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BERGER: The Comstock lode

Republicans are often seen as backwards in terms of women’s rights, but Comstock is not blindly following a Republican platform. Instead, she allows her gender to contribute to her political views.


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BOGUE: Providing for the future

The Depression-induced panic that inspired Social Security is understandable, but it’s high time to replace Roosevelt-era ideologies with ones more suited to our political tradition of individualism and responsibility.


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Varieties of corruption

What’s alarming about the McDonnell team’s motion is that its central argument holds that the former governor’s behavior is nothing out of the ordinary. McDonnell’s actions are “routine political conduct,” the attorneys assert.


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Outside the box

Tuesday, The Cavalier Daily kicks off a five-week campaign to raise money for new distribution boxes. We hope to raise $8,000 to purchase 75 distribution boxes to place around Grounds and Charlottesville.


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KNAYSI: A dream deferred

By rejoining these two Martin Luther King Jr.’s — the integrationist of 1963 and the radical democratic socialist of 1968 — we challenge ourselves to recognize the extent that our national hero’s famous “dream” remains unfulfilled.


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KELLY: Silencing the hecklers

To assume that racial tension is a growing problem at the University gives too much weight to the erratic, petty racial slanders that have been made over the years.


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Align rankings with access

While we’re glad Obama is devoting attention to college affordability, efforts to attract high-achieving low-income students cannot move in fits and starts. An adjustment in rankings methodology would make it a matter of self-interest for colleges to do more for low-income students.


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SPINKS: Vandal scandal

Without being sensationalist, I would argue that the racist graffiti outside of Elson Student Health Center is indicative of a larger problem with assumptions and prejudices about race at the University, and it should have been given much more attention from both the local media and the University administrators than it was.


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BROOM: Between the lines

Turning that kind of focus and effort to the AccessUVa changes in light of the University promoting involvement with the White House in trying to increase opportunities for low-income students would be a service to the University community.


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ALJASSAR: To be fair on welfare

She has 80 names and 30 addresses, and she’s cashing out on 12 Social Security cards and veterans’ benefits from nonexistent dead husbands. She has Medicaid, food stamps, nine children and she’s raking in welfare money under each name.


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BROWN: A defender of liberty

By exposing the gross overreaches of the NSA, including monitoring of private emails and phone messages of private citizens without warrants, Snowden was actually performing his duties as well as he possibly could.


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HUMOR: Shout outs

Shout out to geodes. If someone were carrying rock and were okay with the rock but then they dropped the rock and it turned out to be a geode on the inside, there is no way that they would not be pumped about that turn of events.


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BOGUE: Mississippi blues

Rehabilitation isn’t an excuse to give inmates flat-screen TVs or make our penitentiaries luxury hotels. It’s a critical look at the ways in which prisons change those who enter them in profound and irreversible ways, generating anti-social behavior, minimizing dignity and doing little to correct the habits that locked the prisoners up in the first place. Where possible, we should fight these effects.

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