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.
LIVING with a roommate or suitemates that you don't know well can often be a challenge due to conflicting personal preferences.
A13-YEAR-OLD student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school because he tossed a rubber band onto his teacher's desk after the teacher demanded he hand it over.
AMERICAN establishments have once again proved their bigotry and stupidity in responding to international disputes.
EVEN AS Chief Justice William Rehnquist is dying from terminal cancer, Senate Democrats are vowing to block President Bush's judicial nominees.
AS ELDERLY folks comprise an increasingly large percentage of the American population, health care costs will increase dramatically.
IT IS a little-known fact that when God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, a little asterisk appeared next to the fifth one, declaring that thou shalt not kill, "except when your wife has brain damage and you need a way to marry your long-term girlfriend without giving up your claim to hundreds of thousands of dollars." At least that's how Florida's Supreme Court interprets it in the Terri Schiavo case.
ONE WEEK and hundreds of gallons of piña colada removed from the 2005 Spring elections here at the University, it is easier to look back at our annual spectacle of student self-governance in action and wonder if this is really why we are here. Late February and early March bore witness to a familiar sight on Grounds: reams of bright flyers, gaudy chalked sidewalks, impassioned pleas on the pages of student publications -- a microcosm of the American electoral process.
SIX HUNDRED and ninety-one dollars can buy a lot of things. A spot check at www.froogle.com reveals that a pair of new K2 Apache skis, a Jamis Dakar full-suspension mountain bike or a 14-karat yellow gold chain in round weave pattern can all be boght for that amount of money.
IT ISN'T often that a group of college professors is soundly and thoroughly embarrassed by a collection of mere students in an intellectual arena.
THE COMICS page seems like one of The Cavalier Daily's more popular sections, but I must confess I generally don't pay much attention to it. That's by no means an indictment of the quality of the comics.
THE NUCLEAR capacity of aggressive rogue states can no longer be tolerated by a sensible global polity, as such a continuation represents the largest and most real threat to peace and security the world has ever known.
THE END of February brings a series of tests mandated by "No Child Left Behind," coincidentally falling at the conclusion of a 10-month study of the controversial federal program released last week.
PERHAPS my standards are pathetically low, but I actually thought the Social Security debate was going reasonably well.
THROUGHOUT his campaign for re-election, President Bush always made sure he highlighted his leadership as the country's commander-in-chief.
