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Who is a person?

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.


Opinion

Hoo cares

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.


Opinion

The poor and the Richmond

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.


Opinion

Quid pro quorum

Cynics among us might claim Student Council has been with us for decades of schooling and yet no one knows what it does.


Opinion

The usual suspects

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.


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I feel the need ... to read

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.


Opinion

Censorship and sensibility

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.


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Laid off

The nation has been abuzz of late concerning new legislation which would mandate employers fork over the cost for their employee's contraception.

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Since the Contemplative Commons opening April 4, the building has hosted events for the University community. Sam Cole, Commons’ Assistant Director of Student Engagement, discusses how the Contemplative Sciences Center is molding itself to meet students’ needs and provide a wide range of opportunities for students to discover contemplative practices that can help them thrive at the University.