AS HALLOWEEN approaches this week, it is evident that the school year is in full swing. For fourth years, this means that at least some thought has been given to what exactly we plan on doing next year, and for that matter, for the next few years of our lives.
SOON PRESIDENT Bush will sign the partial birth abortion ban into law, which prohibits a partial-birth abortion to be performed unless the life of the mother is in danger.
LAST WEDNESDAY, in an act of hopeless naivety, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Great Britain reached an agreement with Iran to end an international dispute over the Islamic state's nuclear program.
THERE is something missing from the Good Ol' Song these days. A certain luster, a certain flair, a certain energy -- all symptoms of a stadium replete with fans but conspicuously absent of trumpets and tubas.
MAYBE you've seen it, maybe you haven't, but the new $20 bill is certainly creating a buzz. At first glance the new bill is certainly spiffy, with new blue and peach inks, a color-shifting "20" in the lower-right corner and a blue eagle woven into the background.
LATER THIS month, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill, S. 150, which would make permanent the ban on taxation of Internet access by the states that is scheduled to expire Nov.
IT'S NEWS to no one that politicians regularly spin issues to serve their own (or their campaign contributors') agendas.
Everyone's got opinions, but not everyone has the chance to espouse them in writing in a 10,000-copy newspaper.
WINSTON Churchill famously quipped that democracy is the worst possible form of government, except for all the alternatives.
LAST WEEK, Congress sent to the Oval Office legislation to ban partial birth abortions. Bush not only publicly announced that he will sign it, but has been hustling the Senate to get it on his desk as soon as possible.
I GUESS that I am in the minority of people my age, but when I turned 18 I was excited to be able to vote.
For those of us fortunate enough to be graced by the presence of the Rev. Al Sharpton this past Sunday, albeit over an hour late, we were treated to an all around Bush-bashing, conservative-trashing spirited discourse. While this was a campaign stop for Sharpton, and his objective was to rally the audience, which he definitely succeeded in doing (evident from the numerous applause lines and standing ovations), one didn't have to listen more than five minutes to identify a whole column's worth of erroneous declarations.
The current first-year medical school class at the University of Virginia is the initial class to be exposed to the pass/fail grading system: what has become the academic trend among the nation's premiere schools of medicine.
Here in America, where "all men are created equal," we like to believe we have overcome arbitrary inequality.
This year in class I will sit next to students the University admitted, in part, because of what their dads did.
STUDENT self-governance. The right to recruit new members for any student-run organization boils down to just that: student self-governance.
IN THE late '90's, deferred rush was a hot topic across Grounds. The faculty were advocating that rush be deferred till second year.
POLITICIANS love map-drawing. It is one of those neat little perks that come along with your gold lapel pin and vanity state license plate.
CONSIDER this frightening scenario. Next Thursday, on The Cavalier Daily Opinion page, I have two columns printed, not just one.
FOR those who heard Al Sharpton's entrancing and energetic eloquence on Sunday in the Old Cabell auditorium, the public's dismal support for his presidential campaign might seem incongruent.
