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.
A CHARGE of racism is about the most damning accusation that can be made against a person in today's society.
RECENTLY, the University's debate over its stance on multicultural issues has focused on the role of ethnic organizations, with some students declaring that groups such as the Office of African-American Affairs and the Latino Student Union entrench racial divisions.
I am NOT sure about you, but I ate well over the Thanksgiving holiday. Returning to home-cooked meals is always a treat after spending most of the semester thriving on Lean Cuisine and pizza.
THIS WEEK, several classmates from my Separation of Powers class and I were privileged to have witnessed the much anticipated Supreme Court case on medicinal marijuana, Ashcroft v.
IN A WORLD of staunch political correctness, especially in the arena of race and gender politics, one would think that the recent degradation of two prominent African-American political figures would be inconceivable.
TWO WEEKENDS ago Congress passed a spending bill which increased funding to abstinence-only educational programs by $30 million.
A STUDY released on Nov. 17 by researchers at Santa Clara University and Stockholm University reiterated what most in academia had long known: that the left dominates the professoriate.
LIKE THE family fissures that sometimes erupt during holiday gatherings, the "public health" community couldn't keep it together last week.
TWO WEEKS ago, University students lined the sidewalks by Garrett Hall and the Amphitheater in silent protest against sexual assault -- and the University's asinine way of handling it. The University's sexual assault policy had been discussed recently in the media, most notably in a revealing article in The Hook about Annie Hylton, a University student fighting the University's procedures, and the flaws in the policy. Yet, it was perhaps this eerily powerful demonstration, consisting of hundreds of students, that finally pierced the hearts of our administrators. The administration is often criticized for its slow response to some issues or sometimes accused of ignoring them completely.
POLITICS, they say, is the art of the possible. That art was censored last week when Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said that bills will not reach the floor if they do not have the backing of a majority of Republican representatives.
TO: MR. SANTA Claus From: Jim Prosser, Student, University of Virginia Mr. Claus, As millions of children petition you for the latest hot item of the holiday season, I'd like to take this time to ask for some gifts myself. While I'm sure that things like iPods and digital cameras top the list of many of my collegiate colleagues, I'd like to be selfless this season and ask for a few things, both tangible and intangible, for the broader University community rather than just for myself. With that said, here's my wish list of things I'd like for the University community this holiday and for the ensuing semester ahead, in no particular order:
STUDENT journalism is farfrom perfect, and publications on Grounds, this newspaper included, are no exception.
This column is not intended as a space to defend the particular program, "Soul Awakenings: Journeys of Race and Identity," that was degraded in Eric Wang's Nov.
