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Ambition or tradition?

IN APRIL 2001, a task force convened as part of the Virginia 2020 initiative recommended that each varsity sport be assigned to one of four tiers, based primarily on their revenue production and competitive track record, in order to better allocate funding among them.


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Rethinking the Living Wage Giving Fund

FOR ALL its noise last spring, the Living Wage Campaign has since maintained a low profile. Though a living wage for all employees is a common conversation topic, the disruptive demonstrations have all but ceased.


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Saving babies with boxes

GERMANY has seen a disturbing growth in "infanticides" in the past several years. They usually occur when a mother decides she does not want or cannot keep her newborn baby.


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Dealing with depression

DEPRESSION and suicide are two issues many students do not think about on a daily basis. Others, however, cannot stop thinking about them and their effects on their lives.


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Bong hits for freedom

It began with nonsense. "Bong hits 4 Jesus," the banner proclaimed. But the principal took it to advocate smoking marijuana, and she took the banner away from a student and punished him.


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Rebuffing tree-huggers

LAST WEEK, President Casteen issued a statement saying that he did not intend to sign the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment on behalf of the University.


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Some rules of the game

A MIXTURE of dried plant materials like cedar or cypress wood shavings, lavender or rose leaves and flowers, and cinnamon bark can make a sweet-smelling potpourri. Smell, however, wasn't the main sense originally associated with "pot-pourri," a French word linked to another of the senses -- taste -- as the word came from a Spanish stew. Tasty, sizzling-hot ingredients mixed into a stew are reminiscent of church potlucks, which are even more entwined with the five senses as men, women and children can pick and choose what looks, smells and tastes good.


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Focusing attention on corporate reform

CORPORATE ABUSE enjoyed a brief period of popularity following the Enron scandal. For awhile, it was on the list of top domestic issues, reaching an apex with the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.


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Skeletons in the nation's attic

IF YOU spent the past week wagering on whether Alberto Gonzalez will still be attorney general come April, you may have missed another Washington scandal almost as depressing as the secret campaign by the Bush administration to replace federal prosecutors perceived as politically disloyal.


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Much has changed, but much remains to be done

IN LIGHT of recent skewedreportage and editorials concerning the rape of Liz Seccuro by William Beebe and his recent conviction and sentencing, I feel compelled to offer some insight into the conditions Seccuro faced in 1984 that today's undergraduates may not truly grasp.


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The time is right for Gore to re-enter politics

IN 1960, Richard Nixon lost a close presidential election to John F. Kennedy. Defeat in an election of this magnitude normally gives the candidate a hint that they probably should not run again, but Nixon persevered and came back in 1968, in a nation plagued by an unpopular war in Vietnam, for an ultimate triumph.


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Good policy over good press

OVER THE last few years, the Honor Committee has found that international students and athletes are the most likely to be convicted of Honor offenses.

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