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.
I WILL always have Dobie pride. My calves will always be stronger from marching up that hill multiple times a day.
My Chilean family was so normal. Take out the sharp fence surrounding their property, switch English for Spanish, leave in the snow-capped Andes nearby and we could have been in Colorado.
The liberals' most recent attempt to undermine the rule of law by creating law comes from none other than the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, an activist, left-wing court that represents the largest judicial district in the country.
Like other Americans, my wife and I were traumatized by the events of September 11, 2001. We were in a small village in the south of France, and for several hours we could get no word from or about our younger son, whose office was close by the fallen towers.
FOURTEEN months away, the 2004 presidential election continues to march toward Americans like an approaching leviathan on the horizon.
THE VILLAINS on Captain Planet were obviously Republicans. Wanting nothing but to destroy the ecosystem and make money doing it, the sinister characters on that Emmy-worthy cartoon truly embodied the environment-hating ideals of the GOP.
LAST SPRING, the idea of diversity education surfaced as one of several possible ways to expose students to differences among people within the University community and society at large.
IN THE last year, there have been several instances in which the University has been publicly shamed on the issue of diversity.
MOST STUDENTS and faculty at the University would agree that race relations on Grounds are not terribly good.
THE WINDS have died down. The waters have retreated. And all along the Mid-Atlantic coast, the remnants of Hurricane Isabel are painfully visible.
BY NOW, some people are doubtlessly tired of hearing about diversity. But until we reach the day when skin color is no longer an issue, no amount of spilled ink can be too much.
WITH THE appearance of the Individual Rights Coalition on Grounds last Monday, the heretofore-little-known diversity training exercise stepped into the University spotlight and became the controversy du jour of discussions around Grounds.
LAST WEEK, the last major independent newspaper in Zimbabwe was shut down in the latest move by tyrannical and thuggish president Robert Mugabe ("Zimbabwe Police Close Down Nation's Largest Daily Paper," NYTimes.com, Sept.
THERE are currently ten, count them, ten Democrats poised to take over the presidency in 2004 from the evil George W.
SOCIETIES, like the laws that govern them, necessarily change and evolve over time. In America at least, those changes have tended to be positive ones over the last two hundred years, as the onward march of Western liberal progressivism has abolished slavery and child labor, granted universal suffrage, extended civil rights to all racial groups and set up a welfare system to assist those in need.
