OVER THE last month, the Charlottesville Transit Service endured a 20 percent increase in passengers.
AMERICA is bored with the culture wars. After years of heated division over high-minded issues such as the placement of 10 Commandments statues and the preservation of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, it appears as though the politics of division no longer arouse Americans' political passions.
THERE ARE many times at this University where I've felt slightly uncomfortable. These are generally times when I'm walking -- or running -- around alone at night in sparsely populated areas.
MONDAY, former Sen. Rick Santorum addressed a group of students about the threat radical Islamic terrorism poses to the United States, about how the problem arose and about how the world is failing to combat it.
I HAVE a confession to make. I'm a bad football fan. On game day, I show up late if the tailgate is rocking and I leave early if the team isn't winning.
While I have strong objections to the political ideology that former Sen. Rick Santorum propagated in his lecture on Monday, my primary problem with his presentation was with his use of the term Islamic fascism.
Marriage is indeed vitally important, and I can agree with Marta Cook's statement in "Marriage is a Human Right" (Nov.
I was interested to read Josh Levy's opinion column "How best to silence homophobes" (Nov 12). During my time at the University, the chant was quite pervasive and was sometimes clearly audible even on televised broadcasts of games.
We want to applaud Lindsay Huggins's assertion that "all women deserve the right to be in control of their own bodies" ("Politics of the womb," Nov.
I feel that this initiative is long overdue. The ability for us to explore such a wide array of (sometimes controversial) subjects and even our ability to go to class are due in large part to sacrifices that others made.
The "not gay" chant has been completely written off on Grounds. Some call it a drunken joke while others refer to its adherents as homophobes.
I felt uneasy reading Reece Epstein and Robert Martin's column, "Stars and stripes in every classroom" (Nov.
MAO Zedong,the charismatic leader of the People's Republic of China, was known for his mesmerizing ability to handle and resolve seeming "contradictions" regarding certain principles.
"WE CAN read." This is the statement that escapes too many students' mouths after leaving a lecture dominated by Microsoft PowerPoint.
SPILLING INK about abortion should come easy to me. I've taken a philosophy class inbioethics, stayed abreast of the political developments within the life debate and have always cared passionately about the issue.
"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Arab, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me." This quote is by Muhammad Ali, and obviously, I've replaced the word Black with Arab.
AS I SLIPPED my class ring on the ring finger of my right hand at the Ring Ceremony a few weeks ago, my mind wandered to that other major commitment affirmed with rings: marriage.
WHEN A discussion is entitled "Abortion: A Woman's Perspective," many would expect a talk highlighting both sides of the abortion debate to clarify a "woman's perspective." But because Hoos for Life hosted last Wednesday's discussion on this topic it was, as expected?, biased. The discussion, which featured a post-abortive woman and a practicing physician, seemed to focus on the question: "Is abortion good for women?" The flaw in choosing this focus for the discussion is that not many individuals, even abortion proponents, actually believe abortion is "good." Until pro-lifers realize the issue of abortion is a matter of choice and not a matter of good and evil, these discussions will only continue to polarize both sides of the debate. The discussion opened with a woman describing her personal experience with abortion, which she described as the "murder of [her] own baby." She had been raped while engaged to her current husband and chose to abort the pregnancy because of the unknown paternity of her child.
A STRING of off-Grounds robberies and other crimes in recent weeks prompted a student safety forum last Tuesday, where University and Charlottesville police officers addressed the crowd about the dangers that students face and what they could do to minimize the risks.
IN THE run up to last week's football game against Wake Forest, it was hard to miss the pervasive anti-"not gay" chant campaign.
