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BOGUE: Mississippi blues

By Russell Bogue | January 15, 2014

Rehabilitation isn’t an excuse to give inmates flat-screen TVs or make our penitentiaries luxury hotels. It’s a critical look at the ways in which prisons change those who enter them in profound and irreversible ways, generating anti-social behavior, minimizing dignity and doing little to correct the habits that locked the prisoners up in the first place. Where possible, we should fight these effects.

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WHISNANT: Make it rain

By Gray Whisnant | January 15, 2014

Today, around 47 million Americans live below the poverty line.

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YAHANDA: Hall of shame?

By Alex Yahanda | January 15, 2014

Cheating, or at least trying to gain an unfair advantage over opponents, has forever been an integral part of baseball, whether it comes in the form of stealing signs, physically altering baseballs, corking bats or changing home fields to throw off opponents.

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Against the unpaid internship

By Managing Board | January 15, 2014

Between housing, travel, food, professional clothing and other expenses—especially if the internship is in an expensive city like Tokyo or Paris—an unpaid foreign internship could cost a student five figures.

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A separate peace

By Managing Board | January 13, 2014

Virginia will expand Medicaid or it will not: the possibility of compromise, of shifting the terms of agreement, does not seem to apply here. Thus Medicaid expansion threatens the façade of a bipartisan government—Democrats in the executive branch, Republicans in the legislature—and reminds us of the too-familiar downside of divided government: deadlock.

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KELLY: All work and no pay

By Conor Kelly | January 13, 2014

It seems evident that a minimum wage increase may result in marginal improvement in economic growth.

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BERNSTEIN: Undeserved outrage

By Dani Bernstein | January 13, 2014

Republicans are crying foul and claiming the ad strives to compare rapists to Republican politicians, which at best is an exaggeration and at worst completely made up.

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KNAYSI: Reviving Marx

By George Knaysi | January 13, 2014

Leftist politics is an exciting but flawed arena. Though it is essential to learn from the mistakes of the past, we must acknowledge Marx’s continuing relevance in thinking about current events.

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BERGER: Not looking for love

By Meredith Berger | January 13, 2014

The women who watch the show because they believe in the type of contrived, media-hyped romance it promotes are few, and they are as naive as the contestants who go on the show believing they will truly find love. Thankfully, those women are few, too.

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Paper missiles

By Managing Board | January 13, 2014

The flurry of white paper—a frenzy of resolutions and statements and letters volleyed between various academic groups—was as blinding and as icy (in tone, at least) as the polar vortex-induced snowfalls that bombarded the Midwest last week.

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YARI: What will happen to Afghan women?

By Gaisu Yari | January 13, 2014

Since women and children became the victim of this war, I have lost so many of my family members. Every single day, I read news about women being killed or abused in different kinds of struggles. What is the solution?

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BROWN COLLEGE: Wat'r we wasting?

By Ariel Herman | January 13, 2014

When it comes to water, Brown College has two main problems: apathy and a serious need for renovation.

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BROWNFELD: The main offender

By Burke Brownfeld | January 13, 2014

Ex-offenders face the ultimate catch-22 when they attempt to join the workforce. On the one hand, there is strong evidence that finding stable employment is a critical component of staying out of prison. On the other hand, it is virtually impossible for ex-offenders to actually attain employment.

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BROOM: New horizons

By Christopher Broom | January 12, 2014

The Cavalier Daily has a good website from a design standpoint, but the promise of enhanced content hasn’t yet come to life.

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SPINKS: In defense of screwing up

By Ashley Spinks | January 12, 2014

We are sure to screw up, embarrass ourselves, get some bad grades, make questionable fashion choices, say things we regret or take classes we hate. The list goes on. But that’s all OK. It is important to remember that your failures are just as valuable as your successes.

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WILLIAMS: Thoughts on Nelson Mandela

By Keith Williams | December 8, 2013

Mandela was not who we thought he was; he wasn’t that violent figure that we’d seen in the papers. Nor was he the violent firebrand that some in the ANC wanted him to be. Nelson Mandela was a thoughtful, dignified man who spoke eloquently about reconciliation, peace and a better future … for everyone.

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By the numbers

By Managing Board | December 6, 2013

The managing board recounts some notable numerals

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LETTER: Unnecessary expenses

By Adam Rosen | December 6, 2013

As I dropped off my form at the study abroad office, I was then slapped in the face with an additional $490. This added an almost 10 percent increase to the cost of my program. I was told it covered the costs associated with transferring the credits over and vetting the legitimacy of the program.

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LETTER: Unlikely allies

By Alison Filler and Chaney Mullins | December 6, 2013

Firm in our views on abortion, we at Feminism is for Everyone (FIFE) and Hoos for Life were frequently surrounded only by those who agreed with one another.

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ALJASSAR: Brain drain

By Nazar Aljassar | December 6, 2013

A fancy trade school, the McIntire School of Commerce is a drain on academia and the liberal arts undergraduate experience at the University.