Opinion

Give Brown a chance

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.

Animal rights and wrongs

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.

The relevance of residence

IF AN ELECTED legislator were to claim college students lack life experience and act on emotion, there would not be much controversy.

Changing sides

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.

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Getting lucky

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.

Love letter

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.

A shot across the bow

I KNEW this moment would finally come. Years ago, I set a plan in motion to be able to publish an article in The Cavalier Daily.

Survivor: print edition

UPON BEING elected the 121st chief financial officer of The Cavalier Daily, I knew the most difficult thing I would have to do on the job would be the inevitable parting shot I would have to write.

Better to have loved...

IF ALL the world tends toward entropy, The Cavalier Daily office is no exception - yet, it does so in an orderly kind of way.

Outside the lines

There was widespread disappointment when it was revealed that nationally only about 21 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the 2010 congressional midterm elections, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.

A fur-vent debate

EVERY day around the world, millions of defenseless animals suffer in silence at the hands of humans.

Straight to the point

THE LIVING Wage Campaign at the University - represented in part by Workers and Students United - hosted a rally last week to raise awareness of its agenda and attempt to pressure school administrators to consent to instituting an artificial minimum wage for all University employees.

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Taking the lead

The cruel twist of succeeding in a campaign for elected office is that after weeks of stumping and advertising the real work is yet to come.

A laissez-faire wage

With regard to your lead editorial "Taking care of our own" (Feb. 25), on what grounds can you justify your claim that the dining hall and janitorial employees at the University of Virginia are underpaid?

A FEW WEEKS ago, the winner of "Best Album" was announced at the Grammy Awards. The winner wasn't your standard pop diva starlet or king of hip-hop.

Spring break in your backyard

NEXT WEEK, the University will be participating in the college event that has long inspired National Lampoon straight-to-DVD movies.

A loan by any other name

MANY COLLEGE students around the country are very aware of the high cost of a college education. This expense is the result of not only the cost of tuition, but also the cost of living during those four memorable years.

Differential equations

When the Board of Visitors met last week, one of the issues it addressed was maintaining the Commerce School's prestige at a time when its faculty salaries and technological infrastructure are falling behind those at peer institutions.