Opinion

Opinion

Paintings provide precise weather history

By Bruce Hayden | September 14, 1999

YOUR MISSION, should you accept it, is to visit 41 art museums in the United States and Europe, study 12,000 paintings for their meteorological revealings, and publish your results so that this fate of hitting museum marble in your Birkenstocks need not befall future generations.

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Opinion

News stories need more focus, depth

By Kelly Jolley | September 13, 1999

THANK YOU to those who sent in comments and questions in response to last week's column. Most queries focused either on the news or the on-line edition of The Cavalier Daily. Since the online edition is being refurbished this week, I'll review the Web site and content in the next few weeks.

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Opinion

Debate stalls on Hemings Street

By Peter Brownfeld | September 13, 1999

EVERYONE needs a hero. Everyone wants someone to honor. Some members of the Fifeville Neighborhood Association have decided that for them, that person is Sally Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves.

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Opinion

Online notes pervert academics

By Chris DelGrosso | September 13, 1999

COLLEGE students across the nation took a collective yawn and rolled over as StudentU.com went online last Wednesday and began posting lecture notes taken at 62 universities.

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Opinion

Band-Aids worsen racial wounds

By Nick Lawler | September 10, 1999

A QUICK fix is just that. Nevertheless, affirmative action advocates routinely gloss over the cracks in the foundation of the educational system, instead trying to cover up with policies that do nothing to solve the larger problem. After the University of California system stopped its race-preference admissions policies, affirmative action advocates decried the drop in minority enrollment.

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Opinion

Timorous policies risk democracy, life

By Emily Harding | September 10, 1999

ONE MILLION in Rwanda. Ten thousand in Kosovo. A few hundred in East Timor. These are the estimated death tolls of intra-state war in the 1990s. Rwandans got no state-sanctioned assistance from foreign powers despite atrocities occurring there; Kosovars received aid after a few months of genocide; East Timor now calls for help.

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Opinion

Security measures stifle students

By Erin Perucci | September 9, 1999

JOE FRANTICALLY arrives a few minutes late to school, having forgotten to set his alarm after going to bed in the wee hours of the morning.

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Opinion

Deflated grades boost learning

By Kiki Petrosino | September 8, 1999

IT SEEMS, my fellow Wahoos, as if the gauntlet has been thrown. The Cavalier Daily reported Sept.

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Opinion

Maximizing activities' potential

By Amy Startt | September 8, 1999

HAVEN'T you always loved the ubiquitous extra-curricular activities section on applications for scholarships, honor societies and universities?

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Opinion

Traffic problems call for new direction

By Sparky Clarkson | September 7, 1999

THE RETURN of students, while in many ways pleasant, always brings with it something people in Charlottesville dread.

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Opinion

U.S. News rank underrates University

By Jennifer Schaum | September 7, 1999

AT CONVOCATION last August, administrators stressed a fact I knew well: I was enrolled at the No.

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Opinion

Novel approach to Cavalier Daily criticism

By Kelly Jolley | September 6, 1999

THE STORIES that make up this semester's registration issue all treat their subjects (and their readers) with well-organized prose and interesting as well as timely topics.

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Opinion

Paying attention to personal safety

By Peter Brownfeld | September 6, 1999

I HAVE lived in the Venable neighborhood for three years and I've always thought it was a safe place. The train tracks are right behind my house.

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Opinion

Keeping diversity, eliminating emphasis on race

By Chris DelGrosso | September 6, 1999

AFFIRMATIVE action programs long have victimized underprivileged white students by offering them no distinction from affluent white students in the college admissions process.

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Opinion

Making good on bad message

By Tom Bednar | September 6, 1999

IT'S RARE to see a column inspired by hot dogs. Wurst of any kind usually don't get much press. But last week a few hot dogs did some damage to first-year students' image of the University Judiciary Committee. The wieners in question appeared on a flyer the Committee posted and distributed in first-year residence areas.

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Opinion

Self-awareness reduces rape risk

By Katie Dodd | September 3, 1999

No one wants to think that it could ever happen to them. But for two University women this week, it did.

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Opinion

Notification policy uncorks dilemmas

By Emily Harding | September 3, 1999

Daddy's little girl. That's me. I always will be, as long as a gazillion pictures of me - as a five-year-old, on my horse and on every single first day of school - are scattered around the house.

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Opinion

Working out self-governance woes

By Nick Lawler | September 1, 1999

ON SUNDAY night, two friends and I went to work out at the Aquatics and Fitness Center. Unfortunately, preparations were underway for the annual first-year bash and we were unable to get in.

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Opinion

Stripping away female stereotypes

By Kiki Petrosino | September 1, 1999

THE U.S. victory at this summer's Women's World Cup soccer finals added yet another item to America's registry of puritanical no-nos.

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Opinion

Notification method misses mark

By Erin Perucci | August 27, 1999

HEY MOM and Dad, how's your relationship with your college-aged son or daughter? Do you know what he or she is doing when not under your all-protecting roof?