Opinion

Opinion

Honor survey doesn't ring true

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | October 22, 2001

IN A FEAT of irony, the Honor Committee has been either actively dishonest or incompetent. Neither interpretation is flattering to the Committee. Last year, before students considered the four honor referenda, three of which the student body soundly rejected, the Committee in conjunction with the Office of Institutional Assessment conducted a survey to gauge student opinion on the honor system.

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Opinion

Highlighting importance of 'hidden staff'

By Matthew Branson | October 22, 2001

MANY PEOPLE are involved with putting a story into its final form, the form the reader sees upon picking up an issue of The Cavalier Daily.

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Safety worth small loss of privacy

By Katherine Martini | October 22, 2001

EXTRAORDINARY times call for extraordinary measures. In the weeks following the terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans have been living in a heightened state of security and anxiety.

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Opinion

Stop feeding American propaganda to Afghans

By Austen Givens | October 22, 2001

BEGINNING last Sunday, the Department of Defense started dropping leaflets alongside bombs over Afghanistan.

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Opinion

Coordinate midterms to let students catch up

By Alex Roosenburg | October 22, 2001

LAST WEEK marked the end of our first official break of the school year. No classes were held Monday and Tuesday in order to grant University students some reading days.

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Opinion

Praising student efforts in recycling, investment

By Megan Moyer | October 19, 2001

OFTEN this page is used to point out what is wrong in the world, what our school, country or fellow citizens are doing to harm one another.

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Opinion

America shouldn't stop supporting Israel

By Harris Freier | October 19, 2001

SOME PEOPLE blame the recent terrorist attacks on American foreign policy in the Middle East. These people claim that America must change its ways if it wants peace.

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Opinion

Fund fight against biological warfare

By Laura Parcells | October 19, 2001

IT SURE is an interesting time to be an American. Not yet recovered from the shock of the unprecedented terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that shook our nation but a month ago, our country is now faced with the reality of a new threat: biological terrorism.

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Opinion

Support missionaries' effort to spread faith

By Matt West | October 18, 2001

AMERICA watched solemnly and quietly Oct. 7, as America began its first overt military strikes on Afghanistan.

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Use lessons from previous wars in current campaign

By Pallavi Guniganti | October 18, 2001

POP QUIZ: Which did more for world peace, the Treaty of Versailles or the Marshall Plan? The winners of World War I, "the war to end all wars," dictated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles to punish the losers.

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Opinion

'Reeferendum' deserves attention

By Brian Cook | October 18, 2001

MANY POLITICIANS are accused of running on only one ideal. In 1996, Steve Forbes ran for the Republican presidential nomination primarily on his flat tax proposal.

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Opinion

Late lottery leaves students on the streets

By Harris Freier | October 12, 2001

THE BEGINNING of October means that the housing hunt has begun for any student who wishes to live off Grounds next year.

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Opinion

Focusing attention on actions of movie industry

By Megan Moyer | October 12, 2001

FOLLOWING any major newsworthy event, the media is scru-tinized for its response. It is charged with responding without bias and with covering a story fully without becoming sensational.

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Opinion

Presence of race-based groups on Grounds supports self-segregation

By Kimberly Liu | October 12, 2001

THE UNIVERSITY welcomes racial minorities with open arms. There's a student organization on Grounds for nearly every underrepresented race: The Black Student Alliance, La Sociedad Latina, the Asian Student Union and a wealth of other student organizations are dependant on race as a uniting factor.

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Opinion

Finding fairness in profiling of Arabs

By Laura Parcells | October 12, 2001

ONE WEEK ago today, The Washington Post reported that "there is a high probability that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden will try to launch another major attack on American targets here or abroad in the near future." In light of Sunday's air strikes on Afghanistan, the likelihood of these predicted attacks taking place is undeniably heightened.

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Opinion

Don't confine attacks to Afghanistan

By Brian Cook | October 12, 2001

IN A LETTER sent Monday to the United Nations Security Council, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte brought up the possibility of expanding the strikes against Afghanistan to other countries.

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Opinion

Independent voice to create a Wilder campaign

By Seth Wood | October 11, 2001

FORMER VIRGINIA Gov. Doug Wilder has reappeared on the state political scene. His re-emergence will give Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Warner some reasons to doubt his support in the African-American community.

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Opinion

Don't let America's past define future

By Pallavi Guniganti | October 11, 2001

WE HAVE survived the month since what pundits call the defining moment of the MTV generation/Bush administration by hanging flags, donating blood, giving to the rescue efforts and moving on with our daily routines.

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Opinion

Media must inform, not frighten

By Brad Cohen | October 11, 2001

THOUGH Sunday's military retaliation against the Taliban is just the beginning of a war, the assault brings a tedious three-week media frenzy and waiting period to a close.

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Opinion

Questioning defense of military action

By Bryan Maxwell | October 10, 2001

PRESIDENT Bush's speech announcing aggressive military action against Afghanistan skewed and manipulated the truth to justify war as the only logical possibility.