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KELLY: Between liberty and safety, a middle ground

Any attempt to reform the NSA and other such agencies should not be so impassioned as to render the agencies themselves ineffectual. Instead, we should attempt to eliminate impermissible invasions of personal privacy while allowing reasonable intelligence-gathering for national defense purposes.


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BERNSTEIN: A conflict of interest

Under orders from current Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who recently lost his bid for governor, Fairfax County, which leans blue, had to retroactively change the rules so that legal proxies are no longer allowed to advocate for ballots if the voters themselves are not present. Voters had until last Tuesday to come back to the polls to defend their ballots.


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BERNSTEIN: Primary colors

Since New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s sweeping victory last week — and before it — many pundits consider Christie the likely GOP nominee for president in 2016.


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SPINKS: Not so pretty in pink

October, with its endless midterms, interminable stress and great parties, has finally ended. With it came the end of another source of angst: Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


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KNAYSI: Home on the range

About 99 percent of U.S. meat comes from industrial farms. I am by no means a vegetarian, but I propose there are significant moral, environmental and health costs associated with these contemporary methods.


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Unfit to outfit

College students are often looking to make a statement. Sometimes, such statements are political and manifest themselves through a boycott of a company or product.


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Grounded in reality

The Board of Visitors recently approved updated enrollment projections through the year 2020. The plan is for the undergraduate student body to increase by about 1300 students while maintaining the current in-state to out-of-state ratio.


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Testing out

I recall the days when I was studying for the SAT (yes, I actually studied for the SAT). I remember memorizing random vocabulary and wondering if colleges really expected us to use those words.


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Bad samaritan

A disturbing account of inaction has recently come to light. Even more disturbing is the fact that the inaction was during a life-or-death situation.


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Learning to fly

How many times have you found yourself stuck in the class-transition time crowd, moving slower than students leaving the Corner at 2 a.m.


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Print culture

A recent article in USA Today discusses the propensity for college newspapers to switch to a predominantly digital medium of publication.


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Blown out of proportion

After receiving a graded test back in class last week, I wondered how many of the students swarming the professor at the end of class to discuss their grades would complain about being marked too high.


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A house divided

With the budget sequestration looming Friday, threatening the nation with across-the-board spending cuts that would fail to address the long-term debt problem, political pundits abound who are castigating Congress for its inability to compromise.


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Skin care

The Food and Drug Administration exists to regulate products and protect consumers from ingesting dangerous substances.


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Fighting a trend

This semester has brought to light, for me, a topic that was never really talked about during my first year — suicide.


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Pulling out the weeds

Weed-out classes are familiar territory for most college students. Many have taken at least one such course either to fulfill major requirements or graduation requirements.


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Jury duty

As a former student juror for an honor trial, I would like to respond to the recent article in The Cavalier Daily regarding the attendance of jurors (“Four jurors miss hearing,” Feb.


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Reforming a perspective

In the last few weeks the Honor Committee’s Restore the Ideal proposal has sparked an unprecedented wave of conversation about the University’s honor system.


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Honoring our ideals

Fair warning: This column is about honor. By the time this article runs, voting on the proposed reforms of the honor system will be under way and The Cavalier Daily’s incessant coverage on honor will likely be winding down.

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