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Letters To The Editor


Opinion

Pushing their views on us

Student Council's "Free Newspapers on Grounds" initiative has begun providing students with free issues of The New York Times and USA Today.


Opinion

Righting Deadly Decisions

In writing against the death penalty in Deadly Decisions, Mr. Khavari twists the Constitution, makes unwarranted assumptions about the psychology of murderers, and ignores the deterrent effect of the death penalty. Mr. Khavari argues that the death penalty is a "cruel and unusual" punishment, which is prohibited by our Constitution.


Opinion

Sexist pronouns

I think there's nothing wrong with the idea of a "nontraditional candidate" being picked to be the next President of the University of Virginia.


Opinion

Paying for health

"They dropped you the day you graduated." These words sank into my chest. I graduated from U.Va. this May and moved to California.


Opinion

Rules of the road

With the increasing number of bikes around Grounds, we need an agreement or at least an understanding between pedestrians and bikers.


Opinion

First-year Council

As may have come to your attention, the efforts of Suraj Mishra et al. have earned him office as Vice President of the First-year Council.


Opinion

Publicizing meetings

I was happy to read Monday's article on the recent Honor Committee meeting ("Pierson voices honor concerns", Sept.


Opinion

Wild conclusions

The Cavalier Daily's lead editorial addressing Barbara Pierson's presentation to the Honor Committee ("Trying Times," Sept.


Opinion

Latent hypocrisy

The Washington Times' Web site has an interesting article "Va. event to promote marriage, 2-parent families", including quotes from W.


Opinion

Unique fraternity

It is ironic that the national headquarters of Sigma Phi Epsilon would revoke the charter of U.Va.'s Eta Chapter in their effort to "challenge stereotypes" of fraternities and promote a more "personal and professional" fraternal experience.


Opinion

Unequal treatment

First, I would like to state that I was not in a fraternity at U.Va. I knew SPE brothers during my time at the University, but anyone who knows me would say that I had a very diverse social circle. Yes, SPE would throw bottles off of their roof, break things, cause a ruckus, and liked to fight a lot.


Opinion

School pride

As an alumna and current graduate student, I was dismayed to read the Sports section on Tuesday and see Dan Stalcup's article ("Hokie for a weekend," Sept.


Opinion

Just not right

As a fan of Virginia Athletics since birth, I was incredibly disappointed in Dan Stalcup's article "Hokie for a weekend". It was truly disheartening to read about "a Wahoo at heart" who had no problems with donning a maroon shirt, cheering for our arch-rivals, and storming Worsham Field after a Virginia Tech victory.


News

Biased coverage

Stephanie Waties' article on health care ("The costs of good care", Sept. 17) seemed to have good intentions; however, it was extremely biased.


Opinion

From the Athletics Dept.

I am writing on behalf of the University of Virginia's Department of Athletics to apologize for the use of an image of a Native American in the pre-game video at last week's game against the College of William & Mary. William & Mary relinquished its use of the "Indians" nickname and its American Indian mascot in the 1980s.


Opinion

Football dissatisfaction

I regret to say that I have had enough of Mr. Groh and the substandard product he brings to the University.


News

A troubling scenario

How is it that when a student passed out from dehydration at the game against William & Mary that she had to purchase water at the first aid station?


Opinion

Honoring local firefighters

I am just writing to say thank you to Charlottesville's firefighters. I live on Brandon Avenue, and while I was not personally affected by the apartment fire that happened there yesterday, I did witness you all in action and your ready response to put it out.


Opinion

Moving on

Let me just start out by saying that I know how hypocritical and ironic my letter will seem to the reader, as I am continuing the discussion about a topic that needs to die, but it needs to be said.


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