Opinion

Opinion

Funding Ethernet creates vital connection

By Luke Ryan | March 30, 2001

MONDAY'S lead editorial, "Disconnect Ethernet subsidies," wrongly attacked the University administration for helping fraternity and sorority organizations pay for the installation of expensive high-speed Ethernet service. The administration and the Inter-Fraternity and Inter-Sorority Councils should be commended for reaching a fair and beneficial agreement last semester to supplement two-thirds of the Ethernet installation cost with University funds.

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Opinion

Fourth-year reflections on honor's fatal flaw

By Timothy Duboff | March 29, 2001

YOUR FINAL few weeks here at the University can lead to a lot of reflection. You begin to think about how the University has changed you and how you in turn would like to see changes in the University.

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Opinion

Casual slurs harm closeted homosexuals

By Brian Cook | March 29, 2001

ON THE other side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, students at James Madison University are getting riled up about an alleged "hate crime." On March 17, a male student reportedly harassed and assaulted three members of the women's rugby team. Why is this a hate crime?

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Opinion

Assesing Horowitz ad

By Pallavi Guniganti | March 29, 2001

ON THE news page are people who like to write about the facts. This page prints people who enjoy broadcasting their opinions.

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Opinion

Stopping search for spouse in college

By Juliana Chan | March 29, 2001

COLLEGE students think about it night and day. Our search is relentless. We scurry around looking between every crevice and under every nook and cranny.

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Opinion

Or sound editorial judgement?

By Michael Costa | March 29, 2001

I AM NOT a supporter of the David Horowitz ad, "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea - and Racist Too." I do not believe that the ad should appear in the pages of campus newspapers such as our own The Cavalier Daily.

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Opinion

Deaf to controversial ideas

By Andrew E. Borchini | March 29, 2001

JOHN STUART Mill once said, "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

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Opinion

Learning from music oppressed by Third Reich

By Matt West | March 29, 2001

AN EVENT such as the Gala for Music Suppressed by the Third Reich is an activity essential to enriching student life.

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Opinion

McCain bill favors incumbents

By Seth Wood | March 28, 2001

IF YOU, the readership of this fine newspaper, have a pulse, you undoubtedly have felt it. It's that sense of an impending emotional high and of a growing groundswell of support for an important issue.

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Opinion

Inconsistency in state funds shows need for greater reliance on private donations

By Alex Rosemblat | March 28, 2001

THE UNIVERSITY recently finished its largest fund-raising project, drawing an unprecedented $1.43 billion in private donations.

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Opinion

No simple solutions to safety concerns

By Bryan Maxwell | March 28, 2001

SAFE AND sound. It's a nice phrase, sort of warm and fuzzy. Wouldn't we all like to be safe and sound, to snuggle up under the warm blanket of feeling safe?

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Opinion

Securing safety at Lambeth

By Michelle Drucker | March 27, 2001

THIS PAST August, I moved into my present on-Grounds housing, Lambeth Field Apartments. In general, the situation seemed great - decent size rooms, a common area with a store and a laundry room and an area filled with other students my age.

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Opinion

Snuffing out anti-smoking sentiment

By Laura Sahrama | March 27, 2001

THERE'S a new breed of outcasts in the 21st century. In public places, these people are separated from everyone else and relegated to dank corners.

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Opinion

Referenda results disappoint alumni

March 27, 2001

AT THE May 1999 graduation ceremonies, I had the opportunity to give remarks on behalf of the Alumni Association Board of Managers.

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Opinion

Gilmore faces facts about south

By Elizabeth Managan | March 27, 2001

THERE are some people that just can't accept that the fight is over and they've lost. I've always found creationists who fight teaching evolution instead of accepting that the scientific community has embraced it puzzling.

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Opinion

Ad purposefully traps papers

By Brian Haluska | March 26, 2001

SOMEWHERE in the past 200-odd years, the words "free press" got mangled. Like parallel lines going off into the distance, "freedom of the press" and "free speech" converged, even when the two aren't all that similar. When left-wing activist turn conservative commentator David Horowitz submitted his controversial advertisement regarding slavery reparations to various collegiate newspapers across the nation, the actions of a free press are what denied the ad from seeing newsprint in the majority of those publications. Our founding fathers knew that a free press was necessary to ward off tyranny.

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Opinion

Board ignores weighty student issues

By Katherine Martini | March 26, 2001

OF ALL the catch phrases and jargon heard around Grounds, none is so pervasive as our sacred "community of trust." Since your first tour of the University, it's likely that some administrator has spoken of it as many times as casserole surprise has been doled out at Newcomb Hall.

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Opinion

Finger pointers at fault in ad debate

By Brent Garland | March 26, 2001

WHEN I reflect on it, I am mostly grateful not to be the editor of a newspaper. While I get my share of complaints and nasty letters, rarely can I move them to come and trash my offices.

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Opinion

Exposing common drug use myths

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | March 26, 2001

WHEN EDUCATORS and legislators teach and talk in moral absolutes, they've ceased to be educators and legislators.

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Opinion

Appreciate all aspects of college life

By Megan Moyer | March 23, 2001

AS COLLEGE students, we have countless things to worry about. From war and famine to midterms, papers and lack of sleep, we could spend all day - and all night - worrying about one thing or another.