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.
PURE COWARDICE has seized the General Assembly in Richmond. As the work of this year
THIS PAST Friday night, I, along with several other University students, attended an off-Grounds party held by three Architecture school students.
PICTURE THIS: An endless line of traffic headed down route 29; anxious pedestrians trying to cross the street; no available parking spaces at University Hall.
YOU CAN see them coming down I-95 through northern Virginia, spewing putrid clouds of diesel exhaust and garbage fumes behind them.
PEOPLE who can't write their own admissions essays don't deserve to be here. Getting your mom, your best friend or your English teacher to look it over is fine, and makes sense.
MOST SOCIAL activities on weekends around Grounds would not be complete without what many consider to be a vital ingredient: alcohol.
VIRTUALLY every week, a new medical procedure makes the front page of America's newspapers. Some procedures purportedly may correct birth defects in the womb, while others promise vaccines for horrible diseases such as AIDS.
THE EVENTS of Sept. 11 came as close to a doomsday scenario as the world has ever seen. Since then, from the average American living room to the typical network newsroom, even more disturbing "what if" situations have become a part of the nation's collective conscience, among them anthrax, smallpox and other coordinated attacks on government buildings or airplanes.
THE COLLEGE Board recently has announced new rules for their famous, and sometimes infamous, standardized tests.
THE FINAL countdown has begun. In less than a week, students across Grounds will fall into the paradise of Spring Break.
THE WAR is dead. Long live the war. This appears to be the attitude of the current Bush administration.
Today, just as at the time of the University's founding in 1819, communication between city residents and students remains pathetically rare.
"I'M GOING to f*** you hard." Wow, what? Did you just read that? Yup, you did. Seems pretty offensive and senseless, doesn't it?
