THE GAY marriage debate consistently generates more heat than light, even in the pristine intellectual oases that are America's college campuses.
SEX -- or more conservatively termed "relationship" -- columns have been popping up in college publications around the country at schools such as UC-Berkeley, NYU, Yale and ACC pals like Wake Forest and Maryland.
Few things characterize the mythical "good old days" of the past like sexual prudishness. Even when our parents were in college in the 1960s and '70s, dorms were largely segregated by gender, colleges employed "dorm mothers" to enforce often arbitrary social norms and the very conception they had of sex was far removed from ours today.
IN THE past year, students demanded serious elections reform at the University -- and they got it.
IT TAKES only the words "No Child Left Behind" to send chills down the spines of American educators.
LAST Friday, William Pryor became the second judicial nominee in five weeks to be placed on the bench by President Bush without confirmation in the Senate. Senate Democrats had blocked Alabama's former attorney general and five others from taking the bench.
DEL. ROBERT Marshall of the Virginia House of Delegates is attempting to pass one of the most ridiculous bills that has ever been brought up in Virginia.
ADS FOR bubble tea. Signs hyping a presidential candidate's 21-year-old daughter's visit to Charlottesville.
SO, RALPH Nader has crashed the party. In a misguided move that shocked no one, Nader announced last week that he will run for president, once more subjecting the electorate to his rumpled charm, his high-minded lectures and his callous indifference to the fate of America's mainstream liberals.
IN THE heated emergency contraception debate, both arguments spit out derogatory rhetoric to persuade the public.But can this go too far?
IT FEELS almost like déjà vu: George W. Bush running against a Democratic candidate whose main deficiency may well be his apparent lack of charisma, and also against a third party anti-establishment candidate who appeals to the most liberal voters in the country.
FIFTY years after the legal integration of American schools, aHarvard study shows de facto segregation at its highest level since 1969.
I ENJOY a good Bush joke as much as the next person. "What were George Bush's three hardest years?
THE MAYOR of San Francisco created a new wrinkle in the hot-button topic of gay marriage last week.
LIKE SO many other buzzwords of our political landscape, the term "fiscally conservative" is an overused phrase among many voters.
ON FEB. 28, 1969, Lt. John Kerry led three Navy patrol boats up the Dong Cung River, delivering a group of local fighters to a dangerous region at the southern end of Vietnam's Ca Mau Peninsula.
DEAN OF African-American Affairs M. Rick Turner owes a sincere and detailed apology to the entire University community.
LAST WEEK saw the kick-off of another season of student elections at the University. Posters went up, messages were chalked on the ground and Web sites were launched. And if it seems like there are more of these media in this election cycle than in previous ones, it might be due to the lack of a campaign spending cap, a rule incorporated with the ratification of the University Board of Election's constitution. Leaving aside the debate on the normative ideals of student elections and campaigning, the no-limit spending policy for student elections overseen by the UBE isn't something to worry about, even for its most ardent critics. For those who do not like the new policy, the situation is clear: It pits students from the "two Universities" (to borrow part of presidential candidate John Edwards' stump speech) against each other in an unfair manner. One University's students come from well-off backgrounds and have cash to spend on extra things like campaigns.
THE LAST pages of The Cavalier Daily's first section aren't the only places in a newspaper where readers can turn to find a heavy dose of opinion.
WILD CRAZY monkey sex! It is indeed unfortunate, but these four words may have just grabbed more readers than any other I have ever penned.
