SOME THINGS at this university become more ridiculous as the years go by. The continually increasing amount of red construction walls decorating Grounds for instance, or even the cutting back of parking spaces at the AFC just to put in another basketball court.
A NEWSPAPER lives and dies by its credibility. Readers don't have to believe everything they see in print, and journalists must strive to gain and keep their trust and respect.
TRADITIONALLY, a family's legal responsibility for child support used to end at age 18. Starting Oct.
IT'S AN oxymoron. And frankly, it could easily be 20 more years before it reaches drugstore shelves.
SO YOU come back to the University expecting everything to be normal (besides the construction, of course), but you know you are wrong once you step into the library.
THE CITY of Charlottesville has decided to decrease parking in the area for non-residents (a.k.a.
MANY STUDENTS at the University have been troubled by recent announcements regarding the implementation of a printing limit in ITC public computing labs.
LAST SPRING, Playboy magazine approached the student bodies of several universities in the Big 12 conference, including Baylor University, and solicited offers for students to appear in their publication.
FAITH is a funny thing. Hitorically it has driven men to the extremes of good and evil, warming many hearts with hope while destroying many others in malice.
IN THE world of golf, Augusta National Golf Club has stood as one of the great traditions of the game.
OH, THE horror. A number of residents of Brown College and the Gooch-Dillard residence area believe the Big Bad Wolf Housing Division has wronged them, wronged them bad.
UPON RETURNING to school a week ago for my fourth year, a number of things immediately got on my nerves.
During my past year at the University I lived without a car at 2112 -- a.k.a. the end of -- Jefferson Park Avenue, which, as all upperclassmen know and first years will soon find out, is possibly the worst idea ever.
IT'S BEEN two years since the state of South Carolina finally decided to remove the rebel cross from the dome of the capitol.
NEWSPAPERING is a delicate art and an exacting science. Reporters must write balanced, objective stories.
SPEEDING tickets and traffic schools. The two words go together almost as well as peanut butter and jelly.
Sami Al-Arian, a tenured professor at the University of South Florida, has abused academic freedom. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Board of Trustees at the University of South Florida is going to court to see if it can fire Al-Arian for his supposed links to terrorism.
I DON'T often like to make moral appeals. I have never asked anyone to "think of the children." I have never said something should not be done "in the interest of common decency." That is why I feel slightly silly when I type the following phrase: Is nothing sacred?
ONE NEED not be a daily follower of Virginia politics to know all public institutions are facing a fiscal crisis of colossal proportions.
JOHN ASHCROFT is the worst Attorney General that President Bush could have selected. Well, maybe that's an overstatement, but he certainly does not seem to possess any of the qualities and virtues necessary to be a good Attorney General of the United States.
