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FOR CLOSE to two years, I've had the pleasure of enduring an all-too-common question - that is, why was I sacrificing the entirety of my undergraduate life for "some cruddy student newspaper?" I used to take mild offense at the remark.
WHEN I was young - say, about 10 years old - I wrote in a journal. At 12, I started another, and at 14, there was yet another. These diary entries consisted of - among other topics - adolescent ramblings about why I was angry that day, of in-like letters to a boy in the school hallway, of quoted lines from Lord Byron and ee cummings.
I KNEW this moment would finally come. Years ago, I set a plan in motion to be able to publish an article in The Cavalier Daily.
UPON BEING elected the 121st chief financial officer of The Cavalier Daily, I knew the most difficult thing I would have to do on the job would be the inevitable parting shot I would have to write.
IF ALL the world tends toward entropy, The Cavalier Daily office is no exception - yet, it does so in an orderly kind of way.
There was widespread disappointment when it was revealed that nationally only about 21 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the 2010 congressional midterm elections, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.
EVERY day around the world, millions of defenseless animals suffer in silence at the hands of humans.
THE LIVING Wage Campaign at the University - represented in part by Workers and Students United - hosted a rally last week to raise awareness of its agenda and attempt to pressure school administrators to consent to instituting an artificial minimum wage for all University employees.
The cruel twist of succeeding in a campaign for elected office is that after weeks of stumping and advertising the real work is yet to come.
With regard to your lead editorial "Taking care of our own" (Feb. 25), on what grounds can you justify your claim that the dining hall and janitorial employees at the University of Virginia are underpaid?
A FEW WEEKS ago, the winner of "Best Album" was announced at the Grammy Awards. The winner wasn't your standard pop diva starlet or king of hip-hop.
NEXT WEEK, the University will be participating in the college event that has long inspired National Lampoon straight-to-DVD movies.
MANY COLLEGE students around the country are very aware of the high cost of a college education. This expense is the result of not only the cost of tuition, but also the cost of living during those four memorable years.
When the Board of Visitors met last week, one of the issues it addressed was maintaining the Commerce School's prestige at a time when its faculty salaries and technological infrastructure are falling behind those at peer institutions.
WE'VE ALL seen "I stand with Planned Parenthood" status updates on Facebook in the past week. These statements are not about abortion or being pro-choice; they refer to recent legislation passed in the House of Representatives to cut Title X of the Public Health Service Act, a government program that provides family planning aid.
I WRITE in response to a column published Feb. 25 in The Cavalier Daily titled "Acts of Tree-Son." At the heart of the call for ever-growing regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency is a narrative of exploitation: The poor, underdog environment is constantly under assault by an evil army of human corporations. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.
THIS IS one of the great things about newspapers. Last Wednesday, a column appeared in The Cavalier Daily that said a college education isn't really worth as much as common wisdom says it is.
