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Visionary communication

Student Council has begun to show more reverence toward its motto, "Your voice is our vision." At Tuesday night's meeting, Council formally unveiled Speak Up UVA, an online forum for students to publicly voice and vote on their concerns for the University.


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The modern Berlin Wall

Where one wall falls, another will be unceremoniously built in its place. As the University community partakes in a week-long series of events commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new ideological wall is taking form.


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Tragic texting

Like many of you readers out there, I am an avid texter. In fact, you could say I'm a master texter, my fingers swiftly flying over my iPhone keyboard, tapping out text after text to my friends.


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iLectures

The University has taken another step forward in the world of new media. Last Tuesday, it officially announced the launch of its own iTunes U channel, giving professors, schools and departments the opportunity to post original content directly to Apple's media application.


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Getting your name out there

Like many of my fellow fourth-years, I have recently begun searching for that nasty little three letter word that makes all of us want to run away screaming in Godzilla-like fashion: a job.


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Animal house

Tonight at 7:30pm the Edmund Burke Society will conduct the first installment of their debate series with a discussion entitled the "Dorm Brothel Debate" to be held in the Philosophy Library, fittingly located in Cocke Hall.


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Homebound

For many a first-year student, this weekend marks the first trip home since your parents dropped you off outside your dorm five-and-a-half weeks ago.


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First-year Council

As may have come to your attention, the efforts of Suraj Mishra et al. have earned him office as Vice President of the First-year Council.


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Publicizing meetings

I was happy to read Monday's article on the recent Honor Committee meeting ("Pierson voices honor concerns", Sept.


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Wild conclusions

The Cavalier Daily's lead editorial addressing Barbara Pierson's presentation to the Honor Committee ("Trying Times," Sept.


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Trying times

Barbara Pierson, the parent of a student convicted of honor charges last academic year, addressed the Honor Committee Sunday night.


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Owning Up

Christopher Hitchens has said that the purpose of putting corrections in a newspaper is not really to correct what the paper got wrong.


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Not green enough

Half-baked. This term best describes not only dining hall food, but also the new idea of a "reusable to-go container". A little known fact about our current disposable containers and utensils is that they are not biodegradable.


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Readers first

The Cavalier Daily publicly launched a new, revamped online edition of the paper Sept. 8. In the weeks since, the comments feature of the Web site has seen much use, with several articles in particular sparking an extraordinary amount of discussion.


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Cyber freedom

The Internet is among the most useful tools created by mankind. The wealth of information transmitted over the Internet is astounding, and each day more people are delving into the most revolutionary invention of our time.


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Latent hypocrisy

The Washington Times' Web site has an interesting article "Va. event to promote marriage, 2-parent families", including quotes from W.


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Time

Student Council's University Unity Project committee met last Sunday to elect its leadership for the coming year.


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Unique fraternity

It is ironic that the national headquarters of Sigma Phi Epsilon would revoke the charter of U.Va.'s Eta Chapter in their effort to "challenge stereotypes" of fraternities and promote a more "personal and professional" fraternal experience.

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