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Game changer

It has been 10 months since the American Tradition Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the University seeking, among other things, all "correspondence, messages or emails" between former Environmental Sciences Prof.


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Book not Nook

BARNES & Noble, the nation's largest bookstore chain, has experienced another significant loss during its most recent fiscal quarter and is projected to lose money during every quarter of 2012.


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Quenching the thirst

When City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County residents head to the polls next Tuesday to elect candidates for local government positions, one of the most important questions they will have to consider is what approach the region should take to its 50-year community water supply plan. Even though some would consider this to be merely a subject of concern for residents, the fact is that the water supply plan also matters greatly to the future of the University.


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BEFORE beginning, I want to state very clearly that this is not a column about food quality. I would simply like to recount a meal I had at the Newcomb To-Go Room, as it is indicative of the typical experience with ARAMARK Dining Services at Newcomb Dining Hall.


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The President

IT IS ENTIRELY natural to have ambitions after college, to have dreams and aspirations for starting a family or landing a desired job.


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Cracking the code

Sunday night marked the third consecutive Honor Committee meeting at which the body discussed informed retraction legislation, which would give students accused of honor violations an opportunity to admit guilt and accept suspension rather than expulsion.


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Redefining rape

DISCUSSING rape always brings out strong emotions in people. Rape is illegal in the United States, but because of difficulties in interpreting what counts as rape, many cases go unreported or without convictions. Unfortunately, a victim often feels the need to keep quiet for fear of rejection, retribution by the offender or out of shame, allowing the perpetrator to go unpunished.


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The next step

There is much to commend in last week's report issued by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, in which it outlined its annual budget recommendations to the governor and the General Assembly.


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Going the distance

TO BE SUCCESSFUL, newspapers -or any kind of media, really - need to focus on the long term. They need to connect dots, pose questions, consider connections and implications that may not be readily apparent and then explore and explain all that. At the same time, they have to provide context.


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An artificial selection

IT HAS always struck me as odd that college students have to fulfill certain distribution requirements completely unrelated to any academic interests they may have.


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A-loan no more

Earlier this week, President Obama announced he was taking unilateral action to restructure the process by which some individuals are expected to repay their student loans.


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Rocky orator picture show

WHAT MAKES a debate? Merriam-Webster defines it as "a regulated discussion of a proposition between two matched sides." The type of competition implied by this definition is a far cry from the free-for-all contests which television viewers have taken to calling the Republican "debates" of the 2012 election season. The debates have proven popular: According to The New York Times, the Republican debate aired on Fox in September attracted 6.1 million viewers, almost twice as many as some of the Republican debates in 2007.

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