Spring sign-up for University Dining meal plans is underway, which means dining recruiters are out in full force touting improvements for the 2011-12 academic year.
AMERICANS are not free. Instead, we are hemmed in by a vast and intrusive state apparatus that monitors and structures nearly every part of our lives.
University students often complain about policies such as tuition hikes, parking fare increases and facility maintenance timelines that are the direct result of government funding decisions.
THE UNIVERSITY of Virginia is known for its excellent academic facilities and programs. The University helps students achieve their goals in every area of life, including professionally.
ON FRIDAY, over one billion individuals in 192 countries will take part in the world's greatest civic observance - Earth Day 2011.
For the past several weeks, substantial attention has been given to open records requests lodged in Wisconsin and Michigan that ask for the release of emails sent and received by public university professors pertaining to politically sensitive subjects.
NOT A LOT of people have heard of a baseball player named Charlie "Chuckles" Nagy. He was a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians in the 1990s, and despite having a productive career he is probably best known for giving up the winning run in extra innings of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, which resulted in the Florida Marlins becoming champions. I was in second grade at the time and was forced to endure this conflagration.
SUSTAINABILITY has been a part of the University's identity since the Academical Village's inception, when the gardens on the Lawn provided food and water for the students and faculty.
CAN'T SOMEONE else do it?" For "The Simpsons" aficionados, this slogan conjures up the episode in which Homer ran for sanitation commissioner and sang a parody of "The Candy Man" called "The Garbage Man." In many episodes, Homer represents mankind's flaws.
When the Board of Visitors approved an across-the-board 8.9 percent tuition and fees increase for undergraduates last week, it was the latest blow to University students and their parents who are struggling to cope with the rising costs of higher education.
In his open letter to Dean Groves, published March 28, fourth-year Keenan Davis expressed hope that students and faculty would respond in solidarity to the recent anti-Semitic actions on Grounds.
IN A FRIGHTENING study released last month, Newsweek magazine announced that 38 percent of Americans do not have enough knowledge about their own country to pass its citizenship test.
NINETY years ago, C. P. Scott celebrated his fiftieth year as editor of a British newspaper called the Guardian and the one hundredth anniversary of the Guardian itself with a commentary.
ON APRIL 8, the University's Human Resources Department circulated a "free speech" memo to all staff and faculty.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is a federal statute about which most students know very little, despite dealing with it on a regular basis.
"I SCORED in the 99th percentile on the ACT. I'm actually an Eagle Scout. I own and operate my own small business.
