THE MINIMUM wage is an enduring legal monument to a time when Americans were really concerned about poverty.
ONE WEEK ago today, a large audience gathered in Rouss Hall at an event featuring Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of the New York Times best-selling book, "Nickel and Dimed." Ehrenreich is an impressive writer and a powerful social critic who, like so many starry-eyed college students throughout the country, is a true believer in the power of big government to cure the diverse maladies of America's working poor.
LAST YEAR, a lawsuit against retail chain Abercrombie and Fitch introduced a new "-ism" into the American lexicon of prejudice: lookism.
BACK IN his super-earnestbleeding-heart-on-his-sleeve days, the young Bono sang, "I can't change the world, but I can change the world in you" (this being years before he actually went out and tried to change the world), and, in a way, that's what I've tried to do in my year as ombudsman.
FEW SOCIALLY progressive measures have been met with an opposition comparable to the remonstrations against affirmative action.
AFTER the past few "Good Guys," one might actually believe that Gus Blagden, the University student for whom the award was named after in the 1960s, was a strong and faithful Christian black man.
IF THE saga of Condoleeza Rice's testimony before the Sept. 11 Commission were a family sitcom, the casting might look something like this.
LOST SOMEWHERE in the frantic end of the semester shuffle, University students can go about their lives largely insulated from current events outside the Charlottesville bubble.
WITH CASUALTIES mounting in Iraq, a murky economic recovery, and unsustainable Social Security and Medicare programs, Americans have a plateful of problems for their dinner discussion.
ONE SENATOR praises a fellow colleague for his years of service. Another senator does the same for another colleague.
NEPOTISM (n): favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power(as by giving them jobs). Whether you call it nepotism, patronage or simply to the victor goes the spoils, our nation's political system is fraught with examples of all three.
I HATE to rely on another cliché Jefferson quote, but this one is quite fitting to describe the conflicted state of America's security intelligence -- "It is error alone which needs the support of government.
IN A televised address following the capture of Saddam Hussein last December, President George W.
THE TRAVEL guide company Frommer's named Charlottesville as the nation's best place to live, and the CD reported the news rightfully as the leading news story on March 31.
ON APRIL 5, Thomas Jefferson rolled over in his grave. Yang Jiechi, the ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China, strutted down the University's red carpet and delivered an address in Jefferson's Rotunda. That Yang came to present his views should excite many at the University.
IN A RECENT editorial entitled "An open honor system," the managing board of The Cavalier Daily urged the Honor Committee to open all Honor trials to the public.
AFTER four years at this institution, I've all but stopped reading The Cavalier Daily Opinion pages.
SENATE floor contemplation and discussion for H.R. 4 came to an abrupt halt last week, at least delaying and perhaps ending crucial legislation to renew a much-needed public policy.The bill was meant to "reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to states for temporary assistance for needy families, [as well as] improve access to quality child care and for other purposes," and was generally supported by both parties.Unfortunately, it faced the obstacle of widespread disagreement on the amount of time that would be allocated to debate, as well as the number of amendments that would be considered to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Bill.
THE ISSUE of same-sex marriage hasprompted a lot of discussion among Americans regarding the "decline of family values" it symbolizes.
LAST THURSDAY, President Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997), or "Laci and Conner's Law." This measure recognizes two victims in any federal crime that causes injury or death to a pregnant woman and her unborn child and protects the "child in utero" as "a member of the species homo sapiens at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb." H.R.
