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Opinion

Bunk beds for Lawnies

THE LAWN. Only those who dedicate the greatest amount of time to the University, receive the best grades and get the least amount of sleep have a chance at living in one of the 54 prestigious Lawn rooms.


Opinion

Give Sweeney a chance

EVERY TIME I walk down the Lawn I'm subjected to the popular cause of the week. Last semester, Lawnies covered their doors with posters telling any passersby what was okay and what was not okay to think about race.


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Not fine by me

"GAY? FINE by Me" is not fine. The term "gay" is neither inclusive nor representative of the diverse sexual orientations and gender identities that make up what we commonly call the "queer community" at the University.


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It deserves our support

IN TODAY'S world, being an activist for queer rights means you have to settle. It's a constant struggle between holding out for what's right versus achieving the politically attainable.


Opinion

Rivals in mourning

AS A Yankee from Pittsburgh, when I first started looking at colleges I didn't even know what UVA and VT stood for, much less the history of their long and storied rivalry.


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With a hundred points, Nader misses the point

WHILE YOU were watching Access Hollywood, I was watching Ralph Nader. Yes, that old warhorse of the left brought his act to Charlottesville last Thursday, delivering his new lecture, "While You Were Watching 'Big Brother,' Big Brother Was Watching You," to a full house at Old Cabell Hall.


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Searching for library solutions

WHEN THOMAS Jefferson designed the University, he placed a library at the very center. This symbolic move demonstrates the important place libraries have to the University as a whole.


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Sugarcoating sexual education

BOTH "STALLSMO" and "Max-um," the March 2007 gender-specific installments of the Stall Seat Journal, consist of 6-question sex quizzes along the lines of (obviously) Cosmopolitan and Maxim magazines.


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The living wage is far from dead

RECENT suggestions that the Living Wage Campaign is dying seem based upon the amount of coverage the Campaign has received in The Cavalier Daily, rather than upon the actual activities of the movement.


Opinion

Defending tradition on the Lawn

IT IS hard to remember a recent University decision that has galvanized such widespread student opposition as the recent news that Vice President for Development and Public Affairs Robert Sweeney might be chosen for residence in Pavilion VI.

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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.