No laughing matter
By Laura Parcells | March 4, 2002"I'M GOING to f*** you hard." Wow, what? Did you just read that? Yup, you did. Seems pretty offensive and senseless, doesn't it?
"I'M GOING to f*** you hard." Wow, what? Did you just read that? Yup, you did. Seems pretty offensive and senseless, doesn't it?
L AST WEEK was an interesting one at the University. Student officer elections, the informed retraction proposal, and the start of a new capital campaign.
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I DOUBT that any University student would deny that our campus is not fully racially integrated.
CONTROVERSY ensued last week when Honor Rep. From the School for Continuing and Professional Studies, Thomas Bird, tried to invalidate the informed retraction petition.
ONE OF the best things about college life is newfound independence. Finally, our parents aren't here to look over our shoulders and watch everything we do.
AT a school where student self-governance is encouraged, where academic dialogue thrives and where history continues to be re-written, it comes as no surprise that the voting status of the student member of the Board of Visitors regularly is debated among students and faculty alike.
STUDENT self-governance is a concept that often is touted as one of the University
PRESIDENT George W. Bush's recent rhetoric concerning the "axis of evil" may only provide definitive proof that choking on a pretzel and passing out has had a lasting effect on his judgment.
TWO YEARS ago, during one of the most tumultuous presidential campaigns in American history, a small school in South Carolina became the focus of intense media scrutiny.
THE CALIFORNIA Medical Association recently voted to recommend that its home state increase its smoking age from 18 to 21.
ENTERING the final day of University elections, some likely have engaged in last-ditch efforts to protect the unblemished sanctity of things like Honor (one should never leave this word un-capitalized, for that degrades Honor as well). Columnists have traded barbs primarily about the informed retraction referendum.
ON THIS final day of voting in the spring elections, virtually every concrete surface around Grounds has been turned into an advertisement for one of over 100 candidates.
THE University is in a tight spot financially because the Commonwealth has decided to make us beg for pennies.
STATISTICS can be difficult for anyone, but they are especially so for a journalist who has to accurately present them to his readers.
WE ARE writing in response to the recent events involving assaults on U.Va. students. For the last three years, we have worked in a volunteer capacity at Charlottesville High School and with residents of the larger Charlottesville area.
HONOR at the University is dying. The informed retraction can save it. Students must show the Honor Committee, administration and the world that the University cares about preserving this principle that we hold dear.
EVOLUTION is a topic in the field of science that has managed to inspire controversy along every avenue that it crosses.
FEW CHALLENGES presented to University students moving off-Grounds can be as confusing and difficult as investing in telecommunications technology.
TODAY could turn out to be a very important day in the long and rich history of the University of Virginia.