EVERY TIME I walk down the Lawn I'm subjected to the popular cause of the week. Last semester, Lawnies covered their doors with posters telling any passersby what was okay and what was not okay to think about race.
"GAY? FINE by Me" is not fine. The term "gay" is neither inclusive nor representative of the diverse sexual orientations and gender identities that make up what we commonly call the "queer community" at the University.
ONE NEED only an overview of classical history to know that sexual violence against women is not new.
IN TODAY'S world, being an activist for queer rights means you have to settle. It's a constant struggle between holding out for what's right versus achieving the politically attainable.
AS A Yankee from Pittsburgh, when I first started looking at colleges I didn't even know what UVA and VT stood for, much less the history of their long and storied rivalry.
WHILE YOU were watching Access Hollywood, I was watching Ralph Nader. Yes, that old warhorse of the left brought his act to Charlottesville last Thursday, delivering his new lecture, "While You Were Watching 'Big Brother,' Big Brother Was Watching You," to a full house at Old Cabell Hall.
AS A true credit to the YouTube generation, the video of Bill O'Reilly's recent temper tantrum has spread about the internet.
WHEN THOMAS Jefferson designed the University, he placed a library at the very center. This symbolic move demonstrates the important place libraries have to the University as a whole.
THE AGE-OLD debate about women in the workplace was discussed last Thursday, as the University Career Services hosted a discussion on the topic of women in law.
WHAT CONSTITUTES the need for police intervention? Hostage situations? Drive-by shootings? Armed robbery?
BOTH "STALLSMO" and "Max-um," the March 2007 gender-specific installments of the Stall Seat Journal, consist of 6-question sex quizzes along the lines of (obviously) Cosmopolitan and Maxim magazines.
IT IS the one Supreme Court case with which all high school students should be familiar
A TEENAGER who did not want to become a parent was sentenced last week to more than six years in prison for attempting to avoid it by arranging the termination of a pregnancy, The Associated Press reported.
THE PROLIFERATION of computers in modern society is a double-edged sword. Quick, convenient access to outside information also means that anyone can quickly and easily get into your own personal data.
EARLIER this year, the University decided to amend the privileges given to Echols scholars, beginning with the Class of 2011.
THE DRUG prohibition causes crime," proclaims Jerry Cameron to a room filled with rapt libertarians.
ACCORDING TO U.S. News & World Report, the University of Virginia School of Law is the 10th best law school in the nation.
RECENT suggestions that the Living Wage Campaign is dying seem based upon the amount of coverage the Campaign has received in The Cavalier Daily, rather than upon the actual activities of the movement.
IT IS hard to remember a recent University decision that has galvanized such widespread student opposition as the recent news that Vice President for Development and Public Affairs Robert Sweeney might be chosen for residence in Pavilion VI.
IMAGINE carrying your bookshelf, mailbox, newspapers and a board game or two to class with your every day.
