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.
DIVERSITY. It seems that all anybody can talk about when it comes to college admissions is that never-ending quest for variance.
THROUGH me the way to the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, ... Abandon every hope, you who enter here. These words, from Canto III of "The Inferno," might well have hung above the entrance to the University's foreign language laboratory during its pre-renovation days.
STUDENTS, by definition, live their lives by numbers. Alkways striving for excellence in the classroom, our worth ultimately is reduced to biannual reports of GPAs and credit hours earned.
IT'S CALLED a monopoly - when a business owns a 90 percent market share and aggressively protects itself against any attacks on its customer base.
DOCTORS today face an interesting problem in that the very success of their profession makes their job harder.
ON THURSDAY President Clinton unveiled a federal program to buy back guns in public housing projects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
