THE UNIVERSITY practices affirmative action. There have been many arguments made that this practice is unfair to non-minority students.
THERE'S been a lot of grumbling around here lately. There's always a lot of grumbling, and confusion, when course selection season roles around, and the faculty advising system bears the brunt of these complaints. Each student is assigned a faculty adviser based on their first-year dorm association, and, in most cases, keeps that adviser until he declares a major and is assigned a major adviser.
AFTER we watched our country under attack over two months ago, many University students felt helpless.
RACE IS one of the biggest issues on Grounds today. From self-segregation to affirmative action, from stereotyping to multiculturalism, it is a rare moment when the University is silent about race and diversity. But even with all the dialogue on this issue, the University community is lacking a constructive medium for an exchange of ideas.
OLDER people especially are fond of pointing out, in listing the blessings of the college-aged, that we still have our health.
PUBLIC education often lacks the ability to provide children with skills due to the lack of appropriate resources.
THE FUTURE of assisted suicide and the right to "die with dignity" for terminally ill patients in Oregon will come to a critical junction Nov.
AMONG many new measures to try to curb the threat of terrorism in the United States, President George W.
WHAT HAPPENS if you have an election and nobody comes? I pondered this when I found out that Student Council elections are starting today.
KNOWLEDGE is power, as the saying goes. It's also just plain convenient. When it comes to managing information, small changes often can make the biggest difference in our daily lives.
SINCE 1987, the Commonwealth of Virginia has relied on a state-run lottery as one source of revenue.
DRUGS, when used properly, can advance the field of science and medicine beyond what humans ever dreamed possible.
MOTIVATION: the drive that fuels success and ambition. It can be found in abundance among a great majority of the student body at the University.
IMAGINE, for a moment, that you have diabetes. You have an illness caused by something in your genes or just bad biological fortune.
LOOKING at the pictures, I literally became sick to my stomach. I know racism and discrimination are alive and well in this country, but it is often easier to focus on the many positive aspects of race relations and glaze over the negatives.
ALTHOUGH people have waged the warfare of direct combat throughout the span of human history, only recently have the fears and thoughts of America's leaders and citizens turned to an even more frightening yet silent battle: bioterrorism.
ONCE AGAIN it is time to sign up for classes. For first years, this means taking part in an advising system which serves almost no purpose and inconveniences both students and professors.
LEAVE it to an English professor to lay the groundwork for a column topic, a topic that I have touched on before but have not given full attention: proofreading.
AS BOMBS continued to fall over Kandahar and Kabul, as troops were flown into Afghanistan to combat the Taliban, nearly 40 million Americans held their breaths and watched as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees.
THE UNIVERSITY'S chapter of the American Civil Liber-ties Union has, of late, come under attack for its involvement in the "NOT BLACK ... NOT JEWISH ... NOT FEMALE ... NOT GAY" flyers posted around Grounds.
