ONE of my favorite CDs was put out in 1993 by a hard rock band from Wisconsin. A line from one particular song's chorus comes to mind whenever the latest cause du jour pops into the headlines: "You can't change the world." Granted, this line was used in reference to alcoholism, but it has become a personal motto of sorts. I used to bemoan the lack of student involvement with issues surrounding the University.
SEVERAL months ago, members of the University administration made a veiled threat to students, suggesting that the future of Fall Break was in danger if students kept using the reading holiday as a time for vacation.
AWEEK ago I received a forwarded e-mail from a friend of mine at James Madison University. The message was somewhat of a response to the second school shooting in San Diego in as many weeks.
SOMEWHERE in the past 200-odd years, the words "free press" got mangled. Like parallel lines going off into the distance, "freedom of the press" and "free speech" converged, even when the two aren't all that similar. When left-wing activist turn conservative commentator David Horowitz submitted his controversial advertisement regarding slavery reparations to various collegiate newspapers across the nation, the actions of a free press are what denied the ad from seeing newsprint in the majority of those publications. Our founding fathers knew that a free press was necessary to ward off tyranny.
I HADN'T planned to write about the honor referenda this week. Having mentioned the Committee repeatedly throughout the last two weeks, I figured it was time to give it a rest.
ONCE AGAIN, we've reached the point in the school year when prospective candidates for different positions of student leadership begin to besiege students across Grounds, armed with petitions and pages of signatures. This spring's election season has the distinction of being one of the most highly anticipated in years, as the Honor Committee has put several constitutional changes on the ballot that are guaranteed to stir up controversy. In the College of Arts and Sciences, it's a time of fierce campaigning between candidates for the Honor Committee, the Judiciary Committee and Student Council. In smaller schools of the University, however, the atmosphere is a bit different.
I WANT TO thank the Board of Visitors. After the story last week about how the Board may have suggested some of the changes in the honor system that we will be voting on this spring, my initial reaction was that of smug satisfaction. I've always thought that the honor system could not exist in its current form for much longer, and that it would only be a matter of time before some outside force took matters into its own hands.
The middle of June 1997, sitting under the bright lights of a football stadium in southeastern Virginia.
The realm of electronic music is simply a misunderstood genre. Almost every time I attempt to indoctrinate supposed "dance" music fans about the artists they should take a good look at, they shrink back into the narrow world of Top 40 "dance" hits.
From their habits, you'd think that rock radio stations are desperate to combat the rap influx into popular music.
