Tomorrow is a big day. Public schools and government offices get to have the day off. University students, however, will continue to have classes, and more likely than not, a small percentage of us will realize why Tuesday, Nov.
A recent survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reports an increase in the percentage of black Americans that identify themselves as Republican.
Most news in Virginia's public colleges and universities this year has not been about the real work here and in other colleges.
I use this week's column to address a perennial complaint levied at The Cavalier Daily: coverage of the swim and dive team.
Mandatory graded discussion sections must go. Although there are many wonderful, caring and intelligent TAs out there, the discussion section serves only as an unnecessary bridge to the small and focused classes of high school.
The idea of a commerce minor has been around for the last few years, but has been more of a tease than anything else.
The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area has the third worst traffic of any area in the United States, according to the Texas Transportation Institutes 2002 study.
Bill Clinton is black. Well, not really. However, just last month, on Oct. 19, former president Bill Clinton was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.
"The Chechens knew there was no escape for them, and to avoid any temptation to run, they had strapped themselves together, knee to knee, and had their guns ready, and were singing their death song." So wrote Tolstoy in his 1863 novel, The Cossacks, wherein a young Russian officer travels to the Caucasus to take part in his country's long, fruitless effort to subdue Chechnya. Last week, Russia's Chechen conflict flared again in similar fashion.
NO ONE who is working full-time should be living in poverty. This is a very basic concept of the American Dream: people who work hard day in and day out should be able to support their family and enjoy a decent standard of living.
IT'S COMING -- five days out and counting. Make sure the stamp is firmly affixed to that absentee ballot and get it in the mail drop-box before the end of the day.
If you were counting on the drought to shut down school and get you out of your Chemistry final, it looks like you're out of luck.
RECENTLY, Phi Delta Alpha (formerly Phi Delta Theta) Fraternity lost its charter at the University of Virginia.
ACCORDING TO LAG, the Labor Action Group and Living Wage Campaign at the University of Virginia, the "simple principle" of living wage activists is to make sure no one who is employed full time at the University is in poverty.
You wouldn't trust a general who'd never seen war to lead an army into battle, or a defensive end to quarterback your football team.
Early on in the semester, members of the Black Student Alliance were questioned on the purpose of their organization, its mission and goals.
This past Friday, fraternities and sororities from all four Greek councils took part in "Comfort Zone," an event that includes philanthropic work as well as social interaction.
It's not hard to find pictures of hardened criminals and wanted men on TV these days. Turn on any news channel and in any given minute mug shots of Osama bin Laden, the alleged snipers and various other felons will flash by repeatedly.
WHENEVER race issues at the University reenter the spotlight, many of the same issues get thrown around.
YOU'D THINK freshman year was hard enough. All of a sudden, you're doing more reading in a night than you did in a week in high school.
