MUCH OF our country's constitutional, political and social framework has been couched in the work of Enlightenment thinkers, who provided a language of rights indispensable to American democracy -- rights such as equality of opportunity.
WHAT EXATLY does it mean to be honorable? Proponents of the non-toleration clause would have you believe that to be honorable you must report any and all possible honor code violations immediately, no matter what the circumstances or the potential consequences.
UNIVERSITIES have struggled to deal with offensive and discriminatory speech for decades, but new technology is creating new challenges as private comments become public on the World Wide Web.
THE WITHDRAWAL of Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court threatens the country with a grinding political deadlock.
Adam Silverberg's Friday, Oct. 28 Opinion column, "Honoring professor discretion," asserted that professors only receive a letter explaining their obligations to the honor system when they accept a position at the University.
ANYONE who checked their e-mail yesterday and received Editor-in-Chief Patrick Harvey's e-mail about an Oct.
WE'RE ALL guilty of jargon from time to time, of speaking in the tongues of our trades and letting clarity fall by the wayside.
THE UNIVERSITY wrests control of a predominantly black neighborhood and gentrifies it, driving the black residents out, making it impossible for the poor to find housing and destroying the social fabric of a community.
THE CONTROVERSY over Harriet Miers' now-failed nomination is widely regarded as just another blow to President Bush and the Republican Party.
IN THE wake of multiple instances of cheating at the University, many professors have been encouraged to handle cheating with their own brand of punishment, because it is difficult for professors to play by the rules concerning a violation of honor policies.
DON'T LOOK now, but the presidential administration responsible for the PATRIOT Act and the disgraceful acts at Abu Ghraib is preparing another blow to human rights.
AS SADDAM Hussein enters his trial for crimes against humanity, one cannot help but think (perhaps wishfully) that he will be sentenced to die.
MANY STUDENTS at the University, especially first years, are left in the dark when it comes to sanctions as a result of alcohol-related incidents.
HOW MANY University students remember that they owe the Alumni Association $350, payable in a lump sum or in an installment plan, upon their graduation?
The Federal Communications Commission is undertaking an effort to restrict the innovative freedom of universities at an unprecedented level.
AT FIRST glance, there seems to be an amazing silence on the issue of higher education in ongoing gubernatorial campaigns.
FOR THE first time in recorded history, U.S. household incomes did not rise for the fifth year in a row, according to the New York Times.
DESPITE taking a symbolic recent detour to debate the death penalty, Virginia's gubernatorial candidates have highlighted some important bread and butter issues during the past year.
THE VIRGINIA governor's race is heating up, and there are signs that Democratic candidate Tim Kaine may be on the verge of melting down.
LAW STUDENTS whine a lot. It's what they're trained to do. But if you hear a Law student in his third and final year complaining, "I'm so bored with class," "There's nothing good on daytime T.V." or "I'm so hung over," take pity -- not since purgatory has there been a worse use of time as the year "3L." The third year of law school is little more than a seventh year of liberal arts education, albeit with electives that have something, somehow, to do with "the law." Another year of theoretically lofty thinking isn't itself bad.
