A WOMAN may be the next president of the United States? For a growing part of the world, news of this possibility will elicit little more than a collective, "So what?" Last week, Argentina elected its first ever democratically elected woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
IF THE University administration wants to find the best way to initiate its plans for a slew of new structures across Central Grounds, they can take a cue from Stonewall Jackson. The larger-than-life statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson occupies a prominent position next to the historic Albemarle County Courthouse in downtown Charlottesville.
WE ARE all well aware of Dining Services on Grounds and complain at least weekly about many aspects of its mediocrity.
WHAT HAPPENS to a woman after she undergoes an abortion? What does a woman experience in the days, months and years after she is driven out of the clinic parking lot?
LAST TUESDAY, the Center for Politics at the University hosted a panel on health care reform. Considering the number of Americans who either don't have insurance or don't have enough, moderator Wyatt Andrews understated the case when he said "this is an extraordinarily important topic." In fact, an August 2007 Kaiser Poll puts health care as second only to Iraq in importance to voters.
THE PAINFUL memory of endless hours of studying for midterms is quickly fading away for most students at the University.
As we try to assess the challenges of the future, students and officials are thinking about a variety of ways to further develop the range of classes available at our institution.
A REMARKABLE thing happened last week in the great City of Charlottesville. The police arrested an individual suspected in two armed robberies that occurred last Monday.
ALMOST exactly a year from today, on November 4, 2008, millions of Virginians will travel to their local polling places to vote.
RECENTLY, several students crossing the railroad tracks encircling Charlottesville have received an unwelcome surprise: a ticket and a court date.
THE UNIVERSITY of Virginia's Culbreth Theatre is located off Rugby Road, but it's easy to miss the center of drama amidst the disarray and squalor of the construction site that envelops it.
I'VE WRITTEN for the past two weeks about secret societies, arguing that their tags have no place on Grounds and that tradition is an inadequate justification for the secret societies' prominence in the University community.
THIS PAST week, Rudy Giuliani lost my vote. He's probably not that upset about it. After all, I'm what one of my friends recently called "something to the left of Democrat." Still, I was keeping pretty close tabs on the Republican side of the race, and Giuliani already had me pretty nonplussed -- what with the two divorces, daughter threatening to campaign against him and mentioning Sept.
WHAT IS education, and what is it good for? Education is one of those lofty things we are all supposed to be in favor of, but no one really seems to know what it is.
"IF WE'RE an arrogant nation, they will resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they will welcome us." - George W.
TWO YEARS: That is how long it took our "justice" system to fix an atrocious sentencing that served anything but justice.
Once upon a Lawn night dreary, while Bob pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of fundraising lore, While Bob nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping the pavilion door. "Tis some visitor," he muttered, "tapping my pavilion door -- Drunken frat boys, nothing more." But then Bob flung the door wide, setting some donor biographies aside, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a penny wasted nor stayed he; But, with mien of (rich!) lord or lady, perched above the pavilion door -- Perched upon a bust of Jefferson just above the chamber door -- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. But the raven, sitting lonely on the pricey bust, spoke only, three words, as if from the Board of Visitors did his soul outpour. Nothing further then he uttered -- not a feather then he fluttered -- Till Bob uttered "Lawnies protested once before for using pavilions clearly to whore Jefferson's dream in a clever scheme.
"I want President Bush to die in flames," cries an energetic young Muslim girl in a school in Gaza.
"MY PARENTS decided tosend me away," said Rukshan Jonny Uddin. "I came home one night and something was amiss." His room had been cleaned; a suitcase was in it.
AN OLD maxim suggests that during our youth, it's okay to be "young and dumb." Unfortunately in our after-hours habits, many University students have taken the latter part of this advice a little too literally.
