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Interdisciplinary confusion

AS A POLITICAL and Social Thought major with a thesis looming on the horizon, I decided to attend a lecture entitled "Interdisciplinarity and Anxiety" last week.


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All eyes on Kosovo

KOSOVO'S declaration of independence last Sunday setoff a cascade of congratulations, denunciations and general confusion.


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A stifiling stigma

RECENTLY the University introduced a new program toencourage victims of sexual assaults to report any occurrences of sexual violence.


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The value of voting

THERE'S an old, bad joke abouttwo economists who run intoeach other at a voting booth. Both are embarrassed to be seen there and agree not to tell anyone.


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Fundraising's smoking gun

EARLIER this month, the WorldHealth Organization warned thattobacco could claim one billion lives by the end of the century if foreign governments do not significantly improve their efforts to curb cigarette use.


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After "race"

FORTY years have passed since Martin Luther King Jr. was shotdead. But here, in his future, the legacy of civil rights has climbed heights where bullets cannot reach.


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Discounting course shopping

DURING this week's elections,several candidates, includingBatkhuu Dashnyam, toyed with the idea of "course shopping." Numerous top universities, such as Harvard and Yale, currently use this process.


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URSOVA1N

IN THE United Arab Emirates, Saeed Khouri purchased a license plate reading "1" -- only "1" -- for $14.3 million on Saturday, setting a new world record for the most money ever paid for a personalized license plate, according to ABC News.


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Easy as AFC

THE UNIVERSITY'S athletic facilities, particularly the AFC, are first-rate and an enormous resource to students here.


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Honor for all

AS THE newly elected Honor Committee members take their places in the trial room on the fourth floor of Newcomb, these representatives will have bigger issues to face than the single sanction and jury selection procedures.


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Flexing honor's muscle

THE UNIVERSITY prides itself on the honor of its students, but beyond the basic tenets of honesty and academic integrity that come with any such code, I admit I am woefully unaware of the impact the Honor Committee has on the daily life of the University student.


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Giving away our security

MONDAY, the American engineering company and military contractor Lockheed Martin won a bid to build six military transport aircraft for the armed forces of India.


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International relief

ORGANIZATIONS are often prone? to vociferous debates and scrutiny about how they promote change at this University.Should the Living Wage campaign have organized a sit-in that eventually caused its downfall?


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If vaginas could talk

THE BEST kind of theatre is that which is profoundly honest. Even better theatre is the kind that makes audience members laugh and then cry within the span of a few minutes.


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Financial fitness

STUDENTS at the University take physical fitness seriously. We have several gyms, dozens of club sports and thousands of well-conditioned athletes.


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On the outside looking in

IT WAS going to be a revolution: a Ron Paul revolution of libertarianism and constitutionalism. The Texas Representative running for President raised massive amounts of money in the neighborhood of $28,000,000 and had a groundswell of grassroot support.


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Honoring a maniac

I'M FEELING patriotic today. After all, today is Presidents' Day, so maybe it's all the Jefferson-Jackson Dinners in Richmond.


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How the other half lives

SOCIOECONOMIC diversity at the University has been a hotly debated issue in recent times, and last week candidates for Student Council held a question and answer forum about how to increase enrollment among low-income students who hope to attend the University.

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