MY FRIENDS never heard me breathe a word about The Cavalier Daily before my first article was published, but it is pretty much all they have heard from me since.
IT'S STRANGE to think that these words are likely the last of mine to ever appear on The Cavalier Daily's Opinion pages.
I WANTED more hate mail. As a lowly first-year Opinion columnist, I never felt I got my fair share of e-mails that ended with an expletive or an insult toward my mother.
MY FIRST year, I intended to give up journalism. I had spent so many nights in the past two years worrying whether I had enough stories and writers at the Lee High School Lance, that I promised myself once I got to U.Va., I would try something new and different.
THREE AND a half years ago, before I was a part of The Cavalier Daily, I would get annoyed when the paper was not in production after holidays and during exam periods.
THIS WEEK, Congress and the American people got their first look at a much-anticipated document: President Bush's proposed federal budget for the fiscal year 2007.
The lead editorial Feb. 7 ("For serious") described the honor trial standard of seriousness as "if 'open toleration of such an act impairs the community of trust enough to warrant permanent dismissal from the University.'" While that phrasing is sometimes cited, that is not how the standard is written in the Honor bylaws, which read, "An act is considered to be serious if open tolerance thereof would be inconsistent with the community of trust."
ADDING Honor Committee members to the jury would substantively improve our current system. That has been my belief since this summer, and that is why I formed an ad hoc committee on the issue last fall.
PUBLIC institutions of higher learning enroll only 12 percentof their students from the bottom quarter of income in the United States.
THE RECENT passing of Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks reminds us that collective action is as indispensable to social change as is the courageous leadership of a few.
WHEN FACTIONS at the opposite ends of the political spectrum join forces to promote an issue, one can't help but take notice.
IN 1912 coal miners in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek fields of the Kanawha coal district went on strike for company recognition of the union.
STUDENT elections have a reputation for being largelyinconsequential to the student body. Voter turnout is notoriously pitiful, and each year's elected representatives seem to produce little more than lines on their own resumes.
THREE years ago, the Virginia General Assembly followed New CarHampshire's lead banning "internal possession" of alcohol.
PRESIDENT Bush's State of the Union address last Wednesday struck at the heart of the potential problems for America's economic future, and it offered the solutions necessary to generate both strength and prosperity in the future.
BACK IN my glory days as the founder and editor of the opinion page of my high school newspaper, the monthly-published "Fox Tales," I dabbled in the art of editorial cartooning.
AFTER every meeting of the Board of Visitors, I try to let my fellow students know more about the Board's activities. If I were to sum up the theme of the recent meetings, they would be "challenges ahead." Two weeks ago, all the committees of the Board met in Charlottesville to discuss their agendas and plan for the meeting of the full Board that took place last Thursday and Friday.
BASED on President Bush's past advocacy of democracy across the globe, one might have expected that he would pledge in his recent State of the Union address to topple what he has repeatedly characterized as the antidemocratic government of Iran and replace itwith a "true democracy." After all, way back in 2002, Bush named Iran as a part of the "axis of evil," along with Iraq and North Korea, and since that time Iran has pledged to wipe Israel off the map and has continued in its quest to develop nuclear technology.
THE ISSUE has been thoroughly and thoughtfully debated, and it turns out most University students agree: racism is a bad thing.
A CONTROVERSIAL Honor proposal made news on Monday. Offered last semester by a support officer, it would have created a separate panel of three Honor Committee members to vote on seriousness after a jury had convicted a student on act and intent.
