Final words
By Noah Peters | April 24, 2006AS I write these words, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe that this is my last column in The Cavalier Daily.
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AS I write these words, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe that this is my last column in The Cavalier Daily.
IRAN'S hardliners have gotten the confrontation they desired from the United States. During recent weeks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defiantly maintained his nation's right to enrich uranium for a civilian nuclear program in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
SO HERE'S where we stand on the immigration issue, the policy question that has split the nation: The Senate, led by Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Republican Leader Bill Frist, had agreed to a "compromise" bill that allows for a "guest worker" program and limited amnesty for some long-term illegal immigrants.
IN THE WAKE of the recent open honor trial of Steve Gilday, who was expelled from the University for lying to his teaching assistant, it has become clear that these trials do not enhance the legitimacy of the honor process.
THE DEATH of visiting 19-year-old Cornell student Matthew Pearlstone last week is endemic of the growing problem of alcohol abuse across college campuses.
THE CURRENT borders of Iraq were created at the end of World War I as a League of Nations mandate to be controlled by the United Kingdom.
THE ABORTION issue, ever controversial, is reaching a new crisis, with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments on the federal ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions in the fall.
ONE OF the great strenghts oftheAmerican university system is its competitive character. The University community worries constantly about its status as one of the nation's top public universities, and rightly so: Our position is precarious and can change at any moment in this cutthroat world of competitive admissions.
FOLLOWING a series of racially charged incidents reported in the fall, there was an outpouring of solidarity based on the belief that black students at the University should not be subject to bias or intimidation.
BASED on President Bush's past advocacy of democracy across the globe, one might have expected that he would pledge in his recent State of the Union address to topple what he has repeatedly characterized as the antidemocratic government of Iran and replace itwith a "true democracy." After all, way back in 2002, Bush named Iran as a part of the "axis of evil," along with Iraq and North Korea, and since that time Iran has pledged to wipe Israel off the map and has continued in its quest to develop nuclear technology.
