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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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Taking action

Editors at The Cavalier Daily discovered last week a pending article that featured words and phrases copied verbatim from at least two other sources without attribution.


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A quote of confidence

IT IS OBVIOUS that some hard work and some big stories went into The Cavalier Daily last week. There were articles about former University Environmental Sciences Prof.


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The highest court

On Friday, Sam Carrigan wrote a piece ("Accountability at the highest level") arguing that our legal system was not being applied to our leaders as it was to our citizens.


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Never Forget

Dear Students of the University, It has been ten years since September 11, 2001. While most of those among us were in our early adolescence then, the events of that day shattered the bubble inside which our collective childhood had progressed peacefully.


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Fresh ideas

One of the issues that has dominated Charlottesville local government in recent months has been the future of the downtown farmers' market.

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