LAST MONTH the precious legal doctrine known as the "hate crime" officially got out of control. Two eighteen-year-old New York youths were charged with "second-degree assault as a hate crime" after they jumped out of a car, yelled "Hey Satan!" to a self-proclaimed Satanist wearing black clothes and an upside-down crucifix and proceeded to beat him with a club and an ice scraper.
LAST WEEK saw the University's Peer Health Educators tabling and flyering central Grounds for "Sexual Responsibility Week," handing out condoms and engaging students in a dialogue about safer sex.
RECENTLY, there has been a lot of talk coming from President Bush about building an "ownership society." While this slogan has been used to characterize a number of his proposals, it has been especially prominent in regards to his suggestions to partially privatize Social Security.
THE VIRGINIA General Assembly got a lot of attention from The Cavalier Daily's News staff last week. Every issue of the newspaper except Thursday's contained an article on something happening in Richmond.
IN RECENT years, law schools, often regarded in our society as bastions of elite privilege and conformity, have (if we take them at their word) transformed themselves into "expressive institutions" dedicated to advancing progressive political causes.
AFTER working at a national bagel chain restaurant for two years while in high school, my girlfriend received a lower hourly wage than newly hired males.
AS ELECTED reresentatives of the Law School's student body, we would like to respond to the lead editorial "Uniformity in elections" (Feb.
THIS TUESDAY, fifteen-year-old Christopher Pittman was found guilty on two counts of murder and sentenced to up to thirty years in a South Carolina prison.
THE BUZZWORDS "war on terrorism" have invaded our TVs, newspapers, blogs and radios. But many people may not be familiar with a relatively obscure form of terrorism, one that is not propagated by Al-Qaeda or Hamas, but by loosely-organized domestic groups.
SOCIETY perpetuates wealth disparities.To achieve success, it helps to have successful parents. For undergraduate students, money opens up opportunities that poorer students cannot afford.
EARLIER this February, Office of African-American Affairs Dean M. Rick Turner kicked off Black History Month with a scathing critique that whites in Charlottesville won't "do anything for black folks." At the same time, the Iota Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. made history by leaving the Black Fraternity Council for the nonracial Inter-Fraternity Council.
"THE VAGINAMonologues" expresses the ecstasy of a human existence without the false separation of love from sexuality.
THE RECENT move of theAlpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,Inc. from the Black Fraternal Council to the Inter-Fraternity Council has kindled much debate on Grounds.
PROFESSOR Ward Churchill, until recently the chairman of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, came under fire this month for spouting some grotesquely insipid remarks about America's relationship to terrorism.
On Saturday a friend and I set out for the primetime performance of The Vagina Monologues in Old Cabell Hall.
ONE OF the many differences between the former Soviet Union and the University'sStudent Council occurs on the subject of voting transparency.
IN RESPONSE to the closing statements of the Thursday, Feb. 10 lead editorial entitled "Moderate racial rhetoric" I would like to offer a broader perspective on the issue of race relations at the University and the way that race is handled by the Dean of African-American Affairs, M.
AS MUCH as certain critics complain about the pervasiveness of multicultural programs at the University, it seems as though a student could easily forget that February is Black History Month.
The media use certain news values to determine what makes an event worth reporting. The proximity of an event to a media outlet, the event's impact on the audience, whether a conflict exists or even whether something odd happened all affect the media's decision on what to report. One of the most important news values is timeliness.
ANYONE who has ever watched a stubborn child attempt to climb up a downward escalator knows how pathetic the sight of an individual struggling vainly against progress can be.
