IT HAS become fashionable to decry "grade inflation" as an evil of our times. Supposedly, this phenomenon represents a softening of our academic standards and a tendency to coddle students in their academic work.
POLITICAL pundits have been conducting their own post-mortems on the 2004 election ever since President Bush clinched a second term in office Wednesday.
THIS IS one of those doomsday columns at which we scoff. Hang it on your wall, and in four years check to see if I'm right. In four years, the Bush administration will have privatized Social Security and ended Medicaid.
NOW THAT a few days have passed since Nov. 2 and tempers have had a chance to cool, it is possible to make a reasonable appraisal of the implications of this year's election.
WATCHING election returns with liberals is like watching the Iraqi information minister give a press conference as the Americans move closer to Baghdad -- denial, followed by irrational outbursts.
MANY STUDENTS can reduce college life to three elements: classes, weekends and college sports. While these three are enough to provide each individual a solid college experience, our University distinguishes itself, among other ways, through the hard work, energy and financial resources poured into its extracurricular activities.
THIS SUMMER I had the good fortune of interning at the Virginia Museum of Natural History through the University's Institute for Public History.
ONE DAY after the election, the presidency still hangs in the balance -- kind of. Thanks to Ohio, the election results are not entirely certain yet, but a Bush win looks likely.
BOSTON -- SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of boisterous Kerry supporters, Jon Bon Jovi strummed a sweet rendition of "living on a prayer." Unfortunately, by the end of the night, a prayer appeared to be all John Kerry was hanging on to.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- HOPE: That's what Republicans across Washington, D.C., were feeling as they sweated in the hot sun, passing out pamphlets until the very last hour at the polling sites.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Washington, D.C. should be home turf for the GOP. From our view of the Washington Monument, we control both the House and Senate as well as the most powerful position, arguably, in the world -- the presidency of the United States.
BOSTON -- SPORTING two world championship teams, Bostonians are walking around with a bit of a swagger in their step these days.
IT SOMETIMES feels like this campaign has gone on for hundreds of years. Granted, this campaign has gone on for years, so this feeling is not entirely without just cause.
TOMORROW, our great nation will choose as its president one of two politicians who are remarkable only for the uninspiring pallor of sub-mediocrity that both of them exude.
FOR THOSE who haven't heard, the 2004 election takes place tomorrow. The campaigns, especially the presidential campaigns, have received scant attention from the media and have been conducted in a civilized way that has raised the level of political discourse in the country.
THIS ELECTORAL cycle has brought the issue of values to the forefront of the American political consciousness. Although the nation's focus on values has become an useful tool for political operatives on both the left and the right, it is hurting the American people.
THE ONLY alternative to majoritarian democracy, it is sometimes forgotten, is some form of rule by a minority.
ON TUESDAY, Critical Mass screened "Hijacking Catastrophe," a new documentary narrated by University professor and NAACP Chair Julian Bond, which explores the Bush administration's imperial ambitions in Iraq dating back to the year 2000.
ENVIRONMENTAL demonstrators have only gotten nuttier over the last several years; thus, I approach with a healthy dose of skepticism any group of protesters pedaling around in powdered wigs.
WIDESPREAD fraud, manipulation, perjury, obstruction, confusion, intimidation, chaos and even violence.Afghanistan?
