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MENENDEZ: Running with Leslie

Humans have a rather complicated relationship with running: there’s the hellacious elementary school Presidential fitness test in which ten-year-olds are required to sprint back and forth across an un-airconditioned basketball court, slapping the out-of-bounds line as they scramble to beat an ever quickening, loud beep of elimination.


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KELLY: Dear mom, take a break

While all politicians intermittently wave the flag of family values, however, research has steadily shown that women who take maternity leave experience positive health benefits.


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BROOM: Loving life

Even if one has kept a journal or a blog, it is a different level to work within a newspaper editorial structure and try to craft a column. The writers are finding and honing their voices.


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KHAN: The virtue of Model UN

Yet despite all these flaws, Model UN provides a worthwhile experience that forces delegates to adapt to uncomfortable situations which may conflict with their opinions.


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ALJASSAR: A checkbox for Arabs

Our current classification only makes us invisible to the rest of the population. It is not unreasonable for Arab Americans to seek a unique census category which better represents us.


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WAN: Turn off the spotlight

There seems to be a view that international students are more likely to cheat than their American peers. However, this assumption is invalid and oversimplified, because these two groups are not examined under the same circumstances.


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HUMOR: On emotion

I can never bring myself to do my laundry, which means there is always a soft pile of clothing for my tired friends to sleep on when they don’t want to walk back home at night.


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HORNE: The Spotify illusion

Since music has become digital, bringing us so many options for how to listen to music, the choice to purchase music rather than find it somewhere else online has become a much more meaningful decision by the customer.


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KNAYSI: The intrinsic value of books

But for academic purposes, current e-readers, tablets and computer screens don’t have the same capabilities — to flip through pages, marking up a page for close reading, cross-referencing multiple works at the same time.


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BERNSTEIN: Climate crisis

While the current legislature’s record is not laudable, we are about to move from a snail’s pace on addressing climate change to having no legislative fixes at all.


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On this episode of On Record, we sit down with Lela Garner, sustainability manager of student outreach and engagement at U.Va. Sustainability. Garner discusses sustainability initiatives on Grounds, the 2030 U.Va. Sustainability Plan and Earth Month celebrations.