DURING the past several weeks, the wave of protests in the Middle East and North Africa has continued to spread.
I AM A CO-FOUNDER of Acceptional, which runs The Essay Exchange, and wanted to respond to Assoc. College Dean Maurie McInnis and the recent article in The Cavalier Daily titled "Website solicits students" (March 17). Although I respect the opinions Dean McInnis has conveyed, I wanted to share Acceptional's opinions on plagiarism and the economic inequality that exists in admissions to top schools. We absolutely agree with Dean McInnis's view on plagiarism.
For many students, academic recesses are defined by delicious home-cooked meals. Those who remain at the University throughout breaks, however, face a dilemma because of the temporary closure of the University's dining facilities.
LAST WEEK, Libyan rebels had occupied the eastern half of their country and were advancing on Tripoli.
Power grabs and dishonesty occur often in American politics, but two bills introduced earlier this month in the New Hampshire legislature that would have restricted the ability of the state's students to vote in their college localities were especially egregious in these respects.
I have not written The Cavalier Daily before. I do recall a friend, Larry Brunton, writing you about a truth in journalism issue.
The General Assembly's refusal to extend funding to the restoration of the Rotunda is a discouraging oversight of our duty to protect this historic site as citizens of Virginia, the United States and the world. The reasons for restoration are both symbolic and utilitarian.
OIL APPEARS to be the problem that will not go away. Just last weekend when I went to fill up my tank for the return drive to Charlottesville, gas was selling for $3.50 a gallon, down from $3.70.
TRAVELING is defined not only by the places you see, but also by the people you meet along the way. While traveling this Spring Break, I happened to sit next to an elderly woman who quite unexpectedly taught me an invaluable life lesson. She was what one might call a personal historian.
IT BEGAN in Tunisia with a young man who set himself and, perhaps unknowingly, the region on fire. Mohamed Bouazizi was the spark that lit the Middle East and led to an organic and peaceful movement to overthrow the oppressive regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
When the Virginia General Assembly passed its modifications to the state's two-year operating budget last month and allocated a $65 million funding increase to higher education, the plan was hailed as the first step toward achieving Gov.
Bennett Sorbo's "parting shots" at the University ("A shot across the bow," March 3), while excellently showcasing why he was not allowed to write any columns earlier, saddened me with its depiction of Brown Residential College. In the words of a former resident, Brown is "a place for the interesting and the interested." Because of its many conveniences and unique reputation, people of all types apply to live in Brown every semester.
In response to your article "A fur-vent debate" (March 2), I would like to send high praise to Ashley Chappo for exposing what's at stake for animals killed in the meat industry, the skin trade and other businesses that seek to profit off the abuse of animals.
IF AN ELECTED legislator were to claim college students lack life experience and act on emotion, there would not be much controversy.
THE EVER quotable Winston Churchill once stated, "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain." Upon reading this, most individuals will be shocked and dismayed to know that they either apparently have little or no human compassion or are doomed to a rather crotchety life of watching Fox News.
FOR CLOSE to two years, I've had the pleasure of enduring an all-too-common question - that is, why was I sacrificing the entirety of my undergraduate life for "some cruddy student newspaper?" I used to take mild offense at the remark.
WHEN I was young - say, about 10 years old - I wrote in a journal. At 12, I started another, and at 14, there was yet another. These diary entries consisted of - among other topics - adolescent ramblings about why I was angry that day, of in-like letters to a boy in the school hallway, of quoted lines from Lord Byron and ee cummings.
