THE STATE of the Union address traditionally has been a national dialogue from the president to the nation.
THE SUPREME Court is preparing to hear arguments in the appeal of a school voucher case concerning Cleveland-area schools.
UNDOUBTEDLY, Gov. Mark R. Warner recently has engaged in regular episodes of cowering under his desk.
I DO NOT belong to either political party. But this does not mean that I share the growing contempt in America for political parties.
WHEN FLIPPING through the Course Offering Directory, there is one letter many students seek to avoid: F.
IT'S ABOUT that time of the year that first years receive the shock treatment. After the first semester of college, one learns the hard way that work and play must be balanced.
LAST MONTH, Gov. Mark R. Warner proposed letting Virginia's public colleges and universities raise tuition rates by up to five percent.
SPORTS are no stranger to scandals, many of them reading like a Hollywood script. Some actually have been immortalized on films, such as the 1919 fix of the World Series - known infamously as the Black Sox Scandal.
IN THE Virginia General Assembly, constitutionality has just flown out the window. In an attempt to levy their own religious beliefs on Virginians during the past weeks, many of the Commonwealth's lawmakers have forgotten the freedoms a non-secular state guarantees to its residents. On Feb.
UNTIL recently, I have thought of the University as a collection of intelligent, hard-working people - students, faculty and staff - who care about one another and the world at large.
SOMETIMES coming up with a topic for this column can be difficult, but this week it was easy, thanks to an e-mail I received Wednesday.
LAST THURSDAY, it was reported that, due to funding constraints, the economics department will lose 11 instructors between this year and next.
DESPITE the tendency of the "U.Va. Bubble" to cut students off from the outside world, most of us at the University are, at the very least, vaguely aware that Virginia is in some financial trouble.
APREVENTABLE tragedy hit me hard this week: A high school friend is hours away from being put into the ground. I'm sorry to ruin everyone's Friday on a sad note, but I am glad to reach you before you go out this weekend. My friend, Dan, a University of Maryland-College Park student, was found unconscious inside a fraternity house after a rush event last Saturday.
A BILL is before the Virginia House of Delegates that would add a non-voting faculty member to the Board of Visitors of each of the public colleges in Virginia.
UNLESS you've been living in a hole or buried in the Alderman stacks for the last few weeks, it isn't news to you that ten black Charlottesville school children have been arrested for attacks around the University.
RICHMOND, VA - Again, the state's lawmakers have found a controversial yet equally insignificant issue that deflects attention from the severe budget crises facing the Commonwealth.
IT'S VALENTINE'S day, which means that there's one thing on everyone's mind: hate crimes. Yes, David Duke, the former ringleader of the Ku Klux Kircus and now president of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), was in town last week, protesting the refusal of local officials to proceed with hate crimes charges for a group of blacks accused of targeting whites. As much as it sickens me, I have to agree to some extent with Duke; hate crime laws should equally be applied to whites and blacks.
IN 1999, the University of Virginia began negotiations with the Research Corporation and the University of Arizona to give U.Va.
THIS COLUMN is directed to the University of Virginia administration, its students and the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
