OVERSHADOWED by SamuelAlito's nomination to the Supreme Court and continuing debate over the War in Iraq, few have been paying attention to one of the greatest expansions in government programs in recent history.
LAST WEEK, U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hasert, R-Ill., proposed further slashing of funding for Head Start, the early education initiative widely proclaimed to be one of the federal government's most successful programs.
The Federal Communications Commission is undertaking an effort to restrict the innovative freedom of universities at an unprecedented level.
CALIFORNIA recently passed legislation that bans shackling female prisoners during labor and delivery.
LAST WEEK, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales all voiced vehement opposition to a measure passed by the Senate that would clarify the country's standards for interrogating detainees and ban the use of "cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment" of prisoners held in custody by the U.S.
STUDENTS at the University have the opportunity to make a concrete impact on the government of Sudan's ability to commit genocide.
ANYONE who has ever attempted to travel between Charlottesville and Washington, D.C. without a car knows that it is far more difficult than one might think.
FORTY years ago, the Voting Rights Act was passed to secure the voting rights of all Americans by preventing disenfranchisement by local, state and federal governments.
WHILE FIRST years have only been living on Grounds for about three weeks, the pressure to start considering accommodation for next year has begun.
LAST WEEK'S decision by the Food and Drug Administration to once again delay expanded access to the morning-after pill shows the extent to which the Bush administration is willing to deny science for cheap political gain. Back in December 2003, an FDA advisory committee voted 23 to four to approve over-the-counter sales of the drug.
