For the second time this school year, The Cavalier Daily has run into trouble by printing a cartoon lambasted as racially or religiously offensive.
IMAGINE that you're a 20-year- old University student -- this should be a relatively easy exercise for many of you.
LAST SATURDAY, Bolivian President Evo Morales gave Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a guitar decorated with leaves from the coca plant.
INSTEAD OF catching your attention with a unique and clever introduction, I am just going to say what I need to say in the first sentence: Be safe over spring break. You may think that I am simply going to list a series of guidelines for your wild and crazy spring break, but before I offer some helpful advice, I want all University students traveling this break to recognize that you are an important component of the University of Virginia community.It is of the utmost concern that you stay safe over spring break.
THE UNIVERSITY'S faculty is upset about a new program, and with good reason. The administration recently adopted Semester at Sea, a study abroad program that makes a cruise ship a "floating campus" as students tour the ocean.
BLACK NEO-CONSERVATIVES want to "undermine and undo the civil right movement." Such a statement was just one of the many conclusions presented at a lecture titled "Inciting the Counter-Revolution: Race and Black Neo-conservatism in the Post-Civil Rights Era." LaTasha Levy, a 2000 College graduate, is currently writing her master's thesis on the topic at Cornell University's African Studies and Research Center.
IT'S TOO bad that the Living Wage Report, which was released last week, didn't come with a copy of Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience." For those who aren't familiar with the living wage campaign, it's that sinister plot --perpetrated by communists and tree-embracing humanitarians -- to ensure that workersat the University can afford Bacchanalian indulgences like food and clothing.
SEVENTY-FIVE dollars are put to waste every year by an innumerable number of students -- most of whom don't even realize it.
THE SEMESTER at Sea program might sound like every student's dream: Starting this summer, students can literally go on a cruise and receive academic credit for it, a concept that would no doubt make Thomas Jefferson proud. According to a former participant's letter to The Cavalier Daily, the program has been nicknamed "The Booze Cruise" and "Kindergarten at Sea" in honor of low academic standards and heavy drinking.
WITH NEARLY 12,500 miles of coastline and 300 ports, including more than a dozen major ports such as New York City and Hampton Roads, the United States faces an extremely difficult task in ensuring the safety of its borders.
THE DISCUSSION of Advance Placement tests has become more prominent as even President Bush found time in his State of the Union address to herald the increasing number of students enrolled in AP programs.
NOT SINCE Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton has a vice president taken so much flak for discharging a firearm.
THE ABORTION issue, ever controversial, is reaching a new crisis, with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments on the federal ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions in the fall.
ABOUT a year ago, opponents of the single sanction demonstrated the depth of their resolve to eliminate the organizing principle of our honor system.
THERE has been a lot of very complicated stuff going on at the University these past few weeks. The Opinion pages, for one, have been on fire with people sounding off about the consensus clause up for consideration in this week's election.
AMERICAN indulgence and overabundance are most concentrated in the food industry. In an article published in Healthy Day, Dr. David L.
UNIVERSITY students have energetically debated the single sanction for decades. Yet never have single sanction critics come close to repealing or mitigating the requirement of expulsion upon findings of an honor violation. Nonetheless, die-hard sanction supporters feel compelled to permanently insulate the sanction from current and future debate.
TRADE PREVENTS wars, they say. This guiding prinicple has become the cornerstone of the United Nations and World Trade Organization (W.T.O.), especially under the Clinton Administration.
IF THERE is one similarity between Cheney's Quail-Gate episode and the dining hall's response to Green Dining's "No Tray Tuesdays" initiative, it is the rank smell of scandal and Dining's initial unwillingness to assume responsibility for its actions.
LAST WEEK, a United Nations report on the United States' prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, accused the U.S.
