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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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EDEL: The road less traveled

As a consequence, rejected Comm School applicants funnel into majors that follow from the prerequisites, like Economics, regardless of whether or not that’s their interest.


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CONNOLLY: Hold your horses

Too often, Democrats put forth a proposal (raising the federal minimum wage, for instance), and Republicans oppose the proposal but fail to articulate a policy alternative.


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ABBOTT: Go West, young man

The answer — find a job that makes you a better, more intuitive person, not a better employee. Statistics (somewhere) say that better people eventually get better jobs.


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HUMOR: Comedy is God

Whether it’s spiders, snakes, a cracked iPhone screen, missing a party (FOMO is so real y’all), a woman’s right to choose, racism, Ebola, or death we fear, we attack and repel these things with humor, for better or for worse.


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EVANS: In pursuit of honor

It would seem that the competitive nature of our extracurricular atmosphere is not so conducive to the integrity of Honor’s image and procedure.


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WHISNANT: Swift ascending

Much like with the similarly monolithic Beyoncé, it’s hard to read an article about Taylor Swift without running into an examination of her credentials as a feminist.


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PATEL: Know thyself

I don’t trust others because I have separated them from myself with some arbitrary quality or distinction, and as a result, I lose the opportunity to make great friends and meet good people.


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KELLY: Advising woes

In recent years, students have been quite vocal about their general dissatisfaction with the current advising system, citing concerns such as the insufficiency of career advising resources and a lack of advisors who match student interests during the pre-major period.

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As the fall semester is underway across Grounds, Special Olympics at the University is kicking off its new season. Beyond training for the upcoming Shenandoah Super Games, the student-led volunteer organization plays a vital role in connecting University students with local Charlottesville residents through sports. On this episode of On Record, Grant Supancich, Special Olympics president-in-training and third-year Commerce student, discusses team goals, community impact and how to build a lasting relationship with the organization.