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.
WHEN GEORGE W. Bush was elected president in 2000, his platform was based on two clear approaches: one foreign, and one domestic.
THE RADICAL and violent Hamasparty has recently been votedinto power in the Palestinian elections, creating new tension with Israel while Iraq, as always, operates as a continuous quagmire with no end in sight.
SIXTY DAYS. That's the jail timeout of a possible life sentence thata child rapist was sentenced to on Jan.
STUDENT self-governance is built on the idea of the student body judging others accused of an offense.
IN A distant nation the ruling party's corruption added to the misery of the impoverishedpopulace.
LAST WEEK, our fearless president stunned the nation when he offered to take unscripted questions from an audience of college students at Kansas State University in front of CNN cameras.
"PODCAST" became a buzz word for the first time in 2005, refering to downloadable audio programs that can be played on iPods and similar devices.
OF ALL the theories, ideas and formulas put forth in the study of economics, there is one that is repeated and affirmed so often that even the most thick-skulled student sitting in the very back of an ECON 201 lecture could not possibly miss it.
RECENTLY, some professors have wondered why a Web site like ratemyprofessors.com needsto exist. According to The Chronicle of Education, one disgruntled professor has retaliated to this Web site with one of his own: rateyourstudents.blogspot.com.While professors might find it cathartic to mock ratemyprofessors, they should realize that such a forum has inherent value and that venting about the site through rateyourstudents is exemplary of the overarching problem of poor communication between students and professors. Professors represent a diverse array of values, personalities and pedagogical methods: some are eccentric, some are hilarious, some are stern but caring, etc.
ON THE Tuesday before last, January 17th, a series of residences and other buildings in and around the Rugby Road-14th Street corridor were designated as a new historic district by the Charlottesville City Council.
THE LEAD editorial today is about the goals the editors have set for the paper this semester. Look it over, because they set those goals for your benefit, to create a better, more informative, more useful product for you.
