JESSE Helms has gone and lost his mind. Thank God. The Republican senator from North Carolina and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, known for his opposition to foreign aid, wants to add half a billion dollars to the American contribution to a fund for fighting AIDS in the developing world. Perhaps AIDS activists should have seen it coming.
A FEW WEEKS ago, a handful of students from the Architecture School - who are no doubt regretting their actions right now - had a party.
WITH LESS than six weeks left in the semester, one worry springs directly to mind. No, it's not finals - we don't need to start worrying about those until reading days.
FOR THIS week's column, I've chosen not to address a typically opinion-friendly issue like race relations or budget cutbacks.
LIFE in the so-called post-Sept. 11 world is beginning to resemble a bad spy movie. Our Army slinks through caves searching for a bearded villain.
EVERY year University students are targeted by honor societies that offer membership based on supposed academic excellence in exchange for a fee.
THIS IS what I'm sick of: I met a girl on the bus the other day who said, "Oh you're from D.C.? Me too." Where did you go to school, I asked her.
JUST when Virginia thought the debate over redistricting had finally simmered, a circuit court decision last week invalidated last year's organization of legislative seats throughout the Commonwealth.
GET READY, out-of-staters, here it comes again. Assuming they go along with the General Assembly, the administration will be going to the Board of Visitors April 5 to ask for a 5 percent increase in in-state tuition and an 8 percent increase in out-of-state tuition.
AMERICAN patriotism has never been more apparent than in the past few weeks. According to a March 11 Newsweek article entitled "For 9-11 Families, More Money on the Way", the families of Sept.
SOONER or later the Commonwealth was going to hit rock bottom and hit it hard. Little to anyone's shock, it came sooner.
VIRGINIA bill could become law pending Gov. Mark R. Warner's signature which would allow schools to post the motto "In God We Trust." Under this bill, posting the motto is mandatory with the provision that it is put into "historical context" ("VA Senate Approves Motto Bill," The Washington Post, Feb.
IT'S A SHAME that Tim Lovelace isn't as good at recognizing racism as he is at spewing nonsensical outrage over its alleged presence.
MARCH Madness, the NCAA basketball tournament, has many sounds associated with it: Dick Vitale's incessant yapping; coaches' shouting; fans' obscene cheers.
ABOUT 90 percent of my mail is junk, so I'm skeptical of anything I didn't solicit. But I open it.
FEW THINGS are as difficult to deal with as an unexpected death or a life-threatening injury. These occurrences and their causes are often newsworthy, especially in a small community like that of the University student body. The March 7 story "Student's condition critical after car accident" provoked criticism from one reader, who felt the article reduced the injured student to drunk driver X.
EVER SINCE Rosie O'Donnell came out as a way of showing her support for Steve Lofton and Roger Croteau, their plight has been in the national spotlight.
IT IS NOW confirmed. Andrea Yates is a murderer and will spend the rest of her life in prison for systematically drowning her five children last year.
A LOT OF people will argue about the qualities of a good parent, and now riding the celebrity coattails of Rosie O'Donnell's public acknowledgement of her homosexuality, the issue of gay adoptions has received heightened attention.
SEPARATE but equal has achieved its highest point - or, arguably, its lowest point - in higher education.
