IT BEGAN in Tunisia with a young man who set himself and, perhaps unknowingly, the region on fire. Mohamed Bouazizi was the spark that lit the Middle East and led to an organic and peaceful movement to overthrow the oppressive regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
When the Virginia General Assembly passed its modifications to the state's two-year operating budget last month and allocated a $65 million funding increase to higher education, the plan was hailed as the first step toward achieving Gov.
Bennett Sorbo's "parting shots" at the University ("A shot across the bow," March 3), while excellently showcasing why he was not allowed to write any columns earlier, saddened me with its depiction of Brown Residential College. In the words of a former resident, Brown is "a place for the interesting and the interested." Because of its many conveniences and unique reputation, people of all types apply to live in Brown every semester.
In response to your article "A fur-vent debate" (March 2), I would like to send high praise to Ashley Chappo for exposing what's at stake for animals killed in the meat industry, the skin trade and other businesses that seek to profit off the abuse of animals.
IF AN ELECTED legislator were to claim college students lack life experience and act on emotion, there would not be much controversy.
THE EVER quotable Winston Churchill once stated, "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain." Upon reading this, most individuals will be shocked and dismayed to know that they either apparently have little or no human compassion or are doomed to a rather crotchety life of watching Fox News.
FOR CLOSE to two years, I've had the pleasure of enduring an all-too-common question - that is, why was I sacrificing the entirety of my undergraduate life for "some cruddy student newspaper?" I used to take mild offense at the remark.
WHEN I was young - say, about 10 years old - I wrote in a journal. At 12, I started another, and at 14, there was yet another. These diary entries consisted of - among other topics - adolescent ramblings about why I was angry that day, of in-like letters to a boy in the school hallway, of quoted lines from Lord Byron and ee cummings.
I KNEW this moment would finally come. Years ago, I set a plan in motion to be able to publish an article in The Cavalier Daily.
UPON BEING elected the 121st chief financial officer of The Cavalier Daily, I knew the most difficult thing I would have to do on the job would be the inevitable parting shot I would have to write.
IF ALL the world tends toward entropy, The Cavalier Daily office is no exception - yet, it does so in an orderly kind of way.
There was widespread disappointment when it was revealed that nationally only about 21 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the 2010 congressional midterm elections, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.
EVERY day around the world, millions of defenseless animals suffer in silence at the hands of humans.
THE LIVING Wage Campaign at the University - represented in part by Workers and Students United - hosted a rally last week to raise awareness of its agenda and attempt to pressure school administrators to consent to instituting an artificial minimum wage for all University employees.
The cruel twist of succeeding in a campaign for elected office is that after weeks of stumping and advertising the real work is yet to come.
With regard to your lead editorial "Taking care of our own" (Feb. 25), on what grounds can you justify your claim that the dining hall and janitorial employees at the University of Virginia are underpaid?
A FEW WEEKS ago, the winner of "Best Album" was announced at the Grammy Awards. The winner wasn't your standard pop diva starlet or king of hip-hop.
