THERE will be much hand-wringing in the more liberal quarters of the University this week as the Supreme Court finally hears arguments about one of the most highly-publicized legal issues facing America today: affirmative action.
IT'S TOUGH to critique an opinion page. I haven't done it yet because there have always been more pressing matters to which to devote my column.
IN THE 1970s, Plaboy magazine dubbed the University's Easters Weekend the "Best Party in America." Debuting before the turn of the century, Easters was one of three University-sanctioned social weekends, along with Midwinters and Openings in the Fall.
The 1999 tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, reinitiated and added fuel to an already long-standing debate.
Over the last couple of weeks, most students at the University have probably noticed an ongoing debate taking place within our community about a divisive and critical subject.
Love it or leave it, you America-hating traitors! To many University students, faculty, staff or citizens of this great nation, this line -- however tweaked -- should sound familiar.
IN TODAY'S age of fitness, one cannot go a day without seeing the workout craze of University students in action.
YOU CAN'T blame them for trying. Once again, populists in the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate attempted to curry favor with the voters of the Commonwealth by promising cake and the chance to eat it too.
Sjtop this unjust war!" read the signs at a New York anti-war rally this past weekend. "Killers, killers, killers!" protestors shouted in Chicago, in reference to war supporters.
FOR THE last several months, the United States has been consumed with debate over the crisis in the Persian Gulf.
In the early morning hours of March 18, vandals broke into the University's Army, Air Force, and Navy ROTC buildings.
Imagine that you're sitting in class at approximately 2 p.m. in New Cabell Hall, taking a test. As you figure out the formula to that brain-splitting problem, a horde of deafening students congregate outside the hall, run inside your class and turn of the lights, yelling into your classroom.
As bombs started falling in Baghdad last Wednesday night, millions of Americans turned on their televisions and have kept them on as the first week of the war has unfolded.
On Wednesday, the United States began a military campaign to disarm Iraq and unseat Saddam Hussein.
Affirmative action supporters lost some ammunition last week after the appearance of a new study in the spring issues of The International Journal of Public Opinion Research and The Public Interest.
For weeks now, signs boldly proclaiming "walk out when the war starts" could be found around Grounds; and sure enough, last Thursday, the day after the bombs started falling on Iraq, the anti-war protestors were out in force here at the University.
Ever since the racially motivated attack on Daisy Lundy, the University has been searching for the most effective way to improve the racial climate on Grounds.
PROTESTERS are patriotic. So are the war's supporters. So are Democrats who speak out against the war.
BLAME it on Yankee ignorance. Look at it as a slight resurgence of that "Northern aggression," whose war by the same name still echoes sometimes here through the valleys in this vibrant land south of Maryland (you Northern Virginians, try as you might, are not technically excluded). Yes, the Yankees are still at it, determined to arrogantly perpetuate the stereotypes of those ignorant, racist, backward Southerners.
WAR COVERAGE 101 is a course we'd all probably prefer not to take, but with Peter Arnett and night-vision green back on television, The Cavalier Daily and every other newspaper in the country have been thrust into the classroom. It seems that there are several basic elements of coverage that a paper should bring its readers during a war.
