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​LOPEZ: End tipping at restaurants

The most important factor one really does consider when giving a tip is the amount of the check, and not how attentive the server was. If tips are not completely related to service, what are they based on?


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​ALJASSAR: Promoting equitable law enforcement

We as students may not have the power to effectuate change within local law enforcement systems. But we can use our resources to make other members of the community safer by making them more aware of their legal rights when encountering police officers.


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​GORMAN: Moving beyond the ADA

Upper extremity conditions often create a necessity for automatic functionality, as simple tasks — such as opening a heavy door or operating the various knobs and handles in a bathroom — can become practically impossible for those whose conditions have seriously limited their strength or dexterity.


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​BERMAN: Save the SAT

Specifically, Imam neglects to take into account that the University’s size is vastly larger than the universities mentioned in her column, which is crucial because large schools need a more efficient means of predicting collegiate success amongst their thousands of applicants.


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​WALLS: Give prisoners a real education

Programs like the Bard Prison Initiative say they might actually save the United States money in the long run. According to the initiative’s website, the United States spends over $200 billion on the criminal justice system each year, averaging almost $30,000 per prisoner.


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​DEZOORT: What do we expect from NASA?

Any discovery short of finding extraterrestrial life is not, by any means, disappointing. In fact, as popular scientists like Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson have argued, evidence of flowing water does point to life.


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Want cheating to decline? Start assigning seats

Punitive measures like expulsion may serve as negative reinforcement for students not to cheat — but that doesn’t have to be the only measure in place to stop cheating. Promoting a community of trust shouldn’t preclude us from taking small, preventative steps.


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​WARREN: Black and queer at U.Va.

With few organizations dedicated to black queer students or the presence of black queer students in executive positions, it’s hard to believe these spaces can be considered safe for all black students.


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​AKUNDA: The dangers of naming communities that don’t exist

“Black” in reference to people should be capitalized because it brings to mind an image, a “common” people, a common history which in capitalizing “B” makes it a noun, structured with certain properties. The nounification of “black” calls to attention the construction of “the Black experience in America.”


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​FISHER: Holes in Cavalier Daily coverage

Running a newspaper, even in the Internet age, is not just a race; The Cavalier Daily shouldn’t sit a story out just because it doesn’t get there first. There are surely U.Va. students whose sole source of University news is The Cavalier Daily; they shouldn’t have to turn elsewhere to see important headlines about their school.


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​YAHNIAN: Keep using ad blockers

Regardless of whether you side with the profit-maximizing corporations or the privacy-minded consumers, fear not, for there is a compromise: the acceptable ads manifesto. At its core, the idea acknowledges consumers want to continue absorbing the Internet’s free, enjoyable content without flashy and irritating advertisements.


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​MINK: For minorities, adapting does not mean conforming

First of all, to characterize the Diversity Initiative Award as enforcing conformity is a stretch. It is a scholarship intended to foster engagement between minority communities at the University and the Honor system, and to allow these individuals to provide unique perspectives to an organization that does not have strong ties with them.


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​GORMAN: A fatal flaw in the Affordable Care Act

Health treatment disparities cause hospitals that treat disadvantaged people to be far more likely to readmit patients within the post-discharge 30 day period, as people who receive lower quality treatment are naturally more likely to experience illness more frequently.


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