LAST FRIDAY while I sat in University Hall for Fall Convocation, I couldn't help but wonder: why am I here?
COLLEGE for profit -- what could possibly go wrong? In recent years, for-profit universities have sprung up across the nation and even on the Internet, adding the fun of profit to the joy of learning.
ON OCT. 12, The Cavalier Daily published the lead editorial entitled, "A Stalled Student Council." While we'd like to respond to every point raised in the Managing Board's editorial, there are simply too many errors and inconsistencies to address each and every one: Therefore, we will focus on the key assertion that Student Council, thus far, has been ineffective. Firstly, Council's main objective is "to protect and improve the rights, opportunities and quality of life of every student." We envision a Council that is fully transparent and competent to address student concerns.
SEVERAL weeks ago, the University experienced a spate of offensive protesting on Grounds. The Woroniecki family hurled offensive epithets at passing students as they sought converts to their brand of evangelical Christianity, while the next day Life and Liberty Ministries displayed gruesome photographs of aborted fetuses as part of their anti-abortion propaganda effort.
IT IS NOT very often that the University Transit System takes part in a worldwide political movement.
NEWSPAPER corrections are a good thing and a bad thing. Too many are a bad thing, but because of human error there are at least a limited number of the embarrassing notes that will have to run.
A POX ON the house of the next pundit who calls Harriet Miers "Souter in a skirt," or the next Bushie who claims that opposing W's nominee is sexism.
READERS and I share a little secret that reporters don't want to hear: Most people, surveys show, don't read past the headline of news articles.
BRAVO, well done! Of the pitifully anemic 8.5 percent of undergraduates who voted in the student elections last week, 87 percent elected to condemn the horrific genocide occurring in western Sudan.
THE VIRGINIA governor's race is slowly starting to heat up between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore, as both candidates recently have spoken up on their views of the death penalty.
AT LONG last, Family Weekend is upon us, which means parents and families descending on Charlottesville en masse and, for some students, their first reunion with relatives since the start of the semester.
ROME WASN'T built in a day. Nor, we can now say, was the new Iraqi government. But having successfully drafted a referendum and having conducted a second national election, the Iraqi people are moving closer and closer to an independent democracy.
WHEN UNIVERSITIES first began wiring dormitories with Ethernet, it was widely assumed that expanding students' opportunities to access the Internet would be beneficial to their educations, enabling them to conduct research and complete assignments more efficiently.
IF YOU haven't noticed from the "mad-lib" like red shirt floating around Grounds reading "I Love My ________,"it is Love Your Body Week sponsored by the U.Va.
CALIFORNIA recently passed legislation that bans shackling female prisoners during labor and delivery.
WHILE many University students thoroughly enjoyed the Rolling Stones concert a few weeks ago, some were caught in an unfortunate bind -- Thursday night classes.
WE ARE all familiar with the history of western civilization. The Greeks invented democracy, and possibly reason itself.
SEVENTY-TWO percent of American college and university faculty describe themselves as liberals. This, according to a recent study in the political science journal "The Forum." Meanwhile, the campaignmoney.com Web site shows that professors have contributed more than 10 times as much money to Democrats as to Republicans over the past six years.
IN ADDITION to the blinding panic that comes with impending graduation, fourth years who hope to attend graduate school must add the Graduate Record Examination to their list of headaches.
THE U.S. House of Representatives is currently giving consideration to a resolution with great implications for both the University and the world of higher education.
