LATELY, the nightly news has been awash with stories about skyrocketing gas prices and other controversies here at home.
LATELY, students at the University of California in Santa Cruz may have been getting the feeling that they're not in the 1960s anymore.
PRICES go up -- it's a simple concept, and one most people grasp on a basic level. The average person may not understand the finer points of inflation, but he certainly is aware that the prices of everything from eggs to automobiles to college tuition rise a few percent each year.
APRIL is the cruelest month for some, but at the University, it makes suffering through Charlottesville's rainy, dreary winter months worthwhile.
MOST STUDENTS don't actually pay attention to our University bills aside from the total cost. So students generally don't notice the separate $39 Student Activity Fee.
CONTROL OVER the safety and distribution of firearms has long been one of the most central and divisive issues in American politics.
THE ISSUE of Taiwan's independence has returned to the American spotlight since their presidential elections two weekends ago.
THE FIVE-YEAR-OLDS in the Japanese classroom lean forward alertly as their teacher barks out multiplication tables.
THE U.S. Supreme Court dealt freedom of speech a violent blow Wednesday when it yielded to the liberal politics of student activity fees.
During my first 18 years growing up, I heard a lot about newspaper writing from my parents. Just as I have argued on the pages of this newspaper, my father fought his political battles in college on the editorial pages of William & Mary's Flat Hat. He fought communism and segregation in his columns -- topics that make issues like student self-governance and fraternity rush seem insignificant. Several years later he met my mother while they were both writing for a newspaper on Capitol Hill.
TWO GREAT features debuted in the Life section this week: Emily Kane's series on local road trip destinations and Dockter Duval's advice column.
THERE'S A BIG hole in the ground, and the first to fill it wins. Now that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is out of the picture, there are a good 33 percent of self-proclaimed "McCain voters." This is according to a Newsweek poll to which the remaining contenders -- Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov.
IT IS almost an American political tradition. Every four years, the opposition candidate will vow to "get tough" on China.
EVER PONDER the significance of the little tag in the back of your T-shirt, or the label on your new video game?
JUST WHEN you thought that politicians couldn't get any more degenerate and selfish, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani set out on a successful mission to prove everyone wrong.
IN THE best literature class I ever took, we didn't read a single book. It was a course taught here at the University on the Broadway musical, based solely on viewings of movies or live theatre performances.
BOWL CHAMPIONSHIPS and college applications. Final Four appearances and campus visits. Standout players and alumni contributions.
HOUSING anguish. It's that time of year again. The Housing Division sent notifications for Phase III applicants in late February.
THE HONOR system is marching inexorably towards irrelevance. Its constitution and bylaws have been changed four times in as many years, and significant segments of the University community believe that its procedures are rigged against them.
TRYING harder doesn't always pay off; more effort doesn't always produce better results. A study released by Harvard University's School of Public Health last week suggests that increased efforts to curb college students' binge drinking may be backfiring.
