I SPENT the majority of last week huddled under a sleeping bag, listening to the wind threaten to rip apart our tent and hoping the flashlight wouldn't burn out so I could get some work done.
LAST SATURDAY, the men's basketball game against Duke wasn't the only disappointment at University Hall.
I don't envy the job of a political reporter during election season. Politics is a mean business, and the political reporter has the unenviable task of separating fact from rumor and truth from slander.
As University students begin casting their votes in spring elections today, one issue continues to cast a pall over this year's election process.
Since the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 in November, the United States and President Bush have supported weapons inspections in Iraq with the understanding that if results weren't fast and direct, there would be serious consequences.
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced a heightened level of terrorist threat, and America braced for attack.
From Rome to Seoul, Johannesburg to Melbourne, people have been calling for peace. As part of a global protest on Saturday, the streets of 150 U.S.
Try to remember back to this past December. After returning to the University from Thanksgiving break you had one week of classes.
Election posters flap in the wind. Chalked messages riddle University sidewalks. University Career Services internship and career e-mails fill our inboxes.
I am in no position to endorse a candidate for Student Council. My knowledge of most of the candidates stems from chalk and fliers, word of mouth, and The Cavalier Daily news page.
WEEK AFTER week, University students either laud the accomplishments or scowl at the failures of our men's basketball and football teams with quick tongues.
"CHOOSE LIFE" is displayed in bright red letters across the bottom of a new license plate, with a pair of two smiling children's faces on the left-hand side.
For the past six Monday nights, millions of Americans have been unified -- not in a war against Iraq or terrorism -- but in a shouting match with the television.
Take heart, Universitystudents and citizens of Charlottesville. You're safe in this town. The bombs of Baghdad, the arsenal of al Qaeda, the nukes from North Korea -- nothing can touch us for we are now a City for Peace.
The University has always been an outstanding institution,despite the General Assembly's best efforts to ruin it.
Imagine being confronted, as everyone is from time to time, with someone who makes your blood boil: They believe everything you don't.
Students are getting better and better at cheating, and it's time for college faculty and administrators to do something about it. The latest scandal to rock the academic world happened last month at the University of Maryland, where 12 students in the undergraduate business school were accused of using their cell phones and PDAs to cheat on an exam. Faced with accusations in front of the school's Honor Council, six of the students admitted to academic misconduct and will be disciplined accordingly.
A call for a boycott of anything at this point in our country's history would not be that surprising, considering the political climate in both the domestic and foreign realms.
Last Monday, the front page of The Cavalier Daily featured a story about the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia and resulting death of all seven astronauts aboard.
ISIS is not the only problem preventing students from getting classes when they want them. Technology is a fun scapegoat, but there is a bigger problem: priority registration for Echols Scholars.
