WITH ALL the talk of spreading democracy around the world, it is astonishing how little attention has been given to the breakdown of democracy in our own backyard.
"IT IS not too much to say, I believe, that the idea of eugenics, based upon the science of eugenics, will work the greatest social revolution the world has yet known." May 6 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, an opportunity to take stock of the horror unleashed upon millions of innocents by ideologies like these, espoused by monsters an ocean away from own community. Except the remarks above are not the words of any Nazi.
SO-CALLED "family issues" have become among the most divisive in our nation, with both liberals and conservatives polarizing increasingly over issues of "morality" as opposed to anything else.
DEMOCRACY in the Middle East has long been a central policy for the United States, most recently centering on the nation of Syria in which the United States has played and should play a strong, firm role.
TWENTY-THREE states are currently considering legislation that explicitly grants pharmacists the right to trump a patient's access to healthcare through refusing to fill prescriptions based on religious, moral or ideological grounds. "Refusal clauses" for pharmacists already exist in 10 states, allowing the pharmacist to refuse to fill any legal prescription for contraceptives due to moral objections. A pharmacist is, of course, entitled to his or her own conscience.
In a seminar on the state of Asian-Pacific-American affairs at the University held on Tuesday, April 19, Daisy Rodriguez, assistant dean for Asian and Asian-Pacific-American students presented the results of a survey conducted this spring on the opinions of the APA community.
REMEMBER some of the inane things you used to be graded on in elementary school? Handwriting, teamwork and behavior grades routinely appear on the report cards of young students.
I HAVE to admit, I was a complete skeptic regarding democracy's chances in Iraq. And to be frank, I still have my doubts about just how well the democratically elected government there will be able to handle the problems facing the country.
THE UNIVERSITY has the phrase "we envision a community of understanding, tolerance and respect" emblazoned across its Diversity Web site.
THIS PAST week, Connecticut became the second state, following Vermont, to officially sanction same-sex civil unions.
WITH PUBLIC education serving as the learning body of the state, lawmakers and school administrators have long disputed the secularization of education.
OVER THE weekend I had the misfortune to find myself watching CNN on a grainy public television in a crowded Midwestern airport terminal, waiting for a connecting flight back to Charlottesville.
IT'S SPRINGTIME -- the time of year when longer days and warmer temperatures seem to entice dormant high-schoolers out of hibernation.
AS YET another class registration period comes to a close, the University is abuzz with all the same old complaints that always come up around this time.
IT'S LATE on a Saturday night and you're at an off-Grounds party.You've had a couple beers but are getting ready to head home after a long night.
WHENEVER the subject of judicial reform is brought up, people start getting nervous. Some falsely believe that every procedural aspect of our nation's judiciary is spelled out in the Constitution, and that any interference is thus "unconstitutional." Others resist court reform on the strength of the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." However, there is one aspect of our court system that is fundamentally flawed: life tenure for Supreme Court justices.
EVERY student has at least a second-hand story of GPA-wrecking miscommunications. There are plenty of variations on the same tale: The teaching assistant who holds an advanced degree in political theory in his native tongue yet is incapable of explaining "separation of powers" in English, the students forced to create a Statistics-TA-to-English dictionary, or the entire Calc III class that doesn't realize until November that, "Aha!
ONE OF the major problems with writing for a student newspaper is that every once in a while, that little thing called "schoolwork" interferes.
ON THURSDAY, April 7, Jalal Talabani was sworn in as Iraq's interim president. This week, his government plans to fill the remaining Cabinet positions, most importantly the defense minister, who will help coordinate the transition of security responsibilities from U.S.
SCREW you, world. This is the message that President Bush has conveyed in his selection of nominees to fill high-level intelligence and security positions.
