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(01/25/08 5:00am)
DO YOU think The Cavalier Daily isn't meeting your needs? Is it not covering the issues that affect your life? Is it making false assumptions, or failing to treat people with due respect? Is it blind to how things look from certain perspectives?
(12/04/07 5:00am)
WHEN DAVID Mata submitted his letter to the editor, he realized he'd gotten a fact wrong. Three minutes later, he submitted a correction.
(11/27/07 5:00am)
IS THE "not gay chant really controversial? Before Alex Cortes wrote his guest column ("Not gay and proud of it," Nov. 14), for aspects of which he has since apologized ("An apology," letters, Nov. 19), it did not look that way in the opinion section of The Cavalier Daily.
(10/30/07 4:00am)
"MY PARENTS decided tosend me away," said Rukshan Jonny Uddin. "I came home one night and something was amiss." His room had been cleaned; a suitcase was in it. Then at around 4 a.m., he was awoken by two men who said he was going with them to a boarding school -- they would not say where. "What do you mean, you're taking me away somewhere? I'm not going." They threatened to knock him out. He went. He was not allowed to get dressed.
(10/23/07 4:00am)
ON FRIDAY, October 12, 2007, I bought two black women at auction.
(10/16/07 4:00am)
SUPPOSE A certain old man has, for the past half century, made a career of fighting for justice, taking up causes before they were popular and becoming a well-known hero.
(09/21/07 4:00am)
SUPPOSE someone important to you had e-mailed you three months ago -- or three years ago -- and you wanted to see, now, what she said then. Maybe it could help you land a job, rebuild a relationship or simply remember what it was like when the two of you were close -- or when she was alive. Could you do it?
(09/14/07 4:00am)
Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007, this was printed in your newspaper. Would you tolerate it?" Naseem Alavian said she posted that denunciation of Grant Woolard's "Ethiopian Food Fight" cartoon on her Lawn room door because she did not think the comic should be tolerated. But if there were any expression that ought not to be tolerated at the University, it would be a demand that a member of the community be silenced.
(08/31/07 4:00am)
A DANGEROUS political strategy is weakening Westerners' moral fiber and may ultimately threaten the very people it is intended to serve. I call it "the politics of chutzpah": First, you assume that two groups have conflicting interests and one must be sacrificed to the other. Then you demand that the group that has the ability to impose its will choose to sacrifice its interests to its vastly weaker rival.
(04/26/07 4:00am)
THE DAY after the Virginia Tech shootings, in the face of an age that has made perfect security its reckless quest, when we have shampoo screening at the airport and metal detectors at some high schools, University President John T. Casteen, III declared: "Sealing up this University is an all but inconceivable task." He will not attempt it. He recognizes, as we all should, that it would achieve little and that the cost would be great -- and not only the cost in dollars.
(04/20/07 4:00am)
MONDAY in Israel, they observed Holocaust Memorial Day. Monday, in Blacksburg, a survivor who once taught in Israel died, and he died a hero. Like all dead heroes, he left us a challenge.
(04/13/07 4:00am)
A TEENAGER who did not want to become a parent was sentenced last week to more than six years in prison for attempting to avoid it by arranging the termination of a pregnancy, The Associated Press reported. The charge, authorized by Washington state law when a viable fetus is involved, was solicitation to commit manslaughter.The AP has also reported that there have been efforts afoot to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, which would change the Constitution to insist that "equality of rights under the law" not be denied because of a person's sex.What's the connection? The teenager in question is male. Were he female, Washington law would have guaranteed him "the fundamental right to choose or refuse to have an abortion." But being male, he had no such right.
(03/30/07 4:00am)
It began with nonsense. "Bong hits 4 Jesus," the banner proclaimed. But the principal took it to advocate smoking marijuana, and she took the banner away from a student and punished him. Now it's a Supreme Court case, testing the boundaries of high-school students' freedom of speech and raising questions about character education in a free society with public schools.
(03/23/07 4:00am)
WANT TO pose for a nude drawing? Can't get Leonardo DiCaprio to sketch you? Now there's a solution: Just fly to Arizona. If you're lucky, the federal government will give you the chance to pose on your way home. The "backscatter" X-ray screening system the Transportation Security Administration is now offering as an alternative to a pat-down for travelers with bad results on the metal detector can produce "something like a line drawing" of your naked body, The Associated Press reported last month. You don't even have to take off your clothes.Sadly, The AP reported that the equipment is not set up to keep a record of the image, and you don't get to meet the officer who sees it. That's got to put a damper on the fun.
(03/16/07 4:00am)
FROM THE Honor Committee's "town hall" meeting the Sunday before spring break, one might have gotten the impression that honor is already dead. But by the time the break arrived, the student electorate sent a different message: We still want the honors of Honor. The question is not how to embalm the corpse -- how to build a modern, efficient bureaucracy under the name of Honor -- but how to revitalize the historic, impassioned cultural commitment to the spirit of honor.
(02/23/07 5:00am)
Should University students be free to say things that offend Islam?
(02/16/07 5:00am)
The Recording Industry Association of America, infamous for its lawsuits against free music, wants the University to help spread its message that piracy is theft.