FOR US political junkies, there is no state quite like Virginia. It is a rare place in America that never has an off year in politics.
IT SEEMS the Rock the Vote people have decided to make it their perpetual task to take something old and decrepit and pass it off as cool to America's youth.
JUST WHEN you thought the practice of collegiate branding had been forever buried in the dingy frat-house basements of the past, our Board of Visitors has brought it back.
FROM THE abandoned factories of the American rustbelt to the neglected fields of the developing world's unemployed farmers, globalization's losers are clearly on display.
THE MANAGING Board usually uses its lead editorials on the Opinion page to, well, express an opinion. The Board found a different purpose for its editorials on Monday, instead introducing readers to a series of news articles ("A series on sexual assault," April 4) and a new type of columnist ("Contributors," April 4). Both features have so far proven themselves worthy of the special attention the board devoted to them. The series The four-part series of articles, which ran Monday through Thursday, documented one former student's experience of accusing a fellow student of sexual assault.
LIKE ALL successful institutions, great universities must have distinctive identities. Harvard and Yale have their Ivy League pedigrees; Berkeley has its counterculture past; North Carolina and Duke have their great basketball teams.
IT'S THAT time of year again. The COD has been posted and happy little Hoos are flocking to their computers and picking out their choices for next semester.
HAVING secured the presidency, the legislature and the corporate media, the Republicans have focused their wrath on our nation's judiciary, the last bastion of reason and restraint that stands between right wing crazies and happy fascist fun land. The latest attack comes from Sen.
AMERICANS think a woman president would be stronger on foreign policy than a man by a ratio of about two-to-one.
THE UNIVERSITY is rife with paradoxes, not the least of which is its policy on e-mail. Before every first year arrives at the University, he or she has almost always completed the administration's test on the "Responsible Computing Handbook for Students" and so received his or her e-mail account.
THIS MONDAY marked the beginning of the University's annual Take Back the Night week, a series of events climaxing tonight with a vigil at 8 p.m.
MANY OF us, myself included, frequently rail on corrupt politicians. We've all heard pundits and investigative reporters recount backroom deals, scandalous behavior, nepotistic practices and cutthroat desperate measures executed by ruthless, blood-sucking government officials.
AMONG other progressive leaders in Congress, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a top advocate for a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing the need for abortions by putting "prevention first." She was recently criticized by Tony Perkins of the conservative Family Research Council.
IT'S FUN to watch Democrats play make-believe. With the end of the 2004 election, many people had been suffering withdrawal from regular doses of liberal duplicity.
IN THE upcoming gubernatorial election, we Virginians will choose between two starkly different candidates, one who will continue to provide fiscally responsible leadership, and the other who will wreak the state's budget for short term political gain.
MODERN American newspapers adhere to a sacrosanct division between the news and opinion sections.
ON FRIDAY, the Collegiate Network issued its CampusOutrage Awards, given out each year for the most ridiculous instances of political correctness at colleges and universities across the country.
TAKE A deep breath and prepare yourself, because what I'm about to tell you may shock you: College students have sex.
NEARLY half of all women in the United States between the ages of fifteen and forty-four have experienced at least one unplanned pregnancy in their lifetime.
EVERY newspaper, from the community weekly to The New York Times, covers a set of newsmakers whose names appear frequently in its pages. These newsmakers are the government leaders, community activists and local celebrities whom everyone recognizes.
