LATE LAST weekend, the University community heard rumors of an alleged abduction of a student by individuals who pulled him into a vehicle, took his money and phone, and left him somewhere in Albemarle County.
DROOPY eyed and disheveled, I prepared for a class-long struggle to stay awake through my Western European politics lecture last Monday.
WHEN WE think of the death penalty, most of us think capital punishment is only used in a very limited range, against those who have taken another human life.
WHEN IT comes to national and international coverage, The Cavalier Daily cannot substitute for a newspaper that employs national and international correspondents.
YESTERDAY hordes of admitted high school seniors and their overly enthusiastic parents obstructed sidewalks, clogged dining halls dishing out artery-clogging food and formed tours that tormented anyone walking to class.
THE HONOR Committee is locked in an endless cycle of self-destruction. Governed by students, a large majority of those whom come to the Committee completely new for one-year terms, the Committee has virtually no institutional memory and is destined to make the same mistakes repeatedly.
IN ANCIENT Greece, the Oracle at Delphi was known for the ability to predict the future; at the entrance to the Delphic temple read a simple inscription: Know thyself.
CHOICE is a double-edged sword. In a university setting, students are supposed to be free to make their own choices and learn from their mistakes.
AS SECOND semester begins to wind down, first-year engineering students enrolled in the Science, Technology, and Society 101 course are beginning work on "Katrinasim." Katrinasim is a culminating project that engages students with a real-world example of the effect of technology on society, and vice-versa.
THINK back to elementary school for a moment: What was your third grade teacher's name? How about second grade?
WHEN YOU were a kid, how many times did your parents remind you that money doesn't grow on trees?
IN RECENT weeks, the University has exhibited a disturbing trend of measures and ideas that provide benefits to small numbers of students while curtailing or interfering with the rights of other students.
VIRGINIA has a long history of denying its citizens the right to vote. Today, there are still more than 300,000 disenfranchised men and women in this state, whose entire adult population in the 2000 census was about 5.6 million.
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THE RESIDENCE Life Office recently announced that incoming first-year students will no longer be allowed to specify a preference between Alderman and McCormick Road residence halls.
I WENT to the Take Back the Night Rally for the first time my second year. It didn't really affect me.
SOMETIMES, very subtle things perpetuate stereotypes and promote prejudices. About eight years ago, for a course on the civil rights movement, I looked at the original local coverage of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott.
"CHINA has blocked all media on Tibet. Come hear the other side of the story", read the bright orange flyers stapled on the walls around Cabell Hall last week.
ASPIRING Cavaliers recently received the University's admissions decisions for the Class of 2012.
WITH THE exception of the Tibetan and Han people (and a few foreign travelers) living in Lhasa, nobody really knows what actually happened on March 14, when the so-called peaceful demonstration turned out to be violent.
