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Anthony Dick


Living a life of courage

WE ALL have a different reaction to the uninvited reality of graduation. Some of us would rather face a weed-whacker vasectomy.

Simplifying citizenship

OVER THE weekend I had the misfortune to find myself watching CNN on a grainy public television in a crowded Midwestern airport terminal, waiting for a connecting flight back to Charlottesville.

Sticking to basics, not brandnames

JUST WHEN you thought the practice of collegiate branding had been forever buried in the dingy frat-house basements of the past, our Board of Visitors has brought it back.

Leaning towards intellectual diversity

ON FRIDAY, the Collegiate Network issued its CampusOutrage Awards, given out each year for the most ridiculous instances of political correctness at colleges and universities across the country.

An illiberal left

IT ISN'T often that a group of college professors is soundly and thoroughly embarrassed by a collection of mere students in an intellectual arena.

Learning free thought

PROFESSOR Ward Churchill, until recently the chairman of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, came under fire this month for spouting some grotesquely insipid remarks about America's relationship to terrorism.

Europe's socialist problem

IT'S NOT uncommon to hear allegations from free-market advocates that Europe still suffers from a good deal of lingering sympathy for the defunct ideals and policies of socialism.

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