FOR THOUSANDS of years, marriage between a woman and a man has been a bedrock of civilization with cultural, legal, religious and historical underpinnings that provide the foundation for society's most basic social unit: the family.
IN NATIONAL politics, it is customary for the press to evaluate the president after his first 100 days in office to see where he has been effective and ineffective, and where challenges still remain. This week will see Student Council President Daisy Lundy's 100th day in office since the beginning of the fall term, and I see no reason not to bring this tradition to the University.
FOLLOWING on the heels of an impressive fall tabloid-size supplement on the football team, the Sports section last week treated readers to an equally noteworthy enhancement to daily coverage.
ON NOV. 12, Sarah Lawrence College joined what the New York Times calls a "growing list of schools" in abandoning its reliance upon SAT scores for freshmen admissions.
WHEN THINKING about the planned diversity center to be located on the third floor of Newcomb Hall, one of the first things to come to mind is Derek Zoolander's "center for kids who can't read good and want to do other things good too." While the planned center will obviously not have Ben Stiller teaching children to read, it will equal the fictitious Zoolander center in general uselessness. This plan is indicative of the growing perceived need for general political correctness within our society.
RIVALRIES between schools are curious things. They can be based on regional schisms (the University of Georgia and Florida, for example)or on the close proximity of two highly visible schools, like Stanford and Berkeley.
IT'S COURSE registration time, which for most students is a big deal. And for the others, it should be.
Well, apparently we're all going to Hell in a handbasket. A rainbow-colored handbasket. This week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that same-sex couples had a legal right to marry and effectively ended the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Does anybody know when the Majority Career Fair will take place? Who will be my white peer advisor?
Social Security is something you get when you retire, right? Right. It's also something you don't have to worry about until you retire, right?
As I stand about to forever sign off from The Cavalier Daily in the name of general fourth-year debaucheries, thesis writing and -- dun-dun-dun -- job searching, I would like to take this last opportunity to offer some words of encouragement to my fellow classmates. Walking around Grounds, it's hard to miss everyone's favorite breed of student: The suit-clad, briefcase-toting Commie -- Comm schooler, that is.
I DIDN'T even turn on the television this year. Commercials promoting this year's Source Awards Show televised on the Black Entertainment Network spoke to me loud and clear: This establishment is going nowhere, fast.
SCHAUB BACK to pass. He scans the field, looking for the open man. Dodges the defender in the backfield and sees Miller open on the sideline.
Even when colleges and universities are not facing budget cuts and imposing massive tuition hikes, the salaries of those in charge have always been a sensitive topic.
WE CAN fill these columns with accounts of recentviolent attacks in the Charlottesville area -- yet, I choose to express faith in the non-violent nature of this community.
THE TERROR futures market, althoughsuffering a major set back from the Pentagon deciding to drop the project, will nonetheless open in March of 2004.
THE HONOR system is one of the University's most hallowed traditions. Many students, faculty and administrators alike laud the merits of the system and the benefits such as proctor-free exams and a sense of trust that the system provides.
IN 1996, presidential politics took a leap into the digital age with both Republican candidate Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton launching their own Internet campaign sites.
IT WAS delightful to grab a Cavalier Daily on Friday and see the headline "University to increase hourly pay rate for staff." It's comforting that even in the midst of a budget crunch, the administration is thinking of its own.
ROY MOORE got what he wanted. In a hearing on Wednesday, the Court of the Judiciary of Alabama voted unanimously to remove the so-called "Ten Commandments Judge" from his position as chief justice of the state supreme court after he defied a federal court order to remove a 5,300-pound Ten Commandments monument that he had installed in the central rotunda of the supreme court building. The ruling brought an end (at least for now) to Moore's judicial career, but his return to private citizenry has been anything but private.
