Opinion

Opinion

A third year too many

By John Clark | October 25, 2005

LAW STUDENTS whine a lot. It's what they're trained to do. But if you hear a Law student in his third and final year complaining, "I'm so bored with class," "There's nothing good on daytime T.V." or "I'm so hung over," take pity -- not since purgatory has there been a worse use of time as the year "3L." The third year of law school is little more than a seventh year of liberal arts education, albeit with electives that have something, somehow, to do with "the law." Another year of theoretically lofty thinking isn't itself bad.

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Opinion

An exercise in futility

By Sina Kian | October 25, 2005

LAST FRIDAY while I sat in University Hall for Fall Convocation, I couldn't help but wonder: why am I here?

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F stands for for-profit

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | October 25, 2005

COLLEGE for profit -- what could possibly go wrong? In recent years, for-profit universities have sprung up across the nation and even on the Internet, adding the fun of profit to the joy of learning.

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Setting the record straight on StudCo

By Jequeatta Upton and Darius Nabors | October 24, 2005

ON OCT. 12, The Cavalier Daily published the lead editorial entitled, "A Stalled Student Council." While we'd like to respond to every point raised in the Managing Board's editorial, there are simply too many errors and inconsistencies to address each and every one: Therefore, we will focus on the key assertion that Student Council, thus far, has been ineffective. Firstly, Council's main objective is "to protect and improve the rights, opportunities and quality of life of every student." We envision a Council that is fully transparent and competent to address student concerns.

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Opinion

Distorted First Amendment

By Noah Peters | October 24, 2005

SEVERAL weeks ago, the University experienced a spate of offensive protesting on Grounds. The Woroniecki family hurled offensive epithets at passing students as they sought converts to their brand of evangelical Christianity, while the next day Life and Liberty Ministries displayed gruesome photographs of aborted fetuses as part of their anti-abortion propaganda effort.

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Opinion

Fueling a clean tomorrow

By Adam Keith | October 24, 2005

IT IS NOT very often that the University Transit System takes part in a worldwide political movement.

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Correcting corrections

By Lisa Fleisher | October 24, 2005

NEWSPAPER corrections are a good thing and a bad thing. Too many are a bad thing, but because of human error there are at least a limited number of the embarrassing notes that will have to run.

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Refocusing the gender debate

By Katie Cristol | October 24, 2005

A POX ON the house of the next pundit who calls Harriet Miers "Souter in a skirt," or the next Bushie who claims that opposing W's nominee is sexism.

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Opinion

The habits of good headlining

By Lisa Fleisher | October 21, 2005

READERS and I share a little secret that reporters don't want to hear: Most people, surveys show, don't read past the headline of news articles.

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Opinion

Why minding matters

By Dan Keyserling | October 21, 2005

BRAVO, well done! Of the pitifully anemic 8.5 percent of undergraduates who voted in the student elections last week, 87 percent elected to condemn the horrific genocide occurring in western Sudan.

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Opinion

Capital confusion

By Adam Silverberg | October 21, 2005

THE VIRGINIA governor's race is slowly starting to heat up between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore, as both candidates recently have spoken up on their views of the death penalty.

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Opinion

Desperate house woes

By Matthew Warring | October 21, 2005

AT LONG last, Family Weekend is upon us, which means parents and families descending on Charlottesville en masse and, for some students, their first reunion with relatives since the start of the semester.

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Opinion

Promising signs from Iraq

By Elizabeth Mills | October 20, 2005

ROME WASN'T built in a day. Nor, we can now say, was the new Iraqi government. But having successfully drafted a referendum and having conducted a second national election, the Iraqi people are moving closer and closer to an independent democracy.

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Keeping technology in check

By Todd Rosenbaum | October 20, 2005

WHEN UNIVERSITIES first began wiring dormitories with Ethernet, it was widely assumed that expanding students' opportunities to access the Internet would be beneficial to their educations, enabling them to conduct research and complete assignments more efficiently.

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Opinion

Love your body, all of it

By Stephanie Shaw | October 20, 2005

IF YOU haven't noticed from the "mad-lib" like red shirt floating around Grounds reading "I Love My ________,"it is Love Your Body Week sponsored by the U.Va.

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Protecting our prisoners

By Sophia Brumby | October 20, 2005

CALIFORNIA recently passed legislation that bans shackling female prisoners during labor and delivery.

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Classes keep rolling

By Whitney Blake | October 19, 2005

WHILE many University students thoroughly enjoyed the Rolling Stones concert a few weeks ago, some were caught in an unfortunate bind -- Thursday night classes.

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A sugar-coated view of history

By Zack Fields | October 19, 2005

WE ARE all familiar with the history of western civilization. The Greeks invented democracy, and possibly reason itself.

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Legislating academic problems

By Eric Wang | October 19, 2005

SEVENTY-TWO percent of American college and university faculty describe themselves as liberals. This, according to a recent study in the political science journal "The Forum." Meanwhile, the campaignmoney.com Web site shows that professors have contributed more than 10 times as much money to Democrats as to Republicans over the past six years.

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A failing GRE

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | October 18, 2005

IN ADDITION to the blinding panic that comes with impending graduation, fourth years who hope to attend graduate school must add the Graduate Record Examination to their list of headaches.