In defense of minority Greek groups
By Brian Cook | April 11, 2002MOST MINORITY groups around Grounds - especially black and minority Greek organizations - get a bum rap for self-segregation.
MOST MINORITY groups around Grounds - especially black and minority Greek organizations - get a bum rap for self-segregation.
IN A TERRIBLE tragedy, a six-day search for a dog left aboard a crippled ship in the Pacific Ocean has been called off - the tragedy being that the rescue operation cost an astounding $50,000.
ON THE Friday following my little-noticed March 20 column, "Phantoms of Racism," some anonymous fliers went up on the colonnades outside Bryan Hall that took issue with my stance on race relations at the University.
A WISE man in a wise book once wrote, "Man has dominated man to his own injury." Though written over 3,000 years ago, humans have proved that we have not moved beyond this sad state.
OVER THE past few months, the specter of impending terrorism has been hanging over the world. After the Sept.
In Joe McMurray's April 3 column "Freedom of speech for all, no matter how tasteless," he mistakenly referred to First Right as pro-choice when in fact it is the oldest of the University's pro-life organizations.
I DON'T expect all of you to like all my columns. What makes me mad is when people criticize me without bothering to understand my arguments. Being a columnist has taught me to actually read or listen to people's arguments before criticizing, even if I know we have different perspectives.
WE'VE ALL seen it. We've all stood in the stands and watched as athletic trainers knelt by the side of a 250-pound lineman who had been reduced to a scared boy who can't move or feel his legs.
AFTER speaking with, writing to, e-mailing and phoning thousands of fourth-year students, we've heard all the excuses: I'm not rich; I pay out-of-state tuition; I don't have a job; my gift won't matter.
BY MAY, circuit court judges in Philadelphia will have made a decision on the federalgovernment's newest attempt to restrict Internet pornography available to the public.
AS GRADUATION approaches, those fourth-year students who are not drowned in their theses can take a moment to wonder what their diplomas will mean.
IF THIS University is subjected to yet another Cavalier Daily column that points out the "unfairness" of some of the fliers posted around Grounds, I may just be sick.
SEX SELLS. In the case of Judith Levine's new book "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex," sex is not so much selling as it is surrounding the book with scandal. Levine's book argues that America's youth isn't receiving proper sex education and that parents and educators alike are striving to present an unrealistic view of the horrors of having a sex life.
SINCE Ariel Sharon marched upon the Temple Mount with an army of Israeli troops behind him 20 months ago, the Middle East has witnessed a humanitarian nightmare.
I HAVE made it through almost the entire year without jumping into an in-depth analysis of anything in the opinion section.
ALL RIGHT, I am warning you. Some of you super-liberals might want to sit down before you read this.
I AM NOT a pessimist by nature, but now that President Bush is sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Middle East to "help quell" the escalated Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I must implore you all to not give a crap, and go about your everyday lives.
A STUDENT at the University of Maryland-College Park recently died due to acute alcohol intoxication.
IT SHOULD be simple enough, right? Your band director or debate team coach hands you a little plastic cup, you fill it, a few minutes later you're back to practice, and a few days later, everyone knows you're clean.
AMERICAN history is littered with frivolous lawsuits. A Virginia inmate once sued himself for $5 million because he got drunk and violated his religious beliefs, causing him to commit a crime.