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Debacle on the Lawn

YESTERDAY hordes of admitted high school seniors and their overly enthusiastic parents obstructed sidewalks, clogged dining halls dishing out artery-clogging food and formed tours that tormented anyone walking to class.


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Banish the sanction ad hoc committee

THE HONOR Committee is locked in an endless cycle of self-destruction. Governed by students, a large majority of those whom come to the Committee completely new for one-year terms, the Committee has virtually no institutional memory and is destined to make the same mistakes repeatedly.


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The plank in our own eye

IN ANCIENT Greece, the Oracle at Delphi was known for the ability to predict the future; at the entrance to the Delphic temple read a simple inscription: Know thyself.


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Science rules

AS SECOND semester begins to wind down, first-year engineering students enrolled in the Science, Technology, and Society 101 course are beginning work on "Katrinasim." Katrinasim is a culminating project that engages students with a real-world example of the effect of technology on society, and vice-versa.


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Thinking about the big picture

IN RECENT weeks, the University has exhibited a disturbing trend of measures and ideas that provide benefits to small numbers of students while curtailing or interfering with the rights of other students.


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The new face of disenfranchisement

VIRGINIA has a long history of denying its citizens the right to vote. Today, there are still more than 300,000 disenfranchised men and women in this state, whose entire adult population in the 2000 census was about 5.6 million.


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Not their choice

THE RESIDENCE Life Office recently announced that incoming first-year students will no longer be allowed to specify a preference between Alderman and McCormick Road residence halls.


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Subtle ageism

SOMETIMES, very subtle things perpetuate stereotypes and promote prejudices. About eight years ago, for a course on the civil rights movement, I looked at the original local coverage of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott.


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Re-envisioning Tibet and China

WITH THE exception of the Tibetan and Han people (and a few foreign travelers) living in Lhasa, nobody really knows what actually happened on March 14, when the so-called peaceful demonstration turned out to be violent.


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Chugging along

MANY STUDENTS have experienced the frustration of trying to travel from the University to Northern Virginia and Washington D.C., especially those of us who live in the area.? Whether it is trying to find a ride or dealing with the traffic on Route 29, the transportation infrastructure connecting Charlottesville to Northern Virginia is clearly not adequate to meet the needs of these two expanding regions. The creation of a commuter rail line connecting Charlottesville to Northern Virginia and Washington D.C.


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When juice tells the truth

FREEDOM of expression has played an important role throughout my University career and throughout those of my peers, and Juicy Campus now gives many more students the same opportunity we have had.


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The many-headed monster

LAST WEEK, the Take Back the Night program held a series of events to remember University sexual assault victims and to heighten awareness about these crimes.

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