NEWS FLASH: Abortion clinics ignore rape. What may seem like a cruel irony is a bleak reality, and the actions taken by the abortion clinics in response to these charges are even more preposterous.
IN LIGHT of new technologies and interdepedent economies, there are global problems which transcend borders.
AMIDST all th attention given to Terri Schiavo, it was easy last week to overlook America's second deadliest school shooting in its history.
COLUMBINE was senseless. In the aftermath of the Littleton, Colorado school shooting in 1999, as this country searched for answers in the music, the gun laws and the violent video games, everyone seemed to agree that it was all so senseless.
EVERY TIME I hear someone around Grounds speaking an unfamiliar language, I'm thankful that the University truly is an international institution.
When I accepted this job last summer, then-Editor-in-Chief Chris Wilson told me I was free to tackle almost any subject related to The Cavalier Daily.
A WEEK ago today, President John T. Casteen III delivered a riveting rendition of his annual State of the University Address.
THE IMAGE of President George W. Bush emerging as a strong wartime leader after the Sept. 11 attacks remains an integral part of the self-image of the Republican Party.
THE UNIVERSITY'S revised sexual assault policies, released last week, demonstrate a substantial and necessary change from previous policy, with an increased focus on the prevention of sexual offenses while providing adequate protection and support for the victims of sexual assault.
SOCIAL SECURITY is the biggest monetary crisis facing our country. It will be completely bankrupt by the time the current youngest working generation retires, because people are living longer, retiring earlier and there is a shrinking base from which to fund the program.
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.
