In recent days, two specific gay rights issues have hit close to home. As many students are aware, some think that the ROTC program at the University shouldn't be allowed to operate on Grounds because it discriminates against openly gay people.
SOME PHRASES just are contradictions in terms. You park in a driveway but drive on a parkway. Study breaks are breaks from studying but smoking breaks are breaks for smoking.
MAYBE you dealt with them last week. Maybe you are dealing with them right now. Perhaps you are one of the lucky University students that did not have to deal with them at all this semester.
POLITICIANS are known for their rambling mouths. The third and final presidential debate was no different in this respect, with hackneyed phrases and big words being thrown around like frisbees.
I WROTE two papers last night. I haven't slept for a week. I have five midterms. This is the week from hell.
FRANK Zappa is the Messiah. "All this speculation/About my destination/Is killing me" - Acoustic Junction.
IT'S NOT IHOP, but it will be open 24 hours. Soon, thanks to the efforts of Student Council President Joe Bilby and other representatives, students will be able to go to Clemons Library whenever they might go grocery shopping at the 24-hour Harris Teeter.
KERMIT said it best: It's not easy being Green. Admittedly, he was referring to being an amphibian, not a supporter of Ralph Nader's presidential campaign.
UPON ENTERING the Aquatics and Fitness Center, one is reminded that Thomas Jefferson once said, "Give about two hours a day to exercise, for health must not be sacrificed to learning.
PEOPLE come up with great ideas all the time. But as great as these ideas are, they can only succeed if someone takes the time to work through the issues surrounding them.
RECENTLY, some have criticized the chalk messages that appear on passageways around the University.
WHEN I was younger, it seemed like everyone in my neighborhood was a member of the local country club except my family.
IN 1989 the Intramural Recreational Sports Department embarked upon a Master Plan that was to address both current and future programs and facility needs as expressed by both students, faculty and staff within the University community.
THE 2000 presidential campaign has not been a cordial one. The candidates and their supporters have spent significant time and money trading insults and accusations.
AS IN EVERY election, voters must put together a puzzle of issues, then choose the closest fit. This year's Virginia Senate race between Senator and former Governor Chuck Robb and former Governor George Allen is a particularly colorful puzzle giving voters clear choices in every issue except one: education. TV commercials shooting 30-second allegations back and forth are all over the airways; one suggests that the opponent took millions away from helpless little children, the other shoots back with a rebuttal and an even worse allegation of theft from the poor to feed the rich.
NEXT YEAR, don't buy a meal plan. If you're reading this, you'll be an upperclassmen next year. Meal plans for upperclassmen are a rip off.
MOST STUDENTS entering a new living or educational experience carry with them a certain optimism or naive.
YOUR NEW name is 73645. Your new room is Cell Block 386. And your new roommate is a convicted rapist.
FALL IS upon us. The leaves are turning and crunch as students walk briskly between classes, hands in pockets, hat on head.
LOOK - barreling down that hill faster than a speeding bullet! Able to leap tall curbs in a single bound!
