AS PUBLIC schools all over Virginia began another rousing academic year on Tuesday, students were asked to observe a moment of silence before they began their day.
FIRST IT WAS mail. Then it was music. Now, books are next in line to be eaten up by the digital revolution.
SOME THINGS in life are worth worrying about. Some things are not. Two words shouted in the middle of a song at a college football game are not. Certainly one can empathize with those who take serious offense at the "Not Gay!" refrain in the middle of "The Good Old Song." This is a debate that has engaged the University - or at least, this fine publication - every year without fail.
THE U.S. News & World Report college rankings are in and the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Virginia are tied for number one - public school that is.
IT'S THE little things in life that make all the difference. No matter what the situation, if every person involved made a conscious effort to improve at least small aspect of his or her life, then the world truly would be a better place.
IF I ONLY had read one review of "Showgirls" before I saw it in the theater during my senior year of high school, I would have saved myself two hours of sheer disappointment and $7.
AS A GENERAL rule, newspaper columnists choose not to focus on vice presidential candidates during a major campaign season.
SOME THINGS improve with age. Access to on-Grounds housing at the University isn't one of them. For the most part, housing is as good as it gets first year.
FIRST-year students may think they are gaining more control over their lives when they leave home for school.
OR MOST of us, the choice of which college to attend involves a great deal of our ego. Where we apply shows a what we think of ourselves, and most of us enjoyed hearing people's positive reactions when we told them we were coming to the University.
HERE I offer my reflections on what it means to live with the loss of your mother and also to live with the knowledge that you might eventually be diagnosed with the disease that assaulted her body and ended in her death.
HYPOTHETICAL: You're driving along a rural road in the wrong direction. There's an exit 65 miles ahead and another in only one mile.
FOR SOME reason, it's really awkward to pass another Indian-American person on the street. This phenomenon isn't particular to this campus, or even to my ethnicity.
YOUNG, intelligent and attractive. Not three words likely to describe most of the characters at the Republican and Democratic national conventions held this summer.
Who guards the guards? Exploitative. Unethical. Irrelevant. Biased. All of these words are emblematic of common criticisms aimed at the media, and sometimes they are all too accurate.
ON TUESDAY, the Anti-Defamation League, a primarily Jewish organization set up to combat anti-semitism, sent a letter to vice-presidential candidate Sen.
THREE LITTLE questions are all that stand between every first-year student and every first-year student's worst nightmare.
MY SUMMER was full of guilty pleasures. Sleeping till noon. Watching cartoons. Napping all day. Eating that extra scoop of ice cream.
IT SHOULD surprise no one that Axl Rose said it best. And though he was referring to critics of Guns 'N Roses rather than presidential debate politics, the message retains its meaning today: "Get in the ring." The controversy over each candidate's willingness -- or lack thereof -- to participate in debates is just another manifestation of the serious, but too often minimized differences between the two sides. It has become fashionable of late to throw around words like "Republicrat" and to otherwise imply that there are not fundamental issues at stake in this election.
WE THINK of this school as a modern university. Even with all of its traditions, we're still confident that history is a foundation that we can continually build upon.
