WHEN GOVERNMENT officials misbehave, the media should report on it. This is a no-brainer. However, when our beloved Fourth Estate decides to cover one side of the story, instead of seeking out all the facts, it moves from being a news dissemination business to a propaganda spin machine.
AS I WAS enjoying the beautiful weather last Sunday, it was the simple click of a link that brought down the proverbial rain on my day.
THE NATIONAL Cherry Blossom Festival came to a head in Washington, D.C. this weekend with the blooming of the trees surrounding the Tidal Basin.
LAST WEEK marked a week of awareness for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence with Take Back the Night programs at the University.
IN 2003, the Supreme Court upheld but restricted the University of Michigan's use of race-based affirmative action.
PUBLIC relations and journalism are intertwined in today's capitalist-driven media industry. Media products, like newspapers, rely on paid advertisements for financial support.
AFTER 24 years of service to the 57th District, Del. Mitch Van Yahres, D-Charlottesville, is retiring.
WARREN, Burger, Rehnquist -- just three men representing fifty-three years of jurisprudence while over the same time span ten men have filled the Oval Office.
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.
