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Pedophilia is not humor

On Sept. 26, The Cavalier Daily ran a comic titled "Whoa" by Tiffany Chu. The comic featured two bears, one of them holding a heart-shaped box of what appeared to be candies, and another the so-called "Pedobear" with a caption saying "Sorry!


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Upload overload

SURPRISE awaited me as I logged in to Facebook last Monday. A male "friend" of mine had referred to one of my female "friends" in his status update.


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Nostalgic for first year

FIRST year at the University is exciting for a lot of reasons. Not only is it one's first taste of real academic and personal freedom, but also the sense of community one gets from arriving on Grounds as a full student is really something else.


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Washing a ton

ABOUT the only thing worse than writing a pair of five-page papers in a week and preparing for a test at the same time is doing all of that while you have a cold that is sucking the energy out of your body.


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A full-court press

"IT IS ALWAYS bad business to try to explain yourself on paper - at least not all at once - but when you work as a journalist and sign your name in black ink on white paper above everything you write, that is the business you're in, good or bad... That is a thing you want to remember if you work in either journalism or politics - or both, like I do - and there is no way to duck it.


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The job of an education

WHEN IT comes to courses of study, I am certainly as "liberal artsy" in my background as they come, having spread myself happily across history, government and classics courses as an undergraduate.


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By the numbers

14: Number of teams that will be in the Atlantic Coast Conference once Syracuse and Pittsburgh officially join before the fall 2013 sports season 0: Number of teams likely to leave the ACC since the league's buyout fee was raised from $10-13 million to $20 million at a recent meeting of university presidents 25: The University's ranking in the U.S.


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Twitter-mail

SINCE every email costs 44 cents to send, we as human beings with rational self-interest naturally should cram as much communication into each parcel as possible.


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An open letter to President Sullivan

DEAR PRESIDENT Sullivan: I am a graduate of the Law School. This fall, one of my sons enrolled in the College, following in the footsteps of his mother, who graduated from the Architecture School and resided on the Lawn.


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In the right

As a faculty member who has tried consistently to support the honor system, I find the charges brought against The Cavalier Daily to be both mystifying and counterproductive.


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A higher standard

Honor Chair Ann Marie McKenzie filed charges last week against the members of The Cavalier Daily managing board for allegedly violating Standard 11 of the University's Standards of Conduct.


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Show and tell

ON SEPT. 20, the controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell military policy officially ended. The directive, issued by President Bill Clinton in 1993, prevented gay and lesbian people from openly professing their sexual orientation during military service.


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Cleaning up his act

WHAT HAPPENED? One of the chief reasons I voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election was because of his promise to take positive action for the environment.

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