PRIDE is powerful. It can make one blind and deaf to rationality, and oblivious to those with differing views.
THE LIFE of a college student is not easy. There are too many decisions that students have to make.
I'D HEARD the rumors about kids who had gone into the Student Health Center and had come out sicker.
YOU KNEW it. You knew professors were talking about you. What you didn't know is the latest thing they're talking about -- life in Student E-mail Hell. The two of us, for example, have been talking about odd e-mails from students.
THEY CALL us Wahoos because, as this fish drinks water, we can drink our weight's worth of alcohol.
BETWEEN fellow columnist Sam Waxman's musings on the exclusivity of selective organizations, and Morgan Guyton's Declaration piece about the Lawn selection process, the inner circles of the self-governance scene received a fair amount of press last Thursday.
AS A NAVY pilot in Vietnam Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plane was shot down. He landed in a lake in Hanoi, badly injured, with both arms and one leg broken.
WHAT DO you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. What do you call a single lawyer that falls asleep during his client's capital murder case?
THERE IS a lot of talk at the University about our peer institutions and how we rank with our top academic and sports competitors.
THEY'RE an interesting thing, these primaries. Above all, it's fascinating that in the age of television and the Internet, politicians still must go around the country, campaigning from state to state as if they were snake oil salesmen traveling on the carnival circuit.
PEOPLE swear to things all the time. They swear they will never drink again, never speed again, never smoke again, and even never date again.
THE INMATES run the asylum at the University. Self-governance is a source of institutional pride and provides invaluable experience to students.
IT'S ALL too common at this University -- on these pages, especially -- that the administration's actions are greeted with the question, "What's in it for me?" We all want to know what the administration has done for us lately.
WE MAY HAVE won a victory, but we haven't won the war. This past fall, the Board of Visitors voted unanimously to uphold the University's current race-conscious admissions policy, despite outside pressure from right wing groups, specifically the ironically named Center for Equal Opportunity, to eliminate the policy.
IMAGINE if a year consisted solely of autumn and winter. These two seasons would dominate the weather patterns, leaving spring and summer forgotten.
RICHMOND - The musty odor of sneakers in an elementary school gymnasium poll site. A whiff of cologne from a sharply dressed advisor at Texas Gov.
THEY ONLY come out at night, but they're men and women on a mission. They bend over, crouch or kneel at intervals.
ALEXANDRIA - Campaigns require a lot of small choices. Unlike major policy stances, these individual decisions often go unnoticed by the general public.
AS PART OF THE process of applying to graduate schools, I'll have to make several visits to other universities over the next few weekends.
I'M IMMENSELY thankful I have a father. I can't imagine growing up without one, probably because mine has been by far the most important influence in my life.
