The University welcomes about 3,450 first years into its undergraduate student body this weekend. Those will not be the only fresh faces appearing on and around Grounds during the upcoming year, however.
This is the first article I have ever written for The Cavalier Daily. Let that sink in for a moment.
Ella Baker put it best when she proclaimed, "We are the leaders we've been looking for." Spoken in the context of the civil rights movement, these words were a call for action during a particular time of calm and complacency.
They came to the University with many passions that did not quite add up to a degree. If they knew what interested them they could select a major.
When Osama bin Laden died, I was happy not to be in the United States. The pictures and descriptions of merrymaking in Times Square, University students gathering on the Corner and the almost macho admiration that figures such as Glenn Beck issued for Obama's achievement - "Thank God we have a president who actually authorized the shoot to kill.
OSAMA BIN Laden is dead, killed along with several of his associates by a Navy SEAL team inside his Pakistani hideaway.
IF ANYONE might remember the Charlie Sheen surge of late February and early March 2011, it could in fact be literary scholars.
With today marking the final edition of The Cavalier Daily during the 2010-11 academic year, there is no better opportunity to thank the graduating fourth years who helped the paper succeed during their time at the University.
COLLEGE years pass us by quickly. No one knows this better than the graduating Class of 2011. Therefore, as we enjoy our remaining days here, we should take time to reflect on the qualities that make the University truly distinct. One is the University's designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
This just in: Thomas Jefferson was not born on American soil. As his last name clearly indicates, he is an Englishman through and through.
IT IS NOT every day a teaching assistant tells you there is something you should not read
Nearly nine months after taking office, Teresa A. Sullivan officially was inaugurated as University president April 15.
THROUGHOUT history, we have seen our once narrowly defined gender roles progressively expand. Today, women serve in the armed forces, work as surgeons and participate in the highest levels of government.
Student Council last night formally created the Green Initiative Funding Tomorrow Committee, which will manage its namesake sustainability fund students approved in a 2010 referendum.
POLITICAL correctness is a social construction. Created in the mind of the collective, PC culture is used to chastise individuals who are considered to be acting offensively toward a protected group. There is a place for social protocol in influencing how individuals refer to one another in polite society.
Earlier this month, the faculty council at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill voted to enact revisions to the school's transcript format that are meant to counteract grade inflation.
