HATE CRIMES have been all the rage on college campuses lately. At the University of New Brunswick earlier this month, a Pakistani student reported being attacked on two separate occasions because of his race.
IN ELECTIONS three weeks ago, the student body supported the extension of spousal benefits to the domestic partners of homosexual faculty and staff by a three-to-one ratio.
SINCE the creation of the term "civil union" by Vermont's legislative branch in 2000, there has been a discussion on whether a civil union is the right answer to the ongoing fight for the legalization of homosexual marriage.
LIKE MANY of you, I entered the University last year eager to jump into upper-level classes and strut my stuff.
JAMES Baldwin is probably turning over in his grave. In the town of Macon, Georgia this time, the tale of the little black writer that couldn't was told again as reporter Khalil Abdullah was fired for plagiarism from the Macon Telegraph -- the second such incident that has happened within recent months.
NOT A dime of George W. Bush's planned $170 million in campaign expenditures this year is going to earn him my support.
Along with accusations from late-night talk shows that John Kerry feasts on the living, the Bush attack machine has begun more substantive attacks on the Democratic candidate.
THE XM Satellite radio recently announced its intentions to include local programming on their stations, as reported in The Washington Post.
LAST WEEK was pro-life awareness week at the University. First Right, the main pro-life organization on Grounds, decided to promote their cause throughout the week by hanging up banners and organizing an event held last Wednesday night.
WHO IS Al Weed? A 61-year-old vineyard owner who styles himself the quintessential Virginian "Farmer, Soldier, Statesman," Weed is the Democratic challenger to Republican Congressman Virgil Goode here in the Commonwealth's Fifth Congressional District.
I OWN a cell phone. I like my cell phone. It flips shut, and it has a great game called Push-Push, although I have been stuck on Stage 14 of Push-Push for six months.
IN THE 2000 presidential election, Ralph Nader received over 2.8 million votes and significantly altered the political landscape, yet despite Nader's legions of supporters nationwide, asinine laws in many states are currently forcing the Independent candidate to wage war just to get his name on the 2004 presidential ballot.
Can you name your Student Council representatives? How about which committee to contact if you have a problem with printing costs?
THIS PAST week marked another round of frantic basket deliveries, dinner and dessert dates, hotel slumber parties and revelations in front of the Rotunda.
UNLESS you've been living under a rock, you would know that the Supreme Court upheld the use of affirmative action in higher education last summer.
THE COLOR of a person's skin means nothing more than any other physical component of his or her appearance.
COMING back after Spring Break, the CD still was dealing with the aftermath of a Life column by A-J Aronstein published March 2.
SPANISH voters sent a strong message to Madrid last week: They told their leaders they could do without "Mr. Bush's war." No doubt incensed by the horrific train bombing a few days before the elections, Spain's record voter turnout demonstrated what every poll and protest in the country has been saying for over a year: that the Spanish people were overwhelmingly against the U.S.
ASK MOST University students what our student identification numbers are, and we'll rattle them off without a second thought.
AS ONE of Bill O'Reilly's biggest fans, I feel a certain obligation to criticize one of his favorite topics of discussion: gangster rap.
