For my fellow fourth years reading this column, I think we can all agree on one thing: Finding a job right now sucks.The economy is failing, companies are laying-off employees left and right, and almost every industry has some sort of a hiring freeze.
As of last Saturday, it is officially Spring. It is the season for Foxfield, narbecues, and outdoor sports, as well as spring advising, which is currently underway for the fall semester.
Wal-Mart. The name alone can spark debate, elicit groans and streams of vitriol, and can set off an internal battle in shoppers? minds between wanting to save money and wanting to fight off the big-box version of ?the man? at the same time.So it was inevitable that a store so notorious would cause so much controversy when it threatened to encroach upon a beloved historic battlefield.
President Obama owes much of his success to grassroots organizations.
The pictures have been splashed across the front pages of gossip magazines across the country: shock photos of Rihanna with swollen lips and black eyes, pictures of Chris Brown with his head bowed and eyes averted, bold black headlines declaring the state of their relationship, each one contradicting the next: ?They?re Over!?, ?She?s Taking Him Back!? The media frenzy following the fight in which Brown beat up his girlfriend Rihanna has essentially stripped both singers of their dignity, exposing their relationship for criticism and commentary from the informed and absolutely clueless alike.
President Obama, please tear down this wall. In the midst of your meteoric rise to become Harvard Law Review?s first black president in 1990, the Berlin Wall, which symbolized the Cold War, was reduced to rubble.
As I opened my inbox last week to read about the economics department?s new requirements, I hoped against hope the department had taken the step toward relevance I have long felt it needed.
I often spend my columns pointing out The Cavalier Daily?s shortcomings.
Today the wishes of students become reality. In a ceremony at 6 p.m., John Nelson will officially take up the mantle of Student Council president, accompanied by newly elected Vice President for Organizations Colin Hood and Vice President for Administration Nikhil Panda.
If the Commerce School is the number one undergraduate business school in the nation, as we are frequently reminded these days, why can?t they handle a providing an academic minor for College students?The answer, as it turns out, is much more nuanced than a cursory evaluation might provide.
On Tuesday, the Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) showed the PBS film Critical Condition, a documentary that follows the lives of a handful of people as they struggle without health insurance.
I'd like to give a shout out to all my Doyles and O?Brians out there.
Anytime a student submits work for evaluation, that student relies on the objectivity of the grader to receive a fair grade.
In Monday's Cavalier Daily a story highlighted recent research by a retired Duke professor Stuart Rojstaczer on the widespread grade inflation on college campuses around the country (?Research cites grade inflation as cause for national increase in GPA,? 3/16/2009). Recently, the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese here at the University shifted its grading policy to remove the A+ from its grading scale and making it more difficult to get an A in its language courses.
For the first time in eight semesters, the day of the release of the Course Offering Directory, now known as the Schedule of Courses, will have little to no impact on my academic life.
Juicy Campus is dead, but the desire to spout uninformed opinions anonymously on the Internet is alive and well.
For all the pretense of ?student self-governance? at the University, transparency continues to be unfulfilled by both administrators and students.
A problem undoubtedly exists when the Secretary of the Board of Visitors has to assure students that the commencement speaker for the 2009 graduation ceremony is in no way ?a racist or an ideologue.? Yet Secretary Alexander Gilliam and other members of the administration responsible for the selection of Judge J.
In recent times, there has been some anti-French sentiment and a few caustic remarks made regarding our neighbors across the pond.
?Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident,? said President Barack Obama on March 9, following his decision to overturn the Bush administration?s policy restricting funding on embryonic stem cell research.
