DEPICTIONS of America as a fearless defender of democracy and freedom throughout the world pervade our daily political discourse and accounts of our nation's history.
It is hard to miss talk about the Individual Rights Coalition around Grounds these days. Despite the fact that the new group has already become the center of controversy, many students remain uniformed about what it is really advocating.
Not so many overstuffed minivans pull up to freshman dorms to begin the school year anymore. A gaze on McCormick Road this August revealed an increasing number of Jaguars, Land Rovers, and luxury cars dropping off their increasingly more affluent first-year Wahoos.
Despite the criticism and doom and gloom pictures painted by many naysayers about the condition of Iraq, the facts point to a completely different portrait of this country nearly five months after the topple of one the most evil regimes in history. Many among the fourth estate (the news media) have tried to portray Iraq as a failure and a complete and utter mess.
SEX: one topic that requires little guided instruction or clarification for students when they come to college.
INSULTS shouldn't play an integral role in the political discourse of a respected academic community.
IT SEEMS like a perfect idea. Put your name on a list and telemarketers can't call your home anymore.
THE PHONE rings at 8 a.m. on the day you have your latest class. Having gone to sleep just a few hours earlier after an intense night of studying, you groggily reach over to your phone.
SINCE Christmas Eve of last year, the Peterson family has been infamous through the United States.
REGARDLESS of how one feels about extending our country's military might abroad, most of us would agree that it is critically important and morally imperative to support the men and women serving in uniform.
CALL ME crazy (and probably several other creative and decidedly inappropriate names as well), but sex is so boring.
E-BAY, AL Groh, honor charges, Craig Littlepage, profiteering -- sounds like a racy University scandal, eh?
DEAN CAN win. Republicans think the former governor of mighty Vermont is a joke; Democratic party leaders think he is a disaster waiting to happen.
LAST THURSDAY, in a shameless act of legislative masturbation, Congress voted to create a nationwide do-not-call list, to take effect next week.
THERE I was, perusing the Internet news sites, when I came across the MSNBC Race in America page.
ON SO MANY different levels, the California recall seems so strange, if not wrong. It goes against our expectations of parties and order in the electoral process; the characters involved are so unbelievable, even comical; the major parties are completely disjointed.
LAST WEEK in this space I addressed conflict-of-interest policy at The Cavalier Daily with regards to two Opinion staff members, Anthony Dick and Joe Schilling.
PSYCHOLOGISTS say that people often see what they want or expect to see -- that somehow, our preconceptions tend to bear themselves out to us, while others may perceive the same thing totally differently.
THE TOPIC seems to be nearly unavoidable: privatization of the University. Every couple months when a new facet of the current budget crisis is revealed, someone suggests that the University privatize and eliminate state funding altogether.
LAST TUESDAY, the Coalition and Student Council held a forum in Old Cabell Hall called "U.Va. in 20/20: How's Your Vision?" -- you must have seen the signs.
