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 By Friday morning, it was front-page news: The athletic department?s sign ban had been repealed.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.
AS A NON-SMOKER, it?d be logical for me to wish to see cigarette smoke as far removed from the public arena as possible, but the restrictions on smokers? rights are getting to be absurd.
AS WALL Street vacillates wildly and, in general, downwardly while awaiting a government bailout that is currently in limbo, Americans find themselves staring into the dark abyss of certain recession or perhaps even a depression.
IT IS NO secret that many of the network news programs we watch are cloaked with a bias toward a particular end of the political spectrum.
THOSE WHO watched the presidential debate last Friday between Barack Obama and John McCain may have noticed subtle changes in the format compared to previous years.
GREED! Greed! It?s all the fault of greed! The two major presidential candidates agree, and you can hear the same complaint from other corners too.Sen.
IN THE upcoming presidential election, one of the main questions asked, especially by Democrats, is whether a John McCain presidency would simply be the third term of George Bush?s; as they argue, there could hardly be a worse occurrence for the wellbeing of the country.
