FOR MANY, to be called a "politico" is as personally insulting as any other derogatory epithet one might imagine.
Last month, the Washington Post reported a new trend constituting a step back for both feminism and homosexual liberation ("Going Behind the Back," January 24). The Post brought to the public the latest method of negative recruiting in women's basketball: suggesting to recruits that opposing coaches are lesbians.
Compassionate conservatism. It is a pleasant slogan; it makes the right-wing sound less scary to moderate voters.
Identity theft, once reserved for gangster movies, is an increasingly common phenomenon. In this information age, the sheer abundance and accessibility of personal data, particularly in computerized formats, makes identity theft a real threat for many individuals.
Cloning, embryonic research and cell reproduction have all come to the forefront of medical controversy as science improves and researchers make further strides in curing diseases and improving human life.
Percentage of U.S. college students who are women: 56. Percentage of U.S. college varsity athletes who are women: 42.
Much of the affirmative action debate revolves around questions of fairness: Are white students treated unfairly in application procedures that consider race as a factor?
There are a few very unpleasant things that most reporters must go through at one time or another.
Anyone watching last Tuesday's State of the Union address could not but be struck by the idiocy of the event.
It was the first day of February. At Temple University, a former student shot his ex-girlfriend while she worked inside a campus administration building, later killing himself.
My dad gave me two pieces of advice before I left for college. First, always check to see if a book has been made into a movie before removing the shrink-wrap from a textbook.
Oh come on, it's not as if you didn't expect it. That's right, of all the world's great thinkers, I've picked the Eagles to kick off my farewell to The Cavalier Daily -- because I can check out anytime I like, but I can never leave. Okay, I'll admit it.
When I walk down the Lawn on May 18 it will have been three years, eight months, and 23 days since I moved to Charlottesville, marking the longest I, an Air Force brat, have ever lived in one place.
"Good writing is spiritual. Bad writing is clinical." My friend and mentor Jeff Eisenberg wrote these words for the opinion page of The Cavalier Daily exactly one year and two weeks ago, expressing so succinctly what all writers eventually come to realize
It seems I have told this story a few hundred times by now. For the past two years, when trying to recruit new staff, I would attempt to convince them that despite all reason and common sense, they wanted to spend a few hours one night a week working at The Cavalier Daily.
Few issues are more controversial at the University than that its racial climate.Looking merely at the last year, we see steps towards reconciliation, and we see leaps backward.
It has been some weeks since United Nations weapons inspectors entered Iraq in search of any evidence to prove that Iraq had been developing weapons of mass destruction.
"FOR THOSE who say the poor fight better, I say give the rich a chance." These are the words of Reprsentative Charles Rangel (D-NY), who has proposed a bill in Congress to reinstate the draft as a means of building up the number of Americans serving in the military.
TUESDAY night, the United States took one more step closer to the precipice of armed conflict as President Bush's projected his rhetoric past the gathered Congress and instead focused on preparing the American people for war.
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