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BERNSTEIN: Power to the people

By Dani Bernstein | November 25, 2013

It is likely that Republican candidate Mark Obenshain will demand a recount; since only 165 votes decided this election, this demand would be entirely reasonable. But there is also the possibility that after a recount Obenshain will contest the race, in which case it will be subject to review by Virginia’s General Assembly. In Virginia, a losing candidate can contest a race if there was some irregularity in the management of the election that possibly changed the election’s outcome.

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KELLY: Academic roulette

By Conor Kelly | November 25, 2013

I caution users of sites such as StatFuse to view its predictions skeptically, even though the site may relieve prospective college students of some of the stress of the application process.

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Match making

By Managing Board | November 25, 2013

To better match students with advisors, the College should require students to list five potential majors on an advising worksheet. The sheet would not commit students to any particular course of study.

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FOGEL: One is not the loneliest number

By Jared Fogel | November 21, 2013

Scrapping the policy would cause a resurgence in population growth in urban areas, increasing the difficulty involved in solving problems such as famine and pollution. Part of China’s original reasoning for the policy was that uncontrolled population growth was leading to the depletion of natural resources, including land fertility for crops.

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CONNOLLY: Preparing for the future

By John Connolly | November 21, 2013

Natural disasters tend to affect poor areas much more than rich ones. Haiti’s poor infrastructure exacerbated the effects of the devastating 2010 earthquake that struck the country: collapsing buildings and other structures caused thousands of deaths. In contrast, the earthquake that struck California in 1989, which recorded about the same magnitude as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, killed just 63 people.

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BOGUE: A false hero

By Russell Bogue | November 21, 2013

As soon as we allow for agents of the state or even citizens of our nation to exempt themselves from common laws on the basis of moral conviction, we allow each person to become, as Justice Brandeis once put it, “a law unto himself.”

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A broad education

By Managing Board | November 21, 2013

The number of University students participating in study abroad has not changed much since 2007. In the 2007-2008 academic year, 1,927 students (both undergraduate and graduate) studied abroad. That number dipped the following year to 1,824 and has since remained roughly the same. In the 2012-2013 academic year, 1,975 students left the country.

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YAHANDA: Hunting for trouble

By Alex Yahanda | November 19, 2013

Even the most worthwhile cause can be disregarded if a certain group imprudently promotes its views. Such is the case at the University of Texas at Austin, where a student club’s desire for discussion and dialogue has been overshadowed by its own idiocy.

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WHISNANT: Moderately deceiving

By Gray Whisnant | November 19, 2013

After years of Tea Party-led trench warfare in Washington, such a message is understandably relieving for liberals looking for an opposition party willing to govern. It is Christie’s brand as a “moderate dealmaker,” however, that ultimately makes him so dangerous to everything liberals claim to value, especially to the New Deal vision of social democracy that liberals have been building for generations.

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More than a family matter

By Managing Board | November 19, 2013

First and foremost, our thoughts rest with Deeds and the people who are close to him. Yet we can’t help but dwell on a factor that almost certainly played a part in Tuesday morning’s dispute: the deficiencies in Virginia’s mental health-care infrastructure.

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KELLY: Between liberty and safety, a middle ground

By Conor Kelly | November 19, 2013

Any attempt to reform the NSA and other such agencies should not be so impassioned as to render the agencies themselves ineffectual. Instead, we should attempt to eliminate impermissible invasions of personal privacy while allowing reasonable intelligence-gathering for national defense purposes.

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More than the money

By Managing Board | November 19, 2013

The revised system promises to create a leaner budget. But for all its sleekness, it comes with some hidden costs — some of which aren’t financial.

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