PRIOR TO theusual hype incurred by the onslaught of Spring Break, the annual circus of student government elections always provides a good chuckle for those of us in the expecting-to-graduate camp, if for no other reason than the fact that every year the faces change but the chalking, rhetoric and tactics remain eerily similar.
LAST NIGHT, the University community chose a very qualified group of students -- David Hobbs, Meghan Sullivan and Sara Page -- to serve on the Honor Committee, and while other elected candidates may get more face time and name recognition, no body of representatives has a more difficult duty to discharge over the next year.
TOMORROW, when The Cavalier Daily prints the results of this week's University elections, many who read it will ask the same question they've asked each semester for the past several years: Why is voter turnout for Student Council elections so low?
FOR THOSE of us who have the privilege of driving up and down Route 29 between Charlottesville and Washington every time we wish to go home, the sight is very familiar: a police cruiser with blue flashing lights located right behind a car with a "U.Va." bumper sticker and an angry student inside.
LAST WEEKEND, Haiti saw its embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first elected head of state in th ecountry, resign and fly off into exile in the Central African republic.
"VOTNG is for Old People." This absurd statement is plastered on the front of a t-shirt of a popular clothing line, Urban Outfitters.
LAST WEEK the Supreme Court overruled the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. For any other case, this would hardly come as a surprise.
LAST WEEK, I saw the Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." It made me think a lot about the sacrificies of Christ.
LAST THURSDAY, students and administrators proudly unveiled the long-awaited "diversity center" which replaced the informal lounge in Newcomb Hall and christened it"Kaleidoscope: Center for Cultural Fluency." Officials and boosters announced hopes that the "new and different" space will provoke new and different discussion of culture and race that will lead to greater understanding and unity.
LAST FRIDAY, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., reversed ground on his opposition to efforts to extend the deadline of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, or "9/11 Commission" as it's also known, and will now allow the commission to continue its work through July 26.
WITH HIS reelection campaign underway and his conservative base demanding a blood sacrifice, President George W.
THE DICTIONARY defines a virgin as one who has never engaged in penile-vaginal intercourse. Yet, there are many variations of sex.
THE GAY marriage debate consistently generates more heat than light, even in the pristine intellectual oases that are America's college campuses.
SEX -- or more conservatively termed "relationship" -- columns have been popping up in college publications around the country at schools such as UC-Berkeley, NYU, Yale and ACC pals like Wake Forest and Maryland.
Few things characterize the mythical "good old days" of the past like sexual prudishness. Even when our parents were in college in the 1960s and '70s, dorms were largely segregated by gender, colleges employed "dorm mothers" to enforce often arbitrary social norms and the very conception they had of sex was far removed from ours today.
IN THE past year, students demanded serious elections reform at the University -- and they got it.
IT TAKES only the words "No Child Left Behind" to send chills down the spines of American educators.
LAST Friday, William Pryor became the second judicial nominee in five weeks to be placed on the bench by President Bush without confirmation in the Senate. Senate Democrats had blocked Alabama's former attorney general and five others from taking the bench.
DEL. ROBERT Marshall of the Virginia House of Delegates is attempting to pass one of the most ridiculous bills that has ever been brought up in Virginia.
ADS FOR bubble tea. Signs hyping a presidential candidate's 21-year-old daughter's visit to Charlottesville.
