Opinion

Opinion

Terri's commandment

By Herb Ladley | March 15, 2005

IT IS a little-known fact that when God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, a little asterisk appeared next to the fifth one, declaring that thou shalt not kill, "except when your wife has brain damage and you need a way to marry your long-term girlfriend without giving up your claim to hundreds of thousands of dollars." At least that's how Florida's Supreme Court interprets it in the Terri Schiavo case.

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The sad shape of elections

By Nick Chapin | March 15, 2005

ONE WEEK and hundreds of gallons of piña colada removed from the 2005 Spring elections here at the University, it is easier to look back at our annual spectacle of student self-governance in action and wonder if this is really why we are here. Late February and early March bore witness to a familiar sight on Grounds: reams of bright flyers, gaudy chalked sidewalks, impassioned pleas on the pages of student publications -- a microcosm of the American electoral process.

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Voting on merit, not money

By Joe Schilling | March 15, 2005

SIX HUNDRED and ninety-one dollars can buy a lot of things. A spot check at www.froogle.com reveals that a pair of new K2 Apache skis, a Jamis Dakar full-suspension mountain bike or a 14-karat yellow gold chain in round weave pattern can all be boght for that amount of money.

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An illiberal left

By Anthony Dick | March 15, 2005

IT ISN'T often that a group of college professors is soundly and thoroughly embarrassed by a collection of mere students in an intellectual arena.

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Make jokes, not war

By Jeremy Ashton | March 15, 2005

THE COMICS page seems like one of The Cavalier Daily's more popular sections, but I must confess I generally don't pay much attention to it. That's by no means an indictment of the quality of the comics.

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Targeting a global threat

By Allan Cruickshanks | March 3, 2005

THE NUCLEAR capacity of aggressive rogue states can no longer be tolerated by a sensible global polity, as such a continuation represents the largest and most real threat to peace and security the world has ever known.

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Misguided education reform

By Sophia Brumby | March 3, 2005

THE END of February brings a series of tests mandated by "No Child Left Behind," coincidentally falling at the conclusion of a 10-month study of the controversial federal program released last week.

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A substantive Social Security debate

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | March 3, 2005

PERHAPS my standards are pathetically low, but I actually thought the Social Security debate was going reasonably well.

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Dishonoring those who serve

By AJ Kornblith | March 3, 2005

THROUGHOUT his campaign for re-election, President Bush always made sure he highlighted his leadership as the country's commander-in-chief.

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A crucial conversation

By Kurt Davis | March 2, 2005

AFTER attempting to elucidate the problems facing African-Americans, Bill Cosby remains under the scope of criticism.

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Honest evaluation

By Michael Behr | March 2, 2005

STUDENT Council passed resolutions last week asking the administration to tweak the course evaluation system and commending the University community for increased participation in it.

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Securing the dignity of the elderly

By Zack Fields | March 2, 2005

WHEN MY grandmother's great grandfather died, he was living on the poor farm in Lawrence County, Ala.

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Necessary testing for defense

By Joe Schilling | March 1, 2005

LAST WEEK the USS Lake Erie, a cruiser equipped with the advanced Aegis radar system, successfully tracked and intercepted a ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean in the latest test of U.S.

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Deceptive fear-mongering?

By Herb Ladley | March 1, 2005

A popular media axiom notes that you can say whatever you want in a headline as long as you phrase it as a question.

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U.Va. turning a blind eye?

By Anthony Dick | March 1, 2005

ON FRIDAY, Feb. 18, The Cavalier Daily published a letter to the editor alleging that Dean of African-American Affairs M.

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Well-managed election coverage

By Jeremy Ashton | February 28, 2005

STUDENTS have been voting for new officials for Student Council and other bodies of student government since Friday.

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Actively building student activism

By Adam Keith | February 28, 2005

RECENTLY Grounds has been abuzz with student activism. Although some in the past have questioned the degree to which students at the University are in touch with the problems of the outside world, the recent campaign by S.T.A.N.D.

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Low court, high principles

By Noah Peters | February 28, 2005

FEDERAL lower-court judges are not often prominent players in our political system. Lacking the glamour and high profile of a Supreme Court appointment, lower-court judgesmove within the narrow confines of Supreme Court precedent.

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"Never again," yet again

By Katie Cristol | February 28, 2005

HERE WE go again with the "never again" cycle. Because we, the world community, have decided that a mournful, post-facto "never again" pledge is simply more convenient than the action required by "never, period," Darfur will take its place in history alongside Bergen-Belsen and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Self-disenfranchisement

By John Clark | February 25, 2005

REFERENDUM Number 3 -- the so-called "consensus clause" -- is the single most dangerous threat to student self-governance to appear on a student ballot.