The University has always been an outstanding institution,despite the General Assembly's best efforts to ruin it.
Imagine being confronted, as everyone is from time to time, with someone who makes your blood boil: They believe everything you don't.
Students are getting better and better at cheating, and it's time for college faculty and administrators to do something about it. The latest scandal to rock the academic world happened last month at the University of Maryland, where 12 students in the undergraduate business school were accused of using their cell phones and PDAs to cheat on an exam. Faced with accusations in front of the school's Honor Council, six of the students admitted to academic misconduct and will be disciplined accordingly.
A call for a boycott of anything at this point in our country's history would not be that surprising, considering the political climate in both the domestic and foreign realms.
Last Monday, the front page of The Cavalier Daily featured a story about the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia and resulting death of all seven astronauts aboard.
ISIS is not the only problem preventing students from getting classes when they want them. Technology is a fun scapegoat, but there is a bigger problem: priority registration for Echols Scholars.
Arecent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests that sexual education is shifting from the classroom to the television screen.
Last week the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth announced that it had passed a bill mandating that illegal immigrants will pay out-of-state tuition even if they reside in the Commonwealth.
Doubtless to the chagrin of many University students, the face of one of their most loved traditions may be about to change.
LAST YEAR, at about this same time, there was a lot of concern shown within the University community regarding the Inter-Fraternity Council house rental policy and the effect it would have on student organizations outside of the Greek system.
FOR MANY, to be called a "politico" is as personally insulting as any other derogatory epithet one might imagine.
Last month, the Washington Post reported a new trend constituting a step back for both feminism and homosexual liberation ("Going Behind the Back," January 24). The Post brought to the public the latest method of negative recruiting in women's basketball: suggesting to recruits that opposing coaches are lesbians.
Compassionate conservatism. It is a pleasant slogan; it makes the right-wing sound less scary to moderate voters.
Identity theft, once reserved for gangster movies, is an increasingly common phenomenon. In this information age, the sheer abundance and accessibility of personal data, particularly in computerized formats, makes identity theft a real threat for many individuals.
Cloning, embryonic research and cell reproduction have all come to the forefront of medical controversy as science improves and researchers make further strides in curing diseases and improving human life.
Percentage of U.S. college students who are women: 56. Percentage of U.S. college varsity athletes who are women: 42.
Much of the affirmative action debate revolves around questions of fairness: Are white students treated unfairly in application procedures that consider race as a factor?
There are a few very unpleasant things that most reporters must go through at one time or another.
Anyone watching last Tuesday's State of the Union address could not but be struck by the idiocy of the event.
It was the first day of February. At Temple University, a former student shot his ex-girlfriend while she worked inside a campus administration building, later killing himself.
