ALL THREE candidates for Student Council president support the three most important current student initiatives: the living wage, on-Grounds production of green energy, and purchase of renewable energy credits.
ON THURSDAY, the University Judiciary Committee voted on a proposal to submit a referendum to the student body creating harsher sanctions for violations of the Standards of Conduct "motivated by the age, color, disability, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation or veteran status of the victim." This proposal, though well-intentioned, is more dangerous than it is useful because it poses a threat to individual liberties and has little chance for success in decreasing such incidents. The most obvious difficulty with the idea is that it is difficult to ascertain the true motives behind a hate incident.
A PPARENTLYquailhuntersposeas much a threat to national security as terrorists. Last weekend, Vice President Cheney and his friend Henry Whittington, a 78-year-old attorney, were hunting quail in Texas, and the vice president sprayed his companion with birdshot.
THE FALLOUT from the recent Danish cartoon saga has torched buildings, shattered business contracts and sent waves across the debate of how to deal with the Muslim world without encroaching our ever-so-valuable democratic rights.
A NERVOUS student stands amid a sea of expectant faces in Washington D.C. "How can women be active in conservative politics, yet still be loving wives and mothers?" Anne Coulter asks.
EARLIER this month the Board of Visitors questioned and addressed the changes made to diversity programs within the University.
A COLLEAGUE heard I'd be acting in this year's production of "The VaginaMonologues" and high-fived me for having the courage to "dance on stage dressed as a giant vagina.
NEEDLESS violence occurs on a regular basis, but rarely has it been to this scale -- in response to a cartoon.
CONSERVATIVES contend that institutions of higher learning remain one of the last strongholds of the left, and the influence of professors on impressionable students cannot be underestimated.
THIS YEAR "The Vagina Monologues" will be performed on over 600 college campuses nationwide. "The Vagina Monologues" is performed to compete with one of the nation's most endearing holidays.
"CAPITALISM has changed," said Jack Bogle, "and it has not changed for the better." Bogle, founder and former CEO of one of the two largest mutual funds on earth, visited the University last Wednesday to warn about an impending crisis for capitalism.
WHERE defamatory speech is concerned, hypocrisy runs rampant. Speakers are constantly attacked for statements they make, the veracity of their claims challenged by those whom they speak against.
FOUR DECADES after the civil rights movement reaffirmed the Constitution's guarantee of racial equality, it is an unfortunate truth that race relations continue to be an issue in America.
DON'T LOOK now, but I think someone managed to offend Muslim extremists. As if the present incursion into Iraq, renewed military presence in the holiest of regions in Saudi Arabia, rampant pork eating, literature reading, dirty dancing, free speaking, music listening, alcohol drinking and general Western hedonism weren't enough, Muslim fundamentalists can now add cartoons to the list of things worthy of jihad.
ACROSS the devastated Gulf Coast, recovery from Hurricane Katrina continues. The rebuilding process is meeting with slow but encouraging success, although donations have slowed to a trickle and the issue has long disappeared from the national news.
A SERIES of staggering statistics brought to light by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina at Asheville indicate that most states are facing considerable problems with the toxin mercury.
WELCOME to reality according to the Bush administration, where scientific evidence is irrelevant, intelligent design is just as legitimate as evolution and credentials don't matter if you have the right politics.
WHEN THE Cavalier Daily published a cartoon last semester that offended African-American students, the paper was met by vocal protests and demands for a discussion with the editor-in-chief.
JUDGING BY the amount of space on the front page of this newspaper given to the article with the headline "Council calls for [domestic partner] benefits in resolution" (Feb.
FOLLOWING a series of racially charged incidents reported in the fall, there was an outpouring of solidarity based on the belief that black students at the University should not be subject to bias or intimidation.
