We poured a record amount of money into hiring additional faculty, ... The academic infrastructure has been pushed to the limit.

In my view, the standardized tests we'd want to distribute on a national level simply do not exist.

Drop in a book by Salman Rushdie or another critic alongside it -- give the students an opportunity to weigh the argument.

We had hoped the university would see the error of its ways and correct this wrong without going to court. Unfortunately, the controversy only emboldened them to further divide students along the lines of their deeply held religious beliefs. It's really too bad it had to come to this.

The jury is still out about what social conservatives think of George Allen.

The common thread, apart from the opposition to the requirement itself, ... was every one of them was concerned about retaliation on the part of the faculty or being ostracized by members of the student body.