AWEEK ago I received a forwarded e-mail from a friend of mine at James Madison University. The message was somewhat of a response to the second school shooting in San Diego in as many weeks.
IT'S THAT time of year again. Spring is here, the days are getting longer, tennis and other sports are starting their seasons, and shorts and sundresses are replacing pants and sweaters.
RECENTLY, I went to a training institute developed by the U.S. Department of Justice, where I attended a media training designed for people who have fairly controversial fields of work or, at the least, fields in which public and professional emotions run high.
FRUGALITY and economic discretion are commendable qualities, even more so when spending others' money.
FOR COLLEGE basketball fans, tonight is the night. In Minneapolis, the NCAA champions will earn their title after a long road to the finish.
LAST THURSDAY, Murray Sperber, an Indiana University English professor, spoke in Jefferson Hall about how undergraduate education has deteriorated due to a subculture of athletics and alcohol.
WE ALL know the drill. You drag yourself out of bed, into the shower and off to class. After class you try to get your work done, relax a bit and catch up with friends and roommates.
MONDAY'S lead editorial, "Disconnect Ethernet subsidies," wrongly attacked the University administration for helping fraternity and sorority organizations pay for the installation of expensive high-speed Ethernet service. The administration and the Inter-Fraternity and Inter-Sorority Councils should be commended for reaching a fair and beneficial agreement last semester to supplement two-thirds of the Ethernet installation cost with University funds.
YOUR FINAL few weeks here at the University can lead to a lot of reflection. You begin to think about how the University has changed you and how you in turn would like to see changes in the University.
ON THE other side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, students at James Madison University are getting riled up about an alleged "hate crime." On March 17, a male student reportedly harassed and assaulted three members of the women's rugby team. Why is this a hate crime?
ON THE news page are people who like to write about the facts. This page prints people who enjoy broadcasting their opinions.
COLLEGE students think about it night and day. Our search is relentless. We scurry around looking between every crevice and under every nook and cranny.
I AM NOT a supporter of the David Horowitz ad, "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea - and Racist Too." I do not believe that the ad should appear in the pages of campus newspapers such as our own The Cavalier Daily.
JOHN STUART Mill once said, "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
AN EVENT such as the Gala for Music Suppressed by the Third Reich is an activity essential to enriching student life.
IF YOU, the readership of this fine newspaper, have a pulse, you undoubtedly have felt it. It's that sense of an impending emotional high and of a growing groundswell of support for an important issue.
THE UNIVERSITY recently finished its largest fund-raising project, drawing an unprecedented $1.43 billion in private donations.
SAFE AND sound. It's a nice phrase, sort of warm and fuzzy. Wouldn't we all like to be safe and sound, to snuggle up under the warm blanket of feeling safe?
THIS PAST August, I moved into my present on-Grounds housing, Lambeth Field Apartments. In general, the situation seemed great - decent size rooms, a common area with a store and a laundry room and an area filled with other students my age.
THERE'S a new breed of outcasts in the 21st century. In public places, these people are separated from everyone else and relegated to dank corners.
