LAST WEEK Rev. Jesse Jackson stood outside of the University of Michigan Law School and encouraged students to fight a court ruling which essentially banned affirmative action from being used as consideration in admissions to the law school.
ONE OF THE guys on stage asked, "If you rape a prostitute, can you also be arrested for shoplifting?" This was the first of many tawdry lines presented in Newcomb Theater on Sat, March 31 by the sordid characters who composed The Hooligans "comedy" troupe from Northeast Mississippi Community College.
A COMPLETE college education is an experience that should never be skipped over. The primary goal of any university or institution of higher learning is an education -- that's a given.
I RECENTLY wrote a column criticizing collegiate newspapers for refusing to print David Horowitz's ad condemning reparations on slavery.
GREEK life on college campuses has always been controversial. The misconception that the only purpose of these social clubs is to provide a forum for excessive drinking and sexual promiscuity has long cast question upon the idea of fraternities and sororities being supported by learning institutions such as the University.
SOMEHOW we knew it would come down to this. He played the moderate card for a while, so long as it was politically convenient.
MR. HOROWITZ appeared on this page two days ago with some filthy garbage he calls an opinion. The Managing Board correctly printed it on the Opinion page, but Horowitz's analysis, his research and his points are weak. It's not the larger argument - that reparations ought not be paid to black Americans - that is at issue, because reasonable people may disagree over that.
TUESDAY evening, Student Council passed a resolution urging divestiture - the termination of all investment in companies with ties to a particular nation - in Burma, a country ruled by a military regime with a record of human rights abuses.
VIRGINIA legislators have once again responded to a legitimate social problem with imprudence and ignorance.
THE DAY after the presidential election, the partisan lines were drawn across our nation and the map was permanently dyed in electoral shades of blue and red.
PERHAPS the most unnerving part about applying to a law school is the process of taking the LSAT - the Law School Admission Test that acts as the standardized measurement for every legitimate school in the country.
EQUALITY. We claim to believe in it. At the same time, we preserve and defend institutions and structures that stand in its way.
LAST WEEK, U.S. Federal Judge Bernard Fried- man ruled against the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy.
SOME African-American leaders are calling for reparations to be paid to American blacks by the U.S.
THREE weeks is not a lot of time. Ask any fourth year looking for a job - it can take longer than that just to get the interview.
LATELY it seems like the apocalypse is coming: Mad cow disease is killing cows in Europe. Hoof and mouth disease is killing off livestock everywhere else.
STUDENT self-governance. Its utterance causes some students to smirk, politicos to grin, the Office of Admissions to gleam and alumni to sigh in pleasant reflection.
AWEEK ago I received a forwarded e-mail from a friend of mine at James Madison University. The message was somewhat of a response to the second school shooting in San Diego in as many weeks.
IT'S THAT time of year again. Spring is here, the days are getting longer, tennis and other sports are starting their seasons, and shorts and sundresses are replacing pants and sweaters.
RECENTLY, I went to a training institute developed by the U.S. Department of Justice, where I attended a media training designed for people who have fairly controversial fields of work or, at the least, fields in which public and professional emotions run high.
