LIKE ALL successful institutions, great universities must have distinctive identities. Harvard and Yale have their Ivy League pedigrees; Berkeley has its counterculture past; North Carolina and Duke have their great basketball teams.
IT'S THAT time of year again. The COD has been posted and happy little Hoos are flocking to their computers and picking out their choices for next semester.
HAVING secured the presidency, the legislature and the corporate media, the Republicans have focused their wrath on our nation's judiciary, the last bastion of reason and restraint that stands between right wing crazies and happy fascist fun land. The latest attack comes from Sen.
AMERICANS think a woman president would be stronger on foreign policy than a man by a ratio of about two-to-one.
THE UNIVERSITY is rife with paradoxes, not the least of which is its policy on e-mail. Before every first year arrives at the University, he or she has almost always completed the administration's test on the "Responsible Computing Handbook for Students" and so received his or her e-mail account.
THIS MONDAY marked the beginning of the University's annual Take Back the Night week, a series of events climaxing tonight with a vigil at 8 p.m.
MANY OF us, myself included, frequently rail on corrupt politicians. We've all heard pundits and investigative reporters recount backroom deals, scandalous behavior, nepotistic practices and cutthroat desperate measures executed by ruthless, blood-sucking government officials.
AMONG other progressive leaders in Congress, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a top advocate for a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing the need for abortions by putting "prevention first." She was recently criticized by Tony Perkins of the conservative Family Research Council.
IT'S FUN to watch Democrats play make-believe. With the end of the 2004 election, many people had been suffering withdrawal from regular doses of liberal duplicity.
IN THE upcoming gubernatorial election, we Virginians will choose between two starkly different candidates, one who will continue to provide fiscally responsible leadership, and the other who will wreak the state's budget for short term political gain.
MODERN American newspapers adhere to a sacrosanct division between the news and opinion sections.
ON FRIDAY, the Collegiate Network issued its CampusOutrage Awards, given out each year for the most ridiculous instances of political correctness at colleges and universities across the country.
TAKE A deep breath and prepare yourself, because what I'm about to tell you may shock you: College students have sex.
NEARLY half of all women in the United States between the ages of fifteen and forty-four have experienced at least one unplanned pregnancy in their lifetime.
EVERY newspaper, from the community weekly to The New York Times, covers a set of newsmakers whose names appear frequently in its pages. These newsmakers are the government leaders, community activists and local celebrities whom everyone recognizes.
WHILE Congress is consumed with such pressing matters as the use of steroids in Major League Baseball, an economic crisis looms on the horizon that could dwarf any that this world has seen since the Great Depression.
THERE are numbers that do not need to be spoken for. Like two. As in the number of minutes that pass before a woman somewhere is sexually assaulted. Or one in five.
AS A particularly exciting NCAA tournament winds to its conclusion, much noise is being made about the graduation rates of men's basketball players. As it has for the past few years, the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports released its "Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2005 NCAA Men's and Women's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams," which, as in past years, shows what seem to be shockingly low graduation rates, including eight percent of basketball players for Michigan State and zero percent for LSU.
"SMOKING or non-smoking?" The question that we've all heard countless times in restaurants and hotels may soon be a thing of the past.
AFTER a semester's worth of collaboration and effort, a new set of sexual assault procedures have been released.
