CONGRATULATIONS to Student Health, as last week the University hosted "Flu Fest," a day-long event to inoculate college students for a wide variety of diseases and keep students up to date on their vaccinations.
IT'S EASY to think of this as one of the more depressing times of the year -- a time when days get colder, nights get longer and desperate fourth years discover that the popular classes they always wanted to take have once again been snatched up by the supposed intellectual übermenschen of Maupin and Webb: the Echols scholars, who are given registration priority and are exempted from area requirements.
CHURCHES, schools and hundreds of cars set ablaze in a single day may seem like something out of Hollywood, but instead, this is the horrifying reality facing France.
AS UNIVERSITY students, we take on multiple identities. We are sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, classmates, teammates and pupils.
EVER SINCE the White House cut its losses, pulled Harriet Miers and nominated Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, embarrassed excuses have abounded.
IF YOU were the owner of a small business that faced open criticism for its ample profits, satisfied customers, ever-expanding facilities and novel approach to sales, how would you respond? At a conference last week, Public Policy Prof.
RICHMOND -- IN A RACE that was thought to be a statistical dead heat up until the time the polls closed, the results proved to be quite surprising -- a sound defeat of the top of the ticket for the Republicans, a victory for the Republican lieutenant governor candidate and a possible recount mess for the attorney general position.
LAST FRIDAY, The Daily Progress reported that a group of students is "working with University Law professors and administrators to craft a change" that will "standardize" University Judiciary Committee sanctions against students found guilty of hate-motivated violations.
LAST THURSDAY, Dr. Jack Gibbons, former science advisor to President Bill Clinton and head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, conducted a talk on the importance of science and technology to Virginia and the gubernatorial election.
THROUGH all the political intrigues and partisan wrangling that have occurred in the gubernatorial election, it's easy to forget that the lives of real people are going to be deeply affected by the outcome of the election on Nov.
PRESIDENT Bush's poll numbers stand at an all-time low, with 55 percent in one recent CNN/Gallup poll having come to the harsh conclusion that his presidency has been a failure.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. Schools from the University of Hawaii to Columbia University have seen controversy flair up over cartoons deemed racist over the last few years.
BEING a progressive in George Bush's America is a daily heartbreak. Caring about social justice, responsible foreign policy, and good government in Tom DeLay and Bill Frist's America means waking up to newspaper headlines each morning to find something else in which you believe under vicious attack.
"ON MY honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment or exam." This simple pledge should be quite familiar to all students, if for no other reason than the fact that it is posted in nearly every academic room in the University.
IMAGINE a single mother working long hours each week at a university, trying to feed her family but making only the minimum wage.
THE ONION once wrote a column in which it reported that certain faith-based organizations were questioning the "theory of gravity," instead favoring a new theory of Intelligent Falling -- that things are pushed down, not by gravitational force per se, but by the invisible hand of a higher intelligence.
THE UNIVERSITY just concluded its "Flu Fest" yesterday, but disease experts worldwide are in anything but a partying mood.
DESPITE arguments otherwise, a Supreme Court nominee is the closest our country gets to an appointed politician, and political influence should play a crucial role in a confirmation vote among qualifications and a record by which to judge the nominee.
LAST WEEK, U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hasert, R-Ill., proposed further slashing of funding for Head Start, the early education initiative widely proclaimed to be one of the federal government's most successful programs.
