Opinion

Opinion

Creating better computers by ending Microsoft monopoly

By Kiki Petrosino | November 17, 1999

YOU HAVE to hand it to Jonathan Swift's dauntless Lemuel Gulliver. When he woke up that fine spring morning to discover himself hog-tied by a bunch of tiny island natives, he didn't fight.

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Opinion

Global baby boom doesn't merit U.N. funds

By Nick Lawler | November 17, 1999

OCT. 12 was the Day of Six Billion - the day that the world's six-billionth child was born. The United Nations, among others, has been hyping this day as a call to action.

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Opinion

Eliminating the personal touch

By Bryan Maxwell | November 17, 1999

ALL YOU want to buy is a loaf of bread and a quart of milk. But from the way the grocery store cashier is moving, the bread will go stale and the milk turn sour before you actually get through the checkout line.

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Opinion

Giving thanks for what really matters

By Amy Startt | November 17, 1999

LITTLE more than a week away, Thanksgiving will provide a welcome respite for University students feeling the familiar end-of-semester crunch.

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Opinion

Character education benefits children

By Sparky Clarkson | November 16, 1999

IT SEEMS that mankind consistently thinks things were better in the past. Whether arising from wist- ful nostalgia or the simple failing of our brains, this rosier picture of yesterday always seems to seep into the collective consciousness.

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Opinion

Microsoft finding not factual

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | November 16, 1999

IT'S HARD to believe that Bill Gates could have a bad day. If you're the richest guy in the world, a leading technological mogul who is sitting on a corporation with a nearly half-trillion-dollar market value, it's tough to fathom much of anything that could ruin your financial afternoon.

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Opinion

Recycling options wasted

By Brandon Almond | November 16, 1999

BEER CANS and pizza boxes. College campuses quite possibly may be the largest producers of recyclable material in the nation.

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Opinion

Birth mother doesn't know best

By Jennifer Schaum | November 16, 1999

IMAGINE a four-year-old toddler in a black and white checkered dress, black patent leather shoes and ribbons in her swinging braids.

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Opinion

Ten step program for successful students

By David T. Gies | November 16, 1999

AS CHAIR of the Faculty Senate, I am charged with speaking for what we in the faculty have come to call intellectual community, that is, the experiences students have in and out of the classroom which add up to the overall education you receive at the University. With that in mind, I have crafted the following Top 10 list of accumulated wisdom that you might consider as you begin planning your courses for next semester. Rule 10: Come at the last possible minute to get a signature.

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Opinion

Reporting with clarity, accuracy on difficult tracking issue

By Kelly Jolley | November 15, 1999

INTERVIEWING is a tricky business and the normal difficulty inherent in asking the right people the right questions is made even more problematic during investigative reporting.

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Opinion

Progress killing small town America

By Peter Brownfeld | November 15, 1999

COUNTRY music star Alan Jackson croons in his song "Little Man" about the decline of small business in the face of national chains.

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Opinion

Drunkards dispense life's lessons

By Chris DelGrosso | November 15, 1999

ONCE, DURING my senior year of high school, my friends and I huffed three cartridges of model airplane propellant and tried to go to a football game really high because we heard a few seniors had done it the year before.

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Opinion

Foolish fourth-year fifth finds Fictional

By Tom Bednar | November 12, 1999

JIMMY Fictional wants to be cool. Ever since he came to the University last fall, Jimmy has wanted to be one of those ultra-cool kids everyone envies and imitates.

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Opinion

Political activism crucial to campuses

By Rob Walker | November 12, 1999

HEY YOU! Yeah, you standing over there! What are you doing with those campaign flyers? Don't you know that you can't hand those out here?

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Opinion

Bringing character into the classroom

By Sam Waxman | November 11, 1999

MORALITY, like honor, is a word often misused and misunderstood. Much like honor is more basic than not lying, cheating or stealing, morality is not about specific issues or agendas.

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Opinion

Hate groups hamper higher education

By Erin Perucci | November 11, 1999

COLLEGE is an interesting environment to analyze. During this tumultuous transition from adolescence to adulthood, elders take a big step back and students run a great deal of life in and around the University on their own. While students sometimes play only a small role in decision-making at the University, we are given the responsibility of deciding what behavior is and is not acceptable in the University community.

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Opinion

Purging dangerous tradition

By Amy Startt | November 10, 1999

TRADITIONS at the University die hard. Even in light of recent citations, students continue to streak the Lawn.

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Opinion

Law kicks student interest to curb

By Bryan Maxwell | November 10, 1999

LIKE MOST college towns, Charlottesville exists largely because of students. Students support the city economically, and we're the reason most Charlottesville businesses thrive. The city, however, does not allow students to support and benefit from the city's real estate business.

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Opinion

Studying up on take-home tests

By Kiki Petrosino | November 10, 1999

BY THIS point in the semester, undergraduate life has a certain monotonous rhythm. Each morning, we get up and go to class.

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Opinion

Fraternities must adapt to survive

By Sparky Clarkson | November 9, 1999

NOBODY should be surprised that the Inter-Fraternity Council sent a letter to Dean of Students Penny Rue last week, requesting that she open negotiations with them about moving formal rush back to the fall.