AS WE BEGIN 2005, Thomas Nast's 19th century caricatures of the two parties remain unchanged. In Nast's view, Republicans were like elephants; with their long memories, they never ceased reminding Americans that they were the party of Lincoln.
'TIS THE season of making and breaking New Year's resolutions. Maybe you're going to shed those 15 pounds (really, you mean it this time) or go to the gym four times a week (four, one, what's the difference?). Perhaps this is the year for increased volunteerism, or cutting back on stress.
LAST YEAR marked the debut of"Christmas by the numbers." This year, in an effort to be more inclusive, I am proud to present "Chriskwanukah by the Numbers." 1st: Current ranking of "Christmas" on the Lycos Top 50 Searches list after getting trounced throughout the holiday season by "Paris Hilton" last year.
TOM WOLFE says that "you can never go home again," but home is where we're headed in a week or two.
DAVE BARRY once wrote, "College is basically a bunch of rooms where you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things." I've decided that this is mostly true.
IT'S THAT time of year again. The "joy" of the holiday season is upon us. In just over one week, we'll all head home for an eagerly anticipated, and in most cases, well-deserved vacation.
FROM READING the news in various weeks, one thing is clear: U.Va. has a problem with sexual assault.
BANNED from the classroom: the Declaration of Independence. Before you do a double-take, let me assure you, it's no mistake.
IT HAS become standard operating procedure for those on the radical left to tar anything they disagree with as "racist." The war to oust al Qaeda from Afghanistan?
WITH THE heated election behind us, discourse and debate on the Iraq war has almost vanished from our minds and television screens.
THE EXODUS continues from the Bush administration. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announced Nov.
ONE of the hot-button issues on campuses across America this election year was whether or not the military draft would be re-instated.
Recent publicity regarding the University's sexual assault policies has raised awareness -- and revealed a great deal of anger, sadness and anxiety -- within the U.Va.
HIUS 323 -- Rise & Fall of the Slave South; is that class worth taking? In coming semesters, students will have a new resource with which to answer that question: online course evaluations.
IMAGINE a sale at J. Crew, Best Buy or even Harris Teeter
THE CAVALIER Daily has consistently covered topics that are generating controversy at the University this year.
LET THE hand-wringing begin. The conservatives are once again in "liberals-in-academia" crisis mode, spurred on this time by a recent study (covered in this paper) that Democrats outnumber Republicans about 6 to 1 on America's college campuses. Conservative pundit George Will best summarized the sum and substance of all the whining in last week's Washington Post, where he wrote that "many campuses are intellectual versions of one-party nations." Yet the modern academy is far from a totalitarian state, and perhaps it is worth noting that in the marketplace of ideals, liberalism is winning by a landslide.
FOR THOSE of us who own stock, it has been a fantastic autumn. Lockheed Martin's share prices are skyrocketing with a glut of weapons contracts, and Bechtel and Halliburton can look forward to four more years of corporate welfare while the oil companies can start writing Bush's next energy legislation.
AS WE WAIT in limbo between political election season and religious holiday season, it is a well-known yet underappreciated fact that most people inherit their most passionately held beliefs from their friends, family and parents.
THE NETHERLANDS -- home to wooden shoes, windmills, and weed -- has a new claim to fame. It seems in Holland they have discovered the solution to childhood terminal illness.
