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.
IT IS no secret that frivolous law suits permeate the American legal system. Bordering on the tedious and inane, many cases are not worth a second glance.
CONSTRUCTION is up and running on the much-touted South Lawn Project, which is supposed to be completed by 2010.
I HAVE followed with interest discussion of the proposed $21 million building to house the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
NOW I KNOW how Larry Summers feels. Two years ago the former president of Harvard University made a speech saying that it's possible that there are fewer top women scientists because there was a greater variance in scientific ability among men than women.
THIS MONDAY, Senator Hillary Clinton decided to share her new plan to provide each and every American with health insurance.
SUPPOSE someone important to you had e-mailed you three months ago -- or three years ago -- and you wanted to see, now, what she said then.
THIS WEEK, Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) presented papers granting United States citizenship to the family of a fallen U.S.
EVERY CAVALIER Daily comic controversy goes through the same cycle: community outrage, followed by an apology (or not), and then the saber-rattling between intolerance-haters and freedom-lovers.
ONE NEED only spend a few minutes on Grounds to realize that the University is a very different place to go to school.
WHEN THE air turns cool and the leaves turn colors, University sports fans gear up for that timeless rite of autumn: the annual debate over whether to fire the football coach.
IF YOU weren't hiding under a rock last week, you reveled in the plummeting career of Britney Spears.
I was outraged when reading Josh Levy's column, ("Over-AccessUVA," Sept. 17).I would like to start out by stating that I am a recipient of a large amount of financial aid afforded by AccessUVA.That being said, it is obvious to see why I was offended and appalled by Levy's column. Levy argues, "People who truly want a college education have a ready and willing financial system to provide for them."If this is true, I'd love to know more about that 'system'!In reality, attending the University for four years roughly costs over $150,000.
Josh Levy's largely baseless and highly politicized assault ("Over-AccessUVA," Sept. 17) on need-based financial reveals an undercurrent that is rarely discussed on grounds: the widening gap between socio-economic groups.
