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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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Bringing race to the forefront

Few issues are more controversial at the University than that its racial climate.Looking merely at the last year, we see steps towards reconciliation, and we see leaps backward.


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Dodging a rough draft

"FOR THOSE who say the poor fight better, I say give the rich a chance." These are the words of Reprsentative Charles Rangel (D-NY), who has proposed a bill in Congress to reinstate the draft as a means of building up the number of Americans serving in the military.


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State of the evidence for war

TUESDAY night, the United States took one more step closer to the precipice of armed conflict as President Bush's projected his rhetoric past the gathered Congress and instead focused on preparing the American people for war.


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Better teaching, better pay

THE ACHIEVEMENT gap -- the difference between school performance of low-income and minority students versus middle-class white students -- may soon take the back seat to a traditionally less-publicized education issue currently gaining momentum: the teacher gap.


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Too young to die?

There are a lot of things 17year-old boys cannot do. They are finally allowed to see R-rated movies -- which doubtlessly makes the producers of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies very happy -- but that's just about the only privilege they win upon reaching their seventeenth birthday.


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Stimulating dull discussion sections

THERE are two different kinds of discussion sections for classes in the humanities. One discussion entails a constant dialogue between the TA and students, and is a supplement to the lecture and readings.


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Shelving SEVIS program

STARTING on January 30, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will require universities around the nation to submit detailed information about their foreign students, particularly those of Arab descent.


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Evidence's irrelevance in war debate?

DAVID Kay, the former chief weapons inspector of UNSCOM, the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq, wrote a piece in The Washington Post last Sunday about the current search for a "smoking gun" by weapons inspectors in Iraq ("It was never about a smoking gun," Jan.


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Questioning quota-acceptance system

THE UNIVERSITY feels the University of Michigan's pain this month, as President Bush petitions the Supreme Court to strike down race-based admissions policies at the law school and undergraduate colleges.


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Where there's smoke, there's ire

LAST WEEKEND, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg sent a uniformed squadron of police officers to interrupt The Rolling Stones in the middle of their HBO-televised concert at Madison Square Garden.

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