IT'S ALL too common at this University -- on these pages, especially -- that the administration's actions are greeted with the question, "What's in it for me?" We all want to know what the administration has done for us lately.
WE MAY HAVE won a victory, but we haven't won the war. This past fall, the Board of Visitors voted unanimously to uphold the University's current race-conscious admissions policy, despite outside pressure from right wing groups, specifically the ironically named Center for Equal Opportunity, to eliminate the policy.
IMAGINE if a year consisted solely of autumn and winter. These two seasons would dominate the weather patterns, leaving spring and summer forgotten.
RICHMOND - The musty odor of sneakers in an elementary school gymnasium poll site. A whiff of cologne from a sharply dressed advisor at Texas Gov.
THEY ONLY come out at night, but they're men and women on a mission. They bend over, crouch or kneel at intervals.
ALEXANDRIA - Campaigns require a lot of small choices. Unlike major policy stances, these individual decisions often go unnoticed by the general public.
AS PART OF THE process of applying to graduate schools, I'll have to make several visits to other universities over the next few weekends.
I'M IMMENSELY thankful I have a father. I can't imagine growing up without one, probably because mine has been by far the most important influence in my life.
AS A RESULT of his offensive comments in a December interview with Sports Illustrated, relief pitcher John Rocker has been suspended from baseball, put on the trading block by his team - the Atlanta Braves - and has become a pariah in sports and society in general.
STUDENT COUNCIL has a reputation as a do-nothing body among students. Lately though, not only has Council been proactive, but for once it has gone too far. On the upcoming ballot, Council has decided to put the question of the formal rush date before the students.
IT'S EASY to put on a drab suit, gather in Newcomb Plaza, and praise presidential candidate Bill Bradley for supporting welfare.
IN ALL this hubbub about the honor referendum to remove the seriousness clause in instances of academic cheating, no one has touched on the real issue.
I'LL ADMIT that lead editorials urging readers to vote for particular candidates make me nervous.
THE TIMES, they are a-changin. Reform movements are sweeping the globe, new leaders are coming to power, and the people are crying out for a change.
IT IS A universally acknowledged truth - college students drink. Too much. It's no wonder, then, that U.S.
ONCE AGAIN, that symbol of South Carolinian ignorance, the Confederate flag, has popped up in the news.
AS THE SUN dipped down below, a fiery band of scarlet encompassed the horizon, endowing the quickly deadening sky with a moment of subtle beauty.
ACCORDING to Webster's Dictionary, diversity is defined as "difference or variety." In a University setting, diversity sometimes is construed as difference in gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.
WHILE THE broadcast media loves campaign finance reform, it resists an attempt to change the way it covers politics.
I WALKED out of Old Cabell Hall at the end of the first part of the Charting Diversity: Honor, Commitment and Challenge symposium held last Friday with a distinct sense of discomfort.
