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Abortion's aftermath

THIS SATURDAY denotes the 32nd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. While we've all heard the overplayed mantra from the left about women's constitutional rights with respect to the practice of abortion, few stop to consider the actual effects of abortion on women.


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A cursory cure

BETWEEN commercials for Levitra, Cialis, Zoloft and several other heavily advertised drugs, CNN announced that the FDA approved on Dec.


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Donkeys in the dark

AS WE BEGIN 2005, Thomas Nast's 19th century caricatures of the two parties remain unchanged. In Nast's view, Republicans were like elephants; with their long memories, they never ceased reminding Americans that they were the party of Lincoln.


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New year, new outlook

'TIS THE season of making and breaking New Year's resolutions. Maybe you're going to shed those 15 pounds (really, you mean it this time) or go to the gym four times a week (four, one, what's the difference?). Perhaps this is the year for increased volunteerism, or cutting back on stress.


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Chriskwanukah by the numbers

LAST YEAR marked the debut of"Christmas by the numbers." This year, in an effort to be more inclusive, I am proud to present "Chriskwanukah by the Numbers." 1st: Current ranking of "Christmas" on the Lycos Top 50 Searches list after getting trounced throughout the holiday season by "Paris Hilton" last year.


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Well-learned lessons

DAVE BARRY once wrote, "College is basically a bunch of rooms where you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things." I've decided that this is mostly true.


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The happiest season of all?

IT'S THAT time of year again. The "joy" of the holiday season is upon us. In just over one week, we'll all head home for an eagerly anticipated, and in most cases, well-deserved vacation.


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A wayward worldview

IT HAS become standard operating procedure for those on the radical left to tar anything they disagree with as "racist." The war to oust al Qaeda from Afghanistan?


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Time for two Chinas

ONE of the hot-button issues on campuses across America this election year was whether or not the military draft would be re-instated.


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Building a safe community

Recent publicity regarding the University's sexual assault policies has raised awareness -- and revealed a great deal of anger, sadness and anxiety -- within the U.Va.


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Quality over difficulty

HIUS 323 -- Rise & Fall of the Slave South; is that class worth taking? In coming semesters, students will have a new resource with which to answer that question: online course evaluations.


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Liberal intelligence

LET THE hand-wringing begin. The conservatives are once again in "liberals-in-academia" crisis mode, spurred on this time by a recent study (covered in this paper) that Democrats outnumber Republicans about 6 to 1 on America's college campuses. Conservative pundit George Will best summarized the sum and substance of all the whining in last week's Washington Post, where he wrote that "many campuses are intellectual versions of one-party nations." Yet the modern academy is far from a totalitarian state, and perhaps it is worth noting that in the marketplace of ideals, liberalism is winning by a landslide.


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Corporations versus commoners

FOR THOSE of us who own stock, it has been a fantastic autumn. Lockheed Martin's share prices are skyrocketing with a glut of weapons contracts, and Bechtel and Halliburton can look forward to four more years of corporate welfare while the oil companies can start writing Bush's next energy legislation.

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Since the Contemplative Commons opening April 4, the building has hosted events for the University community. Sam Cole, Commons’ Assistant Director of Student Engagement, discusses how the Contemplative Sciences Center is molding itself to meet students’ needs and provide a wide range of opportunities for students to discover contemplative practices that can help them thrive at the University.