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THE 2009 election stands a decent at once again turning Virginia red.
Imagine you have been invested with the power to choose a major university?s next commencement speaker.
After a recent open honor trial, some members of the University community have questioned the fundamental fairness of Honor Committee?s trial procedures.
Twitter. Tweep. @reply. Lately, it seems that I?ve been hearing these strange words all over the place.
FILLED with youthful enthusiasm and altruistic idealism, young education school graduates are embarking on lifelong careers as teachers.
THE WORLD is a fashion show. If the Obamas? recent trip to Europe this past week is any indication, the only thing that matters at major international policy conferences is what Michelle is wearing.
WHAT DOES ?diversity? mean on Grounds today? Student reaction to the University?s announcement of Judge J.
AS THE economic situation worsens, citizens look toward the government to cast a safety net beneath them.
Recently, I had the privilege of watching the documentary ?Haze,? which tells the story of Gordie Bailey who died in 2004 as a freshman at the University of Colorado after consuming excessive amounts of alcohol at the Chi Psi fraternity house.
The verdict in Jason Smith?s open honor trial was shocking, disappointing, and saddening.
The freedom of speakers on university campuses has been a bit of a hot topic recently.
Foreign policy commentators, with their penchant for coining cute catchphrases, have waxed eloquent about ?the Obama doctrine?. Yet, few agree on what it is.
Life would be so much simpler if it were a multiple choice test, with an answer key.
When I first set foot on Grounds in the fall of 2005,
The cultural jewel of Catholicism, the pristine Grotto, and Touchdown Jesus ? there are a plethora of things that the University of Notre Dame is celebrated and cherished for (Weis, you may not make the cut anytime soon). But there?s something not so celebrated these days among the Fighting Irish at Our Lady?s University.
The primary representative body of the student population at the University has the potential to be extremely unrepresentative.
It has been one and a half years in the making and the ruling is no surprise.
Students at the University are just large children, incapable of comprehending class readings and PowerPoint slides, practically devoid of the ability to write an essay ? let alone a thesis ? and, most obviously, utterly incapable of governing themselves at an institution of higher learning.
