THIRTY-TWO years and two days ago, the first Earth Day kicked off amid gloomy outlooks on the future of the planet.
THERE are hints that something is brewing in Europe. Semblances of a frightening future of prejudice have recently begun to emerge.
IN DUBLIN on Jan. 28, Maeve and Brendan were sitting down to breakfast and The Irish Times. "Look at this, Maeve," said Brendan.
THESE DAYS, racism is not as blatant as it once was. Gone are the days when a person could call someone a chink without being looked down upon, or make fun of slanted eyes without looking ignorant.
YES, SIREE, America has gone a prospectin'. This is no California gold rush of 1849, folks. We're talking about black gold - the stuff Western dreams are made of.
BOV. OUT of context, one might think they are yet another boy band arriving on the scene. Maybe they are the latest conglomerates of hi-tech biotechnological testing laboratories.
WELL THIS is it. This is the last time that I will be enlightening the University community with my insightful prose and the last time that I will be writing an opinion column for The Cavalier Daily. It is still sinking in that four years have gone by since I wrote my first piece on a computer requirement for first-year students, but those four years have taught me more than I ever could have imagined.
THE DAYS of U.S. global leadership are coming to an end. Unless something is done immediately, the planned International Criminal Court will provide a forum for anti-American elements around the world to turn their grudges into an attack upon U.S.
THE COUNTDOWN has begun. Less than one week until the well-celebrated day full of drunken debauchery.
I READ an interesting article a week ago in The Washington Post. It focused on how a fairly ordinary task - riding the bus - had become a dangerous activity for many people around Jerusalem.
IT SHOULD be no secret that the female community at U.Va. faces many problems. What is most upsetting about the situation of women here is that what is most lacking, as a friend of mine so aptly put it, is, "U.Va.- women's' concern for other women [on Grounds]." In recognition of this problem, the women of this university need to come together and make fostering a stronger and more cohesive female community at the University a priority.
AS A HIGH school junior, I attended a school assembly on affirmative action. Given that I went to high school in a liberal college town in the 1990s, the assembly was not all that notable.
EUROPEAN professors are petitioning for a boycott of Israeli cultural and research institutions, because of Israel's military actions in the West Bank.
IMAGINE someone who has run for Honor, University Judiciary Committee and class representative, and lost three times.
IMAGINE children having sex. It's repulsive, it's immoral and the mental image is both painful to the head and nauseating to the stomach.
THE CHANCES are greater that you will be struck by lightning twice tomorrow than have bought a winning lottery ticket for the Big Game, as of last Tuesday afternoon.
YOUR LIFE is validated in America when your chewed gum makes headlines and sells for $10,000. For star baseball player Luis Gonzalez, the sad reality of what it means to be a celebrity in America finally was realized this week when a piece of gum he chewed was part of an auction and ensuing scandal.
I GOT A Masters degree in philosophy from the University in 1997 and had learned so little that I stuck around and foolishly helped the Labor Action Group push for a living wage for University workers.
AS IS CUSTOMARY, the Board of Visitors invited Gov. Mark R. Warner to speak at this year's graduation ceremonies.
THE SUBJECT of living wage campaigns has gained prominence in many communities (including Charlottesville) during the past five years.
