THE COURSE Offering Directory can make just about any course at the University look good. With a general-sounding title and a two-sentence description at best, the most boring and frustrating classes can be impossible to distinguish from the truly life-changing educational experiences.
Charged with writing a column for the April Fool's edition, I drummed up an imaginative one lauding the University Programs Council for finally putting their money where their mouth is and contracting newborn rap phenom Kanye West to perform at Spring Fling later on this month.
WOMEN, wake up! The feminist movement of the 1970s saw great gains in the empowerment of "the weaker sex," but failure to maintain sustained action has left you vulnerable, an easy target for the conservative administration that has taken control of the nation.
BUSH'S economic policies have finally paid off: The Labor Department announced last week that 308,000 new jobs had been created in March, the largest increase since April 2000. Democrats who like to place all of the blame on Bush's fiscal policies seem to forget several other factors that contributed to the economic downturn during his first few years in office.
AS THE semester comes to a close, our favorite time of the year arrives -- course enrollment. Although technology has significantly improved the ease and organization of enrolling in courses, one fault remains.
IN HIS book, "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America," UCLA linguist John McWhorter suggested that elements of the African-American community are holding the group back from progress.
MAYBE I've been reading "Wired" too much lately, but it seems that everybody and their grandmother has a Web log, or "blog," these days.
LAST WEEK high school senior Candace Parker won the Slam Dunk Championship at the McDonald's High School All-American game, a contest replete with young, talented male athletes.
IN THE summer of 2001, the Bush administration received dozens of warnings that terrorists were planning a major strike against the United States.
LAST WEEK, two reports regarding the state of affairs in Africa graced the front page of The Washington Post.
THE BI-WEEKLY adventure to the outskirts of Charlottesville in search of cheap gasoline this past week was a sobering wake-up call.
IT'S FAIR to say that the average media consumer's attention span is inversely proportional to the number of informational choices he or she has.
TIME IS running out for Sen. John F. Kerry. At the moment, the all-but-confirmed Democratic nominee is enjoying a fair amount of success in the media and in the court of public opinion.
WE ARE rapidly approaching the 50th anniversary of the landmark Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that segregation by race in public schools was unconstitutional.
TWO WEEKS ago, a University parent launched a new Web site calling for the University to toughen up the way it deals with students accused of sexual assault.
PUTTING out a paper on a daily basis can be a very stressful task. Besides the basic reporting and photography, staffers also sell and design ads, write headlines and captions, draw graphics and comics and design and lay out all of these pieces on the page.
HOORAY for Research Week! Banners across Grounds proudly proclaim the celebration of a newly valued tradition at this institution.
JUST RECENTLY, the U.S. Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus while committing a federal crime of violence.
LAST TUESDAY, former President George H. W. Bush broadsided his son's critics. Speaking at an oil industry group's annual meeting, Bush called denial of progress in Iraq "deeply offensive and contemptible." "There is something ignorant," he said, "in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world." Bush called the past year of Iraqi history a "miracle." Several hours later, Iraqi militants killed four American civilians.
ON MARCH 30, The Cavalier Daily ran an opinion column, "A College Upon a Hill," claiming that Brown College at Monroe Hill is a wasted resource due to its insularity and eccentricity.
