LAST SPRING, Satellite Ball room?s impending closing produced an outpouring of student grief.
FOR ALL the painstaking deliberation that goes into planning the federal budget, there?s only one side of fiscal policy that voters truly respond to en masse: those nasty little things called taxes.
OCTOBER 10, University President John T. Casteen,
IN 1932, Herbert Hoover lost his reelection bid against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, setting the course of American politics for the next quarter century as Democrats dominated the presidency.
AFTER a scary downward spiral, the economy seems to be looking up, at least for now. Two weeks after the so-called ?bailout? bill passed, the federal government finally decided what to do with the money it had been begging for.
I REMEMBER from my younger days in church that our priest would note the conventional wisdom that rich patrons generally donate less money than those who aren?t so well-off.
UNLIKE most partisan hacks, I don?t go into cardiac arrest when John McCain quizzically wonders who the real Barack Obama is.
IN AN E-MAIL to the University community this week, President John T. Casteen, III discussed the impact of state budget cuts on the University in light of the economic downturn.
THIS SUMMER, the University lost five black faculty members. At the end of this year, three more will be added to that list.
WITH SO much attention focused on domestic issues, one may have been surprised to learn that United States had removed North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states this weekend.
THIS MONDAY, Student Council and the Arts & Sciences Council flooded the University with 1,500 copies of the New York Times and USA Today.
WATCHING the vice presidential debate last Thursday, it seemed obvious to me who delivered the more impressive performance.
ELECTION Day is now less than a month away, and the respective candidates? campaigns have gone into overdrive, registering voters and spending millions on less-than-cordial advertising.
YES, I?M in a fraternity. And yes, that just might be why I don?t know you. Because I came from an all-boys high school with strong ties to the University, I was well versed in what were the ?cool? fraternities on Grounds before I even arrived.
AN EXAMINATION of a college profile listed on the new Web site www.collegeportraits.org tells me information I wish I?d known back in high school.
THREE YEARS ago in these pages, I dismissed ?Green Dining? as nothing more than a green-eyed initiative by the profit-hungry Aramark.
IN A PIECE for ?Good Morning America,? Luke Russert, son of the late journalist Tim Russert, spent time at the University in order to get a feel for the political environment among young people in a swing state prior to November?s election.
THE ENVIRONMENT is hot right now. Besides rising temperatures and melting ice caps, it is now cool ? for lack of a better word ? to be green.
THE RUMORS swirled Thursday night. By Friday morning, it was front-page news: The athletic department?s sign ban had been repealed.
CURRENTLY, the University?s financial situation seems as tenuous as ever given the state of the nation?s economy.
