Opinion

Opinion

Enough with reality, bring on the TV

By Michael Behr | November 12, 2003

OTHER than reading my column, you have something else to look forward to on Wednesdays. I am no longer afraid to admit that I am an avid viewer of Fox's new show, "The O.C." The show has been deemed the soap opera of our generation or the next "Beverly Hills 90210." Around Grounds, students are either asking what happened on last week's episode or complaining that the show portrays our generation as rich, snobby, druggie, sex slaves.

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Punch drunk on diversity

By Eric Wang | November 12, 2003

JUST as the University of Virginia will always outrank Maryland by leaps and bounds, if we were to rank the concerns of college administrators, they would remain fairly constant over time.

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Perpetuating Southern sterotypes

By Maggie Bowden | November 12, 2003

MY PARENTS, my siblings and I were all born and raised below the Mason-Dixie. We have a tendency to say "y'all," never celebrate a holiday without fried chicken and according to my California roommate, cannot pronounce "nuclear." Obviously, we are a southern family.

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Save the trash talk for Bush

By Alex Rosemblat | November 12, 2003

IN ONE year the American people will be voting for the 44th president of the United States. For many voters who remember the chaos that was the 2000 election, and the highly disputed decision which placed the current president, George W.

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Keep party politics out of national security

By Joe Schilling | November 11, 2003

They meet behind closed, locked, soundproof and if you believed the movie "The Sum of All Fears," doors that fog up when the room is in use.

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Educating against violence

By Amey Adkins | November 11, 2003

SOMEONE needs to tell me what in the world is happening to students at our university. In 2003, the University has witnessed too many malicious acts involving students.

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A dope war

By Elliot Haspel | November 11, 2003

THINK back to when you were in high school. Imagine wandering the halls between classes one day when all of a sudden, fourteen police officers burst through the doors with guns drawn, screaming at you to get on the floor with your hands behind your head.

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Sacrificing safety for liberty?

By Anthony Dick | November 11, 2003

HIP-HOP music and federal immigration policy don't often appear in the same sentence or even on the same page of many newspapers.

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Digging deeper

By Emily Kane | November 10, 2003

An integral part of writing for a newspaper is knowing how and when to ask more questions, to dig deeper.

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Picturing Racism

By Kimberly Liu | November 10, 2003

WHILE I have repeatedly asked the editors to remove my photo from next to my editorial column, the fact is it's here to stay.

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Radical nominees, Republican injustice

By Blair Reeves | November 10, 2003

THERE CAN scarcely be said to have been a time when ideology did not play a major role in the workings of the U.S.

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Gay bashing, in the name of the Lord

By Laura Parcells | November 7, 2003

Given Jesus Christ's radically inclusive nature, his followers sure do have trouble getting the whole tolerance thing down. Recently, Indiana University professor, Yale graduate and devout Christian Eric B.

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Keeping special interests out of student loans

By Brandon Possin | November 7, 2003

What is the best reason to not vote Republican?Republicans favor the private interest over the public good.An example?The Bush Administration's attempts to undermine the federal direct loan program to benefit special interest tells a story of who is running the government. Within this story lies disturbing venality, campaign contributions influencing legislation, and a scam to enrich corporations at the expense of taxpayers. What Republicans are striving to kill is the federal government direct-loan program from the Clinton era that loans students money for college.

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Opinion

A closer look at forest thinning

By Whitney Blake | November 7, 2003

With the recent forest fires that have blazed through California and destroyed 740,000 acres and 3,600 houses and killed 22 people, an issue that had been put on the back-burner (no pun intended) has now resurfaced: the practice of forest thinning.

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New boss, same as the old boss

By Preston Lloyd | November 6, 2003

THOUGH generally frowned upon in journalism, this column begins with a personal anecdote. This past Tuesday was election day in Virginia.

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The ills of mandatory vaccines

By Eric Wang | November 6, 2003

WHILE our generation is often said to be apathetic and oblivious to the fine points of grand political theory, the recent pot bust at the University rekindled a healthy skepticism of government paternalism over self-respecting behavior.

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Standing up for beliefs

By Chris Kiser | November 6, 2003

THE GRAVEYARD for the victims of the monster known as political correctness is filled with corpses.

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In Iraq for the long haul

By Maggie Bowden | November 5, 2003

SIXTEEN American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday when the Chinook helicopter they were traveling in was downed just outside of Baghdad.

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A mixed bag for Republicans

By Daniel Bagley | November 5, 2003

MAINTAINING the status quo is in the best interest of the Republican Party in our fine Commonwealth, and that is just what happened last night.

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Berzerk ratings for Berkeley

By Kristin Brown | November 5, 2003

LAST WEEK, University of Maryland President C.D. Mote, Jr. caused quite a stir down in these parts by describing the University's number one public university ranking as "ridiculous." Specifically, what's ridiculous, according to Mote, is our tie for the coveted spot with the University of California-Berkeley, apparently a far better school and Mote's own alma mater. Well, I've decided I agree with you, Mr. Mote.