Opinion

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Racists in the laboratory

By Adam Keith | November 27, 2007

"ALL OUR social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really." The speaker of this quotation taken from an article appearing in the Times of London is not a white supremacist or neo-Nazi, but a once-brilliant scientist James Watson -- co-discoverer of DNA's double helix -- whose recent bigoted and unsubstantiated claim created a firestorm of controversy.

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Debating the 'not gay' chant

By Alexander R. Cohen | November 27, 2007

IS THE "not gay chant really controversial? Before Alex Cortes wrote his guest column ("Not gay and proud of it," Nov.

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Conservatism and the university

By Christa Byker | November 27, 2007

CONTRARY to popular belief, Ann Coulter and DavidHorowitz do not form thebedrock of conservative philosophy.

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What I really want for Christmas

By Marta Cook | November 27, 2007

WITH Christmas fast approaching, I thought I'd use this column to get everyone in the holiday spirit.

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Something rotten in the state of Virginia

By Josh Levy | November 19, 2007

JEFFERSON would not be proud of our internationalization efforts to date." So proclaims the presumptuous report released by the Committee on Curriculum Internationalization last month.

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Studying liberally

By Erald Kolasi | November 19, 2007

RIGHT-WING demagogues have been blabbering for years about that legendary "liberal bias" in American higher education.

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Think The Cavalier Daily is perfect?

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 19, 2007

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

By Manuel Lopez | November 16, 2007

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

By Fr. Luke Clark | November 16, 2007

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

By John Nelson | November 16, 2007

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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Restoring reverence to Thanksgiving

By Dave Infante | November 16, 2007

WITH THE holiday season looming, I feel as though now is as good a time as any to address one of the black marks that spoils Thanksgiving break.

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And everywhere like such as...

By Alex Lane | November 16, 2007

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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Questioning American exceptionalism

By Andrew Winerman | November 15, 2007

TWO FRIDAYS ago, political scientist and well-known blogger Daniel Drezner spoke at the University.

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The bus ride from hell

By Colin Hood | November 15, 2007

OVER THE last month, the Charlottesville Transit Service endured a 20 percent increase in passengers.

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Bigger fish to fry

By Adam Keith | November 15, 2007

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

By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins | November 15, 2007

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

By Robby Colby | November 15, 2007

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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Confessions of a bad fan

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 14, 2007

I HAVE a confession to make. I'm a bad football fan. On game day, I show up late if the tailgate is rocking and I leave early if the team isn't winning.

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Islamc mischaracterization

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 14, 2007

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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Disputing gay marriage

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 14, 2007

Marriage is indeed vitally important, and I can agree with Marta Cook's statement in "Marriage is a Human Right" (Nov.