MY DAD is a teacher. My mom is a teacher. I have a little sister who is a senior in high school and getting ready to go off to college in a few short months, and I live in a part of the country where the cost of living is at nearly its peak.
THE SEMESTER has begun on a seemingly depressing note. Classes are swollen, faculty are complaining and students have returned to find services that used to be taken for granted are now costing money.
If you've spent anytime in a first year hall or suite bathroom recently, you may have noticed the helpful hints and thrilling reading known as the "Stall Seat Journal." If you're particularly lucky, you may also have received a rape whistle courtesy of the Parents Program.
The Idealistic ignorance of the liberal ideology has never been more offensive to me than it was on the eve of the anniversary of September 11.
The October 19 open honor trial of Adam Boyd is the first in two years, and is considered a rarity for the honor system.
I am in the debt of the state of Virginia. This past Saturday morning, at 8:30 a.m., I had the exhilarating opportunity to attend a driver improvement clinic in a luxurious conference room of the Holiday Inn on Route 29.
Cavalier Computers, the University-affiliated computer store, presumably likes customers. Tragically, only one model of laptop is offered for law students.
BOYS ARE better at science and math. Girls' strengths lie in the humanities. Although many would immediately refute such blatant gender stereotypes, a growing number of single-sex classes in public schools are helping promote them.
LESS THAN a week ago, we saw one of the most tragic anniversaries in our nation's history come and go quicker than many anticipated it would just one year ago.
SCHOOL, ALTHOUGH it is seen as a place of academic learning, also teaches students social skills that cannot be learned from books.
THERE IS a beautiful phrase that every college student longs to hear at the start of each semester: "You can find all of the class lecture slides online." The idea of having lecture notes easily accessible to students before and after class has both its positive and negative aspects.
THE HBO hit "Sex and the City" has inspired more than one college column about the nude and the lewd, and last week, The Cavalier Daily proved it isn't immune to the trend.
This summer, illions of Americans watched the progression of "American Idol," the latest attempt at "reality" television, with an almost religious zeal.
Now that the second full week of classes has ended, most people have their schedules set and have gotten the required books.
BRING YOUR bloody flag out of the closet, everyone, and prepare to wave vigorously. Just in time for the first anniversary of September 11, the Bush administration has announced it is once again en vogue to patriotically rally against an enemy who purports to wreak imminent destruction on democracy, freedom and our American right to a second helping of apple pie.
IN 1972 a total of 29,992 women participated in college sports. By 2001, the number of women athletes was more than five times that at 150,916, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education study ("Title IX at 30," June 21). No doubt such a dramatic increase in the number of athletes has had a positive effect on the quality of women's sports and, through also-growing scholarships, on the opportunities available to women in education.
IF YOU haven't watched one bit of news, watched one documentary, listened to any programs, read any newspapers or searched Internet news sites during the past week, you're better off than most people.
If you're looking for the correct way to pronounce "monsieur" inorder to impress a pretty girl the next time you order wine from the maitre'd, the French are the folks to ask.
The graduate Labor Union and graduate students as a whole at the University are very concerned about the recent budget cuts at the University's Library.
A media cliche repeated time and again is that "the world changed on September 11." That is inaccurate.
