AN EARTHQUAKE in Haiti, a flood in Pakistan, a tsunami in Japan and droughts in East Africa. Do you even remember these disasters?
SAM NOVAK'S Sept. 21 Viewpoint column, "Bottling the message" presents a reasoned perspective on the issue of underage college drinking and the University's response to this serious problem.
IN THE Cavalier Daily's Sept. 29 article "Three men rob fourth year at gunpoint," fourth-year College student Danny Schmidt expresses disbelief and agitation about the "lack of security" in the "area immediately surrounding the University." After having been robbed at gunpoint near Rugby Road, Schmidt finds it "preposterous" that a student "should feel unsafe walking along a highly populated, well-lit area on a Tuesday night." What I find preposterous is Schmidt's complete ignorance of the reality of our community.
Following last week's 30-24 loss to Southern Miss, the Virginia football team has faced a number of questions from disappointed fans.
BACK IN 2008, President Obama exclaimed at a town hall meeting, "I don't speak a foreign language. It's embarrassing!" That statement could go on a long list of things that have not changed since 2008.
YESTERDAY, The Cavalier Daily ran an article titled "The Lion King: Hakuna matata?" which I had written in response to the questions, conflicts and controversies raised by Disney's persistent re-release of animated films, both in home-viewing formats and in theaters.
HISTORY can tell us a lot. It gives us an idea of who we are by showing where we have been. Its trajectory provides a rough idea of where we are going. But most importantly, history answers our questions.
"GOEBBELS was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.
A report issued Tuesday by a subsidiary of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce concluded that a shocking 29.1 percent of the City's families either are living below the poverty line or are not earning enough money to be self-sufficient.
Thanks to The Cavalier Daily for your coverage of discussions on Grounds regarding local, national and international policymaking issues. In particular, we in Garrett Hall appreciated having The Cavalier Daily's Monday front-page story about the recent visit to the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy by Rudy deLeon.
It is outrageously difficult to get a Jewish engineering student with unfinished problem sets to write something on the eve of one of the holiest days of Jewish calendar.
AS THE economy deteriorates further and the stock market remains in constant fluctuation, more Americans are laying blame upon President Obama.
REPORTS of schools breaching National Collegiate Athletic Association rules have become quite commonplace.
I THINK it is fair to surmise that many of you are either subscribers to or have heard of Netflix, the DVD-by-mail and video streaming movie service.
WITHOUT question, access to a higher education is of the utmost value in this country. This is true not only for those students who choose to participate in it, but for the nation as a whole.
When the managing board wrote a Sept. 12 editorial titled "Taking action" that responded to the discovery of several instances of plagiarism by a former Cavalier Daily writer, its members were purposefully vague in providing details about the student involved in the situation.
ON WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) painted "Palestine Deserves a State" on Beta Bridge.
LAST THURSDAY, Sept. 22, a story out of Geneva, Switzerland threatened to turn the physics community on its head.
