THANK YOU to those who sent in comments and questions in response to last week's column. Most queries focused either on the news or the on-line edition of The Cavalier Daily. Since the online edition is being refurbished this week, I'll review the Web site and content in the next few weeks.
EVERYONE needs a hero. Everyone wants someone to honor. Some members of the Fifeville Neighborhood Association have decided that for them, that person is Sally Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves.
COLLEGE students across the nation took a collective yawn and rolled over as StudentU.com went online last Wednesday and began posting lecture notes taken at 62 universities.
A QUICK fix is just that. Nevertheless, affirmative action advocates routinely gloss over the cracks in the foundation of the educational system, instead trying to cover up with policies that do nothing to solve the larger problem. After the University of California system stopped its race-preference admissions policies, affirmative action advocates decried the drop in minority enrollment.
ONE MILLION in Rwanda. Ten thousand in Kosovo. A few hundred in East Timor. These are the estimated death tolls of intra-state war in the 1990s. Rwandans got no state-sanctioned assistance from foreign powers despite atrocities occurring there; Kosovars received aid after a few months of genocide; East Timor now calls for help.
JOE FRANTICALLY arrives a few minutes late to school, having forgotten to set his alarm after going to bed in the wee hours of the morning.
IT SEEMS, my fellow Wahoos, as if the gauntlet has been thrown. The Cavalier Daily reported Sept.
HAVEN'T you always loved the ubiquitous extra-curricular activities section on applications for scholarships, honor societies and universities?
THE RETURN of students, while in many ways pleasant, always brings with it something people in Charlottesville dread.
AT CONVOCATION last August, administrators stressed a fact I knew well: I was enrolled at the No.
THE STORIES that make up this semester's registration issue all treat their subjects (and their readers) with well-organized prose and interesting as well as timely topics.
I HAVE lived in the Venable neighborhood for three years and I've always thought it was a safe place. The train tracks are right behind my house.
AFFIRMATIVE action programs long have victimized underprivileged white students by offering them no distinction from affluent white students in the college admissions process.
IT'S RARE to see a column inspired by hot dogs. Wurst of any kind usually don't get much press. But last week a few hot dogs did some damage to first-year students' image of the University Judiciary Committee. The wieners in question appeared on a flyer the Committee posted and distributed in first-year residence areas.
No one wants to think that it could ever happen to them. But for two University women this week, it did.
Daddy's little girl. That's me. I always will be, as long as a gazillion pictures of me - as a five-year-old, on my horse and on every single first day of school - are scattered around the house.
ON SUNDAY night, two friends and I went to work out at the Aquatics and Fitness Center. Unfortunately, preparations were underway for the annual first-year bash and we were unable to get in.
THE U.S. victory at this summer's Women's World Cup soccer finals added yet another item to America's registry of puritanical no-nos.
HEY MOM and Dad, how's your relationship with your college-aged son or daughter? Do you know what he or she is doing when not under your all-protecting roof?
THE DUTCH really do drown their fries in mayonnaise. And if you go to the right place, you can get them in a cone with ketchup and onions on top.
