BOSTON -- SPORTING two world championship teams, Bostonians are walking around with a bit of a swagger in their step these days.
IT SOMETIMES feels like this campaign has gone on for hundreds of years. Granted, this campaign has gone on for years, so this feeling is not entirely without just cause.
TOMORROW, our great nation will choose as its president one of two politicians who are remarkable only for the uninspiring pallor of sub-mediocrity that both of them exude.
FOR THOSE who haven't heard, the 2004 election takes place tomorrow. The campaigns, especially the presidential campaigns, have received scant attention from the media and have been conducted in a civilized way that has raised the level of political discourse in the country.
THIS ELECTORAL cycle has brought the issue of values to the forefront of the American political consciousness. Although the nation's focus on values has become an useful tool for political operatives on both the left and the right, it is hurting the American people.
THE ONLY alternative to majoritarian democracy, it is sometimes forgotten, is some form of rule by a minority.
ON TUESDAY, Critical Mass screened "Hijacking Catastrophe," a new documentary narrated by University professor and NAACP Chair Julian Bond, which explores the Bush administration's imperial ambitions in Iraq dating back to the year 2000.
ENVIRONMENTAL demonstrators have only gotten nuttier over the last several years; thus, I approach with a healthy dose of skepticism any group of protesters pedaling around in powdered wigs.
WIDESPREAD fraud, manipulation, perjury, obstruction, confusion, intimidation, chaos and even violence.Afghanistan?
RECENT events at the University have me very afraid. There are those that say that I am an example of a systemic problem: a person whose politics and philosophy prevent social advancement in ignorant defiance of justice and fairness.
THE PUBLIC mission of the University is its most important guiding principle, and today it faces danger.
IN THINKING of tolerance and ignorance, I realized that I can fully imagine what it is like to be a white student attending U.Va.
LAST FRIDAY, Ohio Republicans attempted to crack down on voter registration errors by purging voter rolls of names and addresses that did not match GOP rosters.
PROFESSORS, familiar teaching assistants, graduate students and some academic townies compose the typical intellectual grouping at a speaker's lecture.
VOTE FOR George W. Bush. Why, you ask? I think the reasons might take up the entire Opinion page, but alas, I am only allowed 700 words with which to spread my conservative propaganda. John Kerry, along with the many rampant Bush-haters out there, talks a lot about what Bush should have done during the past four years.
OVER THE past few weeks, we've seen the evolution of Kerry progress to yet another human life form: a conservative.
THIS WEEK, the fall elections ballot includes a cleanenergy referendum. Despite last week's confusing and partisan rally for the initiative, this measure deserves our support.
"ONLY nine percent of African-Americans had never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race." That startling, chilling, eye-popping statistic is not describing blacks across the country, nor is it talking about African-Americans at the end of their lives; rather, only 9 percent of black students at the University have never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race while attending college.
A UNIVERSITY police officer discovers a student in the dead of night spray painting a racial epithet on the concrete walkway in front of Old Cabell Hall.
