WHEN WE think about AIDS, most college students probably worry about a disease that has become a global epidemic, a disease that is under-diagnosed, under-treated, and threatens to wipe out whole age demographics in certain parts of the globe if drastic action isn't taken.
I AM used to being called an 'anti-Semite' for my criticisms related to Israel. Pointing out that the Jewish state had a terrorist prime minister in Menachem Begin, or was far too brutal in its treatment of Palestinians, has made me the target of some heated column responses.
PICK A subject, any subject. Who is the world's leading expert? And how do you know? Universities are well supplied with people who've spent years studying their particular fields, sometimes rather obscure ones -- "the mating habits of the green frog in the Brazilian rain forest," as a university president, once put it.
HAVE YOU heard? A woman or an African-American will likely be the next president of the United States.
ALTHOUGH hybrid-driving environmentalists have long warned of the dangers of our dependence on fossil fuels for the planet, recent events should make even the staunchest pick-up driving conservative reconsider the significance of the threat foreign oil dependence poses to our economic sovereignty and national security.
THE CALLS for "change" in the national political arena are so numerous that the word has lost virtually all meaning.
THE US economy is acting naughty.In the last three months of 2007,it grew an anemic 0.6 percent according to figures released last week.
LAST MONDAY, the Virginia Photography Club hosted an event with Associated Press photographer Steve Helber, who shared his experiences in the early stages of the Iraq war while on board the carrier USS Kitty Hawk.
I never intended to write aboutthe current presidential electionspartly because I felt that I did not have anything substantive or different to say.
FOR THE past year, I've known that I would eventually be writing a Parting Shot. It would be a column all my own -- 800 or so words to do whatever I pleased with.
MY FIRST attempt to work for The Cavalier Daily was met with quick and merciless rejection. I called the office asking if The Cavalier Daily needed a food critic, thinking that, if I phrased my request just right, I could get a job that paid me to eat and write.
I FEEL this may be ridiculous. Here I am, having written four articles in my entire time at the University, and I have been given a soap box (with my picture!) in our paper to talk about whatever I want.
"YEAH, IT was cool, but it's not something I'd want to devote my life to." So went my initial assessment of The Cavalier Daily as I shared with my dad the events of my first day as a staff writer in the (somewhat creepy and intimidating) Newcomb basement.
THE WORST part about editing a newspaper is being haunted by the stories one can never tell.In a short year I've been on my fair share of wild goose chases -- hot on the trail of the great story that never quite pans out.
SOMETHING SCARY appeared in this newspaper Monday. Introducing itself to the readers, the new managing board wrote an editorial that concluded thus: "At the end of the day, as one of the many passionate speakers at Saturday's elections in Jefferson Hall said, 'We are an organization that learns primarily by making mistakes.' Over the course of our term, we look forward to learning from a myriad of new mistakes.
THE LAST two minutes of Sen. Barack Obama's victory address in South Carolina made me think a generation was waking up.
YESTERDAY'S E-MAIL brought in the first batch of requests. Then the Newcomb lunch line surveys began.
"WHO SAYS the University isn't diverse?" smirked a student in front of me as he recited the bold print on The Cavalier Daily: "U.Va.
ALITTLE under a year ago, I wasnot in favor of any gun control.That will come as a shock to those who know me as someone politically a little to the left of Mike Gravel, but a combination of a passion for civil liberties, loyalty to the Constitution, and half of my family actually owning those dogs that point at quail before you shoot them (and owning them for that very reason) made me wary of any restrictions on firearms.
MOST AMERICANS are familiar with the homily, "when God closes a door heopens a window." At the moment, many young people who have seen the door to good jobs closed by the economic mayhem stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis probably feel like jumping out of that window. Although prospects may appear dim to many young people whose job hunts have been frustrated by a sputtering economy, in this time of great need, young people have a unique opportunity to disprove the cynics who decry our generation as selfish and materialistic.
