Opinion

Opinion

A wolf in sanction reform

By Justin Starr | February 10, 2009

TO SAY that the honor system is flawed would be an understatement. However, even the strongest proponents of reform should think twice about supporting the current referendum put forth by Hoos Against Single Sanction (HASS). Their proposed amendment to the honor constitution would do two things: 1) it would retain expulsion as the default punishment for honor offenses and 2) it would vastly expand the powers of the Honor Committee, by enabling them to sanction trivial honor offenses.Currently, the Committee operates in relative secrecy with little to no oversight, and is capable of making a number of significant errors that can greatly influence students? lives.

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Curing Honor

By Isaac Wood | February 9, 2009

?SUNLIGHT is said to be the best of disinfectants.? These words were spoken by U.S.

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Connecting with readers

By Tim Thornton | February 9, 2009

IT?S A newspaper?s Holy Grail. And it?s not just about journalists? desire to be liked.

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A bend in the road

By Elizabeth Mills | February 6, 2009

IN MY FIRST semester as editor-in-chief, I remarked on more than one occasion that I felt as if someone was driving a metaphorical Mack truck over my life, putting the truck in reverse and then running over me again.

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In the midst of real life

By Daniel Colbert | February 6, 2009

AS A STUDENT at Cornell, Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite writers, worked for Cornell?s student newspaper, The Daily Sun.

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Beyond the basement

By Kristin Hawkins | February 6, 2009

THEY SAY it takes a village to raise a child, and the same concept applies to The Cavalier Daily.

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What

By Steve Austin | February 6, 2009

I DON?T actually get this whole ?parting shot? business.

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The one and only

By Creighton Heaukulani | February 6, 2009

AS A PRELUDE to what will undoubtedly be an abysmal column, I will warn anyone reading this that I am a math major who has never written anything for The Cavalier Daily before.

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The pen is mightier than the keyboard

By Prashanth Parameswaran | February 5, 2009

Frigid and half-asleep, I nestled into my seat in Ruffner Hall last Wednesday, ardently awaiting another lecture by Melvyn Leffler, Edward Stettinius professor of history.

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Opinion

McAuliffe for Governor

By Geoff Skelley | February 5, 2009

Election season may be over nationally but in Virginia it is just starting to heat up again as the 2009 statewide elections are nine months away.

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A new kind of unity

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 4, 2009

With Student Council elections fast approaching, this is an ideal time to evaluate what the University Unity Project has accomplished over the past year and whether it is worth continuing in the future.

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Super Bowl to toilet bowl

By Robby Colby | February 4, 2009

The Super Bowl has become iconic not so much for the

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More Sanctions, More Problems

By Josh Hess | February 4, 2009

Our honor system isn?t perfect. But imagine it was far worse.

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Working for women

By Michelle Lamont | February 3, 2009

BACK IN THE fall, in the hectic heyday of the presidential campaign, Michelle Obama came to the University to speak outside of Newcomb Hall to a crowd of students and townspeople alike.

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Pillars of change

By Amelia Meyer | February 3, 2009

WE WALK past them every day on the way to class. They loom over us like giant white gods, their shadows encompassing our small figures as we enter a building or walk down the Lawn.

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Going from broke

By Isaac Wood | February 2, 2009

?IF IT AIN?T broke, don?t

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Armed and protected

By Annette Robertson | January 30, 2009

CURRENTLY the commonwealth of Virginia does not allow anyone to carry a firearm on school property, including university property.

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Fundamental fairness

By Brian O'Neill | January 30, 2009

RECENTLY, the process of the Honor system has come under intense scrutiny in these pages.

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American as apple pie

By Prashanth Parameswaran | January 30, 2009

AS MY SWEATY pen scribbled ferociously at a Middle East Institute conference in Washington, D.C., the panel moderator Graeme Bannerman pursed his lips, furrowed his brow, and unleashed a stinging rebuke of U.S.

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Modernizing without going bust

By Mitch Ross | January 29, 2009

The Rondout-West Branch tunnel has been leaking since the 1980s, losing some 20 million gallons a day.