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.
THERE are several epiphanies that have made me sit up from mental slumber in my modern physics class this semester, but I suppose the one I should talk about here is the fact that the neutron was discovered only in 1932.
TODAY, as we inaugurate our first female president, we can be proud of the progress this university has made toward overcoming its history of exclusion.
When Virginia legislators convened several weeks ago to redraw the lines of the state's House and Senate districts, there was hope the state finally would escape its endless cycle of partisan gerrymandering.
FOR THE Class of 2015, the University received 23,942 applications. This figure represents a 6 percent increase from the number of applications submitted for the Class of 2014.
University Dining announced last week the results of the "Share Your Bowl" food donation program that it implemented jointly with Kellogg's earlier this semester.
THERE is nothing better than being a conservative at the University. Just enough like-minded individuals are present on Grounds to make one's political life bearable, while sufficient opposition exists to fully vet one's worldview by graduation.
MAHATMA Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." By these standards, the United States is not the great nation it claims to be, but instead a nation vested in unsound morals and barbaric agricultural practices. Every year in the United States, 10 billion animals are slaughtered to meet Americans' meat consumption demands.
THE UNIVERSITY of Virginia Alumni Association hosted another tremendous gathering of black alumni and guests from March 31 to April 2.
