FEDERAL lower-court judges are not often prominent players in our political system. Lacking the glamour and high profile of a Supreme Court appointment, lower-court judgesmove within the narrow confines of Supreme Court precedent.
HERE WE go again with the "never again" cycle. Because we, the world community, have decided that a mournful, post-facto "never again" pledge is simply more convenient than the action required by "never, period," Darfur will take its place in history alongside Bergen-Belsen and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
REFERENDUM Number 3 -- the so-called "consensus clause" -- is the single most dangerous threat to student self-governance to appear on a student ballot.
FOUR RACIST assaults have taken place on Grounds in the past month. When some African-American students were painting Beta Bridge, individuals in a passing automobile reportedly yelled to them, telling them their place was in the cotton fields as opposed to the University.
I AM WRITING this column in response to Student Council President Noah Sullivan's personal campaign for an opinion referendum on the University Judiciary Committee's sanction process and hate crimes.
IN THE coming spring elections, students will decide whether the Honor Committee Constitution should be amended to ensure that the single sanction can be changed only with the vote of a majority of the student body.
THE CONSENSUS clause, so aptlynamed by those who have presented it, is full of fuzzy language intent on tricking the student body into approving it.
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.
