THE EVENTS of Sept. 11 came as close to a doomsday scenario as the world has ever seen. Since then, from the average American living room to the typical network newsroom, even more disturbing "what if" situations have become a part of the nation's collective conscience, among them anthrax, smallpox and other coordinated attacks on government buildings or airplanes.
THE COLLEGE Board recently has announced new rules for their famous, and sometimes infamous, standardized tests.
THE FINAL countdown has begun. In less than a week, students across Grounds will fall into the paradise of Spring Break.
THE WAR is dead. Long live the war. This appears to be the attitude of the current Bush administration.
Today, just as at the time of the University's founding in 1819, communication between city residents and students remains pathetically rare.
"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.
Reinemund and Schwartz debate their merits as potential Student Council presidents. Steven Reinemund Micah Schwartz Candidate Profiles Steven Reinemund 1.
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.
