IT WAS late August, 1968, and the streets of Chicago had the look of a war zone. Protesters, police, and the Illinois National Guard clashed everyday for a week, resulting in hundreds of injuries.
ASIDE from telling us that the Darden Dean makes more money than the entire media studies department combined, the published salaries of our faculty can tell us what trends we can expect in the future.
IT HAS been brought to our attention that there are many misconceptions around Grounds concerning the history and the mission of Planned Parenthood.
WHAT IS a syllabus without a quotation from Thomas Jefferson at the top? What is a speech without the invocation of Jefferson's ideals of freedom and democracy?
WHEN I first sat down to write this column, I meant to discuss resource availability at Counseling and Psychological Services and de-stigmatizing therapy.
AS WE APPROACH the end of another school year a large number of students at the University are planning to move out of their apartments.
LATE LAST weekend, the University community heard rumors of an alleged abduction of a student by individuals who pulled him into a vehicle, took his money and phone, and left him somewhere in Albemarle County.
DROOPY eyed and disheveled, I prepared for a class-long struggle to stay awake through my Western European politics lecture last Monday.
WHEN WE think of the death penalty, most of us think capital punishment is only used in a very limited range, against those who have taken another human life.
WHEN IT comes to national and international coverage, The Cavalier Daily cannot substitute for a newspaper that employs national and international correspondents.
YESTERDAY hordes of admitted high school seniors and their overly enthusiastic parents obstructed sidewalks, clogged dining halls dishing out artery-clogging food and formed tours that tormented anyone walking to class.
THE HONOR Committee is locked in an endless cycle of self-destruction. Governed by students, a large majority of those whom come to the Committee completely new for one-year terms, the Committee has virtually no institutional memory and is destined to make the same mistakes repeatedly.
IN ANCIENT Greece, the Oracle at Delphi was known for the ability to predict the future; at the entrance to the Delphic temple read a simple inscription: Know thyself.
CHOICE is a double-edged sword. In a university setting, students are supposed to be free to make their own choices and learn from their mistakes.
AS SECOND semester begins to wind down, first-year engineering students enrolled in the Science, Technology, and Society 101 course are beginning work on "Katrinasim." Katrinasim is a culminating project that engages students with a real-world example of the effect of technology on society, and vice-versa.
THINK back to elementary school for a moment: What was your third grade teacher's name? How about second grade?
WHEN YOU were a kid, how many times did your parents remind you that money doesn't grow on trees?
IN RECENT weeks, the University has exhibited a disturbing trend of measures and ideas that provide benefits to small numbers of students while curtailing or interfering with the rights of other students.
VIRGINIA has a long history of denying its citizens the right to vote. Today, there are still more than 300,000 disenfranchised men and women in this state, whose entire adult population in the 2000 census was about 5.6 million.
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