TWO WEEKS ago, a University parent launched a new Web site calling for the University to toughen up the way it deals with students accused of sexual assault.
PUTTING out a paper on a daily basis can be a very stressful task. Besides the basic reporting and photography, staffers also sell and design ads, write headlines and captions, draw graphics and comics and design and lay out all of these pieces on the page.
HOORAY for Research Week! Banners across Grounds proudly proclaim the celebration of a newly valued tradition at this institution.
JUST RECENTLY, the U.S. Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus while committing a federal crime of violence.
LAST TUESDAY, former President George H. W. Bush broadsided his son's critics. Speaking at an oil industry group's annual meeting, Bush called denial of progress in Iraq "deeply offensive and contemptible." "There is something ignorant," he said, "in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world." Bush called the past year of Iraqi history a "miracle." Several hours later, Iraqi militants killed four American civilians.
ON MARCH 30, The Cavalier Daily ran an opinion column, "A College Upon a Hill," claiming that Brown College at Monroe Hill is a wasted resource due to its insularity and eccentricity.
AFTER the first few days of public testimony in the ongoing 9/11 Commission, the verdict is in: President Bush did not have prior knowledge of the Sept.
LAST WEEK, Michael Newdow, an amateur lawyer arguing to banish the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools, brought the audience to applause in his first case before the Supreme Court.
LIFE SUCKS as a terrorist. Terrorists somehow get pleasure from killing hundreds of innocent people and then once you die, people around the world mourn your death.
THE FIRST line in the Bill of Rights states that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, yet in 1954, Congress inserted the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, in order to distinguish the United States from the atheist nations of the communist bloc. It's difficult to see how the addition of a deity to America's traditional oath of loyalty is anything other than an establishment of religion, but such was the matter before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, as Dr. Michael Newdow argued that the recitation of the pledge in public schools is unconstitutional so long as it contains the reference to God.
THIS PAST Wednesday, hundreds of concerned Virginians piled into the Albemarle County Office Building expecting to find a panel of state legislators waiting to tell them why no budget had been passed yet.
At a university struggling to maintain its status as a top academic establishment while simultaneously coping with the demands that besiege a public institution, there is no issue more pressing than the organization of housing and student support structures.
OVER THIS last week, former White House counter-terrorism aide Richard Clarke has led a sort of all-out media blitz, going on "60 Minutes" to promote his new book, "Against All Enemies" (which, coincidentally, was published by a subsidiary of Viacom, which owns CBS), testifying before the 9-11 Commission and talking tough on Sunday morning political talk shows. This is a great strategy to sell lots of books and reward one's self for years of public service, but very poor for prompting an honest, impartial look into how the Clinton and Bush administrations have dealt with terrorism.
THE PRO-ISRAEL crowd was anxious last month when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that he plans to remove 17 small settlements in the Gaza Strip, effectively ending the Israeli occupation of that area.
THE LEADER of a vicious terrorist organization was killed, and the world didn't even stop to say "thank you." Last week's killing of HAMAS founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin represented a important step in the global war on terrorism, but the world-wide reaction has been mixed at best.
LAST TUESDAY, The Cavalier Daily held a community concerns meeting during its own production hours at 7 p.m.
HATE CRIMES have been all the rage on college campuses lately. At the University of New Brunswick earlier this month, a Pakistani student reported being attacked on two separate occasions because of his race.
IN ELECTIONS three weeks ago, the student body supported the extension of spousal benefits to the domestic partners of homosexual faculty and staff by a three-to-one ratio.
SINCE the creation of the term "civil union" by Vermont's legislative branch in 2000, there has been a discussion on whether a civil union is the right answer to the ongoing fight for the legalization of homosexual marriage.
LIKE MANY of you, I entered the University last year eager to jump into upper-level classes and strut my stuff.
