FIRST-year students may think they are gaining more control over their lives when they leave home for school.
OR MOST of us, the choice of which college to attend involves a great deal of our ego. Where we apply shows a what we think of ourselves, and most of us enjoyed hearing people's positive reactions when we told them we were coming to the University.
HERE I offer my reflections on what it means to live with the loss of your mother and also to live with the knowledge that you might eventually be diagnosed with the disease that assaulted her body and ended in her death.
HYPOTHETICAL: You're driving along a rural road in the wrong direction. There's an exit 65 miles ahead and another in only one mile.
FOR SOME reason, it's really awkward to pass another Indian-American person on the street. This phenomenon isn't particular to this campus, or even to my ethnicity.
YOUNG, intelligent and attractive. Not three words likely to describe most of the characters at the Republican and Democratic national conventions held this summer.
Who guards the guards? Exploitative. Unethical. Irrelevant. Biased. All of these words are emblematic of common criticisms aimed at the media, and sometimes they are all too accurate.
ON TUESDAY, the Anti-Defamation League, a primarily Jewish organization set up to combat anti-semitism, sent a letter to vice-presidential candidate Sen.
THREE LITTLE questions are all that stand between every first-year student and every first-year student's worst nightmare.
MY SUMMER was full of guilty pleasures. Sleeping till noon. Watching cartoons. Napping all day. Eating that extra scoop of ice cream.
IT SHOULD surprise no one that Axl Rose said it best. And though he was referring to critics of Guns 'N Roses rather than presidential debate politics, the message retains its meaning today: "Get in the ring." The controversy over each candidate's willingness -- or lack thereof -- to participate in debates is just another manifestation of the serious, but too often minimized differences between the two sides. It has become fashionable of late to throw around words like "Republicrat" and to otherwise imply that there are not fundamental issues at stake in this election.
WE THINK of this school as a modern university. Even with all of its traditions, we're still confident that history is a foundation that we can continually build upon.
TO THE uninformed eye, a comparison of the construction on both sides of Alderman road looks horrible for the University.
YOUR VOTE doesn't matter. College students have the lowest voter turnout, which is why politicians frequently talk of our generation's lost hope with remorse and sadness.
SOMETIMES random and unfair things happen in life. Millionaires win the lottery. Another boy band pops up on MTV.
THE BEGINNING of school is an extremely hectic time. Between untangling schedules and unpacking boxes, it's easy to get caught up in immediate details at the expense of larger goals.
IT LOOMS large in our lives here at the University. To some, it is the only proof of civilization in Charlottesville besides first-year dorms and Rugby Road.
YOU MAY never have met her, you may not even have voted for her, but chances are she has touched your life in more ways than one.
BE CAREFUL not to mistake them for Democrats. It'd be an easy mistake to make. The speeches and interviews from the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia have sounded more like the words of progressive politicians than the conservative core of the Grand Old Party.
STANFORD University has taken a stand without even knowing it by banning the use of virtual advertising in the broadcasts of their basketball games.
