THE UNIVERSITY has a kindergarten teacher masquerading as a Dean of Students. Listening to Dean Penny Rue's speech to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society last week, it was apparent that she views student self-governance as something to be relegated to unimportant issues.
I WILL never forget the last six words of the Pledge of Allegiance: "with liberty and justice for all." I was 9 years old when I first pondered the actual meaning of the short phrase my peers repeated so mechanically every morning.
WHEN'S the last time you explored the possible consequences of your 401K rollover into an IRA? Will you choose Roth or Traditional?
THESE lines have to do with two ways to use paint -- first, as a gift or invitation to others; second, as a weapon used to erase, exclude and belittle.
IN PRESSURING school administrators at Tufts University to allow coed dormitory rooms for gay students, senior students Carl Sciortino Jr.
WHENEVER I'm angry with my roommate, I have a secret weapon -- showtunes. For some odd reason, she finds these, my favorite CDs, torturous, and will do nearly anything to avoid listening to them.
FIRST let me point out a few things about the intent of this column. I am responding to the decision of Tufts University to deny Carl Sciortino Jr.
LATELY, the nightly news has been awash with stories about skyrocketing gas prices and other controversies here at home.
LATELY, students at the University of California in Santa Cruz may have been getting the feeling that they're not in the 1960s anymore.
PRICES go up -- it's a simple concept, and one most people grasp on a basic level. The average person may not understand the finer points of inflation, but he certainly is aware that the prices of everything from eggs to automobiles to college tuition rise a few percent each year.
APRIL is the cruelest month for some, but at the University, it makes suffering through Charlottesville's rainy, dreary winter months worthwhile.
MOST STUDENTS don't actually pay attention to our University bills aside from the total cost. So students generally don't notice the separate $39 Student Activity Fee.
CONTROL OVER the safety and distribution of firearms has long been one of the most central and divisive issues in American politics.
THE ISSUE of Taiwan's independence has returned to the American spotlight since their presidential elections two weekends ago.
THE FIVE-YEAR-OLDS in the Japanese classroom lean forward alertly as their teacher barks out multiplication tables.
THE U.S. Supreme Court dealt freedom of speech a violent blow Wednesday when it yielded to the liberal politics of student activity fees.
During my first 18 years growing up, I heard a lot about newspaper writing from my parents. Just as I have argued on the pages of this newspaper, my father fought his political battles in college on the editorial pages of William & Mary's Flat Hat. He fought communism and segregation in his columns -- topics that make issues like student self-governance and fraternity rush seem insignificant. Several years later he met my mother while they were both writing for a newspaper on Capitol Hill.
TWO GREAT features debuted in the Life section this week: Emily Kane's series on local road trip destinations and Dockter Duval's advice column.
THERE'S A BIG hole in the ground, and the first to fill it wins. Now that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is out of the picture, there are a good 33 percent of self-proclaimed "McCain voters." This is according to a Newsweek poll to which the remaining contenders -- Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov.
IT IS almost an American political tradition. Every four years, the opposition candidate will vow to "get tough" on China.
