IT'S BECOME a matter of course for liberals, particularly unabashedly blue-state liberals, to lament one of the greatest ironies of this election: that in an election framed by the GOP to be about the dual threats of terrorism and gay marriage, those areas most threatened by both voted overwhelmingly against the president.
THIS YEAR, the University's Athletic Department has adopted a new policy for student attendance at basketball games.Under the new system, students can request seats at basketball games and have a spot guaranteed when they arrive.
THE SINGLE sanction inspires rhetoric. I have heard it referred to as the academic "deathpenalty," as the "fundamental cornerstone of UVA" and just about everything in between.
AS ISIS prepares to shepherd us through another exhilarating season of online course registration, many students find themselves preoccupied by the seemingly disparate issue of health insurance.
ONE STORY dominated the News section of The Cavalier Daily for the last week and a half. Every edition of the paper between Nov.
AS THE University community struggles with a disturbing lack of socioeconomic diversity within the student body, the administration is pursuing two very different policies that could have conflicting effects on UVa affordability.
IT WOULD seem that the media is happy to have something else to report besides the defeat of John Kerry.
IT IS not surprising that Democrats often look back sentimentally on the Kennedy years as a kinder, gentler time in American history.
THE UNIVERSITY has a drinking problem. The impact of unhealthy attitudes toward alcohol usage affect every University student, whether or not they abuse the substance.The implications of the University's problems with violence and alcohol abuse were the subject of a discussion which kicked off Substance Abuse Awareness Week this past Monday.
IMAGINE walking into your local pharmacy one afternoon, expecting to pick up a prescription that your doctor had called in for you the night before.
ADD ONE to the list of secret societies on Grounds. Shrouded in a sea of contradictions, Student Council continues to operate with the opacity of a black hole. As students may know, Council voted down a measure this week that would have recorded members' votes, along with members' own explanations of those votes, on its public Web site.
ALMOST all of us Democrats watched faithfully on that fateful Tueday night, and as the hours passed, a noticeable strain developed in our eyes and, more importantly, in our hearts.
WHILE THE holiday of today and this upcoming weekend translates into great department store sales, let us take a moment to reflect on what the day truly represents.
WITH THE presidential election out of the way, charges of "voter intimidation" will lie low for another four years for most Americans.
DO YOU hear that? It's the sound of thousands of liberals across America scratching their heads, wondering where they went wrong. Last Tuesday's re-election of President Bush clearly came as a shock to many liberals, as indicated by the waves of still-stunned Democratic commentators in both print and on television -- not to mention the collection of angry away messages posted by nearly every liberal student at the University in the past week. NBC conducted a survey during exit polls that asked voters to identify the most important issue, to them, in this election.The economy, terrorism, Iraq and health care all followed behind the number one issue: "moral values." Moral Values?
EARLIER this semester I wrote about upholding the tradition of men wearing ties to home football games.
FOR THE past three years the U.S. Senate has been a black hole for President Bush and Senate Republicans, gobbling up everything from judicial nominees to comprehensive energy legislation.
IT HAS now been a week since the debacle that was Election Day. As Democrats sit back and try to figure out just what went wrong and where to go from here, many have begun saying it's time for a "blood bath" within the Democratic Party.
"WHETHER Democrats know it or not, voters are not clamoring for imitation Republicans," wrote New York Times columnist Bob Herbert on Nov.
IN ADDITION to giving President Bush a strong mandate to rule for a second term last Tuesday, voters in 11 states affirmed their belief in traditional marriage values.
