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Or dedicated Richards?

CITY Councilwoman and Charlottesville's Vice Mayor Meredith Richards is the clear choice to represent University students in Virginia's fifth district of the U.S.


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Misplaced Peace Prize

Former President James Earl Carter is a quiet Southerner with a peanut-eating grin. In the last 20 years, he has amassed a record of not offending certain nations and criticizing the United States on a regular basis.


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Fuzzy GPA math at Gardner-Webb

All is not well at Gardner-Webb, a small Baptist university in North Carolina. Last Friday, the president of the university, Christopher White, also an ordained minister, resigned after admitting to authorizing an


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Missing links of the DOE Web site

The issues facing public education in America are virtually endless. With policymakers and teachers being pulled in so many directions, it seems odd that controversy focuses on the Department of Education's Web site. A current overhaul of the site, in an effort to make it more user-friendly and updated, is also making sure that visitors view research and statistics aligned with the Bush administration's education philosophy.


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Extreme, unfair affirmative action

At the University of Michigan, according to their affirmative action policy which uses a "plus-factor" system, in which points are added to application scores in order to give certain applicants advantages, minority applicants receive an overly generous 20-point addition to their application scores based solely on their minority status.


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A taxing decision

EVEN AT MIDNIGHT! Interstate 64 through Newport News this past Monday night went from four lanes down to one lane for construction, thereby slowing traffic to a crawl for a good mile or two.

Latest Video

Latest Podcast

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.