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IMAM: Dress codes are shaming young women

Enforcing dress codes meant to keep boys from getting distracted, rather than making certain everyone is dressed in a manner appropriate for an academic setting, sends the message that a boy’s education is more important than a girl’s.


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​SACCO: After U.Va., confronting mental health in the military

The military defines general anxiety as a "neurological disorder with psychotic features," which bars entrance to the military. On the medical history questionnaire for the Marines, Prozac, my prescribed anxiety medicine, is listed in the “History of Drug Use” section, along with crack-cocaine, heroin and other illegal street drugs.


A screenshot of Google Fortunetelling, a website imitating Google to raise awareness about refugees.
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ZIFF: Why should we care about migrants?

President Obama announced plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees to — minimally — mitigate the mounting pressure on European nations; as a symbolic gesture, it should suffice. Why should we continue to care?


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​KHAN: Be wary of artificial intelligence

The fear of wide scale automation isn't set in the distant future — it's already here. According to one study by Oxford University, half of America’s jobs are vulnerable to being replaced in the next 20 years.


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​FISHER: Inadequate sexual assault coverage

This week, The Cavalier Daily should have fulfilled its own demand for honest and robust interrogation of the rape culture stories and figures we expect to hear. Readers and journalists across the nation have expressed shock at the numbers the AAU report released, but those numbers still fit neatly into the narrative campus activists and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights have been hammering for years.


Police photo of the homemade clock Ahmed Mohamed took to school.
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​GORMAN: I don’t stand with Ahmed

Would we rather not proceed with caution at our nation's schools? It is intuitive that students should not be encouraged to bring suspicious packages into their classrooms, especially without any sort of screening by their teachers or administrators.


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​U.Va. is No. 3. Should we care?

Essentially, schools are trapped in this system (though Reed, Diver argues, has thrived through its withdrawal from the U.S. News process). And at our University, which, in all likelihood, won’t withdraw itself from rankings any time soon, we have to navigate the desire to raise rankings and simultaneously not let them guide important decisions.


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​YAHNIAN: Too many white guys in Late Night

Although admittedly I think Stephen Colbert will be an incredibly funny yet genuinely compassionate host of “The Late Show,” his selection reflects a broader hesitation of networks to stick with what’s worked in the past.


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​BERMAN: Student football tickets shouldn’t be free

The very fact that students leave games early when defeat seems imminent is in and of itself an unproductive habit. It demonstrates a lack of regard for our football team which, on average, spends over 40 hours preparing for game day each week, sacrificing time in order to represent our school as best they can.


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​WALLS: Women can fight, too

Last week the Marine Corps published a study reporting that all-male ground combat units outperformed units that included females. Teams in the study were either all-male or gender-integrated. All teams were given a series of tasks (134 in total), and researchers found the all-male teams did better in 69 percent of tasks, while the groups including females did better on only two of the tasks.


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​IMAM: The misunderstood young voter

These personality appeals also help make politicians seem less rigid, attempting to encourage younger people, who consider themselves more socially conscious than older generations, to take a more active role in politics.


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Editor's Note: This episode was recorded on Feb. 17, so some celebratory events mentioned in the podcast have already passed.

Hashim O. Davis, the assistant dean of the OAAA and director of the Luther Porter Jackson Black Cultural Center, discusses the relevance and importance of  “Celebrating Resilience,” OAAA’s theme for this year’s Black History Month celebration.