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.
GENERATION Y is a sucker for instant gratification, seen in its mass acceptance of online chatting, text messaging, and Web sites like YouTube and Google.
THIS YEAR Student Council will spend or allocate over $665,000. How do I know? Not from The Cavalier Daily.
STUDENT self-governance often appears to be nothing more than the University?s marketing pitch, a promise more than a practice.
STUDENTS at the University today were accepted due to strong academic and extracurricular credentials from high school.
JOHN MCCAIN?S proposed tax policy focuses on promoting growth and providing relief to families facing nothing short of abuse by the current system.High gasoline and food prices are squeezing the budgets of millions of American families.
NOTE TO John McCain: The fundamentals of our economy are not strong. They aren?t strong when the difference between the wealthiest Americans and the poorest Americans is the largest it?s been since the Great Depression.
AH, WHAT autumn would be complete without an Al Groh debate? Love him ? which probably isn?t too popular a stance on the cocktail circuit these days ? or hate him, nearly every loyal Virginia football enthusiast has an opinion on the subject.
SCENARIO: you?re at your apartment and are unable to print a document. You need to place this paper in your TA?s box in New Cabell in the next 30 minutes, so you decide to drive over to and park behind Alderman, where you?ll print out the document.
IF YOU didn?t go to see Voices of the Class, you should have. One thing that piqued my interest, and my concern, was the number of times diversity was mentioned in the sketches.
