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Speaking Greek

YES, I?M in a fraternity. And yes, that just might be why I don?t know you. Because I came from an all-boys high school with strong ties to the University, I was well versed in what were the ?cool? fraternities on Grounds before I even arrived.


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College stalking

AN EXAMINATION of a college profile listed on the new Web site www.collegeportraits.org tells me information I wish I?d known back in high school.


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Watering down the debate

IN A PIECE for ?Good Morning America,? Luke Russert, son of the late journalist Tim Russert, spent time at the University in order to get a feel for the political environment among young people in a swing state prior to November?s election.


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Hot off the presses

THE ENVIRONMENT is hot right now. Besides rising temperatures and melting ice caps, it is now cool ? for lack of a better word ? to be green.


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A promising sign

THE RUMORS swirled Thursday night. By Friday morning, it was front-page news: The athletic department?s sign ban had been repealed.


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Pride and assimilation

SIMPLY as students of this University, we all have a sense of composure, class and slight arrogance that lets people of the Charlottesville community know we?re students.


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Single sanction truths

IT IS AN annual tradition of fall orientation. First years, graduate students, and transfer students all pack in to rooms to learn about the University?s exalted honor system.


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Making the grade

WHEN IT comes to trend-setting in higher education, no one can touch Harvard. Even in those years that US News and World Report ranked it behind Princeton for having the top undergraduate program, everyone still thought Harvard to be synonymous with elite academia, with students and faculty who were the cream of the crop.


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Reverse discrimination

LAST WEEK, I chided the University Judiciary Committee for placing too much emphasis on race by surveying its membership to determine the percentage of minorities.


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Smokers have rights, too

AS A NON-SMOKER, it?d be logical for me to wish to see cigarette smoke as far removed from the public arena as possible, but the restrictions on smokers? rights are getting to be absurd.


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Boom and busted

AS WALL Street vacillates wildly and, in general, downwardly while awaiting a government bailout that is currently in limbo, Americans find themselves staring into the dark abyss of certain recession or perhaps even a depression.


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Tuning in

IT IS NO secret that many of the network news programs we watch are cloaked with a bias toward a particular end of the political spectrum.


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No more sound bites

THOSE WHO watched the presidential debate last Friday between Barack Obama and John McCain may have noticed subtle changes in the format compared to previous years.


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The G word

GREED! Greed! It?s all the fault of greed! The two major presidential candidates agree, and you can hear the same complaint from other corners too.Sen.


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George W. Lincoln?

IN THE upcoming presidential election, one of the main questions asked, especially by Democrats, is whether a John McCain presidency would simply be the third term of George Bush?s; as they argue, there could hardly be a worse occurrence for the wellbeing of the country.

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Carolyn Dillard, the Community Partnership Manager for the University’s Center of Community Partnerships, discusses the legacy of Dr. King through his 1963 speech at Old Cabell Hall and the Center's annual MLK Day celebrations and community events. Highlighting the most memorable moments of the keynote event by Dr. Imani Perry, Dillard explored the importance of Dr. King’s lasting message of resilience and his belief that individuals should hold themselves responsible for their actions and reactions.