IN THE best literature class I ever took, we didn't read a single book. It was a course taught here at the University on the Broadway musical, based solely on viewings of movies or live theatre performances.
BOWL CHAMPIONSHIPS and college applications. Final Four appearances and campus visits. Standout players and alumni contributions.
HOUSING anguish. It's that time of year again. The Housing Division sent notifications for Phase III applicants in late February.
THE HONOR system is marching inexorably towards irrelevance. Its constitution and bylaws have been changed four times in as many years, and significant segments of the University community believe that its procedures are rigged against them.
TRYING harder doesn't always pay off; more effort doesn't always produce better results. A study released by Harvard University's School of Public Health last week suggests that increased efforts to curb college students' binge drinking may be backfiring.
THE STAFF and administration of Student Health rarely reply to inevitable student newspaper complaints, accepting them as almost a ritual part of the University experience that reflects understandable problems in coming to grips with a difficult and often emotionally-laden part of adult life: dealing with one's health and healthcare.
HUNDREDS of people in the United States die from gun wounds every year. An indisputable fact such as this should by itself be enough to create strong emotions against the availability of handguns.
I NEVER imagined that a die-hard, knee-jerk, bleeding-heart liberal such as myself would be so impressed by the tactics of a Republican presidential candidate.
MAINTAINING the current ratio of in-state to out-of-state students is essential to the quality and diversity of our student body and our University.
EVERYONE makes mistakes. Even those in leadership positions. Even those who should know better. Though mistakes may lack intrinsic value in and of themselves, learning from mistakes and learning to take responsibility for mistakes helps prevent subsequent blunders. During the most recent elections process, the Honor Committee made a mistake.
I INTRODUCED House Bill 1429 to the Virginia House of Dele-gates, which would limit the out-of-state enrollment at Virginia public colleges and universities to 33 percent of the incoming freshman class beginning in the fall of 2001. I believe that Virginia's residents (and taxpayers) should have the assurance that at least two-thirds of the enrollment at our public colleges and universities are reserved for their children.
PRIDE is powerful. It can make one blind and deaf to rationality, and oblivious to those with differing views.
THE LIFE of a college student is not easy. There are too many decisions that students have to make.
I'D HEARD the rumors about kids who had gone into the Student Health Center and had come out sicker.
YOU KNEW it. You knew professors were talking about you. What you didn't know is the latest thing they're talking about -- life in Student E-mail Hell. The two of us, for example, have been talking about odd e-mails from students.
THEY CALL us Wahoos because, as this fish drinks water, we can drink our weight's worth of alcohol.
BETWEEN fellow columnist Sam Waxman's musings on the exclusivity of selective organizations, and Morgan Guyton's Declaration piece about the Lawn selection process, the inner circles of the self-governance scene received a fair amount of press last Thursday.
AS A NAVY pilot in Vietnam Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plane was shot down. He landed in a lake in Hanoi, badly injured, with both arms and one leg broken.
WHAT DO you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. What do you call a single lawyer that falls asleep during his client's capital murder case?
THERE IS a lot of talk at the University about our peer institutions and how we rank with our top academic and sports competitors.
