THE UNITED States has an odd reputation overseas. We are seen as progressive, yet puritan; advocates of freedom, yet strangely constrictive in our own laws.
THEY ARE patriotic Americans. I can appreciate that. They are fervent anti-Communists. I can appreciate that.
A JOB SEARCH is underway at the moment and its outcome will greatly affect the nature of performing arts at the University.
IMAGINE if the presidential election process lasted only one week. On Oct. 27, the candidates would announce their intention to run.
THE UNIVERSITY stands for public access to higher education. Its very founding was intended to give life to the notion that education should not be limited to one faith, one political persuasion or one walk of life.
SHE'S A media dream. Last fall, Cherie Blair, the wife of British prime minister Tony Blair, shocked the nation by announcing that, at age 45, she is pregnant.
IT'S A CRAZY time we're living in. Not only are we at the beginning of a whole new -- far too over-hyped -- millennium, we are also living in the midst of a technological revolution.
Everyone screws up sometimes. But that's not catastrophic; the important goal is not to avoid making mistakes, but rather to learn from them when they do happen.
THOSE WHO write gun control laws hope to respond to a range of problems, not just the existence of guns.
THE DANCERS filed onto the stage smoothly. The boys were dressed in warm-up pants and basketball shoes and the girls were dressed in coordinated pastel tank tops and black dance pants.
JUST WHEN you thought you'd had enough "exploratory committees," here comes another one: Virginia Sen.
RECENTLY-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin has been depicted in the Western media as an ex-KGB enigma that threatens to return Russia to the horrors of secretive dictatorship.
A CRASH course on the University could be taught with just a few words. Not a fancy seminar on the history of Mr. Jefferson's University, but rather the real deal -- a few catch phrases to sum things up around here.
ROLLING Stone once gave the world 17-year-old Britney Spears in Daisy Dukes with BABY written across the back.
NOBODY LIKES to be talked about behind his back. So why does the faculty think they can do it to students without insulting us? That's right, while we're all caught up in midterms and various spring activities around Grounds, professors at the Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee meeting were discussing the students and our supposed grade-grubbing ways.
HAPPILY, reader correspondence picked back up last week, so in this column I'll focus on your questions, criticisms and suggestions. Who's that Girl? One reader noted that we still seem to have trouble properly identifying or labeling people in photographs.
FOR CENTURIES, the voice of America and the voice of male America have been one and the same. The shape of the Washington Monument is proof enough.
IN A LANDMARK Supreme Court decision last Tuesday, March 21, the justices ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have the proper authority to regulate tobacco as a drug.
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.
