After Monday’s Virginia Tech tragedy, shock reverberated among the Korean American community ““ the shooter, 23-year-old student Cho Seung-Hui, was a man of South Korean nationality. Read more...
Opinion
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April 19, 9:39 pm
Korean sense of shame is unjustified
Opinion
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April 19, 9:37 pm
Admissions policy is not reverse discrimination
UCLA’s much-publicized holistic admissions approach has now survived its first applicant pool. When the data was released on the school’s Web site on April 5, a 2.2 percent increase in underrepresented minority admits served as evidence for the policy’s improved ability to take into account factors other than test scores and GPAs. Read more...
Opinion
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April 19, 9:36 pm
Editorial Cartoon
Opinion
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April 19, 9:27 pm
Letters to the Editor
Sex is expensive; abstinence is free I was completely disappointed in Lara Loewenstein’s article “Exorbitant expense of fornication nothing new, but still blows” (April 12). The article was rather depressing, not in terms of the content it dealt with, but rather the message delivered. Read more...
Opinion
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April 18, 9:34 pm
Virginia Tech’s spirit will not be broken
As roughly 32 of my peers lay deceased in Norris and West Ambler Johnston Halls, I struggle for the words to describe how I feel. As eager, ambitious students, we all want to make history and leave our mark on the world. Read more...
Opinion
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April 18, 9:01 pm
A sleepless future? Maybe after a nap
I shouldn’t have done it. I had decided to stay up for 24 hours without the aid of energy drinks or coffee to make a point about the future of sleep, and 12 hours in, I was already regretting my decision. Read more...
Crime, Opinion
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April 18, 9:00 pm
Universities must learn from handling of shooting
There are a few questions that have been circulating with regard to the Virginia Tech shootings. How many lives could have been saved if the administration had reacted differently? Read more...