THE MELTING of the polar ice caps, the rise of sea levels and massive flooding covering nations across the globe?
STEVE Gilday is a victim on several levels. First, he is a victim of his own poor judgment, which led him to falsify an academic document (albeit not for the purpose of cheating) and then to lie about it under pressure from a professor.
AS A precocious elementary school boy, I remember when bathroom stalls were forums of forbidden romance.
IT IS an unfortunate fact that formany students at the University, honor is virtually synonymous with the single sanction.
LAST MONDAY, the Muslim Students Association kicked off their awareness week, nobly attempting to bring light on the completely misunderstood religion of Islam.Unfortunately, misconceptions and ignorant interpretations pervasively characterize a ubiquitous but accepted Islamophobia in the western world.
WHEN YOUNG women plan their futures, they often expect that they can balance the career of their dreams with a satisfying family life.
THE JURY is in on the merits and demerits of the single sanction, and it remains the best sanctioning system for the University's Honor System. For the past semester and a half, the Honor Committee's ad-hoc committee for investigating the single sanction has been studying student surveys and trial jury data to attempt to address many of the concerns commonly raised about the sanction.
IMAGINE an upper-middle class home in the Victorian era. The woman and the man have their separate spheres: The woman manages domestic life, ensuring the draperies are not faded and the food does not become cool before the man sits down at the table.
EARLIER this month, Virginia's General Assembly passed HB 1478, which would require public colleges and universities in the Commonwealth to develop guidelines to combat the rising cost of textbooks.
THE DEATH of visiting 19-year-old Cornell student Matthew Pearlstone last week is endemic of the growing problem of alcohol abuse across college campuses.
THE WORDS "Raise awareness" are two of my least favorite words in a newspaper. Why? Besides the fact that the phrase is jargon, the words are usually used in an article about an event, protest or movement too short to do anything toward raising awareness, too short to educate. Sarah Hasan, publicity chair of the Muslim Student Association, told The Cavalier Daily that by bringing a prominent imam to campus, her group wanted to raise awareness about Muslim issues ("Imam addresses Islam and the media," March 21). While the people who attended the event likely learned something, I'm sure Hasan would have wished the enlightenment continued onto the pages of the newspaper, available to those who did not come. Unfortunately, that article and another about Islam that appeared Tuesday missed a chance to educate readers, if only ever so slightly more. Newspapers can be a great educational tool, and that service is one of the reasons I want to be a part of this profession.
MONDAY marked the third anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq. The event gives the United States an occasion to reflect on the progress made so far.
NOTHING reflects a person's priorities and character more than where he spends his money. A wise and responsible parent will invest money in his or her children's education, while a reckless bourgeois suburban wife prides herself on the black Hummer that protects her from the perils of the local Talbots.
THE UNIVERSITY boasts of its highest graduation rate for black students and its tolerance for gay and lesbian students.
AT A computer resource session during last summer's orientation, one parent shyly raised her hand to ask about the national college craze commonly known as The Facebook.
THE BALANCE between respecting individual rights and restricting them for the sake of security is a dangerous tightrope that every government must walk.
GEORGE W. Bush consciously misled Congress and the public during the propaganda campaign preceding the war against Iraq, Pentagon and CIA veterans told a University audience last Monday.
OLD DORMS vs. New Dorms: the age-old quintessential University debate that hits incoming first-year students head on when they have to check off "Alderman" or "McCormick" on the housing form.
Last weekend, scores of acclaimed secondary school seniors visited the University, vying for a prestigious Jefferson Scholarship.
THE UNIVERSITY has dealt with its fair share of protests and controversies in the past couple of weeks -- from the living wage controversy to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy -- because of groups working to raise awareness in colleges.
