RECENT MONTHS have seen no end to the debate about the merits of racial profiling. With new terror warnings issued weekly, it's unlikely that an end is in sight.
TALK ABOUT whiplash. About two weeks ago, the Bush administration finally decided to acknowledge what scientists have been claiming for years: global warming exists.
IT'S DIFFICULT to look back on my entire college experience and attempt to summarize it in 600 words.
FOUR YEARS ago, my life was all about firsts: first time away from home, first roommate, first college course. This year, all I can think about is lasts: last football game, last spring break, last final exam.
GOV. GOODHAIR, aka Rick Perry (R-TX), would have made a good topic for my usually political column.
AS I COMPOSE this, I feel the weight of its impact as my last chance to reach out in publication to communicate to my readers.
THERE I WAS huddled in my barren room, trembling - the loneliest and most forlorn first year at the University.
THIS IS the first and only time I can use the word "I" in The Cavalier Daily, with it not being in a quote from someone else.
I'VE FIGURED it out. Finally. The answer's in the genes. Thanks mom and dad. When your father's the type of guy who spends a good part of his free time with a newspaper in hand, another one waiting to be read, and the voices of Katie, Matt and Dan in the background on a daily basis, it's not easy to escape the news - even when you've left for college. Add my mom's gift of gab, keen eye for detail, and perceptive nature to the mix and you've got a future journalist - sort of. While I'm still not sure if I have a future as a professional journalist, thanks are in order for the people who got me down to the basement of Newcomb Hall and the ones who made me stay.
DEAR MOM and Dad, The day you brought me to college was one of the most frightening days of my life.
FOR THE PAST four summers I've worked at the Kiddie Country Day Care Center in Burke, Virginia. We've drawn treehouses, gone on treasure hunts, played Game Boy Advance video games, created amusement park brochures and played some of the most epic hide-and-go-seek games ever.
ALTHOUGH I'm graduating from the University, I've only been here for three years. I transferred from New York University after my first year to a school where I never thought I would end up.
IN HIS first published novel, unknown author Larry Baker gave aspiring writers like myself advice on how to write a good novel.
SUMMING up my experiences and feelings about the University has proved difficult as I have reflected these past few weeks.
WHEN YOU read this, I will be within hours of becoming a college graduate. I probably will be having the same shiver down my spine I just got writing those words.
ON WEDNESDAY, you may have been assaulted on your way to class with facts about the "evil occupier" Israel or a model of an Israeli checkpoint.
IT'S THE classic love story. Boy meets girl, they flirt and get to know each other, they start to date, and then after a while they break up.
THE BUSH administration is considering barring some foreign students from certain academic fields that teach skills necessary for the application and development of weapons of mass destruction.
SUMMER heralds the coming of many things to the University. Among them are warm weather, later sunsets, tube tops, miniskirts and halters.
IT IS CERTAIN that the University reeks of a conformist, preppy culture. This culture will be reaffirmed this Saturday when patrons of the Foxfield Races finally will show off their new spring dress or add another liquor stain to their blue and orange tie. Recent changes in the composition of the University call into question the traditions established by its all white male older alumni.
