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Hood-winked

Next week, polls will open for the 2010 University-wide student elections. The race for Student Council president features three candidates, each with a distinct vision for how the student government should operate and interact with the student body.


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Greek for all

One of the biggest challenges that international students face is the difficulty of integrating into the mainstream University life.


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For the greener good

In keeping with the theme of this year's University's Unity Project, Student Council's Environmental Sustainability Committee is debating an initiative that would channel more resources toward sustainability efforts.


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Packing heat

I used to be strongly opposed to all kinds of guns. I wanted them banned everywhere - public places, schools and homes.


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Fan-demonium

Eight-hundred and thirty-five Hours. That is how much coverage NBC is dedicating to this year's Winter Olympics, more hours than the past two Olympic Games combined.


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Defending Love

I highly disagree with the majority of the claims Ginny Robinson makes in her critique of the Love is Love campaign ("Love is propaganda?," Feb.


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Propagandistic?

In "Love is Propaganda" (Feb. 15), Ginny Robinson argues that anyone considering the Love is Love campaign with "more than a precursory glance" would find it a "dextrous use of propaganda to advance a social agenda." The word she was looking for was, I believe, "cursory," but that is beside the point - Ginny's glance was blinded by ideology and her column was more propagandistic than last Friday's campaign. Ginny veiled her argument as a call for "critical thought," but this purported lack of bias was misleading.


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Sea of red

Re "Love is propaganda?," Feb. 15: The basic argument of the column reads only slightly more mature than a kindergarten student missing out on the latest primary school fad. There are several inaccuracies in Ginny Robinson's argument.


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Ignorance is publicity

The editors of The Cavalier Daily have done a disservice to their readers, as well as their writers, by publishing such poor journalism as "June Bug" (Feb.


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On Elitism

Though I am shocked at the unapologetic pretentiousness of "The Ten Society" featured in The Cavalier Daily's article ("New secret society, The Ten, seeks to reclaim elitism," Feb.


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Open secrets

Last week, the Honor Committee reached the two-thirds majority needed to put a constitutional amendment to referendum that would disclose more information about the results and discussion of honor cases.


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Snow daze

The Recent flurries of snow have been a time of delight followed by frustration for many. People always seem thrilled at the sight of the first flake falling but frustrated when they slip and fall on ice.


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Play On

When Jonathan Larson wrote Rent in 1989, he had yet to realize the legacy he would leave the world. Rent is an thought-provoking musical written about the different faces of AIDS.


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Honor

Unfortuantely, the issue of Single Sanction reform never seems to seize the student body for too long before it fades.


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What is Love?

After reading Ginny Robinson's column ("Love is Propaganda," Feb. 15), I was left feeling quite frustrated - and just as a heads up, this is coming from a straight female. You brought up a variety of contradictory points within your piece. First of all, you wrote "To deny the complexity of love by ignoring the variation in human relationships erodes the campaigns validity," while in fact, that is exactly the opposite of what the campaign is promoting.


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Not lovin

I was absolutely appalled by Ginny Robinson's column ("Love is Propaganda?," Feb. 15). How disheartening it is to see a piece that does nothing but speak in generalizations and offer the most absurd arguments for her alleged "argument." I am not involved in the LGBT, nor did I get a chance to even pick up the shirt (I still have mine from last year), but I was outraged to read her ill-informed and quite frankly, prejudicial piece.


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Un-analogous

While I rarely take anything printed in The Cavalier Daily to heart, Ginny Robinson's opinion on the Love is Love t-shirts is pretty disturbing and hopefully not representative of the University community.


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