We've all heard the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Respect ought to be returned when it is received, but in the University environment, it often feels like respect is only given when it is demanded.
COLLEGES and universities around the country wonder how we do it. A strong, completely student-run honor system at a large international university exists nowhere else in the United States.
IF YOU have the inclination (and more importantly, the patience) to pay attention to politics during your tenure at the University, you'll notice that both sides of most debates tend to frame their arguments in terms of rights.
ON A particularly hot day in late August of last year, I was sitting in my room on my computer getting acquainted with the high speeds of the U.Va.
THE NOVEMBER elections are rapidly approaching and as the candidates are preparing to accept their respective party's nominations and the media coverage is gearing up, few people would like to concentrate on the subject of terrorist attacks in this country.
AS I boarded the local train to Philadelphia a few weeks ago, a headline of The New York Times, being read by a man across from me, grabbed my attention.
July 1, the day House Bill 751 (an amendment to 1997's Affirmation of Marriage Act) became effective in Virginia, stands as the latest chapter in a regrettable trend.
JACK RYAN'S star has fallen. The handsome millionaire Illinois Senate candidate is a candidate no longer, the Republican Party's great white hope in the liberal Midwest state undone by a public release of his sordid divorce records.
JUST AS the days get warmer with the coming of summer, political rhetoric heats up with the coming of elections.
"FAHRENHEIT 9/11,"opening weekend. Where do I begin? After hearing all of the media hype about this documentary, I decided I should go witness the commotion for myself.
FOLLOWING a federal judge's certification this week of a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, it appears likely the American public will soon witness the largest ever employment discrimination lawsuit against a corporation.
IN THE wake of President Ronald Reagan's recent death, the Cold War has re-emerged as a talking point on broadsheets and network newscasts around the country.
THE passing of Ronald Reagan invited lots of comparisons between the late leader and President George W.
THOMAS Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJ as it's affectionately known to both current students and the 400-plus alumni who populate the University, has a problem.
AS AMERICA laid Ronald Reagan to rest, President George W.Bush spoke a eulogy on behalf of the former president, an actor whose final role was his most painful, one of 4.5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's.
JUST WHEN you thought your next history lesson was not until September, the powers that be have conspired to keep life academic.
WITH THE May 29 dedication of the World War II Memorial, and June 6 marking 60 years since the start of World War II's decisive battle, D-Day, the time has been ripe lately for World War II nostalgia.
EVERY NOW and then a liberal apologist will come along and try to convince the public that the mainstream American media does not present a liberal bias.
IN THE turbulent wake of the Iraq invasion, America's left-leaning squawk boxes have been hemming and hawing exuberantly over the failures -- real and imagined -- of the Bush administration's flashy foreign policy adventures in the Middle East.
LOST IN the shuffle of move-out was another unfortunate racial incident. On the evening of May 3, a Hereford resident called the police to report a suspicious-looking black man outside.
