THERE are two types of students at the University. Science and math students who spend lots of money each semester on a few thick textbooks and humanities students, like myself, who fork over the big bucks on a more numerous set of cheaper books.
PRESIDENT Bush recently announced his plan to issue an executive order opening up billions of dollars to faith-based programs.
ON MONDAY night, Iowa voters emerged from their town halls, libraries and living rooms to proclaim Massachusetts Sen.
SINCE the beginning of this month, Texas A&M University has been embroiled in a controversy over its practice of "legacy" admissions, an admissions criterion that favors applicants if they have a blood relative who attended the university.
TO HEAR some academics tell it, not since the Alien and Sedition Acts have our civil liberties been more under siege.
ON MONDAY, hundreds of second and first-year women around Grounds received bids from one of the 16 Greek houses of the Inter-Sorority Council.
LOST IN all the unpacking, book-buying and partying before classes began was a marathon of innocuous meetings regarding a project that may change the face of the University: a new student center.
LESS THAN two weeks ago, President Bush rolled out his first domestic policy initiative: an immigration reform proposal aimed at allowing those working in the country illegally a chance to join a new temporary guest worker program.
As the new year unfolds, I'd like to offer up some resolutions I hope the staff of The Cavalier Daily might adopt.
REVISIONIST views of history can be quite dangerous. It is to that end that the uproar recently raised over the Enola Gay is indeed unfortunate.
WHEN THE news broke last month that Saddam Hussein had been captured -- disheveled and disoriented, hiding in a dark hole in the ground -- it was hard to overstate the magnitude of the shockwaves that reverberated around the world.
Multiculturalism is the biggest thing to hit America's campuses since light beer. And, as a watered-down perversion of a once-great collegiate ideal, it follows nicely in its predecessor's footsteps.
IN THIS last season of the ever-popular NBC sitcom "Friends," two of the show's main characters, Chandler and Monica, have decided to adopt a baby.
Even though the dried Christmas trees are lying by the curb, the Valentine's Day cards and chocolates have replaced Christmas ornaments in Hallmark stores and we are all gearing up for a new semester at the University, I would like to revisit the holiday season for just a brief moment.
Will others vote for him? How much money have others given him? Never before have these questions been asked so frequently leading up to a presidential election.Voters should evaluate a candidate based on his/her ability to solve the problems facing Americans, not by speculating how others will vote.
THESE days, it seems that George W. Bush is acting more like JFK than one would expect from a Republican.
THE STATUS quo has long been king of the political hill in Virginia. With the General Assembly convening its annual session as we speak, the more cynical political observer could remark that political reform comes to the Old Dominion only after a prerequisite disaster so large as to shock the public and its legislative body into action.
As we speak, political contortionists are caucusing behind the scenes trying to figure out ways to make President Bush's newfound zeal for space exploration seem like a worthy cause for scrupulous American tax payer dollars in the year to come.
Almost a year ago Michael Moore and Al Franken meant two completely opposite things to me. Moore was a self-righteous, pompous fire-breathing liberal who could make any self-respecting conservative's blood crawl at the mention of his name.
AS THE world stares amazedly at the pictures being beamed from Mars by NASA's Mars robot rover Spirit, President Bush has hinted that he will announce plans for NASA to establish a permanent space base on the Moon and to send astronauts to Mars ("Bush to seek manned flights to Moon, Mars", CNN.com, Jan.
