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B.U.C.K.S for cans

Every afternoon, Jaron Carter, the president of Brothers United Celebrating Knowledge and Success, plays games with children at a local computer lab.


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Movin' on up

I don't like the doctor anymore. Ever since I was kicked out of pediatrics, my medical treatment just hasn't been the same.


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For the Love of running

Two months since Brian Love's fatal snowboarding accident, University students are still feeling the momentum of Love's magnetic personality.


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Origins of honor

With this year's revival of the perennial debate regarding the health of the honor system, these past several months have witnessed an impressive outpouring of student opinion and passionate discussion.


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Understanding Turner

Leaning against the wall in M. Rick Turner's second-floor office in the Luther P. Jackson House, home of the Office of African-American Affairs, is a chalkboard on which Turner has written the following quote: "The most meaningful and useful function of African-American administrators on white campuses is to become advocates for African-American students." Now in his 17th year as dean of African-American Affairs, Turner has built a legacy doing just that: acting as a vocal advocate for African-American students at the University. The quote, from civil rights advocate Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, is a constant reminder of his role, Turner said. "It has told me and taught me that I am here for a specific purpose," he said, "that I've been sent here to do this." But Turner undoubtedly is a controversial figure on Grounds, and he is the first to admit it.


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Blasphenomenal

Happy Wednesday folks, I hope your Easter weekend was calm and Peep-filled. I took the opportunity this weekend to watch Mel Gibson's stoic and thought-provoking soon-to-be-classic film.


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Spring Cleaning

Tired of that old sweatshirt? Beginning to realize that your closet is packed, leaving no room to update your wardrobe with spring's hottest new styles?


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Hypochondriac musings

A few weeks ago, I nearly killed myself with imagined illnesses. I gave myself an ulcer, a hernia, liver cancer, schizophrenia and hemorrhoids within the span of five days. I didn't consider the combination of recent alcohol intake, malnutrition and lack of sleep in my diagnoses.


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Each week, the Cavalier Daily asks a student 25 questions and allows him or her to eliminate five of them.


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Seeing double

When Fat Joe hit the airwaves recently as part of MTV's notorious Spring Break programming, the rapper seemed confused.


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Writing outside the box

Jonathan Safran Foer arrived at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport the Sunday morning after the Virginia Festival of the Book, casually dressed in jeans and a gray button-toothed coat.


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Seasonal smackdown

SPRING: Hey, Winter, it's almost April, now get the hell out of here and let a real man take over. WINTER: You trippin', Spring?


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Shot heard 'round the nation

As most students were sitting in their classes, teachers were trying to capture the attention of their students and a high school security guard had another day of watch, an armed sixteen-year-old student entered the Red Lake High School grounds Monday afternoon with deadly intentions. Jeff Weise took his grandfather's gun and bullet-proof vest and ended the lives of a security guard and a handful of students, as well as shooting his grandparents to death before leaving the house.


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On potato chips

Iwas one of those sad children in the cafeteria who had a whole-wheat bread peanut butter sandwich (crusts on!), an apple, carrot sticks and 100% Minute Maid apple juice for lunch.


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KleeNexus?

A couple of weeks ago I talked about mydesire to change my name to "EricFunningham." Just keeping everyone posted, I've decided against pursuing this further.


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Phraseology

Our generation has a habit of quoting every movie we see. Every Simpsons episode, every Seinfeld, every 30 minutes of Friends and South Park we absorb, we regurgitate at appropriate or inappropriate times. What's arguably more interesting than this phenomenon are the reactions of our peers.

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Latest Podcast

All University students are required to live on Grounds in their first year, but they have many on and off-Grounds housing options going into their second year. Students face immense pressure to decide on housing as soon as possible, and this high demand has strained the capacities of both on and off-Grounds accommodations. Lauren Seeliger and Brandon Kile, two third-year Cavalier Daily News writers, discuss the impact of the student housing frenzy on both University students and the Charlottesville community.