AS AMERICANS vote in November on such important issues as war, the economy and health care, citizens in 10 states will also face referenda to constitutionally ban gay marriage in their jurisdictions.
WITH LESS than a month remaining until the 2004 presidential election, America is saturated with reminders that the most important, patriotic thing citizens can do is get out and vote.
LAST THURSDAY, the American public was treated to an event that only happens every four years: a presidential debate.
YES, HE slouched, he paused and every now and then looked less than enthused to be at last Thursday's first presidential debate.
THERE ARE few things scarier than being within the same square mile as Michael 'I hate America' Moore.
THE CAVALIER Daily primarily covers news at the University and in Charlottesville, but that doesn't mean the paper can't take on stories outside its circulation area. Newspapers, including The Cavalier Daily, frequently "localize" stories, putting local angles on state, national or even international news.
A FEW weeks ago, fourth-year student Amey Adkins reported that someone had vandalized her car by scrawling a racial epithet across the hood.
FOOD FOR thought: Coca-Cola has contracts with nearly half of this country's school districts. There are vending machines in almost 99 percent of high schools, nearly 75 percent of middle schools and 43 percent of elementary schools.
WITH ALL the attention that student plagiarism receives, and the attendant pious hand-wringing on the part of university administrations and ubiquitous admonitions from faculty, we expect professors to exemplify the highest standards of intellectual honesty.
LAST WEEK, the University was given the chance, thanks to the openness of graduate student Rich Felker, to witness the work of the University Judiciary Committee and begin to understand the workings of a Committee which many students simply do not know enough about.
Yesterday's editorial cartoon incorrectly attributed the recent voluntary DNA tests of possible serial rapist suspects to the Albemarle County Police Department.
ON SEPT. 16, representatives from many of Virginia's public and private universities, as well as community colleges, came together in Richmond to officially commit to Gov.
THE DEFENSE of our democratic ideals and constitutional freedoms is carried out by U.S. citizens stationed around the world.
LAST WEEK, the University Judiciary Committee tried pro-Tibet activist Rich Felker for two violations of the Standards of Conduct that stemmed from his April 5, 2004 protest of Chinese Ambassador Yang Jiechi, who was visiting the University.
RACIAL incidents tend to cause tempers to flare. Such is the case with the vandalism of fourth-year Amey Adkins' car.
WHILE the Bush administration touted the Iraq war as part of the war on terror, it was also proposed as a means of liberation for an entire nation brutally oppressed for decades.
WITH ABOUT a month until Election Day, Americans are at once faced with a stark contrast between the two major parties and very little understanding of what they stand for.
Everywhere you look these days, whether on Grounds or on MTV, there are commercials, organizations and movements to encourage young voters to participate in the upcoming election.
AS A columnist with The Cavalier Daily, I get a lot of e-mails. Some agree with something that I wrote.
WHEN Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward came to the University to speak last Thursday, I have to say I was in a bit of journalistic awe.
