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.
Arecent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests that sexual education is shifting from the classroom to the television screen.
Last week the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth announced that it had passed a bill mandating that illegal immigrants will pay out-of-state tuition even if they reside in the Commonwealth.
Doubtless to the chagrin of many University students, the face of one of their most loved traditions may be about to change.
LAST YEAR, at about this same time, there was a lot of concern shown within the University community regarding the Inter-Fraternity Council house rental policy and the effect it would have on student organizations outside of the Greek system.
FOR MANY, to be called a "politico" is as personally insulting as any other derogatory epithet one might imagine.
Last month, the Washington Post reported a new trend constituting a step back for both feminism and homosexual liberation ("Going Behind the Back," January 24). The Post brought to the public the latest method of negative recruiting in women's basketball: suggesting to recruits that opposing coaches are lesbians.
Compassionate conservatism. It is a pleasant slogan; it makes the right-wing sound less scary to moderate voters.
