AS WORLD War II was spreading in the beginning of 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt gave his famous speech in which he outlined four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
WITHOUT a doubt, The Cavalier Daily is a student newspaper. Yet, at the same time the paper is also a self-supporting, independent business.
TUESDAY, Virginia's future made history. Kids from Charlottesville, Albemarle County and surrounding areas voted in the largest secure Internet election ever.
TO RUSH or not to rush. This would have been an interesting dilemma for me last fall. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to face that decision. Last spring, when I did have that decision to make, I chose not to rush.
IT'S HARD enough to understand how we can lose someone so early in life. It's even harder when that someone stood out in a crowd and effortlessly effected change in the world.
Should students who are caught streaking the Lawn be arrested? No. My personal opinion is that students shouldn't [be arrested] because of tradition.
IT'S HARD enough to understand how we can lose someone so early in life. It's even harder when that someone stood out in a crowd and effortlessly effected change in the world.
SO THEY put up a big white tent, but tables and shade do not an intellectual community make. And they moved fall rush, blaming kegs and frat boys for the erosion of the academical village.
Should students who are caught streaking the Lawn be arrested? No. My personal opinion is that students shouldn't [be arrested] because of tradition.
THE EMERGENCE of a third political party shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Voters are tired of having a choice of only two candidates - especially when it is hard to find real differences between the two. With a robust economy and few pressing issues to divide public opinion, there's little forcing candidates to take stands.
SYNCHRONIZE your watches, people. In T-minus four days, Halloween festivities will descend upon America's streets, engulfing the nation in a huge, candy-scented mushroom cloud of blissful entertainment.
SAFE SEX? Or save sex? Which message should schools' sex education programs teach kids today? Although it's a personal and passion-filled issue, activists and politicians are getting the final say on classroom curricula.
MOST DEBATE on the issue of whether evolution ought to be taught in the classroom tends to focus on the presumed invalidity of evolution.
WHILE everyone is harping on who does or doesn't deserve to be at the University, they're leaving something out.
THE UNIVERSITY community should be grateful for the ethnic diversity the Board of Visitors ensured by voting to retain affirmative action.
PERHAPS The Cavalier Daily staff has simply gotten into the midterm spirit, but if last week's papers were graded, it appears the paper is well on its way toward a strong semester performance.
LAST WEEK Elizabeth Dole dropped out of the presidential race. She decided that she was unable to compete with frontrunner George W.
I'D ALMOST forgotten my high school experience -- and that's no accident. I've tried to block it out for years.
ACROSS these mountains, across several rivers, over used battlefields and county lines and every sort of geography but deserts, there is a place that I called home for as long as I was there. It seems worth mention, as this is Parents' Weekend, and we are welcoming the visitors from the many places we call home.
UNTIL recently, I thought of my father as your basic pen-and-pencil type of guy. Give him a sheet of paper and some kind of gilded, expensive writing utensil, and he happily will compose pages of fine prose.
