UNLIKE most partisan hacks, I don?t go into cardiac arrest when John McCain quizzically wonders who the real Barack Obama is.
IN AN E-MAIL to the University community this week, President John T. Casteen, III discussed the impact of state budget cuts on the University in light of the economic downturn.
THIS SUMMER, the University lost five black faculty members. At the end of this year, three more will be added to that list.
WITH SO much attention focused on domestic issues, one may have been surprised to learn that United States had removed North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states this weekend.
THIS MONDAY, Student Council and the Arts & Sciences Council flooded the University with 1,500 copies of the New York Times and USA Today.
WATCHING the vice presidential debate last Thursday, it seemed obvious to me who delivered the more impressive performance.
ELECTION Day is now less than a month away, and the respective candidates? campaigns have gone into overdrive, registering voters and spending millions on less-than-cordial advertising.
YES, I?M in a fraternity. And yes, that just might be why I don?t know you. Because I came from an all-boys high school with strong ties to the University, I was well versed in what were the ?cool? fraternities on Grounds before I even arrived.
AN EXAMINATION of a college profile listed on the new Web site www.collegeportraits.org tells me information I wish I?d known back in high school.
THREE YEARS ago in these pages, I dismissed ?Green Dining? as nothing more than a green-eyed initiative by the profit-hungry Aramark.
IN A PIECE for ?Good Morning America,? Luke Russert, son of the late journalist Tim Russert, spent time at the University in order to get a feel for the political environment among young people in a swing state prior to November?s election.
THE ENVIRONMENT is hot right now. Besides rising temperatures and melting ice caps, it is now cool ? for lack of a better word ? to be green.
THE RUMORS swirled Thursday night. By Friday morning, it was front-page news: The athletic department?s sign ban had been repealed.
CURRENTLY, the University?s financial situation seems as tenuous as ever given the state of the nation?s economy.
OMBUDSMAN. It doesn?t roll off the tongue as much as it pops out of the mouth. Not a reassuring, warm and fuzzy kind of sound.
SIMPLY as students of this University, we all have a sense of composure, class and slight arrogance that lets people of the Charlottesville community know we?re students.
IT IS AN annual tradition of fall orientation. First years, graduate students, and transfer students all pack in to rooms to learn about the University?s exalted honor system.
WHEN IT comes to trend-setting in higher education, no one can touch Harvard. Even in those years that US News and World Report ranked it behind Princeton for having the top undergraduate program, everyone still thought Harvard to be synonymous with elite academia, with students and faculty who were the cream of the crop.
LAST WEEK, I chided the University Judiciary Committee for placing too much emphasis on race by surveying its membership to determine the percentage of minorities.
