THE FEDERAL Crime Control Act of 1994, also known as the "assault weapons ban," was recently allowed to expire due to a 10-year sunset provision.
I've got one question that I doubt you've pondered: HOOS ignorant? Just when we were ready to complacently forget the racial history of this University and laugh at the thought of racially motivated incidents, one happens.
PERHAPS one of the biggest surprises in the 2004 presidential race is right here in our own Commonwealth of Virginia.
IS VIRGINIA in play? Absolutely. You'll find no disagreement between Republicans in Virginia and those Democrats who put the Old Dominion in the "swing state" column.
IT'S THAT time again -- the beginning of another semester, bringing along with it an increased sense of financial burden for University students.
THE University's aesthetically pleasing nature plays an undoubtedly large role in conveying a spirit of Jeffersonian intellectualism.
THROUGHOUT his term, Gov. Mark R. Warner has confronted educational policy with an innovative approach that says making a better future for society means creatively rethinking policy and then aiming it at emerging needs.
LAST SUNDAY, I did something I had never done before. I went to an event sponsored by the Office of African-American Affairs.
THE SAME trite rhetoric still exists in conservative propaganda -- university professors are too liberal.
THIS PAST weekend marked the third anniversary of Sept. 11. While time has mitigated our pain and grief, nothing will ever diminish our memories of that day of infamy.
LAST WEDNESDAY, veteran journalist Michael Barone came to speak at the University as part of the National Symposium on Youth Civic Engagement.
THE FANS were lively, the new marching band looked and sounded great and our Cavaliers crushed North Carolina 56-24.
JOHN KERRY is getting beat up because he is obsessing over swing voters. Indeed, it is the abandonment of ideals in search of a wholly unobtrusive middle ground that has constricted the candidate into such dire straits.
TIME magazine released its newest presidential election poll numbers on Friday, and they did not look pretty for the Kerry campaign.
ON THE presidential campaign trail this season, George W. Bush's gung-ho foreign policy has clearly dominated the national spotlight.
SITTING down to check your e-mail in an ITC lab is a little more difficult this year than it was when we left in the spring.
COLLEGE reporters rarelyget the opportunity to cover national events on the scene, instead settling for getting student reaction on campus. Associate News Editor Shannon Sturcken, however, took advantage of being in New York as a media intern during the Republican National Convention to write an article for the Sept.
IT SOUNDS like a set-up in a bad horror movie. On a dark, rainy night, the heroine makes her way from the library back to her apartment.
IT'S THAT time of year again. As students are finally getting settled into life back at the University, we are now faced with what may very well be one of the biggest events of the semester.
AT THE Republican National Convention last week, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani explained President George W.
