THERE are some days when I would enjoy traveling to New York City and personally beating up members of the mainstream media.
WHILE WE students were on Spring Break, many of us found ourselves drawn in on Friday, March 11 to the story of Brian Nichols.
DAVID Horowitz, the dean of conservative campus paranoia, is having a rough month. First, the right-wing activist's latest attempt to expose the left wing conspiracy was received with gleeful ridicule throughout the blogosphere.
ON WEDNESDAY evenings, while most are busy studying or watching "The West Wing," a few University students volunteer at the Charlottesville Adult Learning Center's English as a Second Language Program.
EACH YEAR, there are about 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States -- and about half of them happen to women who are using a regular method of contraception. Many women experience anxiety after if a condom breaks, she misses a pill or she has sex when she didn't plan to -- or want to. However, there is another option for women who experience contraceptive failure or unplanned sex -- emergency contraception (EC), sometimes called the "morning-after pill." It's a short, higher dose of the same hormones found in regular birth control pills, and women can get it to have on hand just in case there is an emergency.
WHAT'S WRONG with politics today? Gov. Mark Warner, who spoke in Larry Sabato's politics course on Monday, blamed partisanship for stalling productive legislation.
ANY DAY now, the new Course Offering Directory will become available with selected data from online course evaluations to help students pick which classes and professors they would most like to take.
THE CULTURE of capitalism is a disease that exists in external economic and internal mental realms, and thus afflicts both society and the individual.
A HUMAN being is either alive or dead. There is no gray area in between the two. Terri Schiavo is alive; as House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R
MANY STUDENTS who vote in elections have no idea who they intend to vote for before logging on to vote.
COLUMNISTS must be some of the most self-confident people in the world. While reporters relate the news, columnists purport to tell you what to think about the news.
THE STORY that many Virginia basketball fans had been waiting months to read finally showed up on the front page of Tuesday's Cavalier Daily -- Pete Gillen was out as head coach. Gillen resigned just days after the Cavaliers finished his seventh season at the University with a losing record, the team's first since 1998-99.
ONE OF the most marked and distinct trends that has emerged in constitutional law in recent years has been the increased citation of international law in interpreting the U.S.
WE OPINION columnists, unlike our colleagues in the Life section, aren't the type to self-reference.
OVER THE past week a diverse group of people ranging from talk show hosts to high-ranking government officials have united in warning that the Chinese dragon represents a growing threat to good old Uncle Sam.
STUDENT self-governance here at Mr. Jefferson's University dodged a huge bullet in this month's elections.
AS FIRST years arrive at the University, they are satisfied knowing that they have a place to live in dorms, and future housing seems an easy problem to solve somewhere in the distant future.
PRESIDENT Bush is once again attempting to appoint far right-wing judicial nominees to American courtrooms.
PUBLIC universities are becoming less and less public. Declines in state funding have driven universities to seek private sources of funding, creating a permanent tension between open market competition and the purpose of public education. Last month, The Futures Project at Brown University addressed this issue in a report titled "Correcting Course: How We Can Restore the Ideals of Public Higher Education in a Market-Driven Era." The authors found that universities throughout the country face "growing pressure to cut costs, measure and report on performance, and compete ever more strenuously for students, grants, funding and prestige." Unfortunately, this competition usually comes at the expense of academic programs and access for low-income students. In response to market pressures, public universities have sought new freedom from state governments, primarily for the purpose of raising tuition beyond state caps.
WHAT do you get when you put Michael Jackson, WorldCom, Enron and Bill Clinton under one roof? Why, the illustrious United Nations.
