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A Jeffersonian garden

On Thursday, Oct. 30, The Cavalier Daily ran an overtly negative editorial (?How does your garden grow??) concerning the Student Council?s unanimous support for an on-Grounds garden.


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Election day hardships

It is becoming increasingly clear that the University made a drastic mistake in its decision to refuse to allow students a day off on Election Day.


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Defending the garden

We were somewhat perplexed at Thursday?s editorial (?How does your garden grow?? Oct.


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A leopard’s spots

After reading that University faculty members signed an online petition supporting Bill Ayers (?More than 3,000 professors back Ayers petition,? Oct.


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Regardless of race

Being a Hispanic student at this wonderful University, I have to disagree with the guest viewpoint ?Discrimination by nature? (Oct.


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Name calling

I would like to comment briefly on Michael Feuerstein?s letter to the editor (?No thanks,? Oct.30). Michael?s characterization of Virgil Goode demonstrates a real problem with today?s political climate.


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Misinformed Horowitz

While reading the guest column published by the Burke Society (?Pre-disposed to prejudice,? Oct.


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Horowitz the hatemonger

This is in response to the defense that the Burke society offered for David Horowitz?s recent talk (?Pre-disposed to prejudice,? Oct.


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Mishandling Hereford

As a resident, Hereford Student Senator, and RA in Hereford during my first three years at the University, I was not really surprised to read that Hereford might be changed to a first-year dorm.


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Marriage rights

I have to wonder what Michelle Lamont means when she says that ?marriage was originally a Biblical tradition? (?Family matters,? Oct.


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Abortion facts

I am writing in response to Katie McBeth?s article (?Bra-shopping for birth control,? Oct.


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Every right to fear

Martin Michelot (?Socialist blues,? Oct. 27) fails to consider the reasons why many Americans dislike or are even fearful of socialism.


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No thanks

I found it amazing that Savanna Rutherford actually had the audacity to defend the candidacies of Jim Gilmore and Virgil Goode (?Gilmore and Goode are proven,? Oct.


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Reasonable expenditures

The Committees of Student Council would like to respond to Isaac Wood?s article ?Selfish spending? (Oct.


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Mistaken support

It is disappointing that members of our community have signed a petition supporting Bill Ayers.


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Socialist blues

I am an exchange student from Lyon, France, and I have always been interested in the politics of this great country.


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Hip-hop politics

In light of the Jay-Z, T.I. show at JPJ Saturday evening, and the political rally those of us in attendance came to be unwittingly subjected to, I feel compelled to submit to the Charlottesville community a simple question: Why do we give entertainers the attention and glory needed to allow them to influence our forms of political self-expression and, as such, our political opinions?Watching thousands of members of the University community throw the finger up to an image of George W.


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The good old parties

While listening to N.P.R. this morning I heard a report about drinking at U.Va.


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Scrutinizing our leaders

In response to Michael Feuerstein?s article on Sen. Obama?s foreign policy (?Obama has judgment,? Oct.

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