IN THE aftermath of the controversyin Jena, Louisiana, civil rights advocates such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been quick to argue that the demonstrations are the start of a new civil rights movement.
CITIES ACROSS America, including Newark, New Jersey and Atlanta, Georgia, are currently beginning to consider banning baggy pants.
MANY OF you probably are not aware of "the cupcake problem" in this country. Many of you probably assume that cupcakes are merely harmless sugary confections, popular in elementary school classrooms and birthday parties.
NEED-BASED financial aid is a policy that receives support from across a wide range of political perspectives.
A FEW weeks ago, the Iranian Embassy called Columbia University and asked it to host a speech by controversial Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
WOMEN HAVE been a part of military history since antiquity, but the debate on whether to systematically include them in full combat roles is a modern one.
How little we know what we most need to know. This is an exceptionally striking fact about the most promising new field to arise in our time, evolutionary psychology, led by Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker and our own Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Happiness Hypothesis." Its emphasis on natural selection serves as a valuable sanity check on the otherwise crushing power of political prejudice in the social sciences (I use the term loosely), especially through its politically incorrect discovery of the evolutionary basis of many sexual inequalities.
THE AQUATIC and Fitness Center is great. It's big, spacious, and it has a wide range of exercise options throughout the complex that appeal to the gym's equally wide range of patrons.
TUCKED away behind the mountains, cut off from the outside world save for a narrow pass and gravel-strewn road, a dictator rules his people with a steely resolve and terrifying power.
ACCORDING to The Daily Progress, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is considering coming to Charlottesville Oct.
ABOUT a month ago, a flood of first-year students arrived on grounds to move into dorms. Many of them headed to McCormick.
THIS IS the story of Shin Dong Hyok. I heard his story over the summer, when I was living in London.
LAST YEAR was my first year back in academia after a two-year hiatus and I had quite forgotten the importance of rankings to the collective institutional ego.
RAMBLING over our beloved Grounds this fall, one thing, besides blistering heat, is inescapable: construction.
IN 1796, George Washington announced that he would retire upon completion of his second term as president, declining to seek a third term that he likely would have won.
LAST WEEK, I had one of those awkward encounters that instantly make you feel discouraged or misunderstood.
FORTY-SEVEN million people in the United States do not have health insurance. That number has only risen (by 2.2 million in the last year, to be exact). The Democratic candidates, Barack Obama, John Edwards and, most recently, Hillary Clinton, have carefully outlined their plans for health care, all promising significant changes.
WHISPERS that Iran's Holocaust-denying president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at Columbia University prompted calls from some elected U.S.
Two weeks ago Governor Kaine announced that the drought in Virginia has caused eight Virginia counties to be recognized as federal disaster areas.
IT IS hard to maintain a successful honor system at a large, public university. The success of a system which seeks to uphold values of academic integrity depends upon its ability to continually encourage student commitment to those values.
