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The Virginia legislature's House Bill 1 would define a fertilized egg as a person and House Bill 462 will force women to submit to an invasive, transvaginal ultrasound without their consent before seeking an abortion.
If a Student Council meeting happens, and no one is in attendance, does anything get done? The harder question: If the person who takes attendance doesn't show - well, where do we go from here? Student government elections are accompanied by paradoxes of apathy.
We have some demands to make of the Living Wage Campaign. Today marks the deadline which the campaign has set for the University administration to meet its demands, lest action be taken.
I want to respond to your column by Sam Carrigan on drone warfare ("Attack of the drones") in the Friday, Feb.
Johnny Vroom was the last person we spoke to Saturday.
Cynics among us might claim Student Council has been with us for decades of schooling and yet no one knows what it does.
I would like to point out to the writers of the Sports section that there are major Olympic sports currently underway at the University.
When we told the candidates for Honor Committee College representative we were taping their interviews, they seemed unflustered; apparently this is standard procedure on Newcomb's fourth floor.
I read a novel last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially because, within the first few pages, I found myself reintroduced into the world of recreational reading.
Google and Facebook have recently removed content from websites with an Indian domain to protect that nation's "religious sensibilities." The two Internet giants were among 21 other groups forced to take down offensive material within 36 hours of the Indian government's request. Comparable to the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), India's press law states that companies, not individual users, are responsible for the material uploaded and shared through their web services.
