Wilson told me I was free to tackle almost any subject related to The Cavalier Daily.
