AS A HIGH school junior, I remember obediently plucking college guides off the bookshelf at Barnes and Nobles when spring rolled around.
THE UNIVERSITY'S new ranking in Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine is bound to please administrators here.
DAYS LIKE last Wednesday really make students from states other than Virginia wish they could vote.
A REGULAR task of my childhood was buying the Sunday papers. "Go down to Tandler's," my father would say, "and pick up the Times, the Trib, the News, the Mirror, the Journal and the Record." All but the last of these referred to the main New York City newspapers operating through the early 1960s.
PUBLIC gardens ... yeah that's the ticket. We'll put up some public gardens. Yeah. And some of us will buy our own plots in the gardens.
IT'S NOT always the thought that counts and sometimes, good intentions are not enough. Thursday's Take Back the Night rally started with good intentions and ended up creating a dangerous precedent for the annual gathering and similar events. Although the organizers did not intend to advocate murder as an answer to domestic violence, that is exactly what they did.
JIMMY Hoffa for a TA? Talk about an education. This isn't a likely story, but the National Labor Relations Board recently ruled to allow graduate students who work as teaching assistants to join the UAW International Union. New York University is the first private school where such a decision has been made.
HAVE YOU read The Cavalier Daily Online Edition recently? If so, perhaps you've seen its newest feature -- a detailed history and explanation of the University's honor system.
HAVE YOU recently noticed how Clemons Library has been buzzing with intellectual energy on weeknights?
THIS WHOLE thing is like a bad record that just keeps playing over and over and over again. It seems that some people - and their enabling parents - feel that simply because you try to hunt someone down like an animal, and proceed to assault him, somehow you still deserve to be a student at this school. Bradley Kintz's decision to file suit against the University is not particularly shocking.
THE UNIVERSITY must not support the Virginia State Senate's resolution that seeks to bring a mandatory technology requirement to all Virginia colleges and universities.
TO MOST Cavaliers, the only two athletic teams at the University are the men's football and basketball squads.
THE UNIVERSITY should not exploit its students' need for food and medicine. But take one look at the Bookstore and Root Cellar and it becomes clear that the University understands the power of the captive market. First semester first-year students are forbidden from bringing cars to Charlottesville.
THESE words from our University's founder, Thomas Jefferson, are emblazoned above the entrance to the AFC: "Give about two hours a day to exercise, for health must not be sacrificed to learning.
THE JEFFERSON Scholars Foundation's fundamental mission, according to its annual report, is "to attract the most promising students in the nation and to give them sufficient financial support so that they are free to develop their talents and to use them for the good of the University community." The program has had great success in finding students "who excel in a wide range of endeavors and who show promise of becoming tomorrow's leaders" and luring them away from Ivy League and other quality schools with an honor that some consider the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the world. The Office of Financial Aid assists students "who cannot attend the University without financial assistance," and except for Athletic Grants-in-Aid, some loan programs and a few specific scholarships, all aid awarded to students is need-based.
RECEIVING advice is an indispensable part of a college education. It has little to do with the learning we get from textbooks, but it has everything to do with the education we receive outside the classroom -- an education that is at least as important as book learning.
RUGBY Road, 3 a.m. The scene, of inebriated people stumbling home, is typical of a Friday or Saturday night at the University.
RECENTLY, the Pentagon published the disturbing, if not unexpected, results of a survey on the climate towards homosexuals in the military.
THOUGH Larry Sabato's American Politics 101 class lies seven semesters in the past, I still have the sticker I received from him that proclaims, "Politics is a good thing." Webster defines politics in several ways, among them: "the science and art of political government; political science" and "factional scheming for power and status within a group." The first of these definitions can, with little argument, be considered a good (or at least innocuous) thing.
IMAGINE if your expenses for books went up 63 percent in two years -- what would you do? Relax, this isn't happening.
