In the public forum, there will always be groups that are favored and those that are not.
The Virginia demographic data released last Thursday from the 2010 United States Census provides concrete statistical evidence of something state residents have known for several years - the commonwealth has become substantially more diverse.
It may not mean much, and I have only 250 words or less to say it, but from somebody who's outside of University academia and a next door neighbor living in Fry's Spring: Well done on your Jan.
SINCE 1976, pro-life and pro-choice advocates have come to a truce on one thing: Taxpayer funds are not to be used to pay for abortions except for in the cases of rape, incest and when the pregnancy is dangerous to the health of the mother.
EVERY year Americans celebrate the most sacred sports holiday ever broadcast on television: the Super Bowl.
Lost in the excitement surrounding Super Bowl XLV was yesterday's kickoff of another contest that has the potential to be even more bone-jarring - that is, the debate between the Virginia House of Delegates and the State Senate about appropriations for the final 16 months of the state's two-year budget.
MYTHS CAN be difficult. I once began a newspaper story by saying some idea or other had sprung from a county supervisor's head fully formed, like Venus from the head of Zeus.
The political character of college campuses is the subject of much debate among pundits and the like.
THE MOST inspiring, most powerful and most beautiful advancement of human civilization is not the Great Pyramid of Giza or any other of the Seven Wonders.
IN ORDER to make any endeavour a valuable experience, one must work hard at it and sustain the effort.
Many University faculty focus their instruction on the past in the hopes that their students may apply the lessons learned to the future.
The lead editorial "Book Smart" (Feb. 1) was a blatantly inaccurate debasing of the Commerce School curriculum.
Define successful. Science, Technology and Society
ONE OF my friends just started a semester abroad in Antwerp, Belgium. Aside from getting used to all the nuances of living in a new culture, one of the biggest surprises she found was that "most people don't speak English." While English is the lingua franca or international language of the world, many people still do not speak it well enough to have more than a basic conversation.
