CLASS councils have been around for five years now, yet they have little to show for it. Ask any 10 students at the University what the class councils do, as I did, and one of them might have an idea, two if you're lucky and they're upperclassmen that have gone to a fourth-year bar night.
IN A LARGE institution with many young people living apart from family and hometown friends, organizations fill the void - providing social activities, learning experiences and a sense of group identity.
GREEK organizations and rushees can be mutually strengthened and improved during rush. Criticisms of the fraternity and sorority system are gross generalizations, the most atrocious being the outrage at these groups regarding superficiality and group mentality.
HOW DOES one justify using race as a factor in University admissions? Many good-hearted liberals have pondered this question, hoping to find some justification for a practice that apparently promotes equality through racial favoritism.
THE UNIVERSITY has found itself to be in even graver financial straits than it had been in recent times.
THE LAST few weeks have seen more than the falling of fresh snow upon the ground. Something more scintillating, more thrilling and more scandalous than any beret-wearing intern has walked into our nation's capital.
GOOD IDEAS typically require both money and interest to become realities. In the case of undergraduate research, commitment and interest is leaps and bounds ahead of funding.
STUDENT Council has a lovely office complex in Newcomb Hall. The president has her own office and phone.
WE ARE a super-sized nation. Americans adhere to the McDonald's school of thought: We want whatever's biggest, sweetest, and we'll be especially happy if we get "20 percent more, free!" When it comes to servings of fries, the size that was called "large" 30 years ago is "small" now.
CONGRESS passed a baggage law Nov. 20 that will require the inspection of all checked bags for explosives.
A REPORTER for The Cavalier Daily asked me to write an opinion piece for their pro and con presentation on the subject of early decision in colleges and universities.
NEXT TO "Where do you go to school?" and "Do you like your roommate?" it's the most frequently asked question that college students encounter from almost all the people they meet: "What are you majoring in?" Unknown to most of the inquirers, though, the majority of students have no clearer idea of the answer than those who asked in the first place.
THIS IS the Old Dominion: where the specters of past prejudices continue to haunt the politics of the present.
THE BEST teacher I ever had was a third year student at the University. His name: Tom Bednar. He already has taken his degree and is in Iowa, but his lessons remain in my mind and in my heart.
THE NOW defrocked John Geoghan, a former Massachusetts priest, was convicted Friday of indecent assault and battery in Boston stemming from a 1991 incident in which he touched a 10 year old boy.
DESPITE enormous advances in equality and civil rights, the socioeconomic barrier between whites and non-whites in this country still stands solid today.
THE BEGINNING of a semester is a good time to tie up some loose ends from last year, and most of the loose ends involve reader e-mails that I could not work into last semester
AMERICANS are happy with President Bush. His average job approval rating since the Sept. 11 attacks has been 87 percent.
HOW DID you celebrate Religious Freedom Day? I attended a lecture on Theology and Politics. I had to, because I registered for the class.
OUR COLLECTIVE post-Sept. 11 identity was supposed to be one of unity and renewed patriotism, but nothing divides Americans like questions of political correctness and racial sensitivity. Recent plans to build a memorial to New York's firefighters have been met with controversy.
