More than 10 years ago, CBS signed a six-year $11 billion deal with the NCAA for the rights to the March Madness Tournament.
Regarding Matt Cameron's March 31 column ("Highly liberating"), the drug war is largely a war on marijuana smokers.
Left out of Matt Cameron's excellent, balanced report on marijuana was the issue of public safety. As a police officer for 18 years, I saw the horrific waste of good police time spent chasing the non-violent, non-problem causing marijuana smoker (think Willie Nelson and Michael Phelps). As officers tear apart hundreds of thousands of cars looking for a baggie, the deadly DUI kills a Virginian every day.
Another reason to stop caging humans for using the relatively safe, God-given plant cannabis that doesn't get mentioned in Matt Cameron's column is because marijuana is biblically correct.
An alum from the University recently told me he received a 50/50 education here. At first, I thought this was a bad thing, but then he went on to explain.
Microfinancing seems to be one of today's biggest buzzwords. Microfinance, according to Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, is the "supply of loans, savings, and other basic financial services to the poor." Microfinance is significant in that it usually involves the provision of small amounts of money that are too small for banks to loan.
Unfortuantely, a plethora of information has been published pertaining to the health care overhaul signed by President Obama.
During the final meeting of the 2009-10 Student Council administration, the representative body discussed and voted against a resolution that would promote relations among a number of school and class councils across Grounds.
If you have sat through any large lecture class at the University, you have most likely encountered the infamous "class study guide" or contributed to a study group.
To lead, you must serve. Because the University recently chose new student and administrative leaders, it is timely to contemplate about the best ways to lead.
During the past few days there has been a flurry of reporting about the campaign that Workers and Students United has spearheaded to encourage the University to guarantee its lowest paid workers an indexed living wage.
The Minority Rights Coalition announced its new executive committee Monday and is set to transition this Thursday.
"It's not fair," I tearily protested, "It's just a stupid popularity contest." I was embarrassingly defeated in the 6th grade student council election.
The living wage campaign seems to be making a comeback. Currently, the University imposes its own minimum wage of $10.14 per hour for employees directly employed by the University, although Workers and Students United claim that some workers who should be making this amount, such as individuals working for subcontractors, are in fact paid less.
The possession and use of marijuana for recreational purposes is illegal in America, but anyone who has spent even a brief time at the University knows that it is a highly visible substance both on Grounds and in the surrounding community.
Gov. Bob McDonnell signed his ninth executive order last Friday, establishing the Governor's Commission on Higher Education Reform - a committee dedicated to higher education reform, innovation and investment.
A few weeks ago, Gerald L. Baliles, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, told a Roanoke ballroom full of Virginia newspaper people about a report called "Old Media, New Media and the Challenge to Democratic Governance." You can read it at the Miller Center's Web site, if you like. For the past year, the center has studied and hosted discussions about the decline of American newspapers, what effect that might have on American government and what might be done about it.
Recently, major celebrities in the fashion industry have taken it upon themselves to speak out against the use of unrealistic models in their campaigns.
Chivalry is dead. This phrase usually carries a negative connotation as men are becoming less and less knightly in their conduct.
With the great number of crises facing the American people today, environmental legislation often gets shunted aside by congress.
