LAST TUESDAY, as I sat at a table with members of the faculty and fellow second years listening to Charles McCurdy, chair of the History Department, explain the similarities between Babe Ruth and Chief Justice John Marshall, I came to a profound conclusion: this is wonderful.
THAT TIME of year has rolled around again. We've beenbombarded with e-mails, flyers, chalkings and maybe even phone calls about University elections.
EVERY citizen of the world should have a vested interest in the success of recent peace agreements in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
AFTER making a splash last May with a controversial speech about the problems facing many African-Americans, Bill Cosby's moral authority and credibility are now tarnished by allegations of sexual misconduct -- one from thirty years ago.
"N.E.W." does not stand for "No Education for Women," the "Network of Eventual Wives" or "Nuts for the Elimination of Women." N.E.W.
IN A LEAD editorial earlier this month, ("Flyering blues," Feb. 4) The Cavalier Daily denounced flyering by Hoos Against the Single Sanction and Students for the Preservation of Honor after both groups plastered Grounds with handbills championing their respective causes.
Over the past several years, Americans have become acquainted with activists judges, who, as President Bush puts it, want to "legislate from the bench." It now seems that there is an even more sinister crop of activist judges: those who want to parent from the bench. Recently a judge in Lebanon, Tennessee ordered a woman to learn English at a fourth grade level or lose custody of her children.
LAST MONTH the precious legal doctrine known as the "hate crime" officially got out of control. Two eighteen-year-old New York youths were charged with "second-degree assault as a hate crime" after they jumped out of a car, yelled "Hey Satan!" to a self-proclaimed Satanist wearing black clothes and an upside-down crucifix and proceeded to beat him with a club and an ice scraper.
LAST WEEK saw the University's Peer Health Educators tabling and flyering central Grounds for "Sexual Responsibility Week," handing out condoms and engaging students in a dialogue about safer sex.
RECENTLY, there has been a lot of talk coming from President Bush about building an "ownership society." While this slogan has been used to characterize a number of his proposals, it has been especially prominent in regards to his suggestions to partially privatize Social Security.
THE VIRGINIA General Assembly got a lot of attention from The Cavalier Daily's News staff last week. Every issue of the newspaper except Thursday's contained an article on something happening in Richmond.
IN RECENT years, law schools, often regarded in our society as bastions of elite privilege and conformity, have (if we take them at their word) transformed themselves into "expressive institutions" dedicated to advancing progressive political causes.
AFTER working at a national bagel chain restaurant for two years while in high school, my girlfriend received a lower hourly wage than newly hired males.
AS ELECTED reresentatives of the Law School's student body, we would like to respond to the lead editorial "Uniformity in elections" (Feb.
THIS TUESDAY, fifteen-year-old Christopher Pittman was found guilty on two counts of murder and sentenced to up to thirty years in a South Carolina prison.
THE BUZZWORDS "war on terrorism" have invaded our TVs, newspapers, blogs and radios. But many people may not be familiar with a relatively obscure form of terrorism, one that is not propagated by Al-Qaeda or Hamas, but by loosely-organized domestic groups.
SOCIETY perpetuates wealth disparities.To achieve success, it helps to have successful parents. For undergraduate students, money opens up opportunities that poorer students cannot afford.
EARLIER this February, Office of African-American Affairs Dean M. Rick Turner kicked off Black History Month with a scathing critique that whites in Charlottesville won't "do anything for black folks." At the same time, the Iota Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. made history by leaving the Black Fraternity Council for the nonracial Inter-Fraternity Council.
"THE VAGINAMonologues" expresses the ecstasy of a human existence without the false separation of love from sexuality.
THE RECENT move of theAlpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,Inc. from the Black Fraternal Council to the Inter-Fraternity Council has kindled much debate on Grounds.
