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.
AFTER attempting to elucidate the problems facing African-Americans, Bill Cosby remains under the scope of criticism.
STUDENT Council passed resolutions last week asking the administration to tweak the course evaluation system and commending the University community for increased participation in it.
WHEN MY grandmother's great grandfather died, he was living on the poor farm in Lawrence County, Ala.
LAST WEEK the USS Lake Erie, a cruiser equipped with the advanced Aegis radar system, successfully tracked and intercepted a ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean in the latest test of U.S.
A popular media axiom notes that you can say whatever you want in a headline as long as you phrase it as a question.
ON FRIDAY, Feb. 18, The Cavalier Daily published a letter to the editor alleging that Dean of African-American Affairs M.
STUDENTS have been voting for new officials for Student Council and other bodies of student government since Friday.
RECENTLY Grounds has been abuzz with student activism. Although some in the past have questioned the degree to which students at the University are in touch with the problems of the outside world, the recent campaign by S.T.A.N.D.
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.
