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Being clear about Clery

Requiring colleges to report these different types of incidents rightly responds to statistics which reveal other ways college women are often victimized.


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KELLY: Deriding Deep Throat

The administration’s goal of defending national security through increased secrecy measures has crippled press freedom and reporters’ incentives to investigate disconcerting or failing features of U.S. defense policy.


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BERGER: A lose-lose situation

Criminalizing this type of drug use could act as a deterrent for pregnant women who abuse illegal substances from seeking medical advice from their doctors, if they believe they could be prosecuted.


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MENNINGER: Major obstacles

The amount of credits required to fulfill such majors and minors cuts down on students’ abilities to experience the plethora of other interesting courses that the University offers.


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WAN: Fighting for suffrage

The Occupy Central movement in China is a courageous act against the prerogative of Beijing and a justifiable expression of frustration over economic inequality, but it is not making any progress.


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BROOM: Show and tell

With a digital platform, The Cavalier Daily staff has the ability to have as many photographs or graphics as it likes without worrying about the confines of newsprint.


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Guilt by association

The college’s decision was obviously uninformed and insensitive, but perhaps we ought to be thinking about how these prejudices might manifest in cases where there is not an epidemic.


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RUSSO: A time for change

Most of us at the University are interested in more than one thing, and don’t need general area requirements to force them to take classes across disciplines.


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FOGEL: Broaden the competition

This unfortunately leaves many students who want to be involved out of luck for one or more semesters; however, the University, The Cavalier Daily, and individual professors can all take steps to lessen this propensity for tunnel vision.


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EDEL: Context clues

If the University community doesn’t make an effort to maintain the integrity of its symbols, they will over time corrupt and disperse.


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A matter of medicine

Steinauer’s course can educate medical professionals about why they are obligated to provide abortion care to their patients — because of the potential health risks of continuing certain pregnancies, and the potentially severe medical complications of unsafe abortions, among other reasons.


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Fudging the numbers

And this lack of distinction negatively affects the high achievers just as much, because they would struggle to prove their excellence to employers or graduate schools in comparison to their peers.


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