WE'VE ALL heard it, standing with linked arms after a touchdown and singing "The Good Ol' Song." The line "where all is bright and gay" comes up, and someone invariably screams "not gay!" All types of students are guilty of this action -- your fraternity brother, your girlfriend, your suite-mate or some stumbling drunken stain a few rows back.
SATURDAY and Sunday last weekend, as part of the reading days, the University Transit Service put the brakes on the bus system?. UTS could have more aptly stood for "usefulness temporarily suspended." With the exception of CTS trolleys, no bus service was provided during the weekend, and students who opted to stay on Grounds were forced to find alternative modes of transportation.
THE UNIVERSITY Guides commonly use a line regarding student involvement: "If you cannot find a group that suits you, start a new one." Options at the University are uncommonly abundant.
WHEN COL. Loren Loomis' house burned down, he lost more than his furniture and living space: He lost his job and his plans for retirement.
I SUSPECT that most undergraduates have already been through their fair shares of mediocre sections.
THOUGH many Americans are quick to criticize the public education system, few are willing to question whether it should exist.
In case you were buried in the depths of Clemons Library last year and missed it, a vaccine for HPV -- Gardasil, manufactured by Merck -- was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and recommended for girls ages nine to 26 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
JUSTICE is not man's deepest longing -- for better and worse. Yet it is the form in which our powerful and selfish desires most often disguise themselves, in operations obscure even to ourselves.
THE UNIVERSITY Board of Visitors approved a plan last week to implement a host of new security measures to protect students and staff around Grounds in light of last spring's shootings at Virginia Tech.
THOMAS Jefferson called it the "opening south" -- that vacancy on one end of the Lawn, unmarked and untouched, that preserved the panorama of the Blue Ridge to the landscape of his Academical Village.
AN UNCOMPROMISING belief in the equality of opportunity lies at the heart of the "American dream." Horatio Alger's rag-to-riches stories perhaps best captured this conviction that working-class Americans could achieve success through hard work and determination.
YOU KNOW how it feels: stuck in the back row of a big classroom, notebook out, desperately trying to read the tiny words scrolling across the projection screen as the professor rips through the notes without so much as a pause.
ARTICLE one, Section six of the Constitution states in part that "no Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created." This constitutional provision prevents politicians from occupying more than one public office simultaneously.
IN A recent interview given to Beliefnet, a Web site designed to help people explore spirituality in all its forms, Republican presidential hopeful Sen.
IF YOU'VE been paying attention around Grounds you will have noticed signs and chalkings advertising Alternative Spring Break's upcoming fall and winter trips.
INTERNATIONAL travel has never been so popular, but in many respects it has never taken so much initiative to experience the distinctiveness of a foreign culture.
DO WE LOVE the Cavalier? The English royalists who escaped to Virginia during Cromwell's victory in the Civil War, and who were the direct ancestors of one Thomas Jefferson, would seem to be little more than an obscure mascot to us -- even more obscure than a fish that can drink three times its own weight.
KARL MARX once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and second as farce. He wasn't right about much, but this quip might prove an accurate summary of American foreign policy under the Bush administration, which is moving in the farcical direction of war with Iran even as we remain tragically mired in Iraq. You might wonder who could be so reckless as to contemplate an Iran war with the unfinished Iraq war standing as a bloody monument to American hubris.
AS YOU are probably well aware, we have next Monday and Tuesday off for Fall Break. Unfortunately, this two-day break came at a price.
ALARM BELLS went off as I froze and read the frightful sign posted on the columns past the amphitheater: "Human Rights in the Bible and Qur'an." Putting aside my preconceived notions on the subject, I attended the discussion hosted by President of the Theological Education Institute Reverend John Rankin and University professor of Religious Studies Abdulaziz Sachedina that night.
