THE 2000 presidential campaign has not been a cordial one. The candidates and their supporters have spent significant time and money trading insults and accusations.
AS IN EVERY election, voters must put together a puzzle of issues, then choose the closest fit. This year's Virginia Senate race between Senator and former Governor Chuck Robb and former Governor George Allen is a particularly colorful puzzle giving voters clear choices in every issue except one: education. TV commercials shooting 30-second allegations back and forth are all over the airways; one suggests that the opponent took millions away from helpless little children, the other shoots back with a rebuttal and an even worse allegation of theft from the poor to feed the rich.
NEXT YEAR, don't buy a meal plan. If you're reading this, you'll be an upperclassmen next year. Meal plans for upperclassmen are a rip off.
MOST STUDENTS entering a new living or educational experience carry with them a certain optimism or naive.
YOUR NEW name is 73645. Your new room is Cell Block 386. And your new roommate is a convicted rapist.
FALL IS upon us. The leaves are turning and crunch as students walk briskly between classes, hands in pockets, hat on head.
LOOK - barreling down that hill faster than a speeding bullet! Able to leap tall curbs in a single bound!
MONEY talks at this school - very loudly. Where the school allocates its money speaks volumes about its priorities.
THE FRUSTRATED student finally was able to sum up his argument quite succinctly, if not eloquently: "I just hate Gore.
FORGET politics as usual. I've come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be that bad if both presidential candidates wore skin tight speedos, shaved their chests, and got in the WWF ring to battle for a place in the White House.
THERE are too many groups on Grounds that claim to represent the University but don't actually do it. I'm not talking about CIOs, even though they branch off with such specificity they might as well have the Organization for People from Djibouti Who Like to Watch Alf Re-runs.
THERE'S A NAME for a person who tailors his personality to what others expect - a tool. If we're looking for a tool for president, commander-in-chief, for the big Kahuna, the leader of the free world, look no more.
On Tuesday, October 10, The Cavalier Daily ran an editorial cartoon entitled "Early Halloween Haunts," depicting a masked gunman robbing two people, and saying "No trick!
WHERE have all the good men gone? Gone to get jobs in air-conditioning repair, every one. Perhaps not every one, but they're not in college, at any rate.
THE REPUBICANS forgot somebody. As I watched the Democratic convention, the liberals' memories seemed a little deficient too.
LOCAL church gains favor with God, prays for heathen Jews." Yom Kippur Services, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 6:15 p.m. The preceding lines constituted the Oct.
HOW DID we let our most sacred tradition become so irrelevant so fast? The honor system, where a meager seven students were found guilty in trials all of last year, continues along its death course, lifelessly plodding the winding road of indifference, fading into the sea of oblivion and good ideas forgotten.
LET'S GET one thing straight: negative campaigning is good. Focus groups might not like it, women voters might not like it.
TEXAS Gov. George W. Bush, his running mate, the Republican Party, and several members of the media have attacked Vice President Al Gore recently on the issue of trustworthiness.
LET'S GET one thing straight: negative campaigning is good. Focus groups might not like it, women voters might not like it.
