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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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Outsourcing universities

WHEN REFLECTING on the phenomenon of globalization, many images come to mind, such as McDonalds' golden arches or the Starbucks logo.What does not come to mind is the United States' higher education system.


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First place in the classroom?

TRAINING with varsity swimmers makes the JV novice a better swimmer. She watches their refined technique, copies their S-curve strokes and stretches her lungs to keep up.


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Opening up to Cuba

WHEN YOU can get the Pope, the head of the Nation of Islam, a former Democratic President, a Republican congressman and 183 countries all to agree on a single issue, people need to pay attention.? Since the early 1960s, the United States has exercised an economic and travel embargo against the country of Cuba.


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Days of apathy

THE 2008 Day of Dialogue on Race occurred two weeks ago with little fanfare, its call for increased awareness of issues of racial prejudice and discrimination on Grounds drowned out by the rallying cries of fraternity brothers welcoming new members into their midst.


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Environmental paper jam

IN A WORLD that's becoming increasingly "green," I often find myself fed up with the environmentally-motivated campaigns against convenience that are pushed on students and citizens alike.


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Appreciating Appalachia

FRIDAY afternoon's attempts to get the Board of Visitors to take "Curriculum Internationalization" seriously must be met with a certain amount of skepticism.


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I accuse you of accusing

IF YOU caught a glimpse of Thursday's paper, you probably saw the front-page headline announcing that a University student was being charged before the University Judiciary Committee "for music piracy." If you read the first two lines of the story, you learned that the student in question was Rob Froetscher.


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