FIRST YEARS had a bleak introduction to race relations at the University this past week, with a slew of racially charged incidents filling the front pages of this and other news publications.
LAST WEEK'S decision by the Food and Drug Administration to once again delay expanded access to the morning-after pill shows the extent to which the Bush administration is willing to deny science for cheap political gain. Back in December 2003, an FDA advisory committee voted 23 to four to approve over-the-counter sales of the drug.
ALCOHOL Laws present a unique paradox within the United States and the University community: While there is a legal drinking age of 21, generally there seems to be an understanding allowing many people ages 18 to 21 to slip by the law should they want to, especially when in a college setting.
THANK God for the lieutenant governor's race. As we wind down another long summer of Virginia politicking, the most thrilling controversies in the gubernatorial smackdown have involved the third-party candidate and the logistics of setting up debates.
THE FAMOUS actor Will Rogers, mocking Prohibition in the 1920s, wondered, "Why don't they pass an amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything?
AS MEMBERS of the black student community at the University, we are frustrated and completely outraged by the plethora of vicious acts of hate and intolerance targeting our student community.
FLASH floods. Walls of water. Tornados. These words may evoke the images of the damage wrought to parts of the southeastern United States by Hurricane Katrina during the course of the week.
"CHRISTIAN students need not apply" -- an apt title for the University of California school system application form.
AFTER 218 years, 27 amendments and a war that almost tore the country apart, the U.S. Constitution has endured as the world's oldest written blueprint for government.
LATE IN May I was on a train through Holland on my way to Germany when I happened upon two other American students from a nearby Virginia college.
AH YES, it's the start of another year at the University of Virginia, complete with ISIS trouble, new furniture, popped collars, first years on Rugby Road and the requisite slew of racially motivated acts of violence and discrimination (not to mention the acts of violence and discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation, which certainly also occur). In the past week, five acts of racially-based hate were reported.
THE BATTLE over the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court is heating up, as interest groups and politicians step up their rhetoric with hearings set to begin Sept.
TWO YEARS and counting after the start of the war in Iraq, it seems that partisans on both sides are more concerned with tarring their political opponents than proposing constructive solutions.
THE REST of the nation is complaining about gas prices these days, but paying close to three dollars a gallon at the pump is nothing compared to what most of us have been shelling out at the bookstore in the past week.
IT WAS during the winter of 2004 that I had the chance to leave a deputy secretary of state speechless.
AS THE old saying goes, the only things certain in life are death and taxes. Pretty much everything is taxed these days, starting from before you are even born with prenatal care, and believe it or not, the government has even found a way to get you after you die.
WHILE many debate the legitimacy of the rigid and expensive mandates the No Child Left Behind Act imposes on states, the extent to which the initiative is failing at the most basic level became transparent last Monday, when Connecticut sued the federal government over provisions of NCLB.
YOU HAVE to feel for military recruiters, stuck patrolling parking lots and shopping malls in hopes of attracting America's youth to a life of discipline and early-morning exercise.
CHRISTIAN televangelist Pat Robertson has created a name for himself in the past two decades with his radical and sometimes offensive viewpoints.
HARRY Truman once said, "You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." Well, one thing is certain, the Managing Board's Aug.24 lead editorial "Debating the Center's Mistake," showed us how President Truman must have felt and tempted us to undertake a massive rescue mission at the local pound.
