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​WALLS: Women can fight, too

By Nora Walls | September 23, 2015

Last week the Marine Corps published a study reporting that all-male ground combat units outperformed units that included females. Teams in the study were either all-male or gender-integrated. All teams were given a series of tasks (134 in total), and researchers found the all-male teams did better in 69 percent of tasks, while the groups including females did better on only two of the tasks.

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​IMAM: The misunderstood young voter

By Alyssa Imam | September 23, 2015

These personality appeals also help make politicians seem less rigid, attempting to encourage younger people, who consider themselves more socially conscious than older generations, to take a more active role in politics.

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Takeaways from the campus climate survey and OCR review

By Managing Board | September 22, 2015

Yesterday’s news revealed many details we already knew or expected, but that remain troubling: that past University policies on sexual assault were not sufficient, and that students at the University experience sexual assault in unconscionable numbers.

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​WINESETT: The rationale behind religious freedom laws

By Matt Winesett | September 22, 2015

Without certain laws dictating how a business may behave, there is nothing stopping a business owner from engaging in discriminatory practices. We know from the Civil Rights Era that this is not merely theoretical, and that extensive government action was required to curb businesses’ discriminatory practices.

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​RUSSO: Finding the value in humanities

By Mary Russo | September 22, 2015

Without examining the foundational basis for the fields in which we explore the humanities, we are not taking full advantage of our humanities educations. In order to do so, we have to familiarize philosophical and ideological foundations of history, anthropology, area studies and the other fields which comprise the humanities.

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​FRAZIER: On the over-policing of black students

By Aryn Frazier | September 21, 2015

If we are going to have policing, I am a fan of consistency. I am a fan of logic. I am a fan of equity.

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FAFSA, new and improved

By Managing Board | September 21, 2015

By allowing students to file the form as early as Oct. 1, the Obama administration is making it easier for students to meet universities’ deadlines and for universities to provide information to prospective students.

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​DOYLE: Moving beyond 'Never Forget'

By Bobby Doyle | September 21, 2015

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say 9/11 has been the defining moment of America in the 21st century. But people need to keep in mind that 9/11 is still defining America, and much of the world, to this day.

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​LETTER: Reclaim the 'Good Old Song'

September 21, 2015

A generation later, students have again taken to yelling out at the same moment in the song, with most directing a profane slur toward another in-state school.

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​KHAN: Berating Natty Beau is not overly PC

By Hasan Khan | September 18, 2015

While oversensitivity and hyper-PC culture are definitely problems in many colleges, the Managing Board’s stance on the Natty Beau advertisement makes sense in the context of the University's reputation as a party school and the ongoing efforts to change this perception.

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​LOPEZ: Why our educational system is a disaster

By Carlos Lopez | September 18, 2015

This transformation is the consequence of our educational system’s design. It is designed in such a way that our scores determine our academic future. This, of course, has made many students value their grades, or their academic future, more than what they actually learn. In this design, students are willing to cheat, lie and steal other people’s work in order to avoid failing and thus, potentially ruining their academic future.

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​FISHER: Trusting The Cavalier Daily

By Julia Fisher | September 18, 2015

To tell a full story, reporters may have to publish ugly truths about people they know. College journalists must be doggedly committed to running hard stories; they must have faith that publishing those stories can build and strengthen a community, that there is an inherent good in the dissemination of facts and untiring investigation of the pat stories a school likes to tell itself.

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​GORMAN: Taking Voldemort seriously

By Ryan Gorman | September 17, 2015

Trendy course offerings fit exactly into the mold of "creatively"-taught courses that were proven so effective in the study: professors apply their passion for a specific subject (e.g., cinema, fantasy literature, politics) into an imaginative classroom setting that fosters student engagement.

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​The Safe Campus Act won’t make campuses safer

By Managing Board | September 17, 2015

If law enforcement has a more prominent role in universities’ cases, survivors may be hesitant to pursue charges, either due to their own trauma or because they don’t wish to launch a criminal investigation or harsher sanction than a school would provide. Of course, someone who has committed a rape deserves a criminal prosecution — but if a survivor won’t come forward for fear of criminal prosecution, with this bill, her rapist will get no prosecution at all, since the school can’t pursue its own adjudicative process.

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​YAHNIAN: End the penny

By Ben Yahnian | September 17, 2015

In 2006, the value of the zinc and copper in a U.S. penny exceeded the coin’s own one cent face value. The gap has only grown worse since then and as of 2013, the U.S. mint now spends 1.8 cents for every penny minted.

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​KEMP: The failures of sustainability advocacy

By Jeremy Kemp | September 17, 2015

Before I step on too many toes, let me clarify that I am in no way condemning sustainable lifestyles — only advocacy. Choosing to live simply, own a small home, buy local and/or used, go veggie or bike to work is enormous.

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​IMAM: The problem with affirmative consent

By Alyssa Imam | September 16, 2015

Affirmative consent fails to recognize that, while violent assault crimes are an ever-pressing issue, humans are still able to make mistakes concerning sex that (although they may regret them later) were not necessarily forced.

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​BERMAN: Rethinking law school

By Jesse Berman | September 16, 2015

Creating an undergraduate school of law would make the decision to attain a law degree less financially risky. The average debt held by law school graduates is exorbitant, as law students graduate, on average, owing between $84,000 and $122,000 in loans, depending on the law school.

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​MINK: An honest look at suicide

By Alex Mink | September 16, 2015

While the University has made large steps in increasing awareness about sexual assault, it has not made similar strides in the arena of suicide prevention. In some ways, this makes sense; the number of people who will suffer a sexual assault dwarfs those who will take their own lives.

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​ZIFF: Under pressure

By Tamar Ziff | September 15, 2015

Ultimately, “hyperachievement” is counterproductive, exhausting, unfulfilling and certainly no cure for anxiety or depression.