Opinion

Opinion

The United States of Morality

By Kristin Brown | November 10, 2004

DO YOU hear that? It's the sound of thousands of liberals across America scratching their heads, wondering where they went wrong. Last Tuesday's re-election of President Bush clearly came as a shock to many liberals, as indicated by the waves of still-stunned Democratic commentators in both print and on television -- not to mention the collection of angry away messages posted by nearly every liberal student at the University in the past week. NBC conducted a survey during exit polls that asked voters to identify the most important issue, to them, in this election.The economy, terrorism, Iraq and health care all followed behind the number one issue: "moral values." Moral Values?

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A life-threatening tradition

By Jim Prosser | November 9, 2004

EARLIER this semester I wrote about upholding the tradition of men wearing ties to home football games.

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Senate superiority

By Joe Schilling | November 9, 2004

FOR THE past three years the U.S. Senate has been a black hole for President Bush and Senate Republicans, gobbling up everything from judicial nominees to comprehensive energy legislation.

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Winning the campaign game

By Sam Leven | November 9, 2004

IT HAS now been a week since the debacle that was Election Day. As Democrats sit back and try to figure out just what went wrong and where to go from here, many have begun saying it's time for a "blood bath" within the Democratic Party.

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Avoiding the ghosts of '94

By Elliot Haspel | November 9, 2004

"WHETHER Democrats know it or not, voters are not clamoring for imitation Republicans," wrote New York Times columnist Bob Herbert on Nov.

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Marriage's mandate

By Daniel Bagley | November 8, 2004

IN ADDITION to giving President Bush a strong mandate to rule for a second term last Tuesday, voters in 11 states affirmed their belief in traditional marriage values.

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Unsustainable double standards

By Anthony Dick | November 8, 2004

ON OCT. 30, a black student showed up at a Halloween party with his face painted white. Hewas wearing khaki pants, a sweater tied around his shoulders and a pink polo shirt with its collar popped up.

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Inflating the problem

By Noah Peters | November 8, 2004

IT HAS become fashionable to decry "grade inflation" as an evil of our times. Supposedly, this phenomenon represents a softening of our academic standards and a tendency to coddle students in their academic work.

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Evaluating election coverage

By Jeremy Ashton | November 8, 2004

POLITICAL pundits have been conducting their own post-mortems on the 2004 election ever since President Bush clinched a second term in office Wednesday.

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America's self-inflicted doomsday

By Zack Fields | November 5, 2004

THIS IS one of those doomsday columns at which we scoff. Hang it on your wall, and in four years check to see if I'm right. In four years, the Bush administration will have privatized Social Security and ended Medicaid.

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Divided by politics

By Adam Keith | November 5, 2004

NOW THAT a few days have passed since Nov. 2 and tempers have had a chance to cool, it is possible to make a reasonable appraisal of the implications of this year's election.

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The failure of the liberal campaign

By Herb Ladley | November 5, 2004

WATCHING election returns with liberals is like watching the Iraqi information minister give a press conference as the Americans move closer to Baghdad -- denial, followed by irrational outbursts.

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Appreciating self-governance

By Sina Kian | November 4, 2004

MANY STUDENTS can reduce college life to three elements: classes, weekends and college sports. While these three are enough to provide each individual a solid college experience, our University distinguishes itself, among other ways, through the hard work, energy and financial resources poured into its extracurricular activities.

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The end of an educational treasure

By Whitney Jackson Spivey | November 4, 2004

THIS SUMMER I had the good fortune of interning at the Virginia Museum of Natural History through the University's Institute for Public History.

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Quitting the College

By Michael Slaven | November 3, 2004

ONE DAY after the election, the presidency still hangs in the balance -- kind of. Thanks to Ohio, the election results are not entirely certain yet, but a Bush win looks likely.

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Leaving the Democratic desert

By Elliot Haspel | November 3, 2004

BOSTON -- SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of boisterous Kerry supporters, Jon Bon Jovi strummed a sweet rendition of "living on a prayer." Unfortunately, by the end of the night, a prayer appeared to be all John Kerry was hanging on to.

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A conservative nation

By Maggie Bowden | November 3, 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- HOPE: That's what Republicans across Washington, D.C., were feeling as they sweated in the hot sun, passing out pamphlets until the very last hour at the polling sites.

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A GOP on the rise

By Maggie Bowden | November 2, 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Washington, D.C. should be home turf for the GOP. From our view of the Washington Monument, we control both the House and Senate as well as the most powerful position, arguably, in the world -- the presidency of the United States.

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Bursting Boston's bubble

By Elliot Haspel | November 2, 2004

BOSTON -- SPORTING two world championship teams, Bostonians are walking around with a bit of a swagger in their step these days.

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Four more years

By Daniel Bagley | November 1, 2004

IT SOMETIMES feels like this campaign has gone on for hundreds of years. Granted, this campaign has gone on for years, so this feeling is not entirely without just cause.