THIS PAST Wednesday, hundreds of concerned Virginians piled into the Albemarle County Office Building expecting to find a panel of state legislators waiting to tell them why no budget had been passed yet.
At a university struggling to maintain its status as a top academic establishment while simultaneously coping with the demands that besiege a public institution, there is no issue more pressing than the organization of housing and student support structures.
OVER THIS last week, former White House counter-terrorism aide Richard Clarke has led a sort of all-out media blitz, going on "60 Minutes" to promote his new book, "Against All Enemies" (which, coincidentally, was published by a subsidiary of Viacom, which owns CBS), testifying before the 9-11 Commission and talking tough on Sunday morning political talk shows. This is a great strategy to sell lots of books and reward one's self for years of public service, but very poor for prompting an honest, impartial look into how the Clinton and Bush administrations have dealt with terrorism.
THE PRO-ISRAEL crowd was anxious last month when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that he plans to remove 17 small settlements in the Gaza Strip, effectively ending the Israeli occupation of that area.
THE LEADER of a vicious terrorist organization was killed, and the world didn't even stop to say "thank you." Last week's killing of HAMAS founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin represented a important step in the global war on terrorism, but the world-wide reaction has been mixed at best.
LAST TUESDAY, The Cavalier Daily held a community concerns meeting during its own production hours at 7 p.m.
HATE CRIMES have been all the rage on college campuses lately. At the University of New Brunswick earlier this month, a Pakistani student reported being attacked on two separate occasions because of his race.
IN ELECTIONS three weeks ago, the student body supported the extension of spousal benefits to the domestic partners of homosexual faculty and staff by a three-to-one ratio.
SINCE the creation of the term "civil union" by Vermont's legislative branch in 2000, there has been a discussion on whether a civil union is the right answer to the ongoing fight for the legalization of homosexual marriage.
LIKE MANY of you, I entered the University last year eager to jump into upper-level classes and strut my stuff.
JAMES Baldwin is probably turning over in his grave. In the town of Macon, Georgia this time, the tale of the little black writer that couldn't was told again as reporter Khalil Abdullah was fired for plagiarism from the Macon Telegraph -- the second such incident that has happened within recent months.
NOT A dime of George W. Bush's planned $170 million in campaign expenditures this year is going to earn him my support.
Along with accusations from late-night talk shows that John Kerry feasts on the living, the Bush attack machine has begun more substantive attacks on the Democratic candidate.
THE XM Satellite radio recently announced its intentions to include local programming on their stations, as reported in The Washington Post.
LAST WEEK was pro-life awareness week at the University. First Right, the main pro-life organization on Grounds, decided to promote their cause throughout the week by hanging up banners and organizing an event held last Wednesday night.
WHO IS Al Weed? A 61-year-old vineyard owner who styles himself the quintessential Virginian "Farmer, Soldier, Statesman," Weed is the Democratic challenger to Republican Congressman Virgil Goode here in the Commonwealth's Fifth Congressional District.
I OWN a cell phone. I like my cell phone. It flips shut, and it has a great game called Push-Push, although I have been stuck on Stage 14 of Push-Push for six months.
IN THE 2000 presidential election, Ralph Nader received over 2.8 million votes and significantly altered the political landscape, yet despite Nader's legions of supporters nationwide, asinine laws in many states are currently forcing the Independent candidate to wage war just to get his name on the 2004 presidential ballot.
Can you name your Student Council representatives? How about which committee to contact if you have a problem with printing costs?
THIS PAST week marked another round of frantic basket deliveries, dinner and dessert dates, hotel slumber parties and revelations in front of the Rotunda.
