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Education on the free market

CLEVELAND'S public schools have been deemed underachievers. In an attempt to ensure students living in the district adequate education, Cleveland's lawmakers decided to experiment with a voucher program.


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Watching the watchers

IN AN editorial appearing in The Washington Post on Sunday, Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) called for an independent board of inquiry to determine what went wrong with American intelligence that allowed the Sept.


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Sleep

IT'S ABOUT that time of the year that first years receive the shock treatment. After the first semester of college, one learns the hard way that work and play must be balanced.


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'Better' legislation

SPORTS are no stranger to scandals, many of them reading like a Hollywood script. Some actually have been immortalized on films, such as the 1919 fix of the World Series - known infamously as the Black Sox Scandal.


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Freedom from religious coercion

IN THE Virginia General Assembly, constitutionality has just flown out the window. In an attempt to levy their own religious beliefs on Virginians during the past weeks, many of the Commonwealth's lawmakers have forgotten the freedoms a non-secular state guarantees to its residents. On Feb.


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Budget

UNTIL recently, I have thought of the University as a collection of intelligent, hard-working people - students, faculty and staff - who care about one another and the world at large.


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Online on-target

SOMETIMES coming up with a topic for this column can be difficult, but this week it was easy, thanks to an e-mail I received Wednesday.


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The tuition tax

DESPITE the tendency of the "U.Va. Bubble" to cut students off from the outside world, most of us at the University are, at the very least, vaguely aware that Virginia is in some financial trouble.


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Any one of us

APREVENTABLE tragedy hit me hard this week: A high school friend is hours away from being put into the ground. I'm sorry to ruin everyone's Friday on a sad note, but I am glad to reach you before you go out this weekend. My friend, Dan, a University of Maryland-College Park student, was found unconscious inside a fraternity house after a rush event last Saturday.

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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.