ONCE YOU arrive here at the University as a first-year student you're thrust into a world involving many unknown people.
"SO YOU were accepted to the University? You probably came for the drama, right?" Laugh all you want at this seemingly false statement -- it is nothing new for students to make fun of the University's arts programs.
THE POLLS are closed, the election is over, and no clear winner has yet emerged. The clear loser, however, made itself glaringly apparent: television journalism.
NIKE HAS Tiger Woods. McDonald's has Coke. U.Va. has Budweiser. Maybe you hadn't heard about this.
WEDNESDAY, 10 a.m. government class, the morning after Election Day. We're talking about the still-undetermined presidential election.
TUESDAY and Wednesday were not any less entertaining than a marathon basketball game with the winning shot still making its way to the basket, in slow motion, of course.
HOLDING your community service fundraising events during Spring Rush. Planning an optional guest lecturer for exam week.
(Editor's note: The author's brother, Richard W. Smith, brought suit against the University, claiming that the it and the University Judiciary Committee violated his due process rights.
DIVERSITY is not important to the University. Amid fallout from the State of Race Relations at the University survey, diversity was the buzzword of choice and everyone seemed ready to change what was seen, accurately, as a weakness at the University. Since then, however, the discussion of diversity at the University has become almost nonexistent.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 7 - People wake up. They vote. They go to work. They come home. This sounds like a routine Election Day anywhere in America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - It's midnight on election night. Hundreds of people are gathered around the stage and monitors.
RICHMOND, Va. - When Sen. Chuck Robb (R) took the stage last night to the cheerful strains of a John Phillip Sousa march, I could have sworn I was about to witness a victory speech.
AUSTIN, Tex. - In the hill country of Texas, the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" resonated throughout the thin steel walls of Hangar One at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
NEW YORK - It was Club Clinton on the corner of 42nd and Park Ave. last night, but everyone there knew they were just pre-partying before the main event.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A good way to describe the evening before this year's presidential election is all-out fighting in the final hours, with the candidates throwing their last punches into the ring before the polls finally opened.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - On Election Day, one candidate is supposed to win and the other one is supposed to lose.
THE MOST surprising yet least surprising thing said was, "No, really, we're sick of being first!" It's no wonder.
SOME OF the best things in life reside beneath the surface. Rose quartz is enclosed by metamorphic rock.
RICHMOND, Va. - Republican George Allen likes to smile. Throughout his campaign for the Senate, few photographs of the former Republican governor showed him without a friendly, come-on-out-to-the-back-porch grin.
WHEN I was younger, watching "The Oprah Winfrey Show" used to upset me. I would watch as people told amazing stories of courage and achievement and were then praised for having "good Christian values." As a young Jewish girl, I would wonder if not sharing the religious views of the majority made me immoral.
