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Staying awake to sleep needs

WE ALL know the drill. You drag yourself out of bed, into the shower and off to class. After class you try to get your work done, relax a bit and catch up with friends and roommates.


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Funding Ethernet creates vital connection

MONDAY'S lead editorial, "Disconnect Ethernet subsidies," wrongly attacked the University administration for helping fraternity and sorority organizations pay for the installation of expensive high-speed Ethernet service. The administration and the Inter-Fraternity and Inter-Sorority Councils should be commended for reaching a fair and beneficial agreement last semester to supplement two-thirds of the Ethernet installation cost with University funds.


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Casual slurs harm closeted homosexuals

ON THE other side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, students at James Madison University are getting riled up about an alleged "hate crime." On March 17, a male student reportedly harassed and assaulted three members of the women's rugby team. Why is this a hate crime?


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Or sound editorial judgement?

I AM NOT a supporter of the David Horowitz ad, "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea - and Racist Too." I do not believe that the ad should appear in the pages of campus newspapers such as our own The Cavalier Daily.


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Deaf to controversial ideas

JOHN STUART Mill once said, "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.


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McCain bill favors incumbents

IF YOU, the readership of this fine newspaper, have a pulse, you undoubtedly have felt it. It's that sense of an impending emotional high and of a growing groundswell of support for an important issue.


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Securing safety at Lambeth

THIS PAST August, I moved into my present on-Grounds housing, Lambeth Field Apartments. In general, the situation seemed great - decent size rooms, a common area with a store and a laundry room and an area filled with other students my age.


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Gilmore faces facts about south

THERE are some people that just can't accept that the fight is over and they've lost. I've always found creationists who fight teaching evolution instead of accepting that the scientific community has embraced it puzzling.


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Ad purposefully traps papers

SOMEWHERE in the past 200-odd years, the words "free press" got mangled. Like parallel lines going off into the distance, "freedom of the press" and "free speech" converged, even when the two aren't all that similar. When left-wing activist turn conservative commentator David Horowitz submitted his controversial advertisement regarding slavery reparations to various collegiate newspapers across the nation, the actions of a free press are what denied the ad from seeing newsprint in the majority of those publications. Our founding fathers knew that a free press was necessary to ward off tyranny.

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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.