My dad gave me two pieces of advice before I left for college. First, always check to see if a book has been made into a movie before removing the shrink-wrap from a textbook.
Oh come on, it's not as if you didn't expect it. That's right, of all the world's great thinkers, I've picked the Eagles to kick off my farewell to The Cavalier Daily -- because I can check out anytime I like, but I can never leave. Okay, I'll admit it.
When I walk down the Lawn on May 18 it will have been three years, eight months, and 23 days since I moved to Charlottesville, marking the longest I, an Air Force brat, have ever lived in one place.
"Good writing is spiritual. Bad writing is clinical." My friend and mentor Jeff Eisenberg wrote these words for the opinion page of The Cavalier Daily exactly one year and two weeks ago, expressing so succinctly what all writers eventually come to realize
It seems I have told this story a few hundred times by now. For the past two years, when trying to recruit new staff, I would attempt to convince them that despite all reason and common sense, they wanted to spend a few hours one night a week working at The Cavalier Daily.
Few issues are more controversial at the University than that its racial climate.Looking merely at the last year, we see steps towards reconciliation, and we see leaps backward.
It has been some weeks since United Nations weapons inspectors entered Iraq in search of any evidence to prove that Iraq had been developing weapons of mass destruction.
"FOR THOSE who say the poor fight better, I say give the rich a chance." These are the words of Reprsentative Charles Rangel (D-NY), who has proposed a bill in Congress to reinstate the draft as a means of building up the number of Americans serving in the military.
TUESDAY night, the United States took one more step closer to the precipice of armed conflict as President Bush's projected his rhetoric past the gathered Congress and instead focused on preparing the American people for war.
THEY ADVERTISE everything from tables on the lawn and community service to compensation for flu studies and ballroom dancing.
THE ACHIEVEMENT gap -- the difference between school performance of low-income and minority students versus middle-class white students -- may soon take the back seat to a traditionally less-publicized education issue currently gaining momentum: the teacher gap.
On Wednesday, France and Germany released a joint statement denouncing American plans for war with Iraq.
There are a lot of things 17year-old boys cannot do. They are finally allowed to see R-rated movies -- which doubtlessly makes the producers of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies very happy -- but that's just about the only privilege they win upon reaching their seventeenth birthday.
Change isn't always bad. But when it comes to changing of banks on Grounds, it's worse than bad, it's unacceptable.
THERE are two different kinds of discussion sections for classes in the humanities. One discussion entails a constant dialogue between the TA and students, and is a supplement to the lecture and readings.
AN 'A' JUST isn't worth what it used to be. Often it's worth more. Grades exist to provide an objective measure of student performance in the classroom.
ABORTION. It is a word that has been on the lips of many individuals in the last few weeks, both at the University and throughout the nation as a whole.
STARTING on January 30, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will require universities around the nation to submit detailed information about their foreign students, particularly those of Arab descent.
HOSTILE dictators are a puzzle for America. Everyone knows they're dangerous and everyone wants to be rid of them, but sometimes the removal process is more problematic than the initial threat they pose.
DAVID Kay, the former chief weapons inspector of UNSCOM, the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq, wrote a piece in The Washington Post last Sunday about the current search for a "smoking gun" by weapons inspectors in Iraq ("It was never about a smoking gun," Jan.
