RECENTLY the Office of Admissions launched a new program to attract more low-income students to the University.
Thousands of female college students have been victims of sexual assault. According to a study by the U.S.
TRAFFIC in Charlottesville is excruciating. What's worse, these vehicular crowds affect more people than just their fellow motorists.
AS ELEMENTARY school students, many of us sang the song "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round." Today, however, few among us can be found singing the praises of our bus system.
WHILE OPINION polls have consistently shown most Americans are in favor of maintaining current marriage laws, two-thirds of high school seniors and a majority of those in their twenties favor gay marriage.
RIGHT NOW, most first-years have just settled into the University. They've figured out which dining halls they like, which activities they think they'll stick with, what classes they want to take next year and -- oh yeah -- where they want to live.
THE REFRAIN of President Bush is that the United States does not torture. Sadly, he is lying. According to Human Rights First, a non-partisan human rights advocacy group, at least eight people in American custody have actually been killed during interrogations.
"Explain why George Bush is a war criminal," read an essay question in a criminology class at the University of Northern Colorado.
IT'S 4:15 p.m. I stand amazed at the doorstep of my friend Karl's room as I survey the Lawn teeming with hundreds of kids in their adorable costumes, tailing one another in an interminable line to receive pounds of sweet love.
SATURDAY, the University hosted the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and a crowd of more than 60,000 for a football game that came complete with pre-game pyrotechnics, two marching band performances and, yet again, late game heroics by the Cavaliers.
YOU WOULD think that people supposedly dedicated to honor and integrity would be more allergic to chronic deception.
THEY ARE as much a part of University culture as Greek organizations, libraries and popped collars: coffee, caffeinated beverages and energy drinks.
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.
