The Nov. 29 comic Schizophrenic Bosnian depicted a character calling the crane the "gayest-looking of all birds." The Cavalier Daily regrets printing this comic and deeply apologizes to those who were offended.
HERE IS the first sentence of the article, "Casteen names Bruner Darden School dean" (Nov. 17): "President John T.
ON JAN. 2, 2004, a man named Farron Barksdale murdered two officers in Athens, Alabama. Barksdale legally purchased a gun, despite the fact that he had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution at least twice.
IT IS OFTEN said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In that spirit, America should mend fences with Venezuela -- one of our largest oil suppliers -- by emulating its economic and political values.
ONCE AGAIN, the University of Virginia is leading the way towards academic freedom, though this time it is more for the freedom of academics.
NOBODY who earnestly cares about the tradition of honor at the University is excited that College third years Joe Schlingbaum and Lindsay McClung get to graduate with the rest of us and say "I have worn the honors of Honor, I graduated from Virginia." In last week's open trial, both were found to have committed an act of cheating by a jury of their peers.
THERE is a concept in economics called the law of diminishing returns, which states that at a certain level, each successive unit of input increases output at a decreasing rate.
A BEWILDERING message emerged from behind the ominous doors of the Honor Committee this past Sunday.
WHEN SOMEONE says they're hungry, you don't blink. When the statement is placed into the context of the 16 percent of Charlottesville residents living below the poverty line in 2002, one may reconsider what hunger really is.
IN OUR 21st century "enlightened" society, we place more and more emphasis on the burdens of race, gender, class and ethnic background as potential obstacles on the road to success.
WHEN WE consider special education programs for learning-disabled students, bureaucracy is not the first thing that comes to mind.
Matt Waring's Nov. 16 Opinion column, "The dishonor of apathy," claimed that because the jury in the open honor trial voted the accused students violated the honor code for act and intent, the jury believed they knowingly violated the honor code.
OVERSHADOWED by SamuelAlito's nomination to the Supreme Court and continuing debate over the War in Iraq, few have been paying attention to one of the greatest expansions in government programs in recent history.
OUR TUITION dollars may be invested in corporations that do business with Sudan's genocidal government.
LAST TUESDAY, all eyes focused on Virginia's gubernatorial election, which was billed as an indicator of larger political trends in the country.
JOE SCHLINGBAUM and Lindsay McClung, two College third years accused of illicit collaboration in a political theory class, had their day in court on Sunday.
IN THE wake of comments by Harvard University President Larry Summers earlier this year about female professionals in the sciences, questions arise pertaining to the state of enrollment in engineering schools across the country.
FOR MANY American liberals, the grass may seem greener on the other side of the Atlantic -- a land with free health care, few SUVs and even fewer Republicans.
OBVIOUS from the first strains of a band playing thoroughly un-ironic covers of Avril Lavigne songs was the fact that the last week's release party for the University Women Center's Irismagazine wasn't about typical -- or at least not stereotypical -- feminism.
ECHOLS scholars may not be responsible for all of our class selection problems, but when small classes fill up on the first day, the impact of the program becomes clear.
