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.
When Admissions Office Dean Blackburn reads this year's batch of regular decision applications, he presides over injustice.
THE MONTH of February can tend to be slow at the University. The madness of rush is long over; the honeymoon of new and different classes has faded and the dreary gray days offer little incentive to spend time outside.
INSECURITY. Not a word that you would typically associate with black men, but after a deep discussion with some of my fellow brothers here at the University, young and old, the word insecurity best illustrated why so many of us black men portray ourselves the way we do: as men without fear.
WHAT DO the words "mayday," "bomb" and "Christianity" have in common? They'll all cause people to freak out if you say them out loud on an airplane.
MEDIA critic Howard Kurtz wrote in his column, "I guess we know who runs the country" referring to the media's role in the Democratic primaries (The Washington Post, "Kerry Runs Media Gantlet," Feb.
