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The best policy

PLAGIARISM is depressingly common in journalism. A quick Internet search turns up stories and comments about cases at some of the most respected publications in the nation.


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The freedom to rule

THERE are a lot of things about the University that surprise me. Having spent my undergraduate years in the withering - and seemingly interminable - winters of upstate New York, beautiful weather that lasts well into November is somewhat of a pleasant novelty for me.


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Getting on board

Today marks the final day of the Board of Visitors' September meeting. Although the Board has not announced any major news, its gathering should serve as a reminder to students of its importance in setting the policies and making the decisions that structure much of University life.


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Humane justice

WEDNESDAY before last, the foremost contenders for the Republican presidential nomination met to debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.


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Identity crisis

At next Tuesday's Student Council meeting, a contracted independent organization application will be presented to the representative body on behalf of a group known as the Student Alliance for Sexual Healing, or SASH.


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The backyard foodshed

IDEALLY, eating is a positive experience. Food should be nutritious and should keep us healthy. Agricultural lands around cities and towns should provide the eye with a relief from suburban monstrosity, as well as support local economies.


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A rank-smelling report

BY THE time this column is printed, U.S. News and World Report will have published its 2012 Best National University and Liberal Arts College rankings.


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To kill a tweetingbird

WHAT HAPPENS when the government accuses a mother of murder? In State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony, the charge transformed a sideshow into a sickening three-ring circus. While the trial was occurring, Anthony became an object of intrigue for the millions of people who followed the case with morbid curiosity.


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Trick candles

IN A 2002 speech about the Iraq War, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld infamously said, "There are 'known unknowns'... but there are also 'unknown unknowns'" - the things we can find out and the things we are not even remotely aware exist.


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Rank hypocrisy

College students and administrators throughout the nation will engage in one of higher education's most well-known traditions when they delve into U.S.


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Making connections

UNTIL the day I became one, I always found graduate students to be a rather odd breed. Constantly harried, with a pronounced tendency toward world-weariness and addiction to near lethal levels of caffeine, my graduate school friends tended to be as much fodder for undergraduate jokes as they were mentors to whom I would turn for advice.

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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.