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Student feedback

Regarding a proposal made by the Student Life Committee to Student Council last Tuesday that would provide students with transportation to and from airports over breaks, committee chairman Aagya Mathur told The Cavalier Daily that student interest would need to be gauged before changes were made. On behalf of myself and many other students at the University, that interest does, indeed, exist.


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Proportional punishment

There are some people who have forfeited their right to live. The death penalty is as simple as that.


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A duty to those that serve

Over the course of the past two years, we've seen a rapid shift in the affairs of the two wars America is currently invested in.


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Fiscal irresponsibility

Today, BBC Business announced the United States' record deficit of $1.4 trillion - almost three times that of last year.


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Why so serious?

After reading the article "Gleefully ignorant" (Oct. 13), I was disappointed in the author. I love the show Glee, and in no way, shape, or form does it interpret "stereotypes that burden." I think the author of the article is having trouble overlooking race.


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Pointless risks

That tapping noise is the sound of me knocking on the woodwork, wondering why all the Groh-haters have faded away and crawled back inside.


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An incomplete picture

Is it a city or a town? Try the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the state of Virginia and the largest west of Richmond. The article "Rockin' Roanoke" (Oct.


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Ancient bloodthirsty barbarism

Michael Khavari wrote in his recent article, "Deadly decisions," (Oct. 12) that the death penalty is "barbaric" and "ancient." You may disagree with the "eye for an eye" sense of justice that is the foundation of the death penalty, but to act like it's some kind of relic of an ignorant past is ridiculous.


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Race

Mr. Khavari's piece questioning the practice of the death penalty in the United States ("Deadly decisions", Oct.


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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.


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An expanded role

Students at the University have no shortage of committees that claim to represent their interests. The most obvious among these groups is Student Council, but the list does not stop there: class councils, Greek councils and school councils are all part of the civic landscape. Of these committees, the school councils - like the Arts & Sciences Council, Engineering Student Council, Commerce Council, and so forth - seem uniquely well-positioned to tackle the more focused issues that each community faces internally.


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The new American Patriotism

Shortly after the inauguration of President Barack Obama in early 2009, Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions released a masterfully constructed video in support of the president.


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Shipping out honor

The Honor Committee revisited the Semester at Sea issue this week. At Sunday night's meeting, Committee Chair David Truetzel presented a proposal that would allow expelled Semester at Sea participants the right to request a second trial on-Grounds if found guilty of an academic honor offense during the program.


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Gleefully ignorant

Fox's new musical-themed show Glee is a fresh, more mature take on Disney's High School Musical. The show's creator, Ryan Murphy, has discovered a way to unite Disney's HSM with the edginess of his previous show, Nip Tuck.


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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.


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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.

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