THE CAVALIER Daily ombudsman is charged with critiquing the newspaper's policies, coverage, business dealings and recent actions, and can make suggestions or respond to non-staffers' queries, criticisms or praise. This week's column is just that -- a response to a non-staffers annoyed query and a few suggestions about source-journalist relationships.
THE BEST student columns are about local issues, events that are taking place close to home, not miles away.
A MIXTURE of dried plant materials like cedar or cypress wood shavings, lavender or rose leaves and flowers, and cinnamon bark can make a sweet-smelling potpourri. Smell, however, wasn't the main sense originally associated with "pot-pourri," a French word linked to another of the senses -- taste -- as the word came from a Spanish stew. Tasty, sizzling-hot ingredients mixed into a stew are reminiscent of church potlucks, which are even more entwined with the five senses as men, women and children can pick and choose what looks, smells and tastes good.
ATTRACTIVESS is a cultural value. It is important in the clothes we buy and wear, in our furniture, in cosmetics and any number of life habits or activities.
"IT WAS a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!
A NATIONAL Football League running back was once quoted as saying: "I want to rush for 1,000 to 1,500 yards, whichever comes first." There is similarity in that pearl of wisdom to the National Basketball Association star center who reportedly couldn't remember if he visited the Parthenon when he was in Greece, because, "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." Sports stars say some interesting things.
PEOPLE CAN be very unkind. It is common late in grade school or in the middle-school years for youngsters to tease each other using condescending words or phrases tied to physical or mental real or perceived short-comings.
TODAY IS Valentine's Day. It's also my wife's birthday. So what kind of fool am I since I am on an airplane on my way to Cleveland?
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TRANSPARENCY is the new buzz word in journalism and as The Cavalier Daily begins its 118th year of publication new editor-in-chief Herb Ladley pledges clarity and focus. In a story in Monday's newspaper, Ladley was quoted as saying he wanted to make The Cavalier Daily "not only a forum for students, but a place they can see themselves fitting in
