THE SCENE: Rugby Road. Friday night. Sidewalks packed with University students waiting in line. Pretty typical.
THE POINT at which life begins is hard to identify, especially from a legal standpoint. Abortion is one of the most contested issues of our time because people define the start of life differently -- at the time of conception, viability, or when the fetus is able to feel pain, for example.
AL GORE shouts. Those who regularly watch him speak have noted the tendency. His speeches have regular crescendos, a characteristic that often grates on the nerves of those who listen to him.
STUDENTS who come to the University of Virginia often assume that the University always has been what it is now.
THEY DON'T mention that to get an education you actually have to spend four years at an institution about which they provide you no information.
THERE are a few secrets worth knowing and this is one of them: THE best desserts in Charlottesville are at the White Spot.
REPUBLICANS and Democrats often are criticized for failing to represent all segments of society.
University Briefs and Coverage of Student Organizations. As, hopefully, many of you noticed, the former "University Announcements" section has been relocated this term to "Announcements" on the classified page.
RUMOR has it that to live in Brown College, you must be, to put it nicely, eclectic. To live in Hereford College, you've got to love walking very long distances.
THE COMMONWEALTH of Virginia is not at fault for the University's drop in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL, she's intelligent, and she had an abortion after accidentally getting pregnant at 16.
AS THIS paper goes to print, I am the only black columnist on staff at the Cavalier Daily Opinion Department. Some may say this means I have more responsibility than my fellow columnists to discuss the racial issues that impact University life.
TWO YEARS ago, the Faculty Senate began an initiative to increase the sense of "intellectual community" at the University.
THIS WEEK, just like last week and next week, there are tons of things to do at the University. I could listen to speakers on the history of nursing, cohabitation and non-marital child bearing, the muse at war, and soft gamma ray repeaters.
ONE OF the downsides to receiving an education at the university level is that students often become blinded to some of the less esoteric lessons they should be learning.
REMOVING excess spending from the budget is good. Cutting taxes in a strong economy is also good.
IT APPEARS church and state finally have resolved their differences and decided to end their three-century separation.
The Cavalier Daily Online Edition FOR THOSE who haven't yet looked for their University news online, there is a new reason for doing so.
IN THE opening lines of his column, "Debate stalls on Hemings Street" (The Cavalier Daily, Sept.
NO ONE should be surprised that Honor Committee Chairman Hunter Ferguson cast the tie-breaking vote Sunday to keep pre-trial grievance panels.
