BLACK or white. Right or wrong. Honorable or dishonorable. Patriot or traitor. With us or against us. While some leaders try to construe the world in such absolute terms, in reality most of life is more complex.
SPORTS should alleviate stress, not create it. Multitudes of University students live for athletics, and through Intramural-Recreation Sports, they find an outlet for both fun and relaxation.
AS A FOURTH year, when coming upon the last few weeks before graduation, I'm beginning to think about all the things that I didn't do during my four years at the University.
EACH DAY of my life it seems I learn something new about strength: What it means to possess this quality, to increase it and to share it with others.
THROUGHOUT history there have been many walls of oppression and exclusion throughout the world.
PICTURE this: You're down on the Corner. You're really hungry, but you're totally broke. You're wondering what to do when all of a sudden you see Thomas Hall coming down the street.
TWO WOMEN were killed. There is evidence that the murder was a hate crime. Unfortunately, if the murder had not happened in a national park, the Commonwealth of Virginia would not have pursued a hate crime charge.
I AM NOT much of a current music fan - I still listen to the same stuff I listened to in high school and college.
THE BOARD of Visitors once again has decided to raise tuition rates. And once again, people around Grounds are whining and moaning about it.
ALL RIGHT, I am warning you. Some of you super-conservatives might want to sit down before you read this.
THERE is no denying the vast difference between student athletes - particularly those in the big money sports - and the rest of the student body.
THE FAMILY of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sells his image, speeches and name to the highest corporate bidder.
ALL COLLEGE students should spend at least one semester in another part of the world. Most students who study abroad find their experience an unparalleled opportunity to become immersed in another culture and rediscover their own.
EDUCATION is the key to fighting crime. When the potential gains from criminal activity outweigh the benefit of honest wages, individuals find significant motivation to engage in illegal acts.
MOST MINORITY groups around Grounds - especially black and minority Greek organizations - get a bum rap for self-segregation.
IN A TERRIBLE tragedy, a six-day search for a dog left aboard a crippled ship in the Pacific Ocean has been called off - the tragedy being that the rescue operation cost an astounding $50,000.
ON THE Friday following my little-noticed March 20 column, "Phantoms of Racism," some anonymous fliers went up on the colonnades outside Bryan Hall that took issue with my stance on race relations at the University.
A WISE man in a wise book once wrote, "Man has dominated man to his own injury." Though written over 3,000 years ago, humans have proved that we have not moved beyond this sad state.
OVER THE past few months, the specter of impending terrorism has been hanging over the world. After the Sept.
In Joe McMurray's April 3 column "Freedom of speech for all, no matter how tasteless," he mistakenly referred to First Right as pro-choice when in fact it is the oldest of the University's pro-life organizations.
