LAST WEEK I flipped on CNN after I got home from classes, expecting to hear the latest update on Iraq, or what was going on in Turkey after the first Islamist president was elected after decades of secular rule.
I HATE money and if I never had to think about it again, I'd be perfectly happy. Unfortunately last week's announcement that state funding to Virginia's public universities will be cut by 7.5 percent brought my blissful ignorance to a halt.
NOTHING illuminates reality quite like bad movies. In the Cold War classic "War Games," a young Matthew Broderick accidentally hacks into the U.S.
WITH KARL Rove and Alberto Gonzalez having resigned, these are not the best of times for the Bush administration.
AS HONEST as most students try to be with their academic work, many may be cheating without even realizing it.? While the most common forms of cheating brought to trial concern collaboration on tests and plagiarism, there is another form of cheating that plagues this university but rarely, if ever, goes to trial.
A DANGEROUS political strategy is weakening Westerners' moral fiber and may ultimately threaten the very people it is intended to serve.
MOST READERS probably remember the hit '90s television show, "The Wonder Years." And most readers probably also remember the dream girl next door from the show, Winnie Cooper.
THE LATEST sex scandal to rock Washington involves Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, who was accused of lewd conduct towards an undercover police officer in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St.
IT HAPPENS after spending an entire academic year on Grounds, traveling entirely by foot and by bus.
IT BEGAN as a sports story. It has evolved into a story that has consumed the front page in every major newspaper in the country: Michael Vick's dogfighting.
EACH OF the members of the University community can participate in the 2008 Presidential election by voting or supporting a candidate.
MERCIFULLY ending his thoroughly pathetic tenure as America's chief prosecutor, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finally resigned on Monday.
A LITTLE more than a year ago, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression erected a monument to the First Amendment in front of City Hall on Charlottesville's downtown mall.
IF YOU'VE ever toured Grounds, a University Guide surely told you how students once managed to haul a cow to the top of the Rotunda.
A GROUP of conservative activists in California are working hard to rig the 2008 presidential election.
"There's no place like home,"an old adage informs us.Most newcomers to the University will also quickly discover that there's no place like dormitories, but for very different reasons.
ALTHOUGH WE'RE over a yearaway from the presidentialelection, the country is buzzing with anticipation.
THE COUNTRY is in a funk.Politicians are busy bickeringamongst themselves instead of dealing with issues at home or threat from abroad.
AS I look back on four years as an undergraduate and as a Cavalier Daily Opinion columnist, I can't help but recall the wise words T.S.
To celebrate our last issue of the semester, The Cavalier Daily hereby issues a few very special awards to individuals who, one way oranother, have left a lasting impression on the University.
