THE COLLEGE student had a yellow sticky note on his back. It had been patted there by a friend, or possibly an enemy, as a joke.
LOOKING around Grounds it is clear that the University is alive with conservative traditions. Every semester eager students flock to the University in droves.
ALONG with a Democratic victory in the Houseand Senate,the November elections also enacted a host of controversial ballot referendums.
IN THE honor system's 160 year history, no generation of University students has ever said it could no longer meet the high standard set by the single sanction.
THEY'RE called invisible children. They run without shoes -- terrified, tired and often alone -- every evening at dusk as the sky turns bloody red to Gulu, the main town located near the Sudanese border in Northern Uganda.
RUSHING the court is pointless. Plain and simple. As the men's basketball game against Arizona came to a close last week, the excitement built as people started to realize that we had a fighting chance to with the game and upset the number 10 team in the country.
IN 1966, H.B. Stewart referred to the sea as man's "last great relativelyuntapped resource on earth." This ever-declining resource will soon disappear, however, if over-fishing and other human impacts continue at their current pace.
REMEMBER back in 2003, when Americans learned about the horrible events that transpired at the Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq?
WHILE Democratics were wiping the champagne from their lips this past week, conservatives scored two huge victories, one in Virginia and one in Michigan.
THE DEBATE on the single sanction is over. The arguments for and against change have been exhausted, and any concerned student knows how he or she feels about the matter.
WITH SO many Americans becoming increasingly overweight, Virginia has decided to bring out the big guns in the war on obesity.
THIS WEEK, the College of Arts and Sciences learned it will be losing one of its most valued members: Dean Ed Ayers.
NOW THAT control of Congress has passed to the Democrats, many think Washington is poised for endless debate and gridlock.
THERE'S been a lot of fuss recently in this paperabout sexual assault. Many college men, obviously sympathetic to the issue, argue that although women are not to blame for rape, there are precautions that can be taken to make these "unwanted situations" less likely.
DICED carrots, rutabaga, celery and onion can be the beginning of something good to eat. Just add some crushed tomatoes, peas, green beans, barley, pasta, water, chicken and beef bouillon cubes and cornstarch -- and heat.
THE TERM sexual assault carries with it connotations making it very hard to discuss, if for no other reason because people think they know what it means.
A COLLEGE education is important. Parents and guidance counselors say that, but more importantly, income statistics do.
PEOPLE today have become accustomed to the perpetual prodding of televangelist from celebrities. You might hear on television a preacher scream to his congregation that homosexuality is a sin.
IT IS hard not to notice, and even harder not to inhale, the cloud of smoke we students have to pass through to enter university buildings and attend classes, at least at one time or another.
HAVING watched television coverage of the midterm elections, and solicited comments from my partisan friends, I gather that Democrats seem pleased with the election results.
