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By Jeremy Ashton | April 11, 2005

THE MANAGING Board usually uses its lead editorials on the Opinion page to, well, express an opinion. The Board found a different purpose for its editorials on Monday, instead introducing readers to a series of news articles ("A series on sexual assault," April 4) and a new type of columnist ("Contributors," April 4). Both features have so far proven themselves worthy of the special attention the board devoted to them. The series The four-part series of articles, which ran Monday through Thursday, documented one former student's experience of accusing a fellow student of sexual assault.

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Re-examining Mr. Jefferson

By Noah Peters | April 11, 2005

LIKE ALL successful institutions, great universities must have distinctive identities. Harvard and Yale have their Ivy League pedigrees; Berkeley has its counterculture past; North Carolina and Duke have their great basketball teams.

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Echols are people, too

By AJ Kornblith | April 8, 2005

IT'S THAT time of year again. The COD has been posted and happy little Hoos are flocking to their computers and picking out their choices for next semester.

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Contempt of court

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | April 8, 2005

HAVING secured the presidency, the legislature and the corporate media, the Republicans have focused their wrath on our nation's judiciary, the last bastion of reason and restraint that stands between right wing crazies and happy fascist fun land. The latest attack comes from Sen.

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A woman in the White House?

By Sophia Brumby | April 8, 2005

AMERICANS think a woman president would be stronger on foreign policy than a man by a ratio of about two-to-one.

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Invasion of property

By Allan Cruickshanks | April 8, 2005

THE UNIVERSITY is rife with paradoxes, not the least of which is its policy on e-mail. Before every first year arrives at the University, he or she has almost always completed the administration's test on the "Responsible Computing Handbook for Students" and so received his or her e-mail account.

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A potentially deafening silence

By Sina Kian | April 7, 2005

THIS MONDAY marked the beginning of the University's annual Take Back the Night week, a series of events climaxing tonight with a vigil at 8 p.m.

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A sad showing of self-governance

By Whitney Blake | April 7, 2005

MANY OF us, myself included, frequently rail on corrupt politicians. We've all heard pundits and investigative reporters recount backroom deals, scandalous behavior, nepotistic practices and cutthroat desperate measures executed by ruthless, blood-sucking government officials.

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Sensible sex ed

By Steph Shaw | April 6, 2005

AMONG other progressive leaders in Congress, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a top advocate for a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing the need for abortions by putting "prevention first." She was recently criticized by Tony Perkins of the conservative Family Research Council.

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The Kaine scrutiny

By Herb Ladley | April 6, 2005

IT'S FUN to watch Democrats play make-believe. With the end of the 2004 election, many people had been suffering withdrawal from regular doses of liberal duplicity.

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An educated choice for governor

By Zack Fields | April 6, 2005

IN THE upcoming gubernatorial election, we Virginians will choose between two starkly different candidates, one who will continue to provide fiscally responsible leadership, and the other who will wreak the state's budget for short term political gain.

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The new media's democratic discourse

By Michael Behr | April 6, 2005

MODERN American newspapers adhere to a sacrosanct division between the news and opinion sections.

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Leaning towards intellectual diversity

By Anthony Dick | April 5, 2005

ON FRIDAY, the Collegiate Network issued its CampusOutrage Awards, given out each year for the most ridiculous instances of political correctness at colleges and universities across the country.

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Protecting the University's student body

By Sam Leven | April 5, 2005

TAKE A deep breath and prepare yourself, because what I'm about to tell you may shock you: College students have sex.

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Making EC accessible

By Zack Fields | April 4, 2005

NEARLY half of all women in the United States between the ages of fifteen and forty-four have experienced at least one unplanned pregnancy in their lifetime.

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The benefits of in-depth coverage

By Jeremy Ashton | April 4, 2005

EVERY newspaper, from the community weekly to The New York Times, covers a set of newsmakers whose names appear frequently in its pages. These newsmakers are the government leaders, community activists and local celebrities whom everyone recognizes.

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A peaking petroleum problem

By Adam Keith | April 4, 2005

WHILE Congress is consumed with such pressing matters as the use of steroids in Major League Baseball, an economic crisis looms on the horizon that could dwarf any that this world has seen since the Great Depression.

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Stories that speak for themselves

By Katie Cristol | April 4, 2005

THERE are numbers that do not need to be spoken for. Like two. As in the number of minutes that pass before a woman somewhere is sexually assaulted. Or one in five.

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Graduation madness

By Noah Peters | April 4, 2005

AS A particularly exciting NCAA tournament winds to its conclusion, much noise is being made about the graduation rates of men's basketball players. As it has for the past few years, the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports released its "Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2005 NCAA Men's and Women's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams," which, as in past years, shows what seem to be shockingly low graduation rates, including eight percent of basketball players for Michigan State and zero percent for LSU.

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Less smoke, more business

By Todd Rosenbaum | March 31, 2005

"SMOKING or non-smoking?" The question that we've all heard countless times in restaurants and hotels may soon be a thing of the past.