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.
THERE IS little doubt of the value of research: It furthers our understanding of the world and the contexts in which we live.
THE UNIVERSITY of Virginia is arguably the best public institution in the United States. Consistently ranked within the top tier of all public schools by various reports each year, the University is widely known for its outstanding academic programs.
IT WAS the end of my first year, second semester. I left the wilderness of Fitzhugh dorm, my backpack weighed down with textbooks.
POLITICIANS have always had a love-hate relationship with American college students. They love using us as interns, yet they also distrust colleges as hotbeds of dissension, and many conservatives see them as responsible for moral breakdown.
THIRTY-TWO years and two days ago, the first Earth Day kicked off amid gloomy outlooks on the future of the planet.
THERE are hints that something is brewing in Europe. Semblances of a frightening future of prejudice have recently begun to emerge.
IN DUBLIN on Jan. 28, Maeve and Brendan were sitting down to breakfast and The Irish Times. "Look at this, Maeve," said Brendan.
THESE DAYS, racism is not as blatant as it once was. Gone are the days when a person could call someone a chink without being looked down upon, or make fun of slanted eyes without looking ignorant.
YES, SIREE, America has gone a prospectin'. This is no California gold rush of 1849, folks. We're talking about black gold - the stuff Western dreams are made of.
BOV. OUT of context, one might think they are yet another boy band arriving on the scene. Maybe they are the latest conglomerates of hi-tech biotechnological testing laboratories.
WELL THIS is it. This is the last time that I will be enlightening the University community with my insightful prose and the last time that I will be writing an opinion column for The Cavalier Daily. It is still sinking in that four years have gone by since I wrote my first piece on a computer requirement for first-year students, but those four years have taught me more than I ever could have imagined.
THE DAYS of U.S. global leadership are coming to an end. Unless something is done immediately, the planned International Criminal Court will provide a forum for anti-American elements around the world to turn their grudges into an attack upon U.S.
THE COUNTDOWN has begun. Less than one week until the well-celebrated day full of drunken debauchery.
I READ an interesting article a week ago in The Washington Post. It focused on how a fairly ordinary task - riding the bus - had become a dangerous activity for many people around Jerusalem.
IT SHOULD be no secret that the female community at U.Va. faces many problems. What is most upsetting about the situation of women here is that what is most lacking, as a friend of mine so aptly put it, is, "U.Va.- women's' concern for other women [on Grounds]." In recognition of this problem, the women of this university need to come together and make fostering a stronger and more cohesive female community at the University a priority.
AS A HIGH school junior, I attended a school assembly on affirmative action. Given that I went to high school in a liberal college town in the 1990s, the assembly was not all that notable.
EUROPEAN professors are petitioning for a boycott of Israeli cultural and research institutions, because of Israel's military actions in the West Bank.
IMAGINE someone who has run for Honor, University Judiciary Committee and class representative, and lost three times.
