I AM WRITING this editorial in response to Laura Sahramaa's March 27 column, "Snuffing out anti-smoking sentiment." I respect and appreciate all of Ms. Sahramaa's comments and am confident that a number of people share her sentiments.
THIS SUMMER while most of us will be working internships, profitable summer jobs, traveling abroad or attending summer school, other young people our age in developing countries around the world also will be working.
LAST WEEK, with the usual accompanying level of brouhaha, the U.S. News & World Report's rankings on the best graduate schools in the country came out.
IN JUST over a month, stu-dents will walk down the Lawn for the last time, as graduates. And if your commencement is anything like mine in high school, I'm sure you heard the line about being "the future leaders of our country" as many times as you skipped class senior year.
SEVERAL months ago, members of the University administration made a veiled threat to students, suggesting that the future of Fall Break was in danger if students kept using the reading holiday as a time for vacation.
THERE has always been a lot of talk about eliminating the "not gay" chant from football games because it is thought to be offensive to some students.
AS I BELIEVE I have mentioned in a previous column, one of the things I like to do least as an ombudsman is to bring up a problem without offering a solution, a correction or, at minimum, some potential direction for change.
REFLECTIONS On Complexions III, a race relations forum that was held Friday night, was a failure.
I AM NOT a womanist nor am I a feminist. There is nothing wrong with either faction of thought. I am a black woman, and as a black woman, the current state of black women concerns me.
STARVATION is a problem all over the world. Millions of Americans are starving, but it's not because they can't get enough food.
LAST WEEK'S ruling at the University of Michigan's Law School was about something worse than affirmative action.
LAST WEEK Rev. Jesse Jackson stood outside of the University of Michigan Law School and encouraged students to fight a court ruling which essentially banned affirmative action from being used as consideration in admissions to the law school.
ONE OF THE guys on stage asked, "If you rape a prostitute, can you also be arrested for shoplifting?" This was the first of many tawdry lines presented in Newcomb Theater on Sat, March 31 by the sordid characters who composed The Hooligans "comedy" troupe from Northeast Mississippi Community College.
A COMPLETE college education is an experience that should never be skipped over. The primary goal of any university or institution of higher learning is an education -- that's a given.
I RECENTLY wrote a column criticizing collegiate newspapers for refusing to print David Horowitz's ad condemning reparations on slavery.
GREEK life on college campuses has always been controversial. The misconception that the only purpose of these social clubs is to provide a forum for excessive drinking and sexual promiscuity has long cast question upon the idea of fraternities and sororities being supported by learning institutions such as the University.
SOMEHOW we knew it would come down to this. He played the moderate card for a while, so long as it was politically convenient.
MR. HOROWITZ appeared on this page two days ago with some filthy garbage he calls an opinion. The Managing Board correctly printed it on the Opinion page, but Horowitz's analysis, his research and his points are weak. It's not the larger argument - that reparations ought not be paid to black Americans - that is at issue, because reasonable people may disagree over that.
TUESDAY evening, Student Council passed a resolution urging divestiture - the termination of all investment in companies with ties to a particular nation - in Burma, a country ruled by a military regime with a record of human rights abuses.
VIRGINIA legislators have once again responded to a legitimate social problem with imprudence and ignorance.
