A RECENT decree by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has gotten women's rights organizations and many other people in an uproar.
ALMOST every time I attend my environmental science class, my professor, Robert Swap, implores us to get involved with the environment in some capacity or another.
IN A RECENTLY published editorial titled "Plagiarism update" (Oct.
IN THE modern world, it seems absurd that you could be put to death for your faith, right? Such a barbaric practice took place in the Middle Ages, but surely not now.
THERE is a country in the Middle East that lately has been flouting the will of the international community.
When Bank of America announced last week that it plans to start charging some customers a $5 monthly fee for using their debit cards, University students reacted with dismay.
The University recently announced its intention to apply for a $500,000 Virginia Department of Transportation grant that would enable the establishment of an on-Grounds bike sharing program, which would be known as UBikes.
HEALTH is a regular topic on the minds of Americans. Obesity, heart health, cancer and so forth are big issues both in terms of the coverage they receive and the amount of money that is spend addressing them.
THE HONOR Committee's decision to bring charges against the managing board of The Cavalier Daily stands as a great injustice.
WHEN I had my first boyfriend in high school and was waiting for him to pick me up to go to the movies, my dad asked me if I had money on me. "He'll probably pay," I remember my father saying, "but you should still offer." He did pay.
In the latest installment of what has become a disturbing public policy trend, House Republicans last week released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 that includes significant reductions to federal spending on higher education.
LET US get this part out of the way early. Even if they are not editing the stories they are quoted in - and they are not, so far as I know - the editors at The Cavalier Daily who faced or are facing charges related to an editorial about plagiarism ("Taking action," Sept.
The Cavalier Daily regrets to inform readers that it has discovered an instance of plagiarism that occurred in an April 21 opinion column, "A Walkway to Remember." Exact phrases were lifted without attribution from a post titled "Come on Down to the Crossroads
AN EARTHQUAKE in Haiti, a flood in Pakistan, a tsunami in Japan and droughts in East Africa. Do you even remember these disasters?
SAM NOVAK'S Sept. 21 Viewpoint column, "Bottling the message" presents a reasoned perspective on the issue of underage college drinking and the University's response to this serious problem.
IN THE Cavalier Daily's Sept. 29 article "Three men rob fourth year at gunpoint," fourth-year College student Danny Schmidt expresses disbelief and agitation about the "lack of security" in the "area immediately surrounding the University." After having been robbed at gunpoint near Rugby Road, Schmidt finds it "preposterous" that a student "should feel unsafe walking along a highly populated, well-lit area on a Tuesday night." What I find preposterous is Schmidt's complete ignorance of the reality of our community.
