S OMEWHERE between the blaring music and exotic displays, there was a sagging white banner at last week's Student Activities Fair that Caucasian students overlooked.
U NITED States District Judge James L. King made the proper decision last week when he upheld the Florida law banning homosexual adoption of children.
L ast week, the University unveiled a study analyzing the decorations of children's bedrooms, sampling from a group of partnered heterosexual and lesbian parents.
LAST WEEKEND, the United Nation's World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa, reached a rather horrific point.
MONEY is a very touchy subject in modern life, from cocktail parties to politics. Americans probably seem obsessed with money to the rest of the world.
WITH THE fall semester just beginning, it seemed like a good time to bring our readership another installment of the extremely popular segment entitled "Ask Seth." Sponsorships are still available for this segment, as is the option to pay not to have your name associated with this column. Our first question comes from an A.
AFTER 50 years of fighting it, school segregation hasn't gone anywhere. Like a virus, it has survived by adapting amidst changing times and pressures.
WELL KIDS, it's that time again! As lazy memories of hot summer nights spent with friends from home begin to fade, we again are immersed in the fast-paced madness that we call U.Va.
IT MAY be hard to believe, but it turns out that the education gurus who developed aptitude tests like the SAT, LSAT and GRE intended for them to be more than just the bane of every student's existence.
AS A THIRD-year transfer student, I have heard much grumbling about the honor system at my new school.
BASEBALL is supposed to be America's game, the quintessential summer pastime. But, like so many other supposedly simple pleasures, baseball has become increasingly complicated.
Who is Matthew Branson, and what's an ombudsman? As the academic year gets rolling, and my weekly column makes its debut, I hope to answer both of these questions. I graduated from the University in 1996, and I am currently in my final year of law school at the University.
STUDENT Council has earned a new name: Stupid Council. It has placed such a strong priority on something it really cannot affect - eradicating the "Not gay" chant in the Good Ol' Song. First off, this is not to condone the chant.
FOR UNANNOINTED first years, the first few weeks of college are full of adventure and discovery.
SCHOOL is back in full swing. Classes have started, orientations are over and everything is settling down into a nice routine.
A FRIEND of mine recently stu- pefied me with a very pecu- liar question. He asked me, "Who is this Chandra Levy chick that everyone keeps talking about?" After asking him if he had lived the past few months under a rock, he explained that he had spent the summer in the Middle East in a study abroad program and obviously had been a little cut off from the ever-so-significant events of life back here.
EVERY year, thousands of colleges and graduate programs are ranked. Every year colleges and graduate schools complain that the rankings are unfair and do not clearly show which schools are better.
WITH EVERY new school year, an integral part of life at the University arrives: a new football season.
THE LIST is long and impressive: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Environmental Protection Agency Director Christie Todd Whitman, Pennsylvania Sen.
Tomorrow Secretary of State Colin Powell will not be in Durban, South Africa at the United Nation's World Conference Against Racism.
