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A matter of trust

ON TUESDAY, Critical Mass screened "Hijacking Catastrophe," a new documentary narrated by University professor and NAACP Chair Julian Bond, which explores the Bush administration's imperial ambitions in Iraq dating back to the year 2000.


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Nothing but hot air

ENVIRONMENTAL demonstrators have only gotten nuttier over the last several years; thus, I approach with a healthy dose of skepticism any group of protesters pedaling around in powdered wigs.


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A dangerous precedent

RECENT events at the University have me very afraid. There are those that say that I am an example of a systemic problem: a person whose politics and philosophy prevent social advancement in ignorant defiance of justice and fairness.


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Tolerance and honor

IN THINKING of tolerance and ignorance, I realized that I can fully imagine what it is like to be a white student attending U.Va.


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Subtle election scams

LAST FRIDAY, Ohio Republicans attempted to crack down on voter registration errors by purging voter rolls of names and addresses that did not match GOP rosters.


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Re-elect Bush

VOTE FOR George W. Bush. Why, you ask? I think the reasons might take up the entire Opinion page, but alas, I am only allowed 700 words with which to spread my conservative propaganda. John Kerry, along with the many rampant Bush-haters out there, talks a lot about what Bush should have done during the past four years.


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Tilting at windmills

THIS WEEK, the fall elections ballot includes a cleanenergy referendum. Despite last week's confusing and partisan rally for the initiative, this measure deserves our support.


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A racial epidemic

"ONLY nine percent of African-Americans had never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race." That startling, chilling, eye-popping statistic is not describing blacks across the country, nor is it talking about African-Americans at the end of their lives; rather, only 9 percent of black students at the University have never been subject to or witnessed a variety of negative experiences related to their race while attending college.


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Electoralmath

THE 2004 presidential election is just one week away, and there is one thing that is certain.: This one's going to be close.


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Teaching our children well?

A GROUP of Venable School second graders were paraded before City Council last week to protest the sordid state of 14th Street, lobbying local politicians to do something about beer bottles, pizza boxes and other post-party refuse that frequently litter the area around their elementary school.


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Covering stories through great photos

PHOTOGRAPHY is one of the most underrated and underappreciated aspects of a newspaper. Readers and even staff members at newspapers often forget or don't realize that photographers, like reporters, are journalists.


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See Samara run

IT'S GOING to be a busy night Nov. 2: One of the most hotly contested presidential elections in recent history, control of the Senate in precarious balance and a cutthroat Congressional battle in our own backyard.


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Debating democracy

DEMOCRATS and Republicans alike are constantly prattling away about the amazing wonders of American-style democratic government, like infatuated school girls with a hunky crush.


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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.