I AM NOT a pessimist by nature, but now that President Bush is sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Middle East to "help quell" the escalated Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I must implore you all to not give a crap, and go about your everyday lives.
A STUDENT at the University of Maryland-College Park recently died due to acute alcohol intoxication.
IT SHOULD be simple enough, right? Your band director or debate team coach hands you a little plastic cup, you fill it, a few minutes later you're back to practice, and a few days later, everyone knows you're clean.
AMERICAN history is littered with frivolous lawsuits. A Virginia inmate once sued himself for $5 million because he got drunk and violated his religious beliefs, causing him to commit a crime.
THE DEPARTMENT of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University is now the Department of Politics.
YOU DON'T have to live at the University for long before you see that drinking, for better or worse, is a cornerstone of University life.
FROM BEING allowed to form their own judiciary committee, to being treated leniently by police, fraternities and sororities always have received special treatment.
THE TIDE is turning in American politics, according to the Associated Press. In a poll conducted last week, they revealed that 80 percent of Americans think tax cuts are helping "someone else." Additionally, 72 percent of those polled would rather vote for a congressional candidate who vowed to balance the budget rather than one who would cut taxes.
THIS YEAR marks 150 years of fraternities at the University. During this period, a small system has flourished into 63 fraternity and sorority chapters under four Greek governing councils.
A RECENT decision by the Supreme Court means that there may be a way to rid the University of the person making the bomb threats - send him to California, where the "three strikes" law may be repealed.
WHEN ACADEMICS and political pundits reflect on the Middle East conflict, they group the world's three largest religions together.
IMAGINE for a moment a splendid little holiday based on the slaughter of innocent children. Before you judge, the holiday does involve a pretty delicious feast.
LAST WEDNESDAY, as I glanced at the front page of The Cavalier Daily before my first class started, I felt my jaw drop.
PARTY Patrol is perhaps the least popular group on Grounds. Most students don't understand what it does, beyond the fact that it checks up on underage drinking.
HATE CRIMES laws are the Marshmallow Peeps of progressive social change. They look nice in the box and taste remarkably syrupy sweet.
LAST MONDAY I faced a rather difficult dilemma during my 10 a.m. class. A flier was taped to the wall, declaring that abortion was a Holocaust.
IS THE Cavalier Daily a racist organization? This question raises so many issues, it is impossible to address them all here.
ON MARCH 24, at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, Halle Berry made history by becoming the first African-American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
FOR MANY kids, the drama of attending school reads like an after-school special full of chintzy melodrama.
DO NOT let them get away with it. "It" is the series of attacks that have taken the lives of dozens of Israeli civilians during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
