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Vroom! Vroom!
By Managing Board | February 16, 2012Johnny Vroom was the last person we spoke to Saturday.
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Johnny Vroom was the last person we spoke to Saturday.
Cynics among us might claim Student Council has been with us for decades of schooling and yet no one knows what it does.
I would like to point out to the writers of the Sports section that there are major Olympic sports currently underway at the University.
When we told the candidates for Honor Committee College representative we were taping their interviews, they seemed unflustered; apparently this is standard procedure on Newcomb's fourth floor.
I read a novel last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially because, within the first few pages, I found myself reintroduced into the world of recreational reading.
Google and Facebook have recently removed content from websites with an Indian domain to protect that nation's "religious sensibilities." The two Internet giants were among 21 other groups forced to take down offensive material within 36 hours of the Indian government's request. Comparable to the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), India's press law states that companies, not individual users, are responsible for the material uploaded and shared through their web services.
The nation has been abuzz of late concerning new legislation which would mandate employers fork over the cost for their employee's contraception.
Charity Harrell was the first person we interviewed, but made a lasting impression; Jonathan Lim is, in his spare time, a trained police officer in his native Singapore.
The idea that one has a moral obligation to demand a living wage for University workers is simply false.
68-44: The final score of the Virginia men's basketball team's Wednesday night victory against Wake Forest, which moved the Cavaliers to 6-3 in the conference, keeping them in the top 25 overall 71-28: The tally of votes for House Bill 189 in the House of Delegates, which allows state-funded private adoption agencies to discriminate against potential parents based on their religious or political beliefs.
Those dystopias imagined by Plato or Huxley wherein the beliefs of children were assigned and dictated at birth were never realized.
