THIS WEEK, the fall elections ballot includes a cleanenergy referendum. Despite last week's confusing and partisan rally for the initiative, this measure deserves our support.
"ONLY nine percent of African-Americans had never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race." That startling, chilling, eye-popping statistic is not describing blacks across the country, nor is it talking about African-Americans at the end of their lives; rather, only 9 percent of black students at the University have never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race while attending college.
A UNIVERSITY police officer discovers a student in the dead of night spray painting a racial epithet on the concrete walkway in front of Old Cabell Hall.
THE 2004 presidential election is just one week away, and there is one thing that is certain.: This one's going to be close.
A GROUP of Venable School second graders were paraded before City Council last week to protest the sordid state of 14th Street, lobbying local politicians to do something about beer bottles, pizza boxes and other post-party refuse that frequently litter the area around their elementary school.
PHOTOGRAPHY is one of the most underrated and underappreciated aspects of a newspaper. Readers and even staff members at newspapers often forget or don't realize that photographers, like reporters, are journalists.
IT'S GOING to be a busy night Nov. 2: One of the most hotly contested presidential elections in recent history, control of the Senate in precarious balance and a cutthroat Congressional battle in our own backyard.
DEMOCRATS and Republicans alike are constantly prattling away about the amazing wonders of American-style democratic government, like infatuated school girls with a hunky crush.
WITH A new CNN/USA Today poll showing Bush with an eight point lead among likely voters, it is probably safe to say that the debates are behind us.
LET US pretend, for a moment, that there are certain qualities necessary for an effective president upon which you may neutrally base your vote this Nov.
ACCORDING to British Petroleum, if the United States were to rely entirely upon oil drilled in this country, we would have oil for four years and three months, and that includes depleting entirely the Strategic Petroleum Reserves.
The career of Bill O'Reilly, the hugely popular talking-head with Fox News, was plunged into scandal last week.
THIS FALL, University students have the opportunity to save the University. Indeed, the current budget crunch has made it clear that radical reform is necessary if the University is to retain its position as a leading national institution.
THIS YEAR, the University announced several changes to the on-Grounds housing application system for upperclassmen.
ALL TOO often do University students confine our learning to classrooms and textbooks. But one of the greatest aspects of attending a four-year institution is what we do not have to do.
ON THE morning of Sept. 11, 2001, there were probably few people that could fathom the magnitude of what had happened to us.
Yet another blatant example of media bias: A recent ABC News internal memo by Political Director Mark Halperin referring to the two major presidential candidates has surfaced, stating that ABC doesn't have to "hold both sides 'equally' accountable." One may not be surprised to find two major faux pas of Kerry's that have been inadvertently overlooked by the mainstream media: exploiting Mary Cheney and promising medical miracles.
LAST WEEK Democrats fumed and fussed and even filed a federal complaint about a devastating TV documentary airing this week.
GUESS WHAT. Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian. Let me repeat it just in case you didn't hear it the first time: Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter. It's OK, though, because even though he's an evil corporate Republican backing a president who's out to demolish any prospects of gay marriage, I'm sure he still loves her.
