EXTRAORDINARY times call for extraordinary measures. In the weeks following the terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans have been living in a heightened state of security and anxiety.
BEGINNING last Sunday, the Department of Defense started dropping leaflets alongside bombs over Afghanistan.
LAST WEEK marked the end of our first official break of the school year. No classes were held Monday and Tuesday in order to grant University students some reading days.
OFTEN this page is used to point out what is wrong in the world, what our school, country or fellow citizens are doing to harm one another.
SOME PEOPLE blame the recent terrorist attacks on American foreign policy in the Middle East. These people claim that America must change its ways if it wants peace.
IT SURE is an interesting time to be an American. Not yet recovered from the shock of the unprecedented terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that shook our nation but a month ago, our country is now faced with the reality of a new threat: biological terrorism.
AMERICA watched solemnly and quietly Oct. 7, as America began its first overt military strikes on Afghanistan.
POP QUIZ: Which did more for world peace, the Treaty of Versailles or the Marshall Plan? The winners of World War I, "the war to end all wars," dictated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles to punish the losers.
MANY POLITICIANS are accused of running on only one ideal. In 1996, Steve Forbes ran for the Republican presidential nomination primarily on his flat tax proposal.
THE BEGINNING of October means that the housing hunt has begun for any student who wishes to live off Grounds next year.
FOLLOWING any major newsworthy event, the media is scru-tinized for its response. It is charged with responding without bias and with covering a story fully without becoming sensational.
THE UNIVERSITY welcomes racial minorities with open arms. There's a student organization on Grounds for nearly every underrepresented race: The Black Student Alliance, La Sociedad Latina, the Asian Student Union and a wealth of other student organizations are dependant on race as a uniting factor.
ONE WEEK ago today, The Washington Post reported that "there is a high probability that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden will try to launch another major attack on American targets here or abroad in the near future." In light of Sunday's air strikes on Afghanistan, the likelihood of these predicted attacks taking place is undeniably heightened.
IN A LETTER sent Monday to the United Nations Security Council, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte brought up the possibility of expanding the strikes against Afghanistan to other countries.
FORMER VIRGINIA Gov. Doug Wilder has reappeared on the state political scene. His re-emergence will give Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Warner some reasons to doubt his support in the African-American community.
WE HAVE survived the month since what pundits call the defining moment of the MTV generation/Bush administration by hanging flags, donating blood, giving to the rescue efforts and moving on with our daily routines.
THOUGH Sunday's military retaliation against the Taliban is just the beginning of a war, the assault brings a tedious three-week media frenzy and waiting period to a close.
PRESIDENT Bush's speech announcing aggressive military action against Afghanistan skewed and manipulated the truth to justify war as the only logical possibility.
THE UNIVERSITY has let many of its buildings become decrepit. As an Inside U.Va. Feb. 2001 report stated, many of the University's buildings are in need of major repair.
AT ABOUT 12:30 Sunday afternoon, America dropped bombs on the Taliban and entered a new phase in the fight against terrorism.
