Opinion

Opinion

Scheduling by seniority

By Kristin Brown | November 17, 2004

IT'S THAT time again -- time to register for classes. Which means, it's also time for another opinion column bemoaning priority registration for Echols scholars. This week many of my fellow fourth years have probably watched as that one class -- a seminar, perhaps, or a small, popular upper-level class or even a class needed for graduation -- was filled within the first few hours of registration.

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Continued commitment to high standards

By Josh Hess | November 17, 2004

AS THE only surviving feature from the honor system's inception in 1842, the single sanction remains today as an exceptionally high standard of academic integrity largely unique to the University.

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A racial awakening

By Eric Wang | November 17, 2004

HALF A century after the great Civil Rights Movement began breaking down barriers in American society, the struggle for racial equality and harmony has turned into a travesty.

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Our identity crisis

By Nick Chapin | November 16, 2004

BLUE STATE or red? Gay or straight? Black or white? Our culture is today more focused than ever on identity.

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A murderous legacy

By Joe Schilling | November 16, 2004

HE WAS responsible for and complicit in the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians over the past 40 years.

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Diversity from the top down

By Elizabeth Chu | November 16, 2004

DIVERSITY. This word immediately emits a sound of exasperation and an accompanied eye roll with the comment, "Are we talking about this again?" Whether it is frustration due to the lack of progress, or whether it is an apathetic annoyance to this issue, diversity always generates some kind of response.

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Homophobia v. heterosexism

By Katie Cristol | November 16, 2004

IT'S BECOME a matter of course for liberals, particularly unabashedly blue-state liberals, to lament one of the greatest ironies of this election: that in an election framed by the GOP to be about the dual threats of terrorism and gay marriage, those areas most threatened by both voted overwhelmingly against the president.

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Taking good SHOTS

By Sam Leven | November 16, 2004

THIS YEAR, the University's Athletic Department has adopted a new policy for student attendance at basketball games.Under the new system, students can request seats at basketball games and have a spot guaranteed when they arrive.

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The voter's primer on the Single Sanctions

By Meghan Sullivan | November 15, 2004

THE SINGLE sanction inspires rhetoric. I have heard it referred to as the academic "deathpenalty," as the "fundamental cornerstone of UVA" and just about everything in between.

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An ill-advised health requirement

By Anthony Dick | November 15, 2004

AS ISIS prepares to shepherd us through another exhilarating season of online course registration, many students find themselves preoccupied by the seemingly disparate issue of health insurance.

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Good and bad of criminal coverage

By Jeremy Ashton | November 15, 2004

ONE STORY dominated the News section of The Cavalier Daily for the last week and a half. Every edition of the paper between Nov.

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Questioning the charter

By Zack Fields | November 15, 2004

AS THE University community struggles with a disturbing lack of socioeconomic diversity within the student body, the administration is pursuing two very different policies that could have conflicting effects on UVa affordability.

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Yasser Arafat's real legacy

By Daniel Bagley | November 15, 2004

IT WOULD seem that the media is happy to have something else to report besides the defeat of John Kerry.

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Another battle in the culture war

By Noah Peters | November 12, 2004

IT IS not surprising that Democrats often look back sentimentally on the Kennedy years as a kinder, gentler time in American history.

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An alcoholic society

By Adam Keith | November 12, 2004

THE UNIVERSITY has a drinking problem. The impact of unhealthy attitudes toward alcohol usage affect every University student, whether or not they abuse the substance.The implications of the University's problems with violence and alcohol abuse were the subject of a discussion which kicked off Substance Abuse Awareness Week this past Monday.

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Prescribing ethics

By Todd Rosenbaum | November 12, 2004

IMAGINE walking into your local pharmacy one afternoon, expecting to pick up a prescription that your doctor had called in for you the night before.

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Holding Student Council accountable

By Herb Ladley | November 12, 2004

ADD ONE to the list of secret societies on Grounds. Shrouded in a sea of contradictions, Student Council continues to operate with the opacity of a black hole. As students may know, Council voted down a measure this week that would have recorded members' votes, along with members' own explanations of those votes, on its public Web site.

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Hope is on the way

By Sina Kian | November 11, 2004

ALMOST all of us Democrats watched faithfully on that fateful Tueday night, and as the hours passed, a noticeable strain developed in our eyes and, more importantly, in our hearts.

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Honoring service and sacrifice

By Whitney Blake | November 11, 2004

WHILE THE holiday of today and this upcoming weekend translates into great department store sales, let us take a moment to reflect on what the day truly represents.

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The reality of intimidation

By Eric Wang | November 10, 2004

WITH THE presidential election out of the way, charges of "voter intimidation" will lie low for another four years for most Americans.