UNIVERSITY graduates Andrew Bond and Andrew Borchini made a splash last week when they announced a campaign, centered around the Web site www.DontGiveToUVA.com, which encourages patrons to withhold donations to the University until administrators agree to provide domestic partner benefits to gay and lesbian employees.
SOME POLITICOS wonder why a huge number of Americans are turned off by politics. I don't. Look no further than our beloved University for the answers.
THIS WEEK, fraternity pledges finish attending the five events of the Inter-Fraternity Council's Pledge Education Week.
WE SEE other drivers doing it all the time, and most of us do it ourselves without a second thought.
THROUGHOUT its long history, the University has had a shameful tradition of pushing civil rights protections to the back of the bus.
ANEW WEB site,DontGivetoUVA .com, has recently attracted news around Grounds for its attempts to "end the discrimination" of homosexual faculty and their life partners.
I'M STARTING to like this whole political correctness thing. Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't admire its tendency to put a damper on the vitality of open debate by setting up arbitrary parameters on what can and cannot be said.
AT FIRST glance, the playing field for student elections seems quite fair this time around. The rules and regulations have been publicized, and problems we have witnessed in the past seem to have been alleviated for the time being.
NEVER fear, all you defenders of state sovereignty, the Virginia General Assembly is taking up the banner of "states' rights" and sticking it to the federal government.
THE RECENT media frenzy over President Bush's war record truly demonstrates the media's lack of objectivity.
WITH ALL of the ink gay marriage has generated on these pages, it is difficult to add anything new to the discussion.
A FTER Janet Jackson's "nipple gate" incident, many Americans fear a populace that talks about sex too casually.
HOW CAN the High Andes help students get into classes a hemisphere away?Put gas into a car and out comes the answer.
THE ISSUE of whether or not to grant same-sex couples employed by the University the same benefits as heterosexual couples has long been an issue on Grounds.
CONTRARY to the perpetual grumbling of those who consider themselves too practical to spend their time thinking deeply or abstractly, philosophy courses are consistently among the best that any college or university has to offer.
THERE has been a lot of talk recently about what has not been found in the newly liberated Iraq. Unfortunately, some people are entirely too quick to criticize the president and the actions of this nation and look past what has been found in Iraq.
INCLUDING a note from its editor, Whitney Garrison, the new Health & Sexuality page debuted last Monday with an open and honest voice that is refreshing, especially when these topics often can be difficult to broach.
WITH ALL the enthusiasm of a dog forced to take its eye medication, President Bush announced last week that he would order the creation of an independent commission to investigate "intelligence failures" leading up to his administration's decision to go to war with Iraq.
LAST YEAR, I took a class on sexual assault from the SWAG department. And I was struck by the one certainty with which I completed it: No man who chose to take that class would ever commit an act of date rape.
I LOVE Valentine's Day. I can already hear the cries from those unfortunate students who have stubbornly conditioned themselves to despise the heart-shaped, candy-coated, red-and-pink happiness that is Valentine's Day.
