A CRASH course on the University could be taught with just a few words. Not a fancy seminar on the history of Mr. Jefferson's University, but rather the real deal -- a few catch phrases to sum things up around here.
ROLLING Stone once gave the world 17-year-old Britney Spears in Daisy Dukes with BABY written across the back.
NOBODY LIKES to be talked about behind his back. So why does the faculty think they can do it to students without insulting us? That's right, while we're all caught up in midterms and various spring activities around Grounds, professors at the Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee meeting were discussing the students and our supposed grade-grubbing ways.
HAPPILY, reader correspondence picked back up last week, so in this column I'll focus on your questions, criticisms and suggestions. Who's that Girl? One reader noted that we still seem to have trouble properly identifying or labeling people in photographs.
FOR CENTURIES, the voice of America and the voice of male America have been one and the same. The shape of the Washington Monument is proof enough.
IN A LANDMARK Supreme Court decision last Tuesday, March 21, the justices ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have the proper authority to regulate tobacco as a drug.
THE UNIVERSITY has a kindergarten teacher masquerading as a Dean of Students. Listening to Dean Penny Rue's speech to the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society last week, it was apparent that she views student self-governance as something to be relegated to unimportant issues.
I WILL never forget the last six words of the Pledge of Allegiance: "with liberty and justice for all." I was 9 years old when I first pondered the actual meaning of the short phrase my peers repeated so mechanically every morning.
WHEN'S the last time you explored the possible consequences of your 401K rollover into an IRA? Will you choose Roth or Traditional?
THESE lines have to do with two ways to use paint -- first, as a gift or invitation to others; second, as a weapon used to erase, exclude and belittle.
IN PRESSURING school administrators at Tufts University to allow coed dormitory rooms for gay students, senior students Carl Sciortino Jr.
WHENEVER I'm angry with my roommate, I have a secret weapon -- showtunes. For some odd reason, she finds these, my favorite CDs, torturous, and will do nearly anything to avoid listening to them.
FIRST let me point out a few things about the intent of this column. I am responding to the decision of Tufts University to deny Carl Sciortino Jr.
LATELY, the nightly news has been awash with stories about skyrocketing gas prices and other controversies here at home.
LATELY, students at the University of California in Santa Cruz may have been getting the feeling that they're not in the 1960s anymore.
PRICES go up -- it's a simple concept, and one most people grasp on a basic level. The average person may not understand the finer points of inflation, but he certainly is aware that the prices of everything from eggs to automobiles to college tuition rise a few percent each year.
APRIL is the cruelest month for some, but at the University, it makes suffering through Charlottesville's rainy, dreary winter months worthwhile.
MOST STUDENTS don't actually pay attention to our University bills aside from the total cost. So students generally don't notice the separate $39 Student Activity Fee.
CONTROL OVER the safety and distribution of firearms has long been one of the most central and divisive issues in American politics.
THE ISSUE of Taiwan's independence has returned to the American spotlight since their presidential elections two weekends ago.
