The Arts and Sciences Council is raising its fee for students in the College of Arts and Sciences from four dollars to $10 over three years.
AS HE watched Tim Kaine and Jerry Kilgore duke it out in last week's gubernatorial debate, Independent candidate Sen.
AS WE go about our business, a pandemic that threatens to kill millions is gathering steam. As we speak, scientists are crying Cassandra about the bird flu and the growing threat of a worldwide pandemic.
THE ENTIRE premise of "freedom of speech" is that there is no absolute truth, no absolute orthodoxy.
DO THE math on 87 percent of 8.5 percent of the undergraduate body. It's no mandate. Public opinion is fickle, and student referenda in fall elections carry very little weight.
WITH TWO consecutive losses to ACC rivals, criticism of Virginia's football coach Al Groh has become quite common.
THE UNITED States House of Representatives is scheduled later this term to consider authorizing a so-called "Academic Bill of Rights," a bill that the creators believe will force additional amounts of time and funding to be spent in universities to represent "pluralism." Additionally, the bill would have professors appeal to a wide variety of methodologies among differing viewpoints, according to the Students for Academic Freedom Web site.
THIS PAST weekend I was schooled in the art of being profoundly shamed by another university's newspaper.
IMAGINE walking by a flyer threatening the lives of you and your family if you were to vote. As you are reading it, in the distance you hear an explosion and horrifying screams.
THE UNIVERSITY of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's decision last week to raise its standards regarding steroid use within its athletic programs recognizes the necessity of a single sanction response to athletic dishonesty.
LAST WEEK, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales all voiced vehement opposition to a measure passed by the Senate that would clarify the country's standards for interrogating detainees and ban the use of "cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment" of prisoners held in custody by the U.S.
IN RELATION to the lead editorial "Referendum Ridiculousness" published on Oct. 5, we think that the intent of the initiatives that Pavan Gupta and Rami Samo led should not be undermined.
ALTHOUGH illegal immigration has only recentlybecome an issue in the Virginia governor's race, it has long been simmering across the country.
IN A TUESDAY article about escalating violence in Baghdad's Green Zone, The New York Times continued to use the term "insurgent" to describe individuals who resist the U.S.
THERE IS a growing trend in our fast-paced world to look for an immediate fix to a problem rather than to address its long-term causes.
IN THE last week of September, Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and David Vitter (R-LA) proposed Senate bills 1765 and 1766, both ostensibly designed to provide an expansive long-term response to the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
THE IDEA of reading during the fall semester "Reading Holiday" is frequently scoffed at by students, who instead label the long weekend "Fall Break." Although most students can attest that very little reading gets accomplished, the extra day off is a welcome break before the impending stress of midterms.
THERE are people out there who, unfortunately, will do or say almost anything to get attention. Think of the countless reality shows on TV where people will eat bugs, or hurt or humiliate themselves just for the chance for the spotlight. The same is true for groups and people who want media attention.
"WAIT, WHAT happened?" This was the response of most students and many others last February when the administration released, seemingly out of the blue, an academic calendar with some substantial alterations.
THE nomination process of Chief Justice John Roberts purportedly taught the nation the supremacy of qualifications and a commitment to neutral principles of constitutional interpretation over a judge's personal political opinions.
