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Don't vote

WITH LESS than a month remaining until the 2004 presidential election, America is saturated with reminders that the most important, patriotic thing citizens can do is get out and vote.


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Putting stories in a local context

THE CAVALIER Daily primarily covers news at the University and in Charlottesville, but that doesn't mean the paper can't take on stories outside its circulation area. Newspapers, including The Cavalier Daily, frequently "localize" stories, putting local angles on state, national or even international news.


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A weighty school issue

FOOD FOR thought: Coca-Cola has contracts with nearly half of this country's school districts. There are vending machines in almost 99 percent of high schools, nearly 75 percent of middle schools and 43 percent of elementary schools.


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Punishing plagarizing professors

WITH ALL the attention that student plagiarism receives, and the attendant pious hand-wringing on the part of university administrations and ubiquitous admonitions from faculty, we expect professors to exemplify the highest standards of intellectual honesty.


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UJC: Fair and balanced

LAST WEEK, the University was given the chance, thanks to the openness of graduate student Rich Felker, to witness the work of the University Judiciary Committee and begin to understand the workings of a Committee which many students simply do not know enough about.


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Apology

Yesterday's editorial cartoon incorrectly attributed the recent voluntary DNA tests of possible serial rapist suspects to the Albemarle County Police Department.


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Reforming education reform

ON SEPT. 16, representatives from many of Virginia's public and private universities, as well as community colleges, came together in Richmond to officially commit to Gov.


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UJC on trial

LAST WEEK, the University Judiciary Committee tried pro-Tibet activist Rich Felker for two violations of the Standards of Conduct that stemmed from his April 5, 2004 protest of Chinese Ambassador Yang Jiechi, who was visiting the University.


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A Republican's individual beliefs

WITH ABOUT a month until Election Day, Americans are at once faced with a stark contrast between the two major parties and very little understanding of what they stand for.


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Drafting the youth vote

Everywhere you look these days, whether on Grounds or on MTV, there are commercials, organizations and movements to encourage young voters to participate in the upcoming election.


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Woodward at war

WHEN Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward came to the University to speak last Thursday, I have to say I was in a bit of journalistic awe.


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Putting the University in perspective

"WE'RE LOSING our culture. We're losing our identity as a people." These were the words spoken to me Thursday night by a member of the local Tibetan community as Iserved as accused counsel at the University Judiciary Committee's first open trial.

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Latest Podcast

In this episode of On Record, Allison McVey, University Judiciary Committee Chair and fourth-year College student, discusses the Committee’s 70th anniversary, an unusually heavy caseload this past Fall semester and the responsibilities that come with student-led adjudication. From navigating serious health and safety cases to training new members and launching a new endowment, McVey explains how the UJC continues to adapt while remaining grounded in the University's core values of respect, safety and freedom.