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.
ON OCT. 30, a black student showed up at a Halloween party with his face painted white. Hewas wearing khaki pants, a sweater tied around his shoulders and a pink polo shirt with its collar popped up.
IT HAS become fashionable to decry "grade inflation" as an evil of our times. Supposedly, this phenomenon represents a softening of our academic standards and a tendency to coddle students in their academic work.
POLITICAL pundits have been conducting their own post-mortems on the 2004 election ever since President Bush clinched a second term in office Wednesday.
THIS IS one of those doomsday columns at which we scoff. Hang it on your wall, and in four years check to see if I'm right. In four years, the Bush administration will have privatized Social Security and ended Medicaid.
NOW THAT a few days have passed since Nov. 2 and tempers have had a chance to cool, it is possible to make a reasonable appraisal of the implications of this year's election.
WATCHING election returns with liberals is like watching the Iraqi information minister give a press conference as the Americans move closer to Baghdad -- denial, followed by irrational outbursts.
MANY STUDENTS can reduce college life to three elements: classes, weekends and college sports. While these three are enough to provide each individual a solid college experience, our University distinguishes itself, among other ways, through the hard work, energy and financial resources poured into its extracurricular activities.
THIS SUMMER I had the good fortune of interning at the Virginia Museum of Natural History through the University's Institute for Public History.
ONE DAY after the election, the presidency still hangs in the balance -- kind of. Thanks to Ohio, the election results are not entirely certain yet, but a Bush win looks likely.
BOSTON -- SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of boisterous Kerry supporters, Jon Bon Jovi strummed a sweet rendition of "living on a prayer." Unfortunately, by the end of the night, a prayer appeared to be all John Kerry was hanging on to.
