AS A FIRST year, I thought that the University's trademark racial tension was all my fault. Minorities are often accused of exacerbating race problems through self-segregation, and I believed it.
WHEN I THINK back on the girl that wandered into Tuttle with her arms full of belongings nearly four years ago, I cannot help but feel a mix of protectiveness, pride and thankfulness. Protectiveness because that girl had no idea what she would encounter over her next four years at this school -- how much she would grow.
ONE THING about being an opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily is that the position affords the columnist a small degree of notoriety at theUniversity.This, however, can be both a good and a bad thing.
Gregory J. Scanlon Commencement Address University of Virginia May 16, 2032 Thank you, President Sabato.
TWO YEARS ago I had an epiphany. That little white lab coat hanging in the front of my closet, stylish as it was, needed to be exported to the very back, somewhere between the rainbow-striped blouse and polka-dot skirt my mom had bought me the previous Christmas.
AT THE beginning of his lecture, visiting author Bill McKibben admitted, "There's a way in which I'm a depressive fellow." Indeed, it's difficult to put a positive spin on the destruction of the planet and the end of civilization as we know it, but although McKibben's warnings may be uncomfortable, we should listen. McKibben argued that in recent decades, humans have become "bigger than we should be, bigger than it makes sense to try to become." Our impact on the environment has increased dramatically, with dangerous results.
HONOR is a word constantly debated around the University, as it means so many different things to so many different people.
ON MARCH 20,2005, the University Judiciary Committee officially created the Ad Hoc Subcommittee for Sanctioning of Hate Crimes.
AS MANY states make significant headway in embryonic stem cell research, little progress towards researching one the most promising fields of medicine is being made at the federal level. On Tuesday, a report released by the National Academy of Sciences highlighted the need for regulations governing research involving embryonic stem cells.
SEVERAL OF the administrators at the University are often the subject of controversy and sometimes even public outcry.
IN THE PAST few months, there have been a spate of attacks against prominent conservative icons -- not from the liberal media establishment (what a shock!), but this time from, not surprisingly, campus activists.
AS THE spring semester comes to a close and things wrap up around Grounds, we often become so busy with our own lives that we forget to give serious consideration to events going on outside of our own community.
LAST WEEK, Mohammed Kenbib, Professor of History at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, came to the University to speak about Morocco's history of Jews and Muslims living together peacefully.
LAST FRIDAY, as John Negroponte began his first dayas the nation's first ever Director of National Intelligence, Charles Duelfer spoke at the University's Miller Center on his experience as a weapons inspector in Iraq.
THE VIRGINIA governor's race has been called the country's most-watched election this year. But now is it becoming clear just what those watchers are starting to see: gay-baiting. So, Jerry Kilgore has a "gay-sounding" voice.
THE INFAMOUS "clam" is dead. My favorite drink at Jaberwoke, and therefore a large part of my social life, is now forever spoiled as part of the Virginia Department of Alcohol Beverage Control's recent crackdown on the Corner. The clam's official name is the "walrus drink," which is an assortment of liquors and juices in a huge clam shell with numerous large straws.
AFTER CLASS last Wednesday, I scurried over to Gilmer 130, where the first image I saw on the white screen was one of a black individual eating watermelon and enjoying it, and the first words I heard were "this is the underbelly of America that they try to tell us never existed." These were the words of Dr. Brenda Verner, in an event labeled "What African American Men Can Do to Save Our Culture," sponsored by the Office of African-American Affairs, BUCKS and the Black Student Alliance (BSA). The event, while interesting in its own right, indirectly underscored the ongoing communication, coordination and information gap between blacks and non-blacks in working towards a more equal America. The communication and coordination gap exists not only in BSA meetings and events, but even in national politics.The BSA event, while having a respectable turnout, only had around four or five non-black individuals attending.
ANYONE who follows politics knows that the "morning after" pill has been at the epicenter of a brewing storm of recent controversy.
It's a sign of these highly competitive times when the new basketball coach's salary of $925,000 per year is considered conservative, compared to the $3 million that the University was reportedly considering paying another candidate.
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.
