FOR THE past five years, it has been impossible to hear the words "Virginia education funding" without hearing the word "cuts." Unfortunately, there seems to be little in the way for additional funding per student in the Virginia state legislature.
IF YOU MAKE employees more expensive, the University will hire fewer of them and will restrict its hiring only to those whose skills levels merit the higher cost.
THE UNIVERSITY should implement a living wage policy because it is unacceptable for student tuition and faculty salaries -- let alone the mortar on the John Paul Jones arena -- to be subsidized by the poverty-level wages of a portion of the University labor force.
After the incidents of prejudice and intolerance that marred the darkening fall of this academic year here at the University, it was heartening this past Tuesday to see hundreds of students and some faculty don black T-shirts marked with the folksy tolerance of the phrase "Gay?
LAST WEEK as the Living Wage Campaign rallied support for raising the wages of workers, a new group calling themselves the Market Wage Campaign boldly defended the University's right to pay poverty wages.
FOOTSTEPS to freedom are often walked in chains. The arrest of the 17 student protestors occupying Madison Hall was quite a spectacle -- police dragged tired students out in shackles.
FINALS are hell. They test a student's will, determination and perseverance, as well as a student's knowledge of course material.
BILL MURRAY'S character in the movie Stripes gave probably the most succinct explanation I've ever heard of the relationship between the United States and immigration: "We're Americans
"What do we want? A living wage! When do we want it? Now." Pounding on drums, waving their fists and marching around Madison Hall, the "living wage" protestors were quite a sight this past weekend.
THE LIVING WAGE campaign is a pandemic of misguided idealism. Though the protestors' hearts are in the right place, their brains are nowhere to be found.
IRAN'S hardliners have gotten the confrontation they desired from the United States. During recent weeks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defiantly maintained his nation's right to enrich uranium for a civilian nuclear program in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The University's Inter-Fraternity Council is an active and efficient organization that governs over 1,400 Greek students on Grounds, not a decrepit organization that condones illegal and inappropriate behavior as some make it out to be.
THE LIVING WAGE Campaign has commenced direct action. The 17 sit-in participants in Madison Hall cannot receive food from the outside.
Those who attended the living wage rally Wednesday afternoon may have had a variety of opinions, but most would have come away with the same feeling: This is really fun.
LET'S SAY you were going to the AFC, but you forgot your University ID. The attendants will not let you in without your ID, but you've decided that as a University student, you have a right to use the gym.
THE UNITED STATES has fought unjust wars and practiced immoral acts formed under the guise of a "war on terror." But most of all, the campaign has wreaked havoc in regions such as South Asia and damaged all possible chances for peace and prosperity.
MASSACHUSETTS is truly a great state. From pioneering new budget and tax programs to progressive marriage plans, the Bay State has paved the way for public policies that receive national attention and open up public discourse about possible national versions of new programs.
ZETA PSI, a member of the University's Inter-Fraternity Council, was recently found guilty of holding an unsanctioned rush event last fall that involved providing alcohol to underage first year students.
WORDS SUCH as "disenfranchisement" and "fraud" have become synonymous with elections. Unfortunately, there's a double standard in the actions of civil rights leaders -- it all depends on which group is allegedly being disenfranchised.
ADVERTISING is hard work, and doubly so when your target population is college students. What other collection of individuals can boast having both the workload of an ant and the attention span of a fruit fly?
