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Think The Cavalier Daily is perfect?

BEGINNING this week, I am writing as the ombudsman for The Cavalier Daily. Instead of roaming over the whole opinable realm, as I've done in these pages since last semester, I'll be offering my opinions on one subject: this newspaper. The overarching question with which I will be concerned is: How well is the newspaper serving the whole University community?


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Beyond marriage

LAST WEEK my column was about gay marriage. The column got a lot of response, both in letters to the editor and to me personally.


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The view from the pulpit

RELIGIOUS and political conservatives should chant "not gay" at football games in "support for our natural heterosexuality given to us by God." This claim was made in a recent guest Opinion column in The Cavalier Daily by a "Catholic" who believes in natural law.


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Fighting faith

STANDING before Iran's parliament earlier this year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked his countrymen one question: "Who are our enemies?" His answer: godless America.


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And everywhere like such as...

CRUISING through the COD on a recent Saturday night I got a little disoriented. There's so much there, and so little to guide us, it's as if down is up and north is south. That may not be far from the truth.


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Bigger fish to fry

AMERICA is bored with the culture wars. After years of heated division over high-minded issues such as the placement of 10 Commandments statues and the preservation of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, it appears as though the politics of division no longer arouse Americans' political passions.


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Putting students at risk

THERE ARE many times at this University where I've felt slightly uncomfortable. These are generally times when I'm walking -- or running -- around alone at night in sparsely populated areas.


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The Santorum storm

MONDAY, former Sen. Rick Santorum addressed a group of students about the threat radical Islamic terrorism poses to the United States, about how the problem arose and about how the world is failing to combat it.


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Islamc mischaracterization

While I have strong objections to the political ideology that former Sen. Rick Santorum propagated in his lecture on Monday, my primary problem with his presentation was with his use of the term Islamic fascism.


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Successful silencing

I was interested to read Josh Levy's opinion column "How best to silence homophobes" (Nov 12). During my time at the University, the chant was quite pervasive and was sometimes clearly audible even on televised broadcasts of games.


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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.