Opinion

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The State of Student Council

By Darius Nabors | January 25, 2007

WHAT has Student Council done so far this academic year? That's the question that I am supposed to answer, but before writing this column, I thought about the ways in which I could express this simple idea: a song, a comic, a witty dialogue or a memoir (now, that sounds academic; I don't really know what it is, though). I even thought about an interpretative dance, but last night I was inspired by a certain TV show: VH1's "The White Rapper Show," a show in which "American Idol" meets "Real World" meets the "8 Mile" rap battle scene.

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The State of the Honor Committee

By Alison Tramba | January 25, 2007

WHEN THE Honor Committee met for the first time last March, oneword dominated discussion of plans for this academic year: transparency.

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The State of the University Judiciary Committee

By Raleigh Anne Blank | January 25, 2007

WITH President Bush's State of the Union Address on Tuesday and President Casteen's State of the University Address fast approaching, it seems there is no better time than the present to visit the State of the University Judiciary Committee. The 2006-2007 term of the University Judiciary Committee began with a quiet transition last April.

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A sworn oath

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 25, 2007

Regarding U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode's insistence that congressional oaths of office be sworn upon the Bible, Daniel Aaron Weir points out that the Bible itself seems to forbid this ("Scripturally unsound," Jan.

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Keeping women safe

By Steph Shaw | January 24, 2007

WITHOUT fail, every year a piece of legislation is introduced during the Virginia General Assembly session endearingly dubbed the "TRAP" bill, or Target Regulations for Abortion Providers.

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A building by any other name...

By Marta Cook | January 24, 2007

UNIVERSITY Students eat at Newcomb. They study deep in the bowels of Alderman. They live in Page or Echols.

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The disease of socialism

By Allan Cruickshanks | January 24, 2007

FOREIGN policy discussions over the past couple years have unfortunately focused more than anything on a single issue: Iraq.

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Road blocks to the White House

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 24, 2007

IN PHYSICS, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that merely by observing a particle, one changes its position.

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Conflict, not negation

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 24, 2007

With all the powerful thinkers and theorists that Josh Levy cited ("In defense of partisanship," Jan.

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A beautiful democracy

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 24, 2007

THE PRESIDENTIAL election and the tumult surrounding it has become just about the easiest thing in the world to complain about, to point out flaws and gripe about the candidates and their relative stances on the whole gamut of issues.

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Respecting the University

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 24, 2007

Last week Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., celebrated its hundredth year as a sorority. They decided to commemorate the event by painting Beta Bridge, but unfortunately, the bridge and the anniversary message was defaced.

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Searching for Bobby Kennedy

By Cavalier Daily Staff | January 24, 2007

I HAVE asked myself many times in the past two weeks whether the politics of this country will be tolerable for the next ten months if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Cutting funds, cutting lives

By Daniel Colbert | January 24, 2007

THE DEMOCRATS' "100-hour" legislative agenda and the Bush administration's "New Way Forward" plan sadly ignore what should be a major component of American foreign policy: global poverty reduction.

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Enemies foreign and domestic

By Dan Keyserling | January 23, 2007

NEWSPAPER columnists in Virginia could make quite a decent living by only writing columns exposing the latent racism and blatant ignorance of local politicians.

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You are not the person of the year

By Christa Byker | January 23, 2007

Though I do not want to live in the past, I am holding on to a grudge from 2006 which I must revisit.

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Honoring diversity

By Robby Colby | January 22, 2007

AS I prepared myself to write on strides the University has made in race relations, I opened The Cavalier Daily and read about a fresh incident of racial harassment.

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Corporate thievery

By Charles Lee | January 22, 2007

LAST YEAR'S holiday season generated a staggering $21 billion in revenues, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

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Not so Goode

By AJ Kornblith | January 22, 2007

THOSE who follow local politics here in Charlottesville are used to seeing the local congressman, Republican Rep.

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Winning the war of ideas

By Prashanth Parameswaran | January 22, 2007

TWO WARS and six years later it was clear that something was fundamentally lacking in U.S.counterterrorism strategies in the war on terror.

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What happened to June-uary?

By Greg Crapanzano | January 19, 2007

SORRY, AL Gore: We aren't causing global warming. A change in the earth's temperature does not mean that humans are responsible just like a shrunken, blood covered leather glove doesn't mean that O.J.