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Imagine it is the year 2030.
Who knows what Tyler Molander was thinking - probably not that he was pushing envelopes, as he slid letters stamped with smiley faces under dorm rooms doors at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
I hate to make it seem like all I do is watch the local news, but guess what, I do. And so it did not escape my notice that a new bill has made its way through the Virginia House of Delegates and is waiting for the State Senate's verdict.
At the heart of democracy lies the fundamental notion that every citizen has an equal voice in society.
Already, it is a spectacle. The Commonwealth of Virginia v. George Huguely will begin today, attracting media and loved ones, who park or exit trolleys, or walk to attend the jury selection for a case summoning all the speculation and pageantry a showcase trial still carries in the South.
The past few editions of The Cavalier Daily have been distressing to me, with all the stories surrounding the current crisis in higher education.
Edward Rothstein's Jan. 27 review in The New York Times of the new National Museum of American History's exhibit, "Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty," notes that American Indians, indentured servants and women need a separate historical examination than that offered by the Smithsonian exhibit, which is also opening at Monticello. How I wish Mr. Jefferson's University of Virginia would heed Rothstein's advice.
Ambition has always traveled upwind in this country, and so in each generation with a westward breeze California goes against the current.
Del. David Englin, D-Alexandria, recently proposed legislation which would call for a study to evaluate the revenue impact of regulating and selling marijuana through Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control stores.
Even after the protests of major websites such as Wikipedia brought attention to the censorship issues raised by recent anti-piracy acts in Congress, little attention has been given to how something like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would protect the rights of artists besides movie stars and musicians.
Admissions offices are pamphleteers of the prospective class struggle which hand out their literature to uninformed students who know little about what they are getting into besides heaps of debt.
The United States was created with a definite barrier between church and state. Nevertheless, the debate about the teaching of evolution as opposed to creationism in U.S.
Our peers could best be described as the cyber generation. Year after year, we delve further into the Internet.
There is a fundamental debate raging in the higher education world right now. The basic resolution reads: Is higher education a public or private good? Without a doubt, this is an important question.
Not with a ring but a pen, prospective college football players end their courtships with all schools but one today, signing letters of intent which bind them to a particular institution, in turn guaranteeing them one year's worth of financial aid.
President Sullivan recently led the University community in a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy.
