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No early registration for Echols

ISIS is not the only problem preventing students from getting classes when they want them. Technology is a fun scapegoat, but there is a bigger problem: priority registration for Echols Scholars.


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Non-Greeks' growing pains

LAST YEAR, at about this same time, there was a lot of concern shown within the University community regarding the Inter-Fraternity Council house rental policy and the effect it would have on student organizations outside of the Greek system.


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Keep sexuality out of basketball

Last month, the Washington Post reported a new trend constituting a step back for both feminism and homosexual liberation ("Going Behind the Back," January 24). The Post brought to the public the latest method of negative recruiting in women's basketball: suggesting to recruits that opposing coaches are lesbians.


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ID numbers pose identity threat

Identity theft, once reserved for gangster movies, is an increasingly common phenomenon. In this information age, the sheer abundance and accessibility of personal data, particularly in computerized formats, makes identity theft a real threat for many individuals.


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Spare the dogs in medical lab

Cloning, embryonic research and cell reproduction have all come to the forefront of medical controversy as science improves and researchers make further strides in curing diseases and improving human life.


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Can college be race-blind?

Much of the affirmative action debate revolves around questions of fairness: Are white students treated unfairly in application procedures that consider race as a factor?


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An avoidable disaster

It was the first day of February. At Temple University, a former student shot his ex-girlfriend while she worked inside a campus administration building, later killing himself.


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Cry me a river

My dad gave me two pieces of advice before I left for college. First, always check to see if a book has been made into a movie before removing the shrink-wrap from a textbook.


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Time to check out

Oh come on, it's not as if you didn't expect it. That's right, of all the world's great thinkers, I've picked the Eagles to kick off my farewell to The Cavalier Daily -- because I can check out anytime I like, but I can never leave. Okay, I'll admit it.


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Somewhere, across the sea

When I walk down the Lawn on May 18 it will have been three years, eight months, and 23 days since I moved to Charlottesville, marking the longest I, an Air Force brat, have ever lived in one place.


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I am terrible at writing headlines

"Good writing is spiritual. Bad writing is clinical." My friend and mentor Jeff Eisenberg wrote these words for the opinion page of The Cavalier Daily exactly one year and two weeks ago, expressing so succinctly what all writers eventually come to realize


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Wouldn't change a thing

It seems I have told this story a few hundred times by now. For the past two years, when trying to recruit new staff, I would attempt to convince them that despite all reason and common sense, they wanted to spend a few hours one night a week working at The Cavalier Daily.

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Editor's Note: This episode was recorded on Feb. 17, so some celebratory events mentioned in the podcast have already passed.

Hashim O. Davis, the assistant dean of the OAAA and director of the Luther Porter Jackson Black Cultural Center, discusses the relevance and importance of  “Celebrating Resilience,” OAAA’s theme for this year’s Black History Month celebration.