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.
AT THE May 1999 graduation ceremonies, I had the opportunity to give remarks on behalf of the Alumni Association Board of Managers.
THERE are some people that just can't accept that the fight is over and they've lost. I've always found creationists who fight teaching evolution instead of accepting that the scientific community has embraced it puzzling.
SOMEWHERE in the past 200-odd years, the words "free press" got mangled. Like parallel lines going off into the distance, "freedom of the press" and "free speech" converged, even when the two aren't all that similar. When left-wing activist turn conservative commentator David Horowitz submitted his controversial advertisement regarding slavery reparations to various collegiate newspapers across the nation, the actions of a free press are what denied the ad from seeing newsprint in the majority of those publications. Our founding fathers knew that a free press was necessary to ward off tyranny.
OF ALL the catch phrases and jargon heard around Grounds, none is so pervasive as our sacred "community of trust." Since your first tour of the University, it's likely that some administrator has spoken of it as many times as casserole surprise has been doled out at Newcomb Hall.
WHEN I reflect on it, I am mostly grateful not to be the editor of a newspaper. While I get my share of complaints and nasty letters, rarely can I move them to come and trash my offices.
WHEN EDUCATORS and legislators teach and talk in moral absolutes, they've ceased to be educators and legislators.
AS COLLEGE students, we have countless things to worry about. From war and famine to midterms, papers and lack of sleep, we could spend all day - and all night - worrying about one thing or another.
EVERY DAY I am reminded of a quote by a rather famous gentleman by the name of Thomas Jefferson.
