Opinion

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Two words: not controversial

By Tim DuBoff | September 7, 2000

SOME THINGS in life are worth worrying about. Some things are not. Two words shouted in the middle of a song at a college football game are not. Certainly one can empathize with those who take serious offense at the "Not Gay!" refrain in the middle of "The Good Old Song." This is a debate that has engaged the University - or at least, this fine publication - every year without fail.

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Or ignoring unrankable attributes

By Nadine Dabby | September 7, 2000

THE U.S. News & World Report college rankings are in and the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Virginia are tied for number one - public school that is.

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Suggesting solutions to college's quirks

By Brandon Almond | September 7, 2000

IT'S THE little things in life that make all the difference. No matter what the situation, if every person involved made a conscious effort to improve at least small aspect of his or her life, then the world truly would be a better place.

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Preventing poor college choices...

By Michael Greenwald | September 7, 2000

IF I ONLY had read one review of "Showgirls" before I saw it in the theater during my senior year of high school, I would have saved myself two hours of sheer disappointment and $7.

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God, Gore don't make divine combination

By Seth Wood | September 6, 2000

AS A GENERAL rule, newspaper columnists choose not to focus on vice presidential candidates during a major campaign season.

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Private dorms open door to better housing

By Bryan Maxwell | September 6, 2000

SOME THINGS improve with age. Access to on-Grounds housing at the University isn't one of them. For the most part, housing is as good as it gets first year.

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Dorm proposal robs first years of choice, comfort

By Emily Harding | September 6, 2000

FIRST-year students may think they are gaining more control over their lives when they leave home for school.

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Rankings express quantity, not quality

By Elizabeth Managan | September 5, 2000

OR MOST of us, the choice of which college to attend involves a great deal of our ego. Where we apply shows a what we think of ourselves, and most of us enjoyed hearing people's positive reactions when we told them we were coming to the University.

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Discovering personal strength by braving winds of mortality

By Carol Mershon | September 5, 2000

HERE I offer my reflections on what it means to live with the loss of your mother and also to live with the knowledge that you might eventually be diagnosed with the disease that assaulted her body and ended in her death.

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Vague code weakens honor system

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | September 4, 2000

HYPOTHETICAL: You're driving along a rural road in the wrong direction. There's an exit 65 miles ahead and another in only one mile.

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Asians influence University's changing face

By Diya Gullapalli | September 4, 2000

FOR SOME reason, it's really awkward to pass another Indian-American person on the street. This phenomenon isn't particular to this campus, or even to my ethnicity.

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Youthful message lures student voters

By Katherine Martini | September 4, 2000

YOUNG, intelligent and attractive. Not three words likely to describe most of the characters at the Republican and Democratic national conventions held this summer.

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Guarding the guards, being advocate for readers during upcoming year

By Brent Garland | September 4, 2000

Who guards the guards? Exploitative. Unethical. Irrelevant. Biased. All of these words are emblematic of common criticisms aimed at the media, and sometimes they are all too accurate.

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Wrenching religion from political process

By Faraz Rana | September 1, 2000

ON TUESDAY, the Anti-Defamation League, a primarily Jewish organization set up to combat anti-semitism, sent a letter to vice-presidential candidate Sen.

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Refurbishing roommate pairing procedure

By Laura Sahrama | September 1, 2000

THREE LITTLE questions are all that stand between every first-year student and every first-year student's worst nightmare.

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Greed proves sole survivor on TV island

By Brandon Almond | August 31, 2000

MY SUMMER was full of guilty pleasures. Sleeping till noon. Watching cartoons. Napping all day. Eating that extra scoop of ice cream.

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Bush hedges away from debates

By Timothy Duboff | August 31, 2000

IT SHOULD surprise no one that Axl Rose said it best. And though he was referring to critics of Guns 'N Roses rather than presidential debate politics, the message retains its meaning today: "Get in the ring." The controversy over each candidate's willingness -- or lack thereof -- to participate in debates is just another manifestation of the serious, but too often minimized differences between the two sides. It has become fashionable of late to throw around words like "Republicrat" and to otherwise imply that there are not fundamental issues at stake in this election.

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Upgrading University requirements

By Bryan Maxwell | August 30, 2000

WE THINK of this school as a modern university. Even with all of its traditions, we're still confident that history is a foundation that we can continually build upon.

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Deconstructing priorities

By Emily Harding | August 30, 2000

TO THE uninformed eye, a comparison of the construction on both sides of Alderman road looks horrible for the University.

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Veering youths away from voting

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | August 25, 2000

YOUR VOTE doesn't matter. College students have the lowest voter turnout, which is why politicians frequently talk of our generation's lost hope with remorse and sadness.