IT'S HARD to feel like a real student these days. There aren't many classes left to sign up for, there isn't much room for us at University Hall and we must always have a little plastic card to prove our status. The University remains a wonderful school with a strong academic tradition.
SOMETIMES we get so caught up in our causes that we become petty, stupid and dogmatic about them.
ONCE AGAIN, we've reached the point in the school year when prospective candidates for different positions of student leadership begin to besiege students across Grounds, armed with petitions and pages of signatures. This spring's election season has the distinction of being one of the most highly anticipated in years, as the Honor Committee has put several constitutional changes on the ballot that are guaranteed to stir up controversy. In the College of Arts and Sciences, it's a time of fierce campaigning between candidates for the Honor Committee, the Judiciary Committee and Student Council. In smaller schools of the University, however, the atmosphere is a bit different.
STUDENTS will vote later this month on amendments to the honor constitution that will have a profound impact on the fairness of honor trials.
IT REALLY is time to move on. A former president who attracts controversy like honey attracts bees is certainly front page material for The National Enquirer, but even juicy gossip can get dry after it's been repeatedly beaten to a dead pulp.
I'M TURNING myself in. I probably would have gotten away with it, would have marched down the Lawn and gotten my diploma next year, and no one would have been the wiser.
MUCH AS it pains me to say, it appears that there is a recession in the works. This bothers me - and it should concern my fellow fourth-years as well - for two reasons.
IF YOU haven't heard anything about the upcoming vote on the Honor Committee's proposed changes to the honor system, then you've either been living under a rock or have been riddled with the winter flu that's going around.
THE HOUSING Division is set to reject the petition of the Woody House Council to attain priority housing next year, and some say that the residents of Woody have been compensated enough for their troubles.
AS OFFICIAL North Grounds Love Correspondent, numerous confused Business and Law students come up to me, asking about what to do about Valentine's Day.
LET'S BE honest with ourselves: Honor is dying. It's happening, slowly but surely. The only question left for us is whether to own up to that fact and let it die quickly, with dignity, or whether to ignore reality until honor coughs its last gasp in our collective face. Now, I love the concept of honor.
MY FRIEND tells me I am a hopeless romantic. She claims that love is not an indescribable spiritual connection between two people, but rather a matter of mere compatibility.
PART OF the Republican mantra is that people should be trusted with their own money first, and turn it over to the government second.
IT SEEMS as though typical young adults are expected to react in one of two ways to Valentine's Day - either with unparalleled joy because they have a significant other, or with contempt and disgust because they are single.
AROUND the University and in Char- lottesville, we like to quote Thomas Jefferson. From daily exercise to self-governance, we use "what Mr. Jefferson would have wanted" to justify anything we want to do.
OF THE University, Thomas Jefferson once said "the great object of our aim from the beginning has been to make this establishment the most eminent in the United States, in order to draw to it the youth of every state." Jefferson wanted to create an excellent school not only for Virginians, but also for students from across the country.
I CAN make your life better. Here are some of my ideas for making your Valentine's Day extremely special.
WITH VALENTINE'S Day just around the corner, I can imagine what's on most people's minds. Beat Duke!
THE IMPORTANCE of investigative journalism: Investigative reporting is the single most important task journalists can engage in.
I WANT TO thank the Board of Visitors. After the story last week about how the Board may have suggested some of the changes in the honor system that we will be voting on this spring, my initial reaction was that of smug satisfaction. I've always thought that the honor system could not exist in its current form for much longer, and that it would only be a matter of time before some outside force took matters into its own hands.
