CATHOLIC archdioceses throughout the country have faced mounting accusations that they ignored allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of their priests.
LAST WEEK, the U.S. Senate passed the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill. The groundwork behind this bill was seven years in the making and President Bush is expected to sign it into law.
I LOVE the Class of 2002, my class, at the University. I really do. But a phone call I received the other night made me think twice about supporting my class by giving to the class giving campaign, something I was most likely going to do.
SELF-SEGREGATION. It's an interesting term, and it is even more interesting as of late at the University.
ENRAGED. Perfectly and succinctly does that describe how I feel. In this day and age, being the angry black man is something maligned and demonized by popular culture.
NONE OF us who spend our free time in the basement of Newcomb Hall at The Cavalier Daily office expect the rest of the student body to fully agree with our coverage and opinions.
JESSE Helms has gone and lost his mind. Thank God. The Republican senator from North Carolina and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, known for his opposition to foreign aid, wants to add half a billion dollars to the American contribution to a fund for fighting AIDS in the developing world. Perhaps AIDS activists should have seen it coming.
A FEW WEEKS ago, a handful of students from the Architecture School - who are no doubt regretting their actions right now - had a party.
WITH LESS than six weeks left in the semester, one worry springs directly to mind. No, it's not finals - we don't need to start worrying about those until reading days.
FOR THIS week's column, I've chosen not to address a typically opinion-friendly issue like race relations or budget cutbacks.
LIFE in the so-called post-Sept. 11 world is beginning to resemble a bad spy movie. Our Army slinks through caves searching for a bearded villain.
EVERY year University students are targeted by honor societies that offer membership based on supposed academic excellence in exchange for a fee.
THIS IS what I'm sick of: I met a girl on the bus the other day who said, "Oh you're from D.C.? Me too." Where did you go to school, I asked her.
JUST when Virginia thought the debate over redistricting had finally simmered, a circuit court decision last week invalidated last year's organization of legislative seats throughout the Commonwealth.
GET READY, out-of-staters, here it comes again. Assuming they go along with the General Assembly, the administration will be going to the Board of Visitors April 5 to ask for a 5 percent increase in in-state tuition and an 8 percent increase in out-of-state tuition.
AMERICAN patriotism has never been more apparent than in the past few weeks. According to a March 11 Newsweek article entitled "For 9-11 Families, More Money on the Way", the families of Sept.
SOONER or later the Commonwealth was going to hit rock bottom and hit it hard. Little to anyone's shock, it came sooner.
VIRGINIA bill could become law pending Gov. Mark R. Warner's signature which would allow schools to post the motto "In God We Trust." Under this bill, posting the motto is mandatory with the provision that it is put into "historical context" ("VA Senate Approves Motto Bill," The Washington Post, Feb.
IT'S A SHAME that Tim Lovelace isn't as good at recognizing racism as he is at spewing nonsensical outrage over its alleged presence.
MARCH Madness, the NCAA basketball tournament, has many sounds associated with it: Dick Vitale's incessant yapping; coaches' shouting; fans' obscene cheers.
