WHILE Congress is consumed with such pressing matters as the use of steroids in Major League Baseball, an economic crisis looms on the horizon that could dwarf any that this world has seen since the Great Depression.
THERE are numbers that do not need to be spoken for. Like two. As in the number of minutes that pass before a woman somewhere is sexually assaulted. Or one in five.
AS A particularly exciting NCAA tournament winds to its conclusion, much noise is being made about the graduation rates of men's basketball players. As it has for the past few years, the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports released its "Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2005 NCAA Men's and Women's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams," which, as in past years, shows what seem to be shockingly low graduation rates, including eight percent of basketball players for Michigan State and zero percent for LSU.
"SMOKING or non-smoking?" The question that we've all heard countless times in restaurants and hotels may soon be a thing of the past.
AFTER a semester's worth of collaboration and effort, a new set of sexual assault procedures have been released.
CONGRATULATIONS to the students of the Living Wage Coalition at Georgetown University, who successfully shamed the administration into granting a raise and new benefits to Georgetown staff members.
NEWS FLASH: Abortion clinics ignore rape. What may seem like a cruel irony is a bleak reality, and the actions taken by the abortion clinics in response to these charges are even more preposterous.
IN LIGHT of new technologies and interdepedent economies, there are global problems which transcend borders.
AMIDST all th attention given to Terri Schiavo, it was easy last week to overlook America's second deadliest school shooting in its history.
COLUMBINE was senseless. In the aftermath of the Littleton, Colorado school shooting in 1999, as this country searched for answers in the music, the gun laws and the violent video games, everyone seemed to agree that it was all so senseless.
EVERY TIME I hear someone around Grounds speaking an unfamiliar language, I'm thankful that the University truly is an international institution.
When I accepted this job last summer, then-Editor-in-Chief Chris Wilson told me I was free to tackle almost any subject related to The Cavalier Daily.
A WEEK ago today, President John T. Casteen III delivered a riveting rendition of his annual State of the University Address.
THE IMAGE of President George W. Bush emerging as a strong wartime leader after the Sept. 11 attacks remains an integral part of the self-image of the Republican Party.
THE UNIVERSITY'S revised sexual assault policies, released last week, demonstrate a substantial and necessary change from previous policy, with an increased focus on the prevention of sexual offenses while providing adequate protection and support for the victims of sexual assault.
SOCIAL SECURITY is the biggest monetary crisis facing our country. It will be completely bankrupt by the time the current youngest working generation retires, because people are living longer, retiring earlier and there is a shrinking base from which to fund the program.
THERE are some days when I would enjoy traveling to New York City and personally beating up members of the mainstream media.
WHILE WE students were on Spring Break, many of us found ourselves drawn in on Friday, March 11 to the story of Brian Nichols.
DAVID Horowitz, the dean of conservative campus paranoia, is having a rough month. First, the right-wing activist's latest attempt to expose the left wing conspiracy was received with gleeful ridicule throughout the blogosphere.
ON WEDNESDAY evenings, while most are busy studying or watching "The West Wing," a few University students volunteer at the Charlottesville Adult Learning Center's English as a Second Language Program.
