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Nothing to declare

Declaring a major is both easy and agonizing. Formally, all it takes is trudging to Monroe Hall, completing a declaration-of-major form and soliciting a professor’s signature.


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On my honor

My name is Dan Bayliss and I’m going to be completely honest with you: I broke the University of Virginia student honor code.


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Shades of green

In his Feb. 11 column “Yes, in your backyard,” Andrew Wells asserts that the solutions to climate change must start with individuals — that we must all do our part to recycle, reduce our energy usage and think about conservation in our daily behavior.


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Logic and logistics

People in certain corners of the business world might think of something tangible — phone calls, paperwork, red pens — when they hear the word “logistics.” For such people, improving logistics may be an art with its own delicate pleasures and frustrations.


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Identity loss

The Virginia legislature recently passed laws that would reduce the incidence of voter fraud by limiting the types of voter ID polling places deem acceptable.


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Evolution in thought

Though many people were probably unaware, yesterday marked Charles Darwin’s birthday. Darwin, as hopefully everyone knows, solidified the theory of evolution with his explanation of descent with modification, the process by which adaptive changes take place.


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Starving liberal artists

The joke is an old one: When talking to an English major, you usually end the conversation with “Yes, I do want fries with that.” Studying Proust or Joyce is not exactly economically sound.


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Shooting blanks

A University of Maryland graduate student early Tuesday morning shot two housemates, killing one and injuring the other, before turning the gun on himself.


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Yes, in your backyard

Carl Sagan once said, in reference to the famous photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft that shows the Earth as a pale blue dot, that humans have a responsibility to “preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” I urge you to read the transcript of this speech.


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Identity crisis

Last week, a group of fourth-year students revealed the lesson they learned from a two-month project they undertook for one of their classes.


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The sweet science

PureMadi, a nonprofit group of University faculty and students that combats global water scarcity and contamination, unveiled an invention Friday.


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Paint wars

Messages painted on Beta Bridge rarely last more than a few days. Most items are meant to be temporary.


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Voices that care

It may be dead by now, but last week a bill in the Virginia General Assembly would have required the University’s Board of Visitors — and board of visitors at every four-year public university in the Commonwealth — to include a student member elected by students.


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Eat your greens

I have been proud to be a Wahoo lately. University Dining has recently been promoting vegetarianism through initiatives such as “Meatless Mondays” and “Vegan Love.” As a vegetarian, I’ve been particularly encouraged by these efforts.


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By the numbers

1: Number of candidates running for Student Council president 5: Number of candidates running for Student Council vice president for administration 2: Number of times a week The Cavalier Daily will publish print issues starting in August 1: The University’s ranking on The Princeton Reviews’s list of best-value public institutions 6: Number of courses the University is offering through Coursera this spring 74-58: Final score of Virginia men’s basketball’s Jan.


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Hagel’s dialectic

As President Barack Obama has begun his second term, he has been working toward reforming his cabinet after several first-term members have stepped down.


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Droning on

Charlottesville City Council Monday evening approved a resolution, 3-2, against unmanned police spy drones.


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Class Action

If I asked you to picture a lecture in your head, it would probably look like this: 200 of your closest friends in a hall somewhere on Grounds, all listening — or, at least, pretending to listen — to a professor as he gesticulates wildly.

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Latest Podcast

On this episode of On Record, we sit down with Lela Garner, sustainability manager of student outreach and engagement at U.Va. Sustainability. Garner discusses sustainability initiatives on Grounds, the 2030 U.Va. Sustainability Plan and Earth Month celebrations.