OVER THE past 18 months, the Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee has been examining issues of honor at the University.
AMONG the bitter jeremiads and bubbling jeroboams of champagne pouring forth from the respective ranks of liberals and conservatives this month, political pundits have re-focused the national spotlight on the so-called "religious right." Many of these pundits have attributed President Bush's election success to the strong turnout of evangelical Christian voters, who were spurred on by social issues to support the Republican Party at the polls.
IN THE past year, I have tried to be very vocal about this issue, and to many of you, it comes as no surprise when I write here that I believe the single sanction is wrong.
AS I stood in a circle with the other members of my new suite during fall orientation, it appeared as though the University's promises about diversity were true.
AS UNIONIZATION rates decline, as the percentage of uninsured Americans rises and as we colonize Iraq, it is appropriate to seek the origins of these seemingly disparate phenomena.I suggest that they are the direct and predictable result of an economic system created and maintained for the benefit of the plutocrats. Classical economics fails us as a society because it promotes a fraudulent ideology at the expense of human welfare.
IT IS commonly thought that politics and religion are topics too controversial to be discussed in polite company.
ONE OF the best reasons for voting for President Bush this fall slipped quietly under the radar. In his convention speech, Bush promised, "I will lead a bipartisan effort to reform the tax code." Bush offered few details to what he would do with tax reform, understandably.
LAST WEEK, the Albemarle Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) voted 3-1 against Charlottesville-area residents concerned about the location of the new Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge (PPBR) facility in a residential neighborhood on Hydraulic Road, near Albemarle High School and neighboring elementary and middle schools.
PLANNED Parenthood is a national, non-profit organization with over 850 health centers across the United States that help individuals and couples plan parenthood.
TWO WEEKS ago, the Miller Center hosted a forum to evaluate the progress of the goals set forth by governors in the 1989 Education Summit convened by former President George H.
AS I have written before, the University community is at a turning point where it must re-conceive its notion of a public institution.
YOU KNOW someone who has been raped. Statistically, it's true: one in four college women have been subject to completed or attempted rape.
IT'S THAT time again -- time to register for classes. Which means, it's also time for another opinion column bemoaning priority registration for Echols scholars. This week many of my fellow fourth years have probably watched as that one class -- a seminar, perhaps, or a small, popular upper-level class or even a class needed for graduation -- was filled within the first few hours of registration.
AS THE only surviving feature from the honor system's inception in 1842, the single sanction remains today as an exceptionally high standard of academic integrity largely unique to the University.
HALF A century after the great Civil Rights Movement began breaking down barriers in American society, the struggle for racial equality and harmony has turned into a travesty.
BLUE STATE or red? Gay or straight? Black or white? Our culture is today more focused than ever on identity.
HE WAS responsible for and complicit in the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians over the past 40 years.
DIVERSITY. This word immediately emits a sound of exasperation and an accompanied eye roll with the comment, "Are we talking about this again?" Whether it is frustration due to the lack of progress, or whether it is an apathetic annoyance to this issue, diversity always generates some kind of response.
IT'S BECOME a matter of course for liberals, particularly unabashedly blue-state liberals, to lament one of the greatest ironies of this election: that in an election framed by the GOP to be about the dual threats of terrorism and gay marriage, those areas most threatened by both voted overwhelmingly against the president.
THIS YEAR, the University's Athletic Department has adopted a new policy for student attendance at basketball games.Under the new system, students can request seats at basketball games and have a spot guaranteed when they arrive.
