WOMEN have a great time at the University. Chivalrous young men open doors for them, buy meals for them and give them great ego satisfaction, especially around this time of year, when sweats come off and skirts get shorter.
AS I write these words, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe that this is my last column in The Cavalier Daily.
I MUST forewarn the reader, this is yet another column about the Living Wage Campaign. But before you skip to sudoku, I say in my own defense that this column says nothing about the figure $10.72, economics or conceptions of social justice.It deals instead with a simple claim made by the University administration: that they lack the legal authority to institute a living wage for all University employees by nature of their status as a public university beholden to the will of the state.
CAREFUL terminology and broad generalizations are the Inter-Fraternity Council's best defenses. Perhaps critics of the IFC tend to generalize, but if an IFC supporter would like to make that claim he will find himself using a double-edged sword.
ANYONE familiar with the anarchist punk band Anti-Flag would be confused to see the group standing next to a member of Congress, promoting a common goal.
WITH EASTER observance last weekend, I was rather surprised by the number of acquaintances and friends who stayed on Grounds.
TOO MANY people are quick to dismiss the Living Wage Campaign with the simplistic, ECON 201 argument: An increase in the wage will lead to a decrease in quantity of labor demanded.
IN THE comic sequel to the Danish cartoon saga, the University is currently registering its own version of excessive uproar over an equally simple expression of free speech.
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.
