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CONNOLLY: Genuine ridiculousness

By John Connolly | December 1, 2013

During the Yeezus concert, as I watched Kanye come out of a mountain, meet with “White Jesus” (an actor who came out to “bless” Kanye before his song “Jesus Walks”) or rant for 10 minutes on the various maladies in his life, I began to wonder why people are so attracted to this insecure yet talented man. Yet all of his faults could not prevent 20,000 people from screaming themselves hoarse during the concert.

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BROWN: Piracy prevention

By Forrest Brown | December 1, 2013

A French court recently ordered several search engines, including Google and Yahoo, to de-list several known pirating sites from their search results.

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BOGUE: Underworked and overpaid

By Russell Bogue | December 1, 2013

Top-down regulation from the government aimed at limiting CEO compensation fails to account for the reasons why we have seen executive salaries rise so quickly in the past few decades.

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YAHANDA: An unfair advantage

By Alex Yahanda | December 1, 2013

I would argue that the University’s duty to favor in-state students is already strongly fulfilled through in-state tuition.

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A welcome addition

By Managing Board | December 1, 2013

We’re pleased to welcome our first non-student staff member: Kirsten Steuber, a 2012 University graduate whom we’ve hired as a full-time advertising manager.

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FOGEL: Read the fine print

By Jared Fogel | December 1, 2013

Physical textbooks provide productivity that digital textbooks cannot. This does not apply to elementary students that only use digital textbooks in class but rather to middle school, high school and college students that spend too much time on social networks.

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BROOM: Free and direct discourse

By Christopher Broom | December 1, 2013

I vacillate between thinking that, on the one hand, The Cavalier Daily should require online commenters to use their real names and, on the other hand, that anonymous commenting protects those who have criticism to offer that could compromise their job or position especially within the University.

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Cap and trade

By Managing Board | November 25, 2013

If state lawmakers were to follow the Loudoun board’s recommendation and introduce a bill mandating the University to cut out-of-state enrollment to 25 percent, they’d better be prepared to pick up the check.

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KNAYSI: Don’t be neutral about gender-neutral

By George Knaysi | November 25, 2013

With so many responsibilities, doesn’t the ability to choose our roommates — without conditions of sex or gender — seem consistent and fair?

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BERNSTEIN: Power to the people

By Dani Bernstein | November 25, 2013

It is likely that Republican candidate Mark Obenshain will demand a recount; since only 165 votes decided this election, this demand would be entirely reasonable. But there is also the possibility that after a recount Obenshain will contest the race, in which case it will be subject to review by Virginia’s General Assembly. In Virginia, a losing candidate can contest a race if there was some irregularity in the management of the election that possibly changed the election’s outcome.

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KELLY: Academic roulette

By Conor Kelly | November 25, 2013

I caution users of sites such as StatFuse to view its predictions skeptically, even though the site may relieve prospective college students of some of the stress of the application process.

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SPINKS: In defense of the ‘selfie’

By Ashley Spinks | November 25, 2013

Sometimes you feel cute, handsome, excited, silly or any other conceivable emotion, and you have a desire to capture yourself in that moment. This is neither shameful nor revolutionary.

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Match making

By Managing Board | November 25, 2013

To better match students with advisors, the College should require students to list five potential majors on an advising worksheet. The sheet would not commit students to any particular course of study.

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RIPLEY: You better not cry

By Katherine Ripley | November 24, 2013

I’m going to come right out and say it: I hate the holidays.

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BROOM: Exploring the pages

By Christopher Broom | November 24, 2013

One of the more interesting things to me as I’ve read The Cavalier Daily over the last few months is the level of personal writing to be found.

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BERGER: No laughing matter

By Meredith Berger | November 24, 2013

Eating disorders are not something to be taken lightly.

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Academic freedom, from Beijing to Blacksburg

By Managing Board | November 21, 2013

For an example of national commitments overriding a concern for academic freedom, we need not look all the way to Beijing. Instead we can turn to Blacksburg.

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ALJASSAR: Science is not optional

By Nazar Aljassar | November 21, 2013

The University must assume a greater responsibility in educating a scientifically informed citizenry.

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FOGEL: One is not the loneliest number

By Jared Fogel | November 21, 2013

Scrapping the policy would cause a resurgence in population growth in urban areas, increasing the difficulty involved in solving problems such as famine and pollution. Part of China’s original reasoning for the policy was that uncontrolled population growth was leading to the depletion of natural resources, including land fertility for crops.

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BROWN: Counting your blessings

By Forrest Brown | November 21, 2013

As Christmas shopping, finals and holiday travel lead to us all stressing out, it’s easy to lose track of how lucky we are as students at the University.