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The 47 percent

Everybody knew. The football coach knew. The football team’s lead academic counselor knew. A senior associate dean knew.


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WARNER: Making college better

Too many young people are being forced to put off decisions about starting a family, launching a startup business or buying a home because of the burden of student debt.


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In need of SAVE-ing

Taking away anonymous advertising opportunities will make it more difficult for them to run their businesses and more likely for law enforcement to apprehend and prosecute perpetrators.


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EDEL: Against Adderall

Another’s use of Adderall doesn’t make me worse at math or biology, but another’s use of Adderall can make me look worse at math or biology, and that’s nearly as bad.


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RUSSO: Honorable eats

Perhaps more importantly, it will serve as a reminder that the honor system exists to benefit the community rather than to act as a strictly disciplinary force.


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CONNOLLY: Life on the brink

I would argue that the lack of diversity on The Cavalier Daily Life section staff impedes its efforts to present a full range of student life experiences to its readership.


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HUMOR: Dry spell

I went through a two-year dry spell in college. For longer than a root canal procedure but less than the time it takes to adequately learn Japanese, collective reality pitched a no-hitter.


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FETZER: Continuing the conspiracy

A year ago, I observed that Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University, had taken the absurd position that, although the Warren Commission had bungled its investigation, it had arrived at the right result: Lee Oswald was the lone assassin of our 35th president.


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A college’s transition

But it is becoming increasingly clear that restricting the definition of “woman” is a discriminatory practice, and it is not worth uplifting one minority group if another is oppressed in the process.


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HORNE: Treatment of tragedy

Connor’s suicide cannot be another off-limits topic that is swept under the rug; this has to be a discussion the administration is willing to have with the students.


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EVANS: Success of the Swedes

The Ambassador makes it clear that lagom is the secret to tackling the challenge of balancing the protection of vulnerable populations and ecological systems with economic development.


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WHISNANT: Freedom from fear

There is no contradiction, however, between loathing the horrors of abduction, disease and terrorism and refusing to be scared in our daily interactions with each other.


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