FOR ALL its belligerence and hawkish political stances, the Bush administration has produced little when it comes to dealing with Iran.
LAST WEEK, quite a controversial speaker came to the University with very little actual controversy.
I knew that something was amiss Tuesday night when I checked my e-mail and found I had five invitations to Facebook groups protesting the Facebook.
LAST THURSDAY, former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to speak at the University. The debate leading up to his speech was hollow.
YOU ARE sitting in a classroom and happen to glance over to the person to your immediate left. On a laptop, she is chatting with four different people over AIM.
COLLEGE students are used to getting ripped off. Between housing, parking andtextbooks, it seems like we are always being asked to empty our pockets.
THE BUSH administration has had a rough time in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with its attempt to reconfirm unilateralist John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations.
LAST WEEK, the final big mystery in the Valerie Plame leak case was finally solved. Casual political observers can be forgiven for not being familiar with this case, which has taken numerous twists and turns over the past two and a half years.
MANY YOUNG women today grow weary of their chronic victim status, constantly told to be on guard against the ubiquitous male predator.
WITH THE first home football game quickly approaching, we will soon be able to say that the school year has truly begun.
The road to hell, so a parable runs, is paved with good intentions. At a university so saturated with racial tensions, any attempt to mitigate them must be, at least initially, greeted eagerly.
SUPERFLUOUS CDs in "bundled texts," new editions differing only by a sentence or two, and spending upwards of an average of $900 every year has prompted a nationwide debate about textbook pricing.
JUST A few days ago, I picked up this newspaper and learned that Charlottesville is enjoying the highest job growth in the entire state of Virginia.
HONESTLY, I don't remember whether I voted for Pepsi or for Coke when it appeared on the ballot as a student referendum back in the spring of 2005, but I do remember the result: 66.75 percent of the voters preferred that the University should "seek a new contract with Coca-Cola, rather than continuing with Pepsi-Cola." A year and a half later, I have yet to enjoy the smooth, refreshing taste of Coca-Cola in any of the University's dining halls. Detrimental student referenda fall into two categories: Either they are never acted upon, such as the example above, or they give a small portion of the student body the potential to wreak significant havoc on the rest of us.
FOLLOWING what has become a general trend,last week the powers that be brought America closer to complete irresponsibility and sexual anarchy.
STUDENTS at Virginia Tech experienced a frightening start to classes last week: William Charles Morva, a convicted felon, broke out of a vehicle on his way from his prison cell in Montgomery County to a local hospital.
OVER THE course of the past few years, reports of abuses perpetrated by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have filled our newspapers and television screens.
AS THE semester begins, students must often maneuver through their e-mail inboxes in order to find that class e-mail or homework assignment.
WHEN I was little, my eyes were bigger than my stomach. I would always load onto my plate much more than I could digest.
HOWEVER amusing it might be to watch your neighbors squabble, deep down we all know that their arguing can only be bad for everyone.
