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.
OUTSIDE the world of sports, the country rarely finds itself consumed with college rankings. One of those occasions came in August, when the newest edition of U.S.
AS MANY returning students remember, it was not too long ago that the University acquired the academic rights to the Semester at Sea (SAS) program.
FOR LIBERALS such as myself, it is both immensely gratifying and deeply saddening when a gay-bashing Republican is revealed by some tawdry conduct to be a homosexual himself.
THE IMPACT of the Virginia Tech shooting has provoked a variety of concerns about campus safety across the nation.
LAST WEEK, a University representative informed me that due to a senseless post-Virginia Tech policy change, I would have to pay $66 per year for my corpse to be sent back to Malaysia in the event of my death.
THE START of a new school year brings with it another round of complaints over the inordinate cost of school books.
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.
