IN ERROL Morris' documentary, "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara," the first and perhaps most important lesson was to empathize with your enemy.
C'VILLE Weekly's front page this past week featured a picture of Jon Stewart with the headline "IS THIS MAN KILLING DEMOCRACY?" The article went on to explain that researchers at East Carolina University had studied and documented a phenomenon known as "The Daily Show Effect." Exposure to the show, according to the study, causes college-aged individuals to be more likely to have negative perceptions of candidates and to be cynical about politics in general, thereby possibly decreasing their involvement in politics.
DEAN of African-American Affairs Rick Turner's surprise retirement is an embarrassment to the University, but offers two important opportunities for the Office of African-American Affairs.
HERE YOU are, a student at one of the greatest universities in the country, in a town steeped in tradition and Southern charm.
GEORGE Allen has put himself in a messy situation, as many political pundits, and YouTube viewers know.
THE UNIVERSITY'S East Asian Studies Program and its interdisciplinary East Asia Center provide students with a vast array of academic courses, useful resources on grant programs, and interesting study abroad offers.
AS MORE and more studies conclude that Americans are being passed by better educated foreigners, higher education is being placed under the microscope.
Former Dean of African-American Affairs, M. Rick Turner, as usual, got a free pass from the University of Virginia, which has closed the investigation into his agreement to testify for the U.S.
WE WERE somewhere around the 1970s on the edge of the Acid Wave when the drug war began to take hold.
ON WEDNESDAY, President Bush vetoed a bill that would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, claiming that "murder" is wrong and that the lives of embryos should not be sacrificed for a chance to develop life-saving cures for a number of deadly diseases.
THE BUSH Administration may be trigger happy in its foreign policy, but it cravenly shrinks away from scientific progress. On July 19, President George W.
AS I sat at the reception desk answering incoming calls and recording the views of constituents for Sen.
THE ALMOST uncontrollable smirk plastered on President Bush's face as he stood before a Republican audience last week was roughly akin to that of a man who has been wasting his money on the lottery for years and has finally gotten his hands on a winning ticket.
WITH THE summer well under way, I can't help but think back to the summer before my first year. Amid all the nervousness and excitement a few things get lost, namely students' volunteer efforts.
The Supreme Court is in the midst of one of the hottest environmental debates now ongoing -- and sadly, it's only going to get hotter.
UNIVERSITY President John T. Casteen, III is upset about the Living Wage Campaign, and thinks he can lie his way out of the issue. That conduct isn't relevant to the Campaign except inasmuch as it has to do with securing the future of the University and its most neglected members, as numerous economic studies have shown a "living wage" would (theoretical economic objections notwithstanding). But a university president undermines his own position as an educator when his example teaches that deception and slander are okay as long as they serve your self-interest. That is the lesson of his recent open letter in the Alumni Association's University of Virginia Magazine, where he makes so many untrue claims that there's simply not space to fully go into them here.
FEW WORDS in poltics today are bandied about with less meaning than "fiscal responsibility." The catchphrase has been used to justify just about everything from deficit spending to drastic cuts in social services.
This past week the United States Senate came within one vote of approving the 28 amendment to the Constitution and passing it along for state ratification.
ON SEPT. 20, 2001 President Bush declared, "Afghanistan's people have been brutalized -- many are starving and many have fled.
BECAUSE of the great promise of equal opportunity, immigrants have flooded our shores and borders ever since the ink dried on the Constitution.
