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.
The soft drinks in the libraries are way too expensive. They probably weren't much cheaper last year, but I was particularly irked to find that the price is now one dollar and forty cents.
NO TWO words have been more fetishized by the University community than "tolerance" and "diversity." Through endless performances of carefully choreographed public displays and earnest public moralizing, the?
RUDY GIULIANI has staked his candidacy for the White House on the issue of terrorism. The former New York mayor is hoping that his tough-guy image during the September 11th tragedy will be enough for him to spearhead the Republican ticket next year.
AS AMERICANS, we often pride ourselves on our forward thinking and initiative. When we wanted independence from England, we fought for independence.
FOR STUDENTS, there are definite penalties for being late. Whether this is a deduction of a letter grade for turning in an essay after its deadline or a specified number of tardies allotted each semester, being late can have a significant impact on a student's grade in a course.
STUDENT FINANCIAL aid is the hot new policy topic. Considering the University estimates the cost of attendance at just shy of $20,000 for Virginians and over $38,000 for non-Virginians, it's not hard to understand why.
Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007, this was printed in your newspaper. Would you tolerate it?" Naseem Alavian said she posted that denunciation of Grant Woolard's "Ethiopian Food Fight" cartoon on her Lawn room door because she did not think the comic should be tolerated.
THE UPCOMING presidential election looms over conversations across the country as 2007 comes to its final months and as candidates gain an increasing amount of attention from the public.
IN MY column last week I took aim at U.S. News and World Report's influential "America's Best Colleges" issue, asserting that its use of irrelevant and arbitrary criteria made it a useless way to rank universities.
IN HIS farewell address to the American people, George Washington, first president and founding father, warned the country to beware of the divisive nature of political factions -- of placing the interest of the few over the interest of the many.
CONGRESS RECENTLY passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which will boost college aid by roughly $20 billion over the next five years by reducing loan interest rates and increasing the amount of Pell Grant awards.
AS the flashing red and blue lights behind me indicated I was being pulled over for speeding, I felt fortunate not to be a Virginian.
WRITING for The Cavalier Daily can be a lonely enterprise. If you're reading this column, it's probably because you found the paper on a classroom floor and turned to the Opinion page after discovering that the previous reader had already completed the Sudoku.
MAYBE it's just my inner tree-hugging minimalist coming out, but in the past two weeks of moving in and getting settled for my final year of college, I've been confronted by the amazing amount of stuff that students own.
THE UNIVERSITY is expanding rapidly. It seems like you can't go anywhere these days without running into a construction zone.
WHEN I was a little girl, I refused to wear bows in my hair. I shuddered at the pink dress my mother picked out for me to wear for my first day of kindergarten.
THE UNIVERSITY has long prided itself on the diversity of its student body. Women make up 55 percent of its undergraduates; another 35.7 percent of undergraduate students are from non-white American backgrounds.
LAST WEEK the recording industry decided that it was easier to extort money than adapt to changing technology.
ON SATURDAY I flipped on my television hoping to watch a little college football, and though our contest with Wyoming barely qualified as such, I found a match-up worthy of my attention in the Virginia Tech--East Carolina game.
