AS THIS is my last column, I want to thank a number of people who have helped me along the way. First off, I want to thank everyone at the Cav Daily for all of their help and support over the years.
EARLIER this month, perhaps in preemptive celebration of Earth Day, the National Highway Safety and Traffic Administration announced that it was raising the required average fuel efficiency standard in the "light truck" category.
JAMES Madison University's Board of Visitors voted last Friday to ban the controversial "morning after" birth control pill from the JMU Student Health Center.
EVEN THOUGH as opinion writers, we're asked to put our thoughts down on paper, I often refrained from adding any personal beliefs out of a genuine fear of what people would think of me.
PROTECTING public higher education in Virginia is a team effort. With a reputation as one of the nation's strongest public university systems to preserve, much is at stake in the coming years as state budget cuts promise tuition increases, pressures to reduce programs for students and increase tuition costs.
UNIVERSITIES should not give preferences to some students and discriminate against others on the basis of skin color and the countries their ancestors came from. That simple proposition should not be controversial.
AS THE summer approaches, all eyes are on the Supreme Court as it decides the fate of affirmative action for higher education.
In a comic strip titled "Secret Asian Man" on March 28, The Cavalier Daily published a comic that relied on a common stereotype of Asian Americans for its humor.
EDLF 555, better known as Multicultural Education, is in dire need of funding. With a waiting list of over 200 people, there are simply not enough sections available to meet the high demand created by this class.
With both American and Iraqi casualties mounting in the Middle East, the past four weeks of Operation Iraqi Freedom have proven without a doubt that war is a terrible thing.
Every year when the weather warms up and the winter jackets are finally stowed away, it seems like the amount of activity on the South Lawn multiplies exponentially.
Howard Dean is my hero. And if you are, like me, dismayed by the direction the country's been going in lately, he should be your hero too. Conservative Republicans have been steering the nation ever since the 2000 election fiasco, and the past few years haven't been fun for those of us who are frustrated at the course they have chosen.
So what's the purpose of a college newspaper, anyway? Is it meant to compete with professional newspapers?
THREE short years ago, the Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, was widely referred to by the Conservative right as the Clinton News Network.
ITHAS my father glued to the television every year. My brothers refuse to leave their houses while it's on.
ALTHOUGH the new primetime series "Platinum" is breaking ground bringing the world of hip-hop into the mainstream television line-ups, the breaking down of television's traditional barriers may lead to the inclusion of some controversial dialogue as well.
THIS WEEK an embarrassing incident at the University created yet another negative publicity situation for a Greek system that continues to strive for a positive image on Grounds.
I'm not good with numbers. I figure, however, that if you were to come up with an equation to predict a nation's willingness to go to war, a proportion would be involved that would go something like this: The more the sacrifice entailed by war is spread out among a nation's populace, the less willing to go to war a nation's people will be.
Even as the last major battle in Iraq came to a close with the surrender of Tikrit to American forces, thousands of protesters who proudly declare themselves "liberals" and "humanitarians" converged in cities around the globe to protest and advocate for a policy that is distinctly anti-liberal.
Something important has been missing from the affirmative action debate ever since three white students filed suit against the University of Michigan in 1997 -- something that is dreadfully obvious yet has been ignored consistently by both sides.
