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Acceptance or ignorance

IT IS UNDERSTOOD that not everyone is going to be on the same page about certain issues; that is the joy of being a student of the University.


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Surveying survey coverage

SEX. Everyone has an interest in that, right? I mean, if it weren?t for sex, none of us would be here ? test tube babies excepted.So it?s no surprise that a ranking of colleges and universities according to their sexual health would appear in college newspapers all across the country, including The Cavalier Daily.


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Housing hassles

AH, MID-OCTOBER. The leaves are falling, the weather is changing, and you?re finally starting to get back into the rhythm of school.


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Spending spree

FOR ALL the painstaking deliberation that goes into planning the federal budget, there?s only one side of fiscal policy that voters truly respond to en masse: those nasty little things called taxes.


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Singing the blues

IN 1932, Herbert Hoover lost his reelection bid against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, setting the course of American politics for the next quarter century as Democrats dominated the presidency.


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Hands-on economics

AFTER a scary downward spiral, the economy seems to be looking up, at least for now. Two weeks after the so-called ?bailout? bill passed, the federal government finally decided what to do with the money it had been begging for.


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Better to give than to receive

I REMEMBER from my younger days in church that our priest would note the conventional wisdom that rich patrons generally donate less money than those who aren?t so well-off.


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Taking care of our own

IN AN E-MAIL to the University community this week, President John T. Casteen, III discussed the impact of state budget cuts on the University in light of the economic downturn.


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How to bomb a negotiation

WITH SO much attention focused on domestic issues, one may have been surprised to learn that United States had removed North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states this weekend.


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Un-newsworthy

THIS MONDAY, Student Council and the Arts & Sciences Council flooded the University with 1,500 copies of the New York Times and USA Today.


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A voter

ELECTION Day is now less than a month away, and the respective candidates? campaigns have gone into overdrive, registering voters and spending millions on less-than-cordial advertising.


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Speaking Greek

YES, I?M in a fraternity. And yes, that just might be why I don?t know you. Because I came from an all-boys high school with strong ties to the University, I was well versed in what were the ?cool? fraternities on Grounds before I even arrived.

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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.