AT THE END of every semester, students must fill out professor evaluations. A great deal of ceremony is involved, such as the professor leaving the room and a student delivering the completed evaluations to the department office.
HOLD ON to your lunches kids, it's that time again. That's right, Valentine's Day. As Feb. 14 once more approaches, some of us buy pink and red doily-covered cards and overpriced chocolate, while others run screaming from Hallmark's money-making creation.
WE DON'T live in a community of trust, and our honor system doesn't foster the development of honest individuals.
THE SUPER Bowl champion Patriots and their incredible season are a dream come true for long-suffering Boston fans such as myself, but also a needed shot in the arm for spectator sports.
THE SUPERBOWL! To many this quintessential corporate pageant represents the glitz and extravagance of capitalist America.
PRESIDENT Bush briefly mentioned a major talking point for young conservatives in his State of the Union address.
AS AN HONOR Counsel and a University student opposed to the Informed Retraction proposal, I believe Michelle Jones' Feb.
OPINION is the section of the paper where it's OK, even expected to make people angry. What we don't want to do is offend people with prejudice.
IF STATES can be schizophrenic, Virginia is. In the Commonwealth, internet companies build over horse farms and one-time hippies teach the children of Republican politicians.
THE SATS are one of the most hated experiences of American academic life. The bane of every college-bound student's life may cease to be a reality for those applying to public schools in California.
AS AN HONOR Committee Member, former Honor Advisor, and involved student at the University, I often have engaged in conversations about the honor system.
EVEN FOR the standard non-environmentalist, certain uses of paper rarely can be justified as reasons to cut down a few hundred trees.
SOMETIMES, traditions cause strange things to happen. Last week's issues of The Cavalier Daily provided an example of that, and some explanation is necessary. Monday's issue featured an article describing the staff elections accompanied by a photograph of the new Managing Board.
ONE OF the hot button issues of college life is the issue of diversity. For this purpose, groups that support various races, creeds and sexual orientations have sprung up as a way to unite in response to those who discriminate against them.
DISPERSED throughout the dark underbelly of University life exists asubculture completely removed from every other facet of the college experience.
THIRD-YEAR student Liana Kuyumcuyan was killed around 10:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in a car accident. She was returning to Grounds from Wintergreen with friends after an evening of skiing.
I F YOU told me four years ago that I would be involved in the school newspaper I would have laughed.
1 YOUR STANDARD home town newspaper would never devote twopages to sappy, overdramatic testimonials, all of which contain no remotely useful or interesting information. 2.
IT'S NO surprise that ... oops, let me try again. It's no secret ... well, as my MB knows, it's no secret that after a year of edit writing, all my opinions start to sound the same.
I 'M STILL getting over the shock of seeing my name in print for the first time. Whereas most of my colleagues have written dozens of articles in their days, I have instead resigned myself to doing much of the behind-the scenes work, the work that few think or about, but which must get done for the paper to be completed each and every night. Working on a newspaper has been anything but a new experience for me.
