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A liberal load of classes

BY THE time I was nine, I knew what I wanted to do with my future: I was going to be a neurologist! Then, by age 15, I knew the medical school of my dreams: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.


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IN A TYPICAL day, each of us is prone to make more than a few grammatical errors. We spell incorrectly, misuse homophones and even make up words.


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Trial and error

The Cavalier Daily is relieved that Editor-in-Chief Jason Ally, the final member of the managing board who still faced charges stemming from a Sept.


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Playing by the rules

Cavalier Daily Editor-in-Chief Jason Ally will go before the University Judiciary Committee tonight at 7 in a closed trial to face the charge that he violated the Honor Committee's confidentiality rules by participating in the writing of a Sept.


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A positive energy

The University is one of the nation's finest institutions, and graduate students and undergraduates alike are lucky to be here.


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The hyphenated identity

WHENEVER anyone has asked me, "What are you?" I have always come up with the same answer. Somehow, I always know they are asking about my ethnicity and I answer "Indian" every


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A noteworthy dilemma

SITTING in my science lecture the other day, I happened to glance at the notebook of the girl sitting in front of me who, halfway through class, began to write something.


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An informed decision

One of the most persistent criticisms that has dogged the Honor Committee is that its single sanction policy is counterproductive to upholding the ideal of a community of trust.


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In memoriam

A great loss to the University community was felt upon the passing of Gregory Colomb of the English department on Tuesday, October 11.


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Burying people

Coal, the black diamond, is as its alias suggests a treasure to those who make a living off of it. The coal burned at the University's steam plant comes from one of the poorest areas of the nation.


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Famous last words

AS I WAS driving and listening to the radio one day last spring, a girl called in to 94.3, "the Jersey shore's hit music channel," to exclaim enthusiastically: "I'm going to the mall today to see my girl JWoww!" Jennifer Farley, aka JWoww, is a cast member of the popular MTV reality series "Jersey Shore" and was at the mall in my town that day to sign copies of her book, "The Rules According to JWoww." Farley is not the only "Jersey Shore" star to have had a book published.


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Managing the fourth estate

PLAGIARISM. Heard enough about it yet? Regrettably, it is a perennial subject at colleges and universities and apparently a perpetual topic in the media.


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Saturday night rush hour

SATURDAY'S game against Georgia Tech was the perfect way to celebrate Homecomings weekend - you know, other than putting orange sashes around trees. The atmosphere on the hill as everyone waited to rush the field was positively electric and in that moment I felt remarkably unified with the hundreds of people crowded around me.

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