WITH THE economy in a serious recession and our nation on the brink of war, the University has an important choice to make this November.
Former President James Earl Carter is a quiet Southerner with a peanut-eating grin. In the last 20 years, he has amassed a record of not offending certain nations and criticizing the United States on a regular basis.
Last week marked the first time in the last hundred years that a woman has been brought up on polygamy charges in the United States.
The law school at Washington University in St. Louis is currently creating a showcase example of blundered student self-governance that universities nationwide should observe keenly.
All is not well at Gardner-Webb, a small Baptist university in North Carolina. Last Friday, the president of the university, Christopher White, also an ordained minister, resigned after admitting to authorizing an
The issues facing public education in America are virtually endless. With policymakers and teachers being pulled in so many directions, it seems odd that controversy focuses on the Department of Education's Web site. A current overhaul of the site, in an effort to make it more user-friendly and updated, is also making sure that visitors view research and statistics aligned with the Bush administration's education philosophy.
At institutions of higher education across the country, students have challenged the use of affirmative action in admissions policies.
Let's take a little trip back in time -- to high school. And you thought you'd never have to think about it again.
Cynicism and politics go together like peanut butter and jelly. A good citizen questions every word that comes out of a politician's mouth.
If someone were to ask me what I like least about my job, I would say that I'm becoming far too jaded for someone so young.
At the University of Michigan, according to their affirmative action policy which uses a "plus-factor" system, in which points are added to application scores in order to give certain applicants advantages, minority applicants receive an overly generous 20-point addition to their application scores based solely on their minority status.
In an OCT. 7 editorial, The Washington Post reported that Yaser Esam Hamdi has been detained in the United States for 187 days without access to a lawyer and with no charges filed against him.
Picture this: A woman is standing alone at night on the side of the road. She flags down a man passing by, and offers herself to him in prostitution.
Last month, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers caused quite a stir when he linked anti-Semitism with the movement to get colleges in the United States to divest from companies who do business with Israel.
EVEN AT MIDNIGHT! Interstate 64 through Newport News this past Monday night went from four lanes down to one lane for construction, thereby slowing traffic to a crawl for a good mile or two.
THE GREATEST aspect of being an American is the ability to alter one's political and social decisions solely on the basis of the perceived benefit.
AMONG the duties most highly prized by journalists is that of holding influential and powerful people accountable for their actions.
IN HER Oct. 1 letter to the editor, "UJC's protection of free speech," University Judiciary Committee chairwoman Katie Graney attempts to defend two grave injustices perpetrated against students and faculty here at the University.
YOU KNOW what Cavalier football games have been missing lately? More cretinism and insolence, of course!
DURING my third undergraduate year at the University, I decided that a wonderful activity to put on my resume for law school was to work as counsel for the Honor Committee.
