Opinion

Opinion

Back up your birth control

By Madeleine Wille | March 23, 2005

EACH YEAR, there are about 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States -- and about half of them happen to women who are using a regular method of contraception. Many women experience anxiety after if a condom breaks, she misses a pill or she has sex when she didn't plan to -- or want to. However, there is another option for women who experience contraceptive failure or unplanned sex -- emergency contraception (EC), sometimes called the "morning-after pill." It's a short, higher dose of the same hormones found in regular birth control pills, and women can get it to have on hand just in case there is an emergency.

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Finding a sensible center

By Michael Behr | March 23, 2005

WHAT'S WRONG with politics today? Gov. Mark Warner, who spoke in Larry Sabato's politics course on Monday, blamed partisanship for stalling productive legislation.

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Evaluating on education

By Herb Ladley | March 23, 2005

ANY DAY now, the new Course Offering Directory will become available with selected data from online course evaluations to help students pick which classes and professors they would most like to take.

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The disease of capitalism

By Zack Fields | March 23, 2005

THE CULTURE of capitalism is a disease that exists in external economic and internal mental realms, and thus afflicts both society and the individual.

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Opinion

Choose life; your mother did

By Joe Schilling | March 22, 2005

A HUMAN being is either alive or dead. There is no gray area in between the two. Terri Schiavo is alive; as House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R

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Reform election endorsement process

By Tom Gibson | March 22, 2005

MANY STUDENTS who vote in elections have no idea who they intend to vote for before logging on to vote.

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Oh, ye of little faith

By Eric Wang | March 22, 2005

COLUMNISTS must be some of the most self-confident people in the world. While reporters relate the news, columnists purport to tell you what to think about the news.

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Appropriate Gillen coverage

By Jeremy Ashton | March 21, 2005

THE STORY that many Virginia basketball fans had been waiting months to read finally showed up on the front page of Tuesday's Cavalier Daily -- Pete Gillen was out as head coach. Gillen resigned just days after the Cavaliers finished his seventh season at the University with a losing record, the team's first since 1998-99.

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Opinion

American courts, American standards

By Noah Peters | March 21, 2005

ONE OF the most marked and distinct trends that has emerged in constitutional law in recent years has been the increased citation of international law in interpreting the U.S.

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Women's work

By Katie Cristol | March 21, 2005

WE OPINION columnists, unlike our colleagues in the Life section, aren't the type to self-reference.

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Making friends with China

By Adam Keith | March 21, 2005

OVER THE past week a diverse group of people ranging from talk show hosts to high-ranking government officials have united in warning that the Chinese dragon represents a growing threat to good old Uncle Sam.

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One click away from disaster

By AJ Kornblith | March 18, 2005

STUDENT self-governance here at Mr. Jefferson's University dodged a huge bullet in this month's elections.

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A roof over upperclassman heads

By Allan Cruickshanks | March 18, 2005

AS FIRST years arrive at the University, they are satisfied knowing that they have a place to live in dorms, and future housing seems an easy problem to solve somewhere in the distant future.

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Resisting radicalism

By Sophia Brumby | March 18, 2005

PRESIDENT Bush is once again attempting to appoint far right-wing judicial nominees to American courtrooms.

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Opinion

A private public university?

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | March 18, 2005

PUBLIC universities are becoming less and less public. Declines in state funding have driven universities to seek private sources of funding, creating a permanent tension between open market competition and the purpose of public education. Last month, The Futures Project at Brown University addressed this issue in a report titled "Correcting Course: How We Can Restore the Ideals of Public Higher Education in a Market-Driven Era." The authors found that universities throughout the country face "growing pressure to cut costs, measure and report on performance, and compete ever more strenuously for students, grants, funding and prestige." Unfortunately, this competition usually comes at the expense of academic programs and access for low-income students. In response to market pressures, public universities have sought new freedom from state governments, primarily for the purpose of raising tuition beyond state caps.

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Opinion

United Nations housekeeping

By Whitney Blake | March 17, 2005

WHAT do you get when you put Michael Jackson, WorldCom, Enron and Bill Clinton under one roof? Why, the illustrious United Nations.

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Substance-free housing solutions

By Todd Rosenbaum | March 17, 2005

LIVING with a roommate or suitemates that you don't know well can often be a challenge due to conflicting personal preferences.

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Zero tolerance, zero sense

By Sina Kian | March 17, 2005

A13-YEAR-OLD student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school because he tossed a rubber band onto his teacher's desk after the teacher demanded he hand it over.

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Studying open-mindedness

By Michael Behr | March 16, 2005

AMERICAN establishments have once again proved their bigotry and stupidity in responding to international disputes.

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Courting Consensus

By Eric Wang | March 16, 2005

EVEN AS Chief Justice William Rehnquist is dying from terminal cancer, Senate Democrats are vowing to block President Bush's judicial nominees.