THE PURSUIT of equality in our society has made great progress, but still it fails to cast its healing light into the darkest corners of our culture.
I HAVE a lot to thank Adam Sandler for -- besides such cinematic masterpieces as "Bulletproof" and "Little Nicky." With several versions of a little ditty called "The Hanukkah Song," Sandler has brought pop culture to Judaism.
In light of recent events regarding race, education and awareness on our campus, the value of one proposal is becoming more and more evident.
Alma is a student who is in the final year of her high school career. She has worked extremely hard at maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
Every time a new governor is elected in Virginia the opposition party has always had one consoling fact -- four years and then the newest governor-elect will be history.
Virginia's football season has been outstanding. Featuring one of the youngest and least experienced lineups in the nation, the football team has made many critics eat their words and scratch their heads over how Virginia ended up playing so well.
QUICK, somebody call Woodward and Bernstein, because we've got a scandal on our hands. Or maybe not.
WHEN I worked at The Cavalier Daily, writing headlines was every associate editor's least favorite task.
THE CLOSE of another semester has once again arrived. With the lingering excitement of Thanksgiving on our minds, students are preparing for exams while simultaneously packing to enjoy that month-long break away from the University.
WITH A week of classes left before the fall semester ends, students are left with the daunting responsibility of studying for all of their final exams within a short amount of time.
I REMEMBER visiting Johns Hopkins University on my grand college tour of the East Coast. I remember thinking the dorms felt like army bunkers.
As a graduate of the University of Virginia and former member of the Greek system, I am troubled by the University's response to the incidents of this past Halloween; specifically the lack of response to the Nov.
WITH SO many students and administrators throwing out the words "racist" and "racism" around Grounds, I think we all need to take a step back and look at the meaning behind the words we use so freely.
LAST TUESDAY Student Council passed "A Resolution Recommending the Creation of a Range Community." The resolution's endorsers hope to see the Range, single-student rooms running parallel to the Lawn behind the gardens, transformed into a housing area similar to the Lawn in its philosophy and purpose. Fostering a sense of community among neighbors is an admirable goal, but the proposed method for achieving this goal is flawed.
LIKE IT or not, we are at war - a war where the front line lies right on American soil. In this "War on Terrorism," all Americans are vulnerable and involved with the enemy.
IT'S ALMOST that time -- the culmination of the semester marked by the end of classes and the beginning of exams, dates which come close to overlapping each other.
THE HOLIDAY season is fast approaching. This week it's Thanksgiving, next month it's Winter Break, and in a few more months comes Spring Break.
LAST WEEK, The Cavalier Daily broke a big story. On Tuesday, it reported that two University fraternities, Kappa Alpha and Zeta Psi, had been suspended from the Inter-Fraternity Council and were the subject of punitive action by their national organizations following the discovery of party photographs of guests in racially offensive costumes. The Washington Post covered the story the following day, citing the CD, and The Associated Press also picked it up.
WITH WEAPONS inspectors on the ground and American forces readying for action, war with Iraq is a subject at the forefront of American minds.
LAST WEEK, the Texas state board of education approved the history books that it would buy for its 4.2 million public school pupils.
