BACK IN the day before his uber-politico status, Tom Bednar was my editor. He taught me the cardinal rule of op-ed writing: Never let "I" or emotions play too big a role in an article.
DURING his 2000 State of the University speech, President John T. Casteen III relayed a quote by John Ciardi: "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." Casteen claims that's not what the University is now, and it's not where it's heading, yet many actions of this University have indicated precisely the opposite. Rather than a treatise on the responsibility of the University to teach students, the speech was mere window dressing for big business 101.
MONEY. Some call it the root of all evil, but in the College of Arts and Sciences it has become a vital issue in the quest for a new dean.
THE DAY after the presidential election, the partisan lines were drawn across our nation and the map was permanently dyed in electoral shades of blue and red.
SHE WAS walking to her door, probably fumbling with her keys, arms full of groceries, when it happened.
EVER LISTEN to the comments in a crowd? This particular crowd said things like "Wait! I need my arm!" and "I can't breathe!" "Ouch" and "cut it out" were popular as well, but my favorite was "I hate every person at this #$!&ing University who didn't camp out and is in front of me right now!" It was game day, and it was not a pretty scene.
SEXY LEGS or not, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's comment about Condoleezza Rice was inexcusable.
PART OF the Republican mantra is that people should be trusted with their own money first, and turn it over to the government second.
PICTURE this: a board meeting. The new recruit, fresh out of U.Va., is busily scribbling, taking note of everything important.
OUR NEW president has an aggressive agenda for his first days in office, but so far his major announcements have been in the area of domestic affairs.
