AS A PRELUDE to what will undoubtedly be an abysmal column, I will warn anyone reading this that I am a math major who has never written anything for The Cavalier Daily before.
Frigid and half-asleep, I nestled into my seat in Ruffner Hall last Wednesday, ardently awaiting another lecture by Melvyn Leffler, Edward Stettinius professor of history.
Election season may be over nationally but in Virginia it is just starting to heat up again as the 2009 statewide elections are nine months away.
With Student Council elections fast approaching, this is an ideal time to evaluate what the University Unity Project has accomplished over the past year and whether it is worth continuing in the future.
The Super Bowl has become iconic not so much for the
Our honor system isn?t perfect. But imagine it was far worse.
BACK IN THE fall, in the hectic heyday of the presidential campaign, Michelle Obama came to the University to speak outside of Newcomb Hall to a crowd of students and townspeople alike.
WE WALK past them every day on the way to class. They loom over us like giant white gods, their shadows encompassing our small figures as we enter a building or walk down the Lawn.
CURRENTLY the commonwealth of Virginia does not allow anyone to carry a firearm on school property, including university property.
RECENTLY, the process of the Honor system has come under intense scrutiny in these pages.
AS MY SWEATY pen scribbled ferociously at a Middle East Institute conference in Washington, D.C., the panel moderator Graeme Bannerman pursed his lips, furrowed his brow, and unleashed a stinging rebuke of U.S.
The Rondout-West Branch tunnel has been leaking since the 1980s, losing some 20 million gallons a day.
Many proponents of the recent offensive in Gaza have perpetuated the view that Israel?s disproportionate response, incurring the deaths of more than 1,300 Palestinians, was justified, that it was because of Hamas that Israel was forced to kill innocent Palestinians.Those who perpetuate this misguided view are blind to the fact that collective punishment is illegal under international law, and that nothing justifies killing innocent civilians.
In the last week, the United States facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has received a great deal of attention from the press.
THE FIVE seconds of awkward silence that tore through the presidential oath of office last Tuesday seemed to have awakened the entire country to the knowledge of grammatical rules that most have never bothered to enforce.
WHEN I was in elementary school, there were two other kids in my class named ?Michelle.? I was thus sulkily resigned to being known as ?Michelle L.,? and I frequently complained to my mother that I wished I could feel as singular and special as the girl who sat in front of me in homeroom, whose name was ?Destiny.? I was infinitely jealous of a family friend?s daughter named ?Starlite,? and I fantasized that I would legally change my name to ?Rose-Dust.? Then, my 10-year-old self thought ruefully, I?d never again have to look around to see if people really meant me when they called out my name.
NEITHER snow nor sleet nor dark of night keeps this University from its appointed rounds.
AS BARACK Obama swore on the Bible and took the Oath of Office on Tuesday, history of a different kind continued to be made across the globe.
