FREEDOM of expression has played an important role throughout my University career and throughout those of my peers, and Juicy Campus now gives many more students the same opportunity we have had.
LAST WEEK, the Take Back the Night program held a series of events to remember University sexual assault victims and to heighten awareness about these crimes.
TODAY'S society sends teenagers increasingly mixed messages about alcohol consumption, such that it is not surprising how many teenagers end up hurting themselves through alcohol abuse.
THIS WEEK is Take Back the Night at the University. Survivors of sexual assault and their advocates have been working to raise awareness of resources for survivors and ultimately prevent sexual violence against men and women.
ALL IT takes is a stroll down the Lawn to see that University students are politically active and engaged.
COLLEGE is supposed to be an environment of enrichment and challenge, a place where students of all backgrounds can come together to learn and to interact with the community around them.
THROUGH satire, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert mock American political life. They expose the hypocrisy and ineptitude of our politics and critique our culture by revealing the ridiculous.
AN ONGOING struggle that just doesn't seem to end, in which we point fingers, but everyone is to be blamed for our unruly judgments and ignorance continues to grow within our academic grounds.
TUESDAY, the Honorable Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland and a leading proponent of Scottish independence, spoke to a gathering of University students, staff and community members on the special relationship between the United States and Scotland.
TURNING out the youth vote could have a decisive effect on the 2008 election. More than any other group, we will suffer the consequences of the misguided policies of the last seven-and-a-half years.
AS A FOURTH year, around this time of year, you tend to slip into nostalgia and start thinking about the different aspects of the University that you will sorely miss.
JUST BECAUSE everybody seems to be ganging up is no reason for a newspaper to join the gang. Tuesday morning, March 25, the front page of The Cavalier Daily prominently featured a report on an effort to get Student Council to "take action against" the gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com.
I NEVER thought I would find myself defending a gossip forum riddled with sexual promiscuity and homophobic attacks.
IN THE past few weeks, riots and demonstrations have taken place in Tibet, a region of China that has sought its independence for over 50 years.
LIKE MOST of the University, I've spent the better part of the past two weeks watching college basketball.
THE RECENT Tibetan protests in China have darkened the mood for the upcoming Olympics, by all standards regarded as a grand Chinese celebration of their achievements in recent decades.
WHEN I was a child, the Olympics were never about politics. They were only about athletic prowess and national pride.
LAST MONDAY, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was ordered to pay his ex-wife almost $50 million in their divorce settlement.
AS THOUSANDS of high school seniors receive their thick envelopes from the University in the coming week, many won't be deciding based on academic reputation or social scene.
THE $130 million John Paul Jones arena at the University was built with a massive donation from Paul Tudor Jones II and contributions from other donors.
