WHEN YOU buy a new car, you can shop around before making your final decision. Music stores have listening stations so you can sample the newest CD's before throwing down $15.
THE PEOPLE spoke. The Constitution ignored them. Our bizarre, antiquated, illogical and unfair Electoral College system appears, for the third time in history, to have deprived the American people of their choice for president.
WATCHING the recent week's electoral morass on CNN in the same fascinated, near-amazed way workers at a sausage factory stare at their machines, I came to a conclusion on Sunday morning.
YOU ARE enjoying a lazy afternoon watching television when you start to feel kind of hot. Even though it is mid November, you chalk it up to El Nino and return your attention to "The Real World" marathon.
SO YOU went out to Rugby this weekend, had a little bit too much to drink, and encountered the police on the way home. Not fun, but really not that big a problem, right?
I'M GOING to tell you a little story about this University, so bear with me. It's an important story because this week, the Office of the Dean of Students is accepting nominations for the Gray-Carrington Scholarship Award, the highest honor a University student can receive.
MOST OF us feel conflicted about the brouhaha surrounding the presidential elections. We're sick of it because we want a resolution, but it's so exciting we can't stop talking about it.
ONCE YOU arrive here at the University as a first-year student you're thrust into a world involving many unknown people.
"SO YOU were accepted to the University? You probably came for the drama, right?" Laugh all you want at this seemingly false statement -- it is nothing new for students to make fun of the University's arts programs.
THE POLLS are closed, the election is over, and no clear winner has yet emerged. The clear loser, however, made itself glaringly apparent: television journalism.
NIKE HAS Tiger Woods. McDonald's has Coke. U.Va. has Budweiser. Maybe you hadn't heard about this.
WEDNESDAY, 10 a.m. government class, the morning after Election Day. We're talking about the still-undetermined presidential election.
TUESDAY and Wednesday were not any less entertaining than a marathon basketball game with the winning shot still making its way to the basket, in slow motion, of course.
HOLDING your community service fundraising events during Spring Rush. Planning an optional guest lecturer for exam week.
(Editor's note: The author's brother, Richard W. Smith, brought suit against the University, claiming that the it and the University Judiciary Committee violated his due process rights.
DIVERSITY is not important to the University. Amid fallout from the State of Race Relations at the University survey, diversity was the buzzword of choice and everyone seemed ready to change what was seen, accurately, as a weakness at the University. Since then, however, the discussion of diversity at the University has become almost nonexistent.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 7 - People wake up. They vote. They go to work. They come home. This sounds like a routine Election Day anywhere in America.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - It's midnight on election night. Hundreds of people are gathered around the stage and monitors.
RICHMOND, Va. - When Sen. Chuck Robb (R) took the stage last night to the cheerful strains of a John Phillip Sousa march, I could have sworn I was about to witness a victory speech.
AUSTIN, Tex. - In the hill country of Texas, the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" resonated throughout the thin steel walls of Hangar One at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
