Opinion

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Defending grade inflation

By Geoff Skelley | March 19, 2009

In Monday's Cavalier Daily a story highlighted recent research by a retired Duke professor Stuart Rojstaczer on the widespread grade inflation on college campuses around the country (?Research cites grade inflation as cause for national increase in GPA,? 3/16/2009). Recently, the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese here at the University shifted its grading policy to remove the A+ from its grading scale and making it more difficult to get an A in its language courses.

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Best in class

By Robby Colby | March 19, 2009

For the first time in eight semesters, the day of the release of the Course Offering Directory, now known as the Schedule of Courses, will have little to no impact on my academic life.

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No honor in anonymity

By Michael Khavari | March 19, 2009

Juicy Campus is dead, but the desire to spout uninformed opinions anonymously on the Internet is alive and well.

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Rule by the few

By Bernice Ramirez and Carlos Oronce | March 19, 2009

For all the pretense of ?student self-governance? at the University, transparency continues to be unfulfilled by both administrators and students.

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A poor choice

By Amelia Meyer | March 18, 2009

A problem undoubtedly exists when the Secretary of the Board of Visitors has to assure students that the commencement speaker for the 2009 graduation ceremony is in no way ?a racist or an ideologue.? Yet Secretary Alexander Gilliam and other members of the administration responsible for the selection of Judge J.

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Vive la France

By Kendra Kirk | March 18, 2009

In recent times, there has been some anti-French sentiment and a few caustic remarks made regarding our neighbors across the pond.

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Stemming unwarranted concerns

By Michelle Lamont | March 17, 2009

?Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident,? said President Barack Obama on March 9, following his decision to overturn the Bush administration?s policy restricting funding on embryonic stem cell research.

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Let the humiliation commence

By Prashanth Parameswaran | March 17, 2009

Since this is my last semester at the University, I often find myself evaluating my overall experience at this institution.

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Taking politics out of teen pregnancy

By Lindsay Huggins | March 16, 2009

?I don't want to get into detail about [contraception]...Everyone should be abstinent... but it?s not realistic at all,? Bristol Palin told Fox News back in February.

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Relevant reporting

By Matt Dickey | March 16, 2009

People around the world are suffering and dying needlessly. Ills ranging from preventable diseases to heinous human rights abuses are destroying the lives of millions.So why are we spilling so much ink squabbling over comparatively petty University issues like the University Board of Election?s botched ballot for next year?s University Unity Project?

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Small problems with puns, big gaps in coverage

By Tim Thornton | March 16, 2009

This week, I?m going to complain and Cavalier Daily Managing Editor Tom Madrecki is going to respond.

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Kidneys for sale

By Bobby Laverty | March 13, 2009

Tick, tock, tick, tock: the clock moves forward. For most, Jack Bauer?s fictional world in the drama-series ?24? is an entertaining escape from the real word; however, for some, it is a reality.

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Going greed

By Anthony Nobles | March 13, 2009

A few weeks ago, while watching Law and Order: SVU on the USA Network, the usual commercial breaks were interrupted by a corporate-sponsored public service announcement.

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Global whining

By Hung Vu | March 13, 2009

If midterms have been plaguing you for the past few weeks, you might have missed the ads run by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), an organization that fights for free market economics.

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To the left, to the left

By Robby Colby | March 12, 2009

On Monday, President Obama signed an executive order reversing the ban enacted by former President George W.

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Last rights

By Michael Khavari | March 12, 2009

The recent legalization of physician assisted suicide in Washington state once again thrusts the issue to the forefront of American minds.

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Censor this

By Geoff Skelley | March 12, 2009

Let's say you?re watching a movie on televsion and a character says "baloney? instead of another supposedly more offensive b-word that censors dubbed over, either sounding stupid or ruining a funny or serious moment in the movie.

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Practicing what we preach

By Amelia Meyer | March 11, 2009

In case you missed it, Sunday was International Women?s Day, a holiday intended to highlight the condition of women all over the globe.

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International red tape

By Kendra Kirk | March 11, 2009

Art history and architecture in Rome, French in Lyon, International Finance in London, jet setting around the world on a cruise ship.

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More than a hideout for terrorists

By Michelle Lamont | March 10, 2009

Nearly six years ago, an American surge towards the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad marked the start of the war on terror and created a panic that left Iraq?s National Museum looted and destroyed, its hallowed halls dark and dusty and its displays empty behind shattered glass panels.