AFTER the peaceful respite Thanksgiving afforded from the pell-mell pace of this past semester, I returned to Grounds with renewed steely resolve.
IN THE last few years, the University community has discussed at length plans to "internationalize" the curriculum to better prepare students to compete in a world that seems to be rapidly shrinking.
AT THE end of a column several weeks ago I took what some might feel is a cheap shot at the Purple Shadows when I compared their sartorial predilections to those of the Ku Klux Klan.
WE DON'T balk at some of the most bitter truths modern science teaches and even propagandizes: for example, that mindless subatomic particles govern all things, or that whatever is eternal is indifferent to us, if it exists at all.
THE CIA'S assassination plots against the regime in Cuba during the last four decades read like a comic book.
TWO WEEKS ago Queer and Allied Activism (QuAA) held an event titled "Live Homosexual Acts" in the University Chapel as part of the biannual "Proud To Be Out" week celebrations.
AS ALWAYS, a Virginia loss brings out the Al Groh haters, once again claiming that the old ball coach has let the Wahoo faithful down.
"ALL OUR social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really." The speaker of this quotation taken from an article appearing in the Times of London is not a white supremacist or neo-Nazi, but a once-brilliant scientist James Watson -- co-discoverer of DNA's double helix -- whose recent bigoted and unsubstantiated claim created a firestorm of controversy.
IS THE "not gay chant really controversial? Before Alex Cortes wrote his guest column ("Not gay and proud of it," Nov.
CONTRARY to popular belief, Ann Coulter and DavidHorowitz do not form thebedrock of conservative philosophy.
WITH Christmas fast approaching, I thought I'd use this column to get everyone in the holiday spirit.
JEFFERSON would not be proud of our internationalization efforts to date." So proclaims the presumptuous report released by the Committee on Curriculum Internationalization last month.
RIGHT-WING demagogues have been blabbering for years about that legendary "liberal bias" in American higher education.
BEGINNING this week, I am writing as the ombudsman for The Cavalier Daily. Instead of roaming over the whole opinable realm, as I've done in these pages since last semester, I'll be offering my opinions on one subject: this newspaper. The overarching question with which I will be concerned is: How well is the newspaper serving the whole University community?
LAST WEEK my column was about gay marriage. The column got a lot of response, both in letters to the editor and to me personally.
RELIGIOUS and political conservatives should chant "not gay" at football games in "support for our natural heterosexuality given to us by God." This claim was made in a recent guest Opinion column in The Cavalier Daily by a "Catholic" who believes in natural law.
STANDING before Iran's parliament earlier this year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked his countrymen one question: "Who are our enemies?" His answer: godless America.
WITH THE holiday season looming, I feel as though now is as good a time as any to address one of the black marks that spoils Thanksgiving break.
CRUISING through the COD on a recent Saturday night I got a little disoriented. There's so much there, and so little to guide us, it's as if down is up and north is south. That may not be far from the truth.
TWO FRIDAYS ago, political scientist and well-known blogger Daniel Drezner spoke at the University.
