THE "FIRST year experience" isone of those buzzword phenomena that is tossed around at the University along the same lines as "student self-governance" and "community of trust." Though it comes with no shortage of definitional baggage, there is a unique, concrete occurrence that every University student experiences during their first nine months in Charlottesville.
LAST MONDAY's paper reported the news that 22-year-old Charlottesville resident Walker Andrew Sisk was stabbed to death at 14th and Wertland streets.
While browsing through the University's online calendar of events, I came across a lecture with a rather peculiar title: "The Liberal Case against Affirmative Action." Mainstream liberal thought definitely does not coincide with this notion.
We think too hard. It explains a comment that girls at the University "are too smart to know what they want." In reality, both genders are guilty of this.
IF YOU see me this week running around Grounds, covering my ears and humming loudly, don't be alarmed.
WITH ONLY two General Assembly sessions left in his term, the clock is quickly winding down for Gov.
UNIVERSITY Housing Division's new policy allowing first years to apply for on-Grounds housing during the period traditionally reserved for upper-class students is a misguided attempt to find a "quick fix" to a larger housing problem that plagues all University students.
IT MUST be "Groundhog Day." Every morning, I turn to the homepage on my computer, CNN.com, and stare in shock at reading virtually the same headline that runs something like "Attack kills U.S.
THE ROOM selection process used by the Housing Division has been modified for the current year. The change is the result of a joint initiative between the Office of the Dean of Students and the Housing Division, looking at ways to increase the number of second-year students that live in on-Grounds housing and provide programming in a residential setting targeting their needs.
OTHER than reading my column, you have something else to look forward to on Wednesdays. I am no longer afraid to admit that I am an avid viewer of Fox's new show, "The O.C." The show has been deemed the soap opera of our generation or the next "Beverly Hills 90210." Around Grounds, students are either asking what happened on last week's episode or complaining that the show portrays our generation as rich, snobby, druggie, sex slaves.
JUST as the University of Virginia will always outrank Maryland by leaps and bounds, if we were to rank the concerns of college administrators, they would remain fairly constant over time.
MY PARENTS, my siblings and I were all born and raised below the Mason-Dixie. We have a tendency to say "y'all," never celebrate a holiday without fried chicken and according to my California roommate, cannot pronounce "nuclear." Obviously, we are a southern family.
IN ONE year the American people will be voting for the 44th president of the United States. For many voters who remember the chaos that was the 2000 election, and the highly disputed decision which placed the current president, George W.
They meet behind closed, locked, soundproof and if you believed the movie "The Sum of All Fears," doors that fog up when the room is in use.
SOMEONE needs to tell me what in the world is happening to students at our university. In 2003, the University has witnessed too many malicious acts involving students.
THINK back to when you were in high school. Imagine wandering the halls between classes one day when all of a sudden, fourteen police officers burst through the doors with guns drawn, screaming at you to get on the floor with your hands behind your head.
HIP-HOP music and federal immigration policy don't often appear in the same sentence or even on the same page of many newspapers.
An integral part of writing for a newspaper is knowing how and when to ask more questions, to dig deeper.
WHILE I have repeatedly asked the editors to remove my photo from next to my editorial column, the fact is it's here to stay.
THERE CAN scarcely be said to have been a time when ideology did not play a major role in the workings of the U.S.
