I HAVE watched with sadness over the years as competing perceptions of Thomas Jef- ferson have served to divide our community along racial lines.
LIKE CHRISTMAS in April, Republican lawmakers in Richmond are enjoying visions of spoils resulting from newly redrawn district lines in the Commonwealth.
ONE OF the best feelings in the world is the relief of finishing final exams. Unfortunately, this feeling is soon ended by a trip to the bookstore, where you find out just how little your books are worth.
THE MORE I hear about Government Prof. James Sofka's peremptory dismissal from the government department, the more confused I become.
TURNS OUT that the execution will be televised after all. On May 16, almost 300 survivors and relatives of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing will watch on closed-circuit television as Timothy McVeigh is strapped to a table and given a series of lethal injections.
WHETHER you're a fraternity brother, a sorority sister, an avid attendee of Greek functions, a person who despises the Greek system or a Mennonite who doesn't wear zippers, you should take a serious look at the University's decision to help fund high speed Internet connections in fraternity and sorority houses.
INSTITUTIONAL memory can be a tricky thing. For the average student, it probably runs about five or six years at the most.
TALKING sex isn't sexy because social conservatives make it a taboo topic. It's time we change this. The federal government, according to an American Psychological Association report, subsidized $250 million in education that only teaches abstinence in 1999 and it continues to do so.
ONE of my favorite CDs was put out in 1993 by a hard rock band from Wisconsin. A line from one particular song's chorus comes to mind whenever the latest cause du jour pops into the headlines: "You can't change the world." Granted, this line was used in reference to alcoholism, but it has become a personal motto of sorts. I used to bemoan the lack of student involvement with issues surrounding the University.
THIS is my last column as The Cavalier Daily's ombudsman. It has been an honor and a privilege to be given free rein to critique this paper for a year - in public, at that.
IF WORDS had a texture, "no" would be sandpaper - coarse, spike-adorned sandpaper. Fourth years shouldn't say "no" to the class gift. As adults, we've realized through experience the power "no" can convey, but even little children recognize its abrasive nature as they torment their parents behind two-year old giggling.
EVERY year around this time, as warm beautiful days become common outside, many University students are stuck in Alderman Library researching for papers.
WOMEN have always had it rough. Despite the fact that we make up half of the world's population, no group has been as universally, quietly and consistently discriminated against throughout history.
AS DIVERSITY becomes a more and more prevalent buzzword and colleges and universities seek to encourage minority enrollment, we like to think that we are moving away from racial tension and conflict toward a more tolerant society.
SOMETIMES anonymity in class can be a wonderful thing. Our university is big enough so that we easily can things done undisturbed and shrink into obscurity if we make a stupid remark.
INSOMNIA stalked my bed, so I turned on the radio to break up the monotony of sheep-counting. 3WV was playing my favorite Pink Floyd song: "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control ... Teachers, leave those kids alone!" Of course, the members of Pink Floyd went to British schools in the 1950s, when emotional abuse of the students was considered acceptable, even character-building.
THE FUN police are at it again. In their never-ending quest to ensure everyone else's misery, conservatives in Pound, Virginia have outlawed dancing in their town.
WELL, WE can all breathe a sigh of relief for now. At least until the president has to make the final decision to sell arms to Taiwan, we can relax.
THE Tongue-Tied American by Paul Simon reports the following exchange. "A Georgia school board member asked Genelle Moran of the University of Georgia, "Why should a student who will never leave Macon, Georgia, study a foreign language?" Moran's reply: "That's why he should study a foreign language." I read the April 13 lead editorial, "Scrap language requirement" and cringed with embarrassment as I imagined how it would sound to international students, teaching assistants, professors - anyone, for that matter, using English every day as a second language.
TUESDAY, the Managing Board of The Cavalier Daily managed to cross the line between aggressive journalism and outright disrespect.
