Opinion

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The distorted lens of the Kaleidoscope

By Nick Chapin | March 2, 2004

LAST THURSDAY, students and administrators proudly unveiled the long-awaited "diversity center" which replaced the informal lounge in Newcomb Hall and christened it"Kaleidoscope: Center for Cultural Fluency." Officials and boosters announced hopes that the "new and different" space will provoke new and different discussion of culture and race that will lead to greater understanding and unity.

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Partisanship over protectionism

By Jim Prosser | March 2, 2004

LAST FRIDAY, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., reversed ground on his opposition to efforts to extend the deadline of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, or "9/11 Commission" as it's also known, and will now allow the commission to continue its work through July 26.

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Wrong for so many reasons

By Alec Solotorovsky | March 2, 2004

WITH HIS reelection campaign underway and his conservative base demanding a blood sacrifice, President George W.

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Exposing technical virginity

By Kimberly Liu | March 1, 2004

THE DICTIONARY defines a virgin as one who has never engaged in penile-vaginal intercourse. Yet, there are many variations of sex.

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Playing politics with gay marriage

By Anthony Dick | March 1, 2004

THE GAY marriage debate consistently generates more heat than light, even in the pristine intellectual oases that are America's college campuses.

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Improving our sex columns

By Emily Kane | March 1, 2004

SEX -- or more conservatively termed "relationship" -- columns have been popping up in college publications around the country at schools such as UC-Berkeley, NYU, Yale and ACC pals like Wake Forest and Maryland.

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Toward sexual equality

By Blair Reeves | March 1, 2004

Few things characterize the mythical "good old days" of the past like sexual prudishness. Even when our parents were in college in the 1960s and '70s, dorms were largely segregated by gender, colleges employed "dorm mothers" to enforce often arbitrary social norms and the very conception they had of sex was far removed from ours today.

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A vote of approval?

By Nick Chapin | February 27, 2004

IN THE past year, students demanded serious elections reform at the University -- and they got it.

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A low education standard

By Todd Rosenbaum | February 27, 2004

IT TAKES only the words "No Child Left Behind" to send chills down the spines of American educators.

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Ambushing politics

By Michael Slaven | February 27, 2004

LAST Friday, William Pryor became the second judicial nominee in five weeks to be placed on the bench by President Bush without confirmation in the Senate. Senate Democrats had blocked Alabama's former attorney general and five others from taking the bench.

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Emergency Misconceptions

By Sina Kian | February 27, 2004

DEL. ROBERT Marshall of the Virginia House of Delegates is attempting to pass one of the most ridiculous bills that has ever been brought up in Virginia.

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Ending flyer fraud

By Chris Kiser | February 26, 2004

ADS FOR bubble tea. Signs hyping a presidential candidate's 21-year-old daughter's visit to Charlottesville.

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Why Nader doesn't matter

By Alec Solotorovsky | February 26, 2004

SO, RALPH Nader has crashed the party. In a misguided move that shocked no one, Nader announced last week that he will run for president, once more subjecting the electorate to his rumpled charm, his high-minded lectures and his callous indifference to the fate of America's mainstream liberals.

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Preventing pregnancies and sterotypes

By Michael Behr | February 25, 2004

IN THE heated emergency contraception debate, both arguments spit out derogatory rhetoric to persuade the public.But can this go too far?

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A Nader nuisance,Bush boost

By Alex Rosemblat | February 25, 2004

IT FEELS almost like déjà vu: George W. Bush running against a Democratic candidate whose main deficiency may well be his apparent lack of charisma, and also against a third party anti-establishment candidate who appeals to the most liberal voters in the country.

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Closing the conversation on race

By Eric Wang | February 25, 2004

FIFTY years after the legal integration of American schools, aHarvard study shows de facto segregation at its highest level since 1969.

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Bad politics around Grounds

By Kristin Brown | February 25, 2004

I ENJOY a good Bush joke as much as the next person. "What were George Bush's three hardest years?

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An overhaul of the law

By Whitney Blake | February 25, 2004

THE MAYOR of San Francisco created a new wrinkle in the hot-button topic of gay marriage last week.

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Tax and spend... Republicans

By Blair Reeves | February 24, 2004

LIKE SO many other buzzwords of our political landscape, the term "fiscally conservative" is an overused phrase among many voters.

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Choosing his role

By Alec Solotorovsky | February 24, 2004

ON FEB. 28, 1969, Lt. John Kerry led three Navy patrol boats up the Dong Cung River, delivering a group of local fighters to a dangerous region at the southern end of Vietnam's Ca Mau Peninsula.