Mandated morals lend little to education
By Chris DelGrosso | November 8, 1999ONE WONDERS if a $17 million increase in federal spending on "promoting character education efforts" would have prevented Texas Gov.
ONE WONDERS if a $17 million increase in federal spending on "promoting character education efforts" would have prevented Texas Gov.
First, congratulations to The Cavalier Daily for its recent award. Few realize the amount of work required in producing any student publication, much less an award-winning daily.
LAST WEEK the Republicans captured both houses of Virginia's General Assembly. This victory gives the party a historic opportunity to further its agenda.
DANGER! If you receive any e-mail within the next 24 hours, do not open it! The entire Internet is closed down for annual cleaning, so any e-mail must be a virus!
NEED-BLIND. Anyone who's been on a college tour or read a book about universities has heard this term.
COMMUNITIES such as ours quickly become galvanized into action when a violent stranger enters its sanctum, creating chaos and fear.
AS THE vice president for development, it is my job to ensure that the University works with its alumni and friends to secure private support that will sustain the University and its students, faculty and programs into the future.
TRUE! -- CYNICAL -- very, very dreadfully cynical I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
AS A NATIVE Baltimorean, I have absolutely no reason to look forward to the World Series each year.
YOU HAVE to take pleasure in whatever victories you can gain, even if they are small. Never was this message more apparent than at the Omni Hotel in downtown Charlottesville last night - the site of the Democratic party reception in which State Sen.
RICHMOND-Virginia is known for its colorful history, and now, a historic election can be added to its laundry list of momentous political events.
IT WAS an uphill battle. It was also a losing battle. So it came as little surprise when the results were so prominently displayed across the large television screen in the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville - Ed Wayland couldn't unseat his challenger, incumbent Del.
RICHMOND -- The chandeliers were sparkling, the liquor was flowing, and the room was filled with enough suits to clothe an entire law firm.
BOOM, BOOM, boom. The hardwood floor of the Boar's Head Inn ballroom shook from the thundering bass.
AS THE final minutes of Halloween night ticked by, heads began popping out from behind closed Lawn room doors.
A FIRST glance at Paul Harris' victory party shows what you might consider a surprising amount of diversity for a Republican event.
THE UNIVERSITY is lovely this time of year -- leaves are changing, midterms are over and finals are a month away.
A GROUP of white supremacists at Northwestern University is seeking that university's recognition as a campus religious group.
AS WORLD War II was spreading in the beginning of 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt gave his famous speech in which he outlined four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
WITHOUT a doubt, The Cavalier Daily is a student newspaper. Yet, at the same time the paper is also a self-supporting, independent business.