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November 10, 2008My first response to Geoff Skelley?s article (?Bad odds,? Nov.
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My first response to Geoff Skelley?s article (?Bad odds,? Nov.
Paul Wiley?s column (?Fire this clown,? Nov. 5) was appropriately harsh and entirely on the mark.
Even as Virginia joins in the chorus of history by casting our vote to elect the first black man as President of the United States, we are joined in a form of religious tyranny by California, which recently amended its constitution to deny equal rights to homosexuals.
On Thursday, Oct. 30, The Cavalier Daily ran an overtly negative editorial (?How does your garden grow??) concerning the Student Council?s unanimous support for an on-Grounds garden.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the University made a drastic mistake in its decision to refuse to allow students a day off on Election Day.
We were somewhat perplexed at Thursday?s editorial (?How does your garden grow?? Oct.
After reading that University faculty members signed an online petition supporting Bill Ayers (?More than 3,000 professors back Ayers petition,? Oct.
Being a Hispanic student at this wonderful University, I have to disagree with the guest viewpoint ?Discrimination by nature? (Oct.
I would like to comment briefly on Michael Feuerstein?s letter to the editor (?No thanks,? Oct.30). Michael?s characterization of Virgil Goode demonstrates a real problem with today?s political climate.
While reading the guest column published by the Burke Society (?Pre-disposed to prejudice,? Oct.
This is in response to the defense that the Burke society offered for David Horowitz?s recent talk (?Pre-disposed to prejudice,? Oct.
As a resident, Hereford Student Senator, and RA in Hereford during my first three years at the University, I was not really surprised to read that Hereford might be changed to a first-year dorm.
I have to wonder what Michelle Lamont means when she says that ?marriage was originally a Biblical tradition? (?Family matters,? Oct.
I am writing in response to Katie McBeth?s article (?Bra-shopping for birth control,? Oct.
Martin Michelot (?Socialist blues,? Oct. 27) fails to consider the reasons why many Americans dislike or are even fearful of socialism.
The Committees of Student Council would like to respond to Isaac Wood?s article ?Selfish spending? (Oct.
It is disappointing that members of our community have signed a petition supporting Bill Ayers.
I am an exchange student from Lyon, France, and I have always been interested in the politics of this great country.
In light of the Jay-Z, T.I. show at JPJ Saturday evening, and the political rally those of us in attendance came to be unwittingly subjected to, I feel compelled to submit to the Charlottesville community a simple question: Why do we give entertainers the attention and glory needed to allow them to influence our forms of political self-expression and, as such, our political opinions?Watching thousands of members of the University community throw the finger up to an image of George W.
