"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.
IT IS truly hard to believe that in just a couple weeks the semester will be over. It doesn't really feel different from any other semester, except that for myself and for my fourth-year classmates it is our last.
It's difficult to describe how disappointed I am with the Student Council space allocation process.
THE DAY after the Virginia Tech shootings, in the face of an age that has made perfect security its reckless quest, when we have shampoo screening at the airport and metal detectors at some high schools, University President John T.
MORE THAN any other image from last week's Virginia Tech tragedy, I, like countless others, will remember the picture that appeared on the front of nearly every major newspaper in the country: Cho Seung-Hui, murderer of 32 innocent people, before a blue background.Unfortunately, many people do not see Cho Seung-Hui before a blue blackground; they see a Korean, or even worse, just an Asian, before a blue background.
AS FINALS and papers start to close in on the student body, students tend to reciprocate by making work their sole focus.
ALTHOUGH the student responsible for the Virginia Tech murders has been dead for over a week, some fear that the harm from his attacks is not yet complete.
SUSTAINED Dialogue founded De-Stereotype Day last year, and by this year, colleges around the country are hoping to start the event at their own schools.
THE EXPERIENCES within Sustained Dialogue are notmonolithic. Critics misrepresent the nature of the organization and what it seeks to achieve.
IN BUILDING a memorial for the World Trade Center, we must remember that the events of September 11, 2001 still remain close in the hearts of many people.
COMMUNITY service has gotten a lot of attention these days. With the emergence of debates on the value of Alternative Spring Break to the popularity of Madison House, there is no denying that community service has a powerful presence Community service requirements have sparked the question about whether these efforts really help to better society or merely bettering résumés.
RELIGIOUS FAITH meets the public square. For many decades this subject has confounded and tested the American judicial system.
There are times when I tire of speaking out, but after Lindsay Huggin's irresponsible article earlier this month giving the University a free pass on burying felony crime, I was appalled to read Christa Byker's hurtful opinion on sexual assault victims and how they are to blame ("Doing more to take back the night," Apr.
THERE ARE few sights sadder than that of a powerful person incapable of admitting a mistake. The Bush administration has treated us to that sorry spectacle many times over the past six years, but the Senate testimony of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez last week was perhaps the worst case yet. Gonzalez, who has been under fire for his role in the recent firings of eight United States Attorneys, was called before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday to explain exactly what that role was.
Monday's Opinion section contained a column by Ryan McElveen and Patrick Lee concerning Sustained Dialogue (Debunking De-Stereotype Day," Apr.
In Stephen Parsley's recent column ("The specter of wages," Apr. 19) he attempted to "articulate" for the rest of us the reasons why the Living Wage Campaign's position is fundamentally incoherent.
