BACK IN THE fall, in the hectic heyday of the presidential campaign, Michelle Obama came to the University to speak outside of Newcomb Hall to a crowd of students and townspeople alike.
WE WALK past them every day on the way to class. They loom over us like giant white gods, their shadows encompassing our small figures as we enter a building or walk down the Lawn.
CURRENTLY the commonwealth of Virginia does not allow anyone to carry a firearm on school property, including university property.
RECENTLY, the process of the Honor system has come under intense scrutiny in these pages.
AS MY SWEATY pen scribbled ferociously at a Middle East Institute conference in Washington, D.C., the panel moderator Graeme Bannerman pursed his lips, furrowed his brow, and unleashed a stinging rebuke of U.S.
The Rondout-West Branch tunnel has been leaking since the 1980s, losing some 20 million gallons a day.
Many proponents of the recent offensive in Gaza have perpetuated the view that Israel?s disproportionate response, incurring the deaths of more than 1,300 Palestinians, was justified, that it was because of Hamas that Israel was forced to kill innocent Palestinians.Those who perpetuate this misguided view are blind to the fact that collective punishment is illegal under international law, and that nothing justifies killing innocent civilians.
In the last week, the United States facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has received a great deal of attention from the press.
THE FIVE seconds of awkward silence that tore through the presidential oath of office last Tuesday seemed to have awakened the entire country to the knowledge of grammatical rules that most have never bothered to enforce.
WHEN I was in elementary school, there were two other kids in my class named ?Michelle.? I was thus sulkily resigned to being known as ?Michelle L.,? and I frequently complained to my mother that I wished I could feel as singular and special as the girl who sat in front of me in homeroom, whose name was ?Destiny.? I was infinitely jealous of a family friend?s daughter named ?Starlite,? and I fantasized that I would legally change my name to ?Rose-Dust.? Then, my 10-year-old self thought ruefully, I?d never again have to look around to see if people really meant me when they called out my name.
NEITHER snow nor sleet nor dark of night keeps this University from its appointed rounds.
AS BARACK Obama swore on the Bible and took the Oath of Office on Tuesday, history of a different kind continued to be made across the globe.
THIS MONDAY was a day off from classes in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
On Wednesday, on opposite sides of the South Lawn, pro-Palestine and pro-Israel students demonstrated their fidelity to their respective causes.
OOPS, HE did it again. Staring down at over a million frigid spectators at the Capitol, Barack Obama didn?t deliver a speech for the ages.The usually ebullient president-elect was grim, his face drooping under the weight of the Herculean task that lay ahead.
Anonymous sources are a problem.Some stories could never be told without them.
A FEW WEEKS ago, the University of Virginia was awarded the top spot for public schools in the ?Best Value Colleges for 2009? rankings compiled by The Princeton Review and USA Today.
THROUGHOUT the history of the United States there have been moments of seminal importance, occasions that, when we look back on them, are considered epic in their meaning for the American narrative.
