IT'S STRANGE to think that these words are likely the last of mine to ever appear on The Cavalier Daily's Opinion pages.
HIDDEN amid the sweeping rhetoric and rousing imagery of President Bush's second inaugural address was a supposed declaration of American values: "All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors.
'TIS THE season of making and breaking New Year's resolutions. Maybe you're going to shed those 15 pounds (really, you mean it this time) or go to the gym four times a week (four, one, what's the difference?). Perhaps this is the year for increased volunteerism, or cutting back on stress.
HIUS 323 -- Rise & Fall of the Slave South; is that class worth taking? In coming semesters, students will have a new resource with which to answer that question: online course evaluations.
POLITICS, they say, is the art of the possible. That art was censored last week when Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said that bills will not reach the floor if they do not have the backing of a majority of Republican representatives.
YOU KNOW someone who has been raped. Statistically, it's true: one in four college women have been subject to completed or attempted rape.
"WHETHER Democrats know it or not, voters are not clamoring for imitation Republicans," wrote New York Times columnist Bob Herbert on Nov.
BOSTON -- SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of boisterous Kerry supporters, Jon Bon Jovi strummed a sweet rendition of "living on a prayer." Unfortunately, by the end of the night, a prayer appeared to be all John Kerry was hanging on to.
BOSTON -- SPORTING two world championship teams, Bostonians are walking around with a bit of a swagger in their step these days.
"ONLY nine percent of African-Americans had never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race." That startling, chilling, eye-popping statistic is not describing blacks across the country, nor is it talking about African-Americans at the end of their lives; rather, only 9 percent of black students at the University have never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race while attending college.
