WHEN LITTLE boys play video games, they sit cross-legged about six inches from the TV screen with a glazed look in their eyes, a control pad in their hands, and their mother's voice in the background telling them not to strain their eyes. When big boys play video games, they sit six inches from a computer screen in a college dorm room.
COLLEGE REP. Justin Pfeiffer proves that a little bit of knowledge can do a lot of harm. A petition, requiring 2000 signatures from College students for Pfeiffer's removal from office, is in circulation.
THIS PAST weekend, Ronald Edward Gay quietly walked into a gay bar in Roanoke, pulled out his gun, and with the pull of a trigger changed the lives of everyone present in that bar.
IT'S OFFICIAL: If Texas Gov. George W. Bush wins the upcoming presidential election, I'm moving to Canada.
DESPITE all my mom's quirks, I love that woman. She bakes me pies. She still calls me her "baby." And last week, she sent me a stack of newspaper clippings in hopes of swaying my presidential vote. This surprised me, as she and my dad have always encouraged me to make my own decisions.
WE WANT to address it, but all we really do is dance around the issue at hand. When it comes to race relations, the University has yet to face the most fundamental, underlying truths about the question of race.
SEPTEMBER 22 marked the first day of fall, three months until winter, 12 inches of snow in Wyoming, and 46 days until the presidential election.
THUMBING through the Sept. 19 edition of The Cavalier Daily, I came across a lawsuit filed against the University.
RAPE IS not something I like to think about on a Friday afternoon. Except for when deciding if a first date is safe to be alone with, women generally repress the thought.
WHICH is more important, comfort or diversity? Which is worse, separation or forced integration?
IF IT weren't so insulting, it would be funny. The resolution proposed by College Rep. Justin Pfeiffer to require the Pledge of Allegiance at Student Council meetings is so insensitive that it's hard to believe Mr. Pfeiffer is serious. The wording of the resolution is atrocious.
THE GLOVES are off, and the Ombudsman is impelled (nay, forced!) to comment on the running battle.
I T'S A RELIC of our adoles- cence, something we all can relate to: the feared "birds and the bees" talk that our parents attempted to force upon us.
C OMPLEX ISSUES don't have 30-min ute solutions. Unfortunately, the Labor Action Group at the University has yet to learn this lesson. When you're discussing "fair" wages and benefits and "fair" labor practices, it pays to be intellectually honest, to offer facts grounded in serious research, and moreover to be truthful. LAG has been dishonest in two key areas -- their claim that the University uses sweatshop labor and their stake in the living wage debate. On Labor Day, a member of the student Labor Action Group, Roger Clarke, wrote and distributed a small flyer that claims that the University -- the University bookstore specifically -- uses sweatshop labor.
THEN IN a couple of minutes that bottle of Guiness is finally finished. You now officially have the right to slap bi**hes.
"WAHOOS? What the heck is a wahoo?" Prospective University students ask this question every year during tours around Grounds.
SUPERMARKETS sell different grades of eggs. Before they are shipped out to Giant, Safeway or Harris Teeter, they are inspected by the all-knowing egg inspector and given anywhere from one to three "As." This ensures that we consumers will know what quality we're paying for.
THE CRY goes up in class: "Does everyone have a chair?" More often than not, the answer is no, and students are sent out into the hallways like daylight thieves.
LIKE IT or not, Napster will die. Don't get me wrong; mp3s are an integral facet of the music industry's future.
SOMETIMES we mean what we say. Other times we say things only for the reaction they cause. When the Ralph Nader campaign attempts to portray the two major parties as one and the same, it does not really mean it.
