IN THEIR never-ending attempt to buy voter support with government handouts, Congressional Democrats have turned their attention to universities.
WHAT has Student Council done so far this academic year? That's the question that I am supposed to answer, but before writing this column, I thought about the ways in which I could express this simple idea: a song, a comic, a witty dialogue or a memoir (now, that sounds academic; I don't really know what it is, though). I even thought about an interpretative dance, but last night I was inspired by a certain TV show: VH1's "The White Rapper Show," a show in which "American Idol" meets "Real World" meets the "8 Mile" rap battle scene.
WHEN THE Honor Committee met for the first time last March, oneword dominated discussion of plans for this academic year: transparency.
WITH President Bush's State of the Union Address on Tuesday and President Casteen's State of the University Address fast approaching, it seems there is no better time than the present to visit the State of the University Judiciary Committee. The 2006-2007 term of the University Judiciary Committee began with a quiet transition last April.
Regarding U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode's insistence that congressional oaths of office be sworn upon the Bible, Daniel Aaron Weir points out that the Bible itself seems to forbid this ("Scripturally unsound," Jan.
WITHOUT fail, every year a piece of legislation is introduced during the Virginia General Assembly session endearingly dubbed the "TRAP" bill, or Target Regulations for Abortion Providers.
UNIVERSITY Students eat at Newcomb. They study deep in the bowels of Alderman. They live in Page or Echols.
FOREIGN policy discussions over the past couple years have unfortunately focused more than anything on a single issue: Iraq.
IN PHYSICS, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that merely by observing a particle, one changes its position.
With all the powerful thinkers and theorists that Josh Levy cited ("In defense of partisanship," Jan.
THE PRESIDENTIAL election and the tumult surrounding it has become just about the easiest thing in the world to complain about, to point out flaws and gripe about the candidates and their relative stances on the whole gamut of issues.
Last week Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., celebrated its hundredth year as a sorority. They decided to commemorate the event by painting Beta Bridge, but unfortunately, the bridge and the anniversary message was defaced.
I HAVE asked myself many times in the past two weeks whether the politics of this country will be tolerable for the next ten months if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic presidential nomination.
THE DEMOCRATS' "100-hour" legislative agenda and the Bush administration's "New Way Forward" plan sadly ignore what should be a major component of American foreign policy: global poverty reduction.
NEWSPAPER columnists in Virginia could make quite a decent living by only writing columns exposing the latent racism and blatant ignorance of local politicians.
Though I do not want to live in the past, I am holding on to a grudge from 2006 which I must revisit.
AS I prepared myself to write on strides the University has made in race relations, I opened The Cavalier Daily and read about a fresh incident of racial harassment.
LAST YEAR'S holiday season generated a staggering $21 billion in revenues, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
THOSE who follow local politics here in Charlottesville are used to seeing the local congressman, Republican Rep.
TWO WARS and six years later it was clear that something was fundamentally lacking in U.S.counterterrorism strategies in the war on terror.
