Opinion

Opinion

Honor system lacks legitimacy

By Brian Haluska | February 12, 2001

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.

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Opinion

Break leadership stereotypes

By Pallavi Guniganti | February 9, 2001

SOMETIMES there seem to be only a few dozen contributing members of the University community. These superhuman students run the publications we read, decide which speakers and musicians we hear and allocate funding for the organizations whose meetings we attend.

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Opinion

Making a case for merits of mottoes

By Luke Ryan | February 9, 2001

WHEN A child is brought into this world, a mother must accept an amazing life responsibility as role model and teacher of this child.

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Opinion

Many misinterpret media sex study

By Faraz Rana | February 9, 2001

WARNING: This column contains a three lettered word beginning with the letter "s" and ending in "ex." If you are in any way offended by such content, please adhere to this warning and continue at your own risk.

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Opinion

Measure quality, not quantity of non-Virginians

By Megan Moyer | February 9, 2001

THE FAILURE of bill 2506, which would limit out-of-state enrollment at Virginia universities to twenty five percent, ensures that the University itself can decide how many applicants from outside the Commonwealth will be admitted.

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Opinion

Or blinded by lack of student input?

By Scott Sottile | February 8, 2001

WHEN I began researching and brainstorming for this article it was tough to distill a single point why students should not pass the honor referenda.

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Opinion

Pointless to point at media flaws

By Timothy Duboff | February 8, 2001

HI, I'M JOHNNY Knoxville and this is Extreme Irresponsibility. It happens far too often in our society that parents will seek to shift the blame for their own incompetence from themselves to the media, or even more obnoxiously, to "society." You and I know how absurd this is, but it makes for an interesting story, so most news outlets will continue to publish this plea no matter how ridiculous it gets. By now, most of us are familiar with the planned lawsuit on behalf of Jason Lind, a Connecticut 13-year-old who set himself ablaze while mimicking a television stunt.

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Opinion

Seeing sense in proposed changes...

By Thomas Hall | February 8, 2001

IN ABOUT three weeks, the student body will have the opportunity to vote on four packages of amendments to the Honor Committee constitution.

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Opinion

Making the skies friendlier, more efficient

By Brian Cook | February 8, 2001

LITTLE things bother me. A hamburger with too much ketchup. A desk that wobbles. Sitting on an airport tarmac for six hours.

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Opinion

Fighting society's misguided blame

By Bryan Maxwell | February 7, 2001

DATE RAPE drugs. Those may be the three scariest words I've ever read. But never in my wildest dreams did I think that phrase could ever become more than words on a page - that it would jump out of a book to touch my life.

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Opinion

Crowded classes impede learning experience

By Emily Harding | February 7, 2001

PICTURE this: a board meeting. The new recruit, fresh out of U.Va., is busily scribbling, taking note of everything important.

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Opinion

Clinic locale proves threatening

By Seth Wood | February 7, 2001

AS OFFICIAL North Grounds Goodwill Ambassador to this newspaper's readership, it only seems appropriate to alert those in the University community to the arrival of a new neighborhood resident.

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Opinion

Chit-chat changes community dynamic

By Kelly Sarabyn | February 7, 2001

WALKING down Main Street late Tuesday night, I was stopped by the mumblings of a man. "I'm angry," the man muttered as he stumbled past.

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Opinion

Rush debate: It's Greek to me

By Michelle Drucker | February 6, 2001

RUSH. THE word kind of makes your stomach turn, doesn't it? Associated with it are images of black pants, small talk and hard core partying.

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Opinion

Spotting areas for improvement despite an overall smooth start

By Brent Gartland | February 6, 2001

THE 112th Managing Board is off to a strong start. I suspect by now they are mostly stunned by the amount of work and time they will have to put in on a daily basis, and so I was pleased to see such a good job this first week.

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Opinion

Council's actions fend off student apathy

By Elizabeth Managan | February 6, 2001

BETWEEN the continuing ethical lapses of the Clintons and the hoopla over whether or not President Bush is living up to his promises of bipartisanship, most University students -- like the country as a whole -- have become skeptical about government.

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Opinion

Finding family in an unexpected place

By Ed Hock | February 5, 2001

I am writing my farewell column for an organization I never thought I would join. And reflecting now on my last three years with The Cavalier Daily, I would not change a thing. I left high school with an intensely bitter taste for school publications.

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Opinion

Now my heart is full

By Nicola White | February 5, 2001

In high school, I felt the wonder of writing fiction for the first time. I marveled at the way words and images came together, the way it helped me figure out my life as an Irish immigrant and a kid growing up in Queens.

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Opinion

The greatest

By Brian Haluska | February 5, 2001

The middle of June 1997, sitting under the bright lights of a football stadium in southeastern Virginia.

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Opinion

Local boy does good

By Tom Bednar | February 5, 2001

WRITERS write like dogs bark. We do it because of nature and instinct. We do it because something makes us, because we're compelled to express ourselves in a certain way, at a certain volume. I'm at the end of one line in a short career of writing.