FORGET politics as usual. I've come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be that bad if both presidential candidates wore skin tight speedos, shaved their chests, and got in the WWF ring to battle for a place in the White House.
THERE are too many groups on Grounds that claim to represent the University but don't actually do it. I'm not talking about CIOs, even though they branch off with such specificity they might as well have the Organization for People from Djibouti Who Like to Watch Alf Re-runs.
THERE'S A NAME for a person who tailors his personality to what others expect - a tool. If we're looking for a tool for president, commander-in-chief, for the big Kahuna, the leader of the free world, look no more.
On Tuesday, October 10, The Cavalier Daily ran an editorial cartoon entitled "Early Halloween Haunts," depicting a masked gunman robbing two people, and saying "No trick!
WHERE have all the good men gone? Gone to get jobs in air-conditioning repair, every one. Perhaps not every one, but they're not in college, at any rate.
THE REPUBICANS forgot somebody. As I watched the Democratic convention, the liberals' memories seemed a little deficient too.
LOCAL church gains favor with God, prays for heathen Jews." Yom Kippur Services, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 6:15 p.m. The preceding lines constituted the Oct.
HOW DID we let our most sacred tradition become so irrelevant so fast? The honor system, where a meager seven students were found guilty in trials all of last year, continues along its death course, lifelessly plodding the winding road of indifference, fading into the sea of oblivion and good ideas forgotten.
LET'S GET one thing straight: negative campaigning is good. Focus groups might not like it, women voters might not like it.
TEXAS Gov. George W. Bush, his running mate, the Republican Party, and several members of the media have attacked Vice President Al Gore recently on the issue of trustworthiness.
LET'S GET one thing straight: negative campaigning is good. Focus groups might not like it, women voters might not like it.
WHEN I was younger, my older brother would always beat me up. My parents tried to break up as many of our fights as they could, and it upset me that they always got mad at me for fighting back.
FOR THOSE living in a fox hole for the past few weeks, a very important job opening will be filled in a very short time.
ADULTS lie to kids all the time. Lies like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny don't hurt anyone because they are widely recognizable as lies -- at least by anyone over the age of 10.
FINALLY, an intelligent, exciting plan for encouraging diversity comes out of the administration.
THERE IS a drinking culture at the University. Whether or not you choose to participate in it, it does exist.
ONE WOULD think Cornel West's lecture "Race Matters" would have included a substantive discussion of racial problems and solutions.
WHEN I returned home from college for winter break after three months of being on my own last year, everyone in the world wanted to know what the University was like.
I'M FED up with the kissing on TV recently. No, I'm not talking about sexually explicit programming.
THE WOOING of the women -- that has turned out to be an appropriate title for this year's presidential race.
