IN A COUNTRY that is hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs and with a union membership rate at its lowest percentage since the Depression, you cannot make a decent living without a college degree, and the money you earn will probably be proportional to the quality of the university and your choice of a degree.
WHILE President Bush has been criticized for many ofhis policies, too few people have questioned President Bush's biggest domestic policy failure. Indeed, while issues such as gay marriage or stem cell research will be resolved within the next few years, President Bush's half-trillion dollar budget deficit threatens to create a climate of higher taxes, reduced government services and lower economic growth for decades to come. Furthermore, although President Bush may try to blame the deficit on Sept.
ON MONDAY, Oct. 11, I was able to attend the final concert in the MoveOn.org political action committee's "Vote for Change" concert series.
IN LIGHT of Washington, D.C.'s exorbitantly high water lead levels, and the disgraceful efforts of local officials to cover up evidence, one would assume that a bipartisan effort would be led to ensure safe water nationwide.
IN THIS year's first presidential debate, television shots from behind his podium showed a boxy bulge on the back of President Bush.
AS THE pundits analyze who "won" the vice-presidential debate by looking at who sighed the fewest number of times, a deep undercurrent is running through liberal America.
WHEN JOHN Adams said that the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived," he was not talking about the same institution that Dick Cheney inhabits today.
MANY UNIVERSITY students are clueless when it comes to constructing a career path after graduation.
EVER WONDER where your student activity fees go? At Yale, some University funds are funneled to a "Sex Week," complete with lectures such as "The History of the Vibrator" and "How to be a Better Lover," as well as an appearance by porn star Devinn Lane and free "adult toys" for all.
AS AMERICANS vote in November on such important issues as war, the economy and health care, citizens in 10 states will also face referenda to constitutionally ban gay marriage in their jurisdictions.
WITH LESS than a month remaining until the 2004 presidential election, America is saturated with reminders that the most important, patriotic thing citizens can do is get out and vote.
LAST THURSDAY, the American public was treated to an event that only happens every four years: a presidential debate.
YES, HE slouched, he paused and every now and then looked less than enthused to be at last Thursday's first presidential debate.
THERE ARE few things scarier than being within the same square mile as Michael 'I hate America' Moore.
THE CAVALIER Daily primarily covers news at the University and in Charlottesville, but that doesn't mean the paper can't take on stories outside its circulation area. Newspapers, including The Cavalier Daily, frequently "localize" stories, putting local angles on state, national or even international news.
A FEW weeks ago, fourth-year student Amey Adkins reported that someone had vandalized her car by scrawling a racial epithet across the hood.
FOOD FOR thought: Coca-Cola has contracts with nearly half of this country's school districts. There are vending machines in almost 99 percent of high schools, nearly 75 percent of middle schools and 43 percent of elementary schools.
WITH ALL the attention that student plagiarism receives, and the attendant pious hand-wringing on the part of university administrations and ubiquitous admonitions from faculty, we expect professors to exemplify the highest standards of intellectual honesty.
LAST WEEK, the University was given the chance, thanks to the openness of graduate student Rich Felker, to witness the work of the University Judiciary Committee and begin to understand the workings of a Committee which many students simply do not know enough about.
Yesterday's editorial cartoon incorrectly attributed the recent voluntary DNA tests of possible serial rapist suspects to the Albemarle County Police Department.
