It's not hard to find pictures of hardened criminals and wanted men on TV these days. Turn on any news channel and in any given minute mug shots of Osama bin Laden, the alleged snipers and various other felons will flash by repeatedly.
WHENEVER race issues at the University reenter the spotlight, many of the same issues get thrown around.
YOU'D THINK freshman year was hard enough. All of a sudden, you're doing more reading in a night than you did in a week in high school.
NOW THAT the two sniper suspects have been identified, there will no doubt be a media blitz that will delve into the lives and motives of the suspects.
OVER THE past decade, the apathetic attitude of many African-American students has hindered progress toward student equality in the University community.
MAYBE you heard. In 1970, a group of University students led by James Roebuck, the first African-American Student Council president, held a protest on the Lawn.
Actions speak louder than words. The old cliche held true once more as 400 or more students silently marched on The Cavalier Daily last Wednesday in order to air their grievances.
I understand that everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion and everyone has a right to free speech.
POP QUIZ: Question one: During what 50-year period did the Civil War take place? A) 1750-1800 B) 1800-1850 C) 1850-1900 D) 1900-1950.
I've written in the past about why newspaper reporters and editors must separate themselves from the news.
Society long has considered alcohol as having an oppressive quality to it. For example, historians consider Europeans' introduction of "firewater" to Indians during the colonial period as having large-scale detrimental effects on the latter's society.
MIDTERM ELECTIONS are fast approaching and the Bush administration's plans for war have Democrats on the defensive.
GUILTY. When I returned from out of town this weekend to find an e-mail from a friend in my inbox telling me the verdict of the Boyd trial, I didn't know what to say.
PRESIDENT George W. Bush has kidnapped Christopher Hitchens and has replaced him with a robot designed to tout the administration's line on Iraq.
IN AMERICA, one of the prices of freedom is registration of information. Our government has a right to know certain things about us if we are to receive and accept the incredible benefits it provides.
GET OUT the vote: every political candidate, staffer and analyst knows the importance of this requirement as a campaign strategy.
IN HIS Oct. 23 opinion column "The Griot Society's mixed signals," Anthony Dick made some bold and controversial statements about The Griot Society, a student organization on Grounds founded on the premise of educating students about the African Diaspora.
Last week, under pressure from U.S. diplomats concerning reports of Korean uranium acquisitions, North Korea publicly announced that it is now a nuclear nation.
Imagine this: $7 billion in bonds and $18 billion in revenue is given to an unelected group to improve traffic and the only result is, 20 years later, there are 99 more miles of congested lanes than when you started.
Using heroin is illegal, so it would seem self-evident that using academic grant money to fund your habit would be not only illegal, but also inappropriate.
