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PATEL: Students of UVa, unite

This discrepancy is at the heart of the friction between students and the University because we feel as the providers of the plurality of budget dollars, we have little say in how they are spent.


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We all scream for green

Many of us personally experience the impacts of economic hardship or identity-based discrimination, but we do not see, first hand, the consequences when another plastic water bottle is thrown into a landfill.


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MENENDEZ: Running with Leslie

Humans have a rather complicated relationship with running: there’s the hellacious elementary school Presidential fitness test in which ten-year-olds are required to sprint back and forth across an un-airconditioned basketball court, slapping the out-of-bounds line as they scramble to beat an ever quickening, loud beep of elimination.


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KELLY: Dear mom, take a break

While all politicians intermittently wave the flag of family values, however, research has steadily shown that women who take maternity leave experience positive health benefits.


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One dot at a time

The majority of people in a community do not commit acts of violence, but merely being non-violent is not enough to counteract all of the acts of violence — all the red dots.


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BROOM: Loving life

Even if one has kept a journal or a blog, it is a different level to work within a newspaper editorial structure and try to craft a column. The writers are finding and honing their voices.


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Home safe home

The advantage to having students rather than administrators lead the initiative for greater safety is that students can more easily view their peers as models for how they should be living in this community.


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KHAN: The virtue of Model UN

Yet despite all these flaws, Model UN provides a worthwhile experience that forces delegates to adapt to uncomfortable situations which may conflict with their opinions.


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ALJASSAR: A checkbox for Arabs

Our current classification only makes us invisible to the rest of the population. It is not unreasonable for Arab Americans to seek a unique census category which better represents us.


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WAN: Turn off the spotlight

There seems to be a view that international students are more likely to cheat than their American peers. However, this assumption is invalid and oversimplified, because these two groups are not examined under the same circumstances.


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Educating our heroes

The problem, it seems, is that many veterans remain completely unaware of the resources available to them, and elite universities seem more like a pipe dream than an achievable goal.


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HUMOR: On emotion

I can never bring myself to do my laundry, which means there is always a soft pile of clothing for my tired friends to sleep on when they don’t want to walk back home at night.


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An imperfect union

So it may seem as though disallowing fraternity parties would reduce the number of sexual assaults, but this approach only attacks the venues, rather than the roots of the problem.


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HORNE: The Spotify illusion

Since music has become digital, bringing us so many options for how to listen to music, the choice to purchase music rather than find it somewhere else online has become a much more meaningful decision by the customer.


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More helping hands

One possible role could be assisting in University-wide education efforts, both about the procedures of sexual misconduct cases at the University and what it means to abide by the 12 standards of conduct.

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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.