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Volunteer ventures

Most of the friends which I have made at the University volunteer in some way in the Charlottesville community, be it via tutoring or through the hospital.


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Giving our all

I assume the only people who do not yet know what all this "KONY 2012" noise is about are those of you not on Facebook.


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Mann-dated inspections

In "The Descent of Mann" (March 14), Sam Novack provided his opinion on the recent court decision against Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the work of climatologist Michael Mann and anthropogenic - not "anthropomorphic" as he wrote - global warming.


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Digitizing the Dow

Today, high frequency trading is exciting, but not sexy. Traders currently use computers with blistering connections to markets to take advantage of momentary market inefficiencies and, through tremendous volumes, may work up a sizable profit.


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The rules of the game

Wa-hoo, the Virginia men's basketball team made the NCAA Tournament and Friday will play Florida, a team many say could end March Madness for the Cavaliers.


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Invisible activists

In Denise Taylor's March 13 column "Lights, camera, inaction" she wrote that the KONY 2012 campaign should not be praised because it does not propose a solution aside from increasing awareness of Kony's army of child soldiers.


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Going above and abroad

I recently participated in a meeting at which a group of student leaders was asked whether the University should build a more robust study abroad program for undergraduate students.


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The descent of Mann

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled March 2nd against Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and his renewed attempts to obtain access to the emails and documents used in the research of a former University professor.


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Let

While I am not against the living wage, I can't help but feel impatient and a bit disgusted with the Living Wage Campaign.


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Fill in the blank

The results are in, and no one cares. Given the end of his incumbent's term, the next "The American College President" took office yesterday, replacing his 2006 predecessor.


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Phantoms at the box office

Coming from someone who has been on stage many times, I know how disappointing it is to see empty seats when the curtain opens, especially when so many long hours of practice have gone into preparing for the impending performance.


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Lights, camera, inaction

I had never heard of Joseph Kony until this past Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, I, like most people, found myself to be generally ignorant of the details of the violence in Uganda.


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Texas hold

Before Texas Gov. Rick Perry hit the campaign trail, boots hitched to saddle; before he rode toward sunset, errors beaten like a dead horse, his reputation for political boldness had been bolstered by his demand for some college degrees in Texas to cost less than $10,000.


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Bursting your bubble

I am writing in response to Emily Churchill's Feb. 29 column, "Fairy-tale Charlottesville." As much as I appreciate the flowery fair-words from a "first-year," I have just a few objections to her fervent fairy-tale fantasy.


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The beat goes on

A good measure of a newspaper is how it covers a continuing story, particularly one which draws attention from lots of out-of-town media.


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Missing in action

Full disclosure: I am a white, female, middle-class undergraduate student in the College. I was, and always will be, a supporter of the Living Wage Campaign's mission.


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A labor of love

"You make the thing because you love the thing and you love the thing because someone else loved it enough to make you love it. And with that your heart like a tent peg pounded toward the earth's core. And with that your heart on a beam burns through the ionosphere. And with that you go to work." My English teacher read "An Horatian Notion" by Thomas Lux aloud to my class on the first day of my senior year of high school.


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My Cavalier Daily obituary

In Andrew Rossi's 2011 documentary, "Page One: Inside the New York Times," Times media reporter David Carr tells an audience of journalists at a publishing conference in Minneapolis: "You have lived through the worst cyclical secular recession that the publishing business has ever seen in modern times.


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State of the heart

I never wanted to join the Managing Board. I never understood why anyone would give up so much of her life to get what seemed like so little in return.

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Carolyn Dillard, the Community Partnership Manager for the University’s Center of Community Partnerships, discusses the legacy of Dr. King through his 1963 speech at Old Cabell Hall and the Center's annual MLK Day celebrations and community events. Highlighting the most memorable moments of the keynote event by Dr. Imani Perry, Dillard explored the importance of Dr. King’s lasting message of resilience and his belief that individuals should hold themselves responsible for their actions and reactions.