Inauguration tradition
By Isaac Wood | January 26, 2009NEITHER snow nor sleet nor dark of night keeps this University from its appointed rounds.
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.
ACCORDING to a news report on Monday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez believes that President-elect Barack Obama befouls his nostrils with the same ?stench? as did outgoing President George Bush.
SIXTY years of displacement, 40 years of occupation, and 1.5 years under siege.
CONVERSATIONS about race and racism abound in today?s society, having become especially trendy after President-elect Barack Obama?s historic presidential run and his election in November.
Yesterday?s article ?Overkill in Gaza? was not written by Najwa Doughman, as the article originally stated.
IN 1983, the University athletic department debuted the ?Hoo.
THE ISRAELI Defense Force?s Operation Cast Lead lasted three weeks.
ONE OF the most important questions of modernity is the same one asked for centuries: Where is peace in the Middle East?
THE VIRGINIA General Assembly convened for the first time this year on Jan.
MUCH HAS been made of the excitement surrounding Barack Obama?s presidential inauguration this approaching Tuesday.
WOULD it make sense for Student Council?s budget to be approved by a referendum of the entire student body?
IT?S A NEW year, a new semester and, in less than a week, a new presidential administration will take office.
SEVEN YEARS ago, President-elect Obama vilified the Iraq war as the kind of dumb, rash war he would oppose.