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A debate worth having

EACH OF the members of the University community can participate in the 2008 Presidential election by voting or supporting a candidate.


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Tear down this wall

A LITTLE more than a year ago, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression erected a monument to the First Amendment in front of City Hall on Charlottesville's downtown mall.


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Dorm, sweet dorm

"There's no place like home,"an old adage informs us.Most newcomers to the University will also quickly discover that there's no place like dormitories, but for very different reasons.


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Pink Flamingos

To celebrate our last issue of the semester, The Cavalier Daily hereby issues a few very special awards to individuals who, one way oranother, have left a lasting impression on the University.


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Final thoughts from a fourth-year

IT IS truly hard to believe that in just a couple weeks the semester will be over. It doesn't really feel different from any other semester, except that for myself and for my fourth-year classmates it is our last.


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Ensuring our community's freedoms

THE DAY after the Virginia Tech shootings, in the face of an age that has made perfect security its reckless quest, when we have shampoo screening at the airport and metal detectors at some high schools, University President John T.


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Avoiding anti-Asian backlash

MORE THAN any other image from last week's Virginia Tech tragedy, I, like countless others, will remember the picture that appeared on the front of nearly every major newspaper in the country: Cho Seung-Hui, murderer of 32 innocent people, before a blue background.Unfortunately, many people do not see Cho Seung-Hui before a blue blackground; they see a Korean, or even worse, just an Asian, before a blue background.


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Message on a t-shirt

SUSTAINED Dialogue founded De-Stereotype Day last year, and by this year, colleges around the country are hoping to start the event at their own schools.


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Mandating community service

COMMUNITY service has gotten a lot of attention these days. With the emergence of debates on the value of Alternative Spring Break to the popularity of Madison House, there is no denying that community service has a powerful presence Community service requirements have sparked the question about whether these efforts really help to better society or merely bettering résumés.

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The Peer Health Education program is made up of students who work to empower their peers to develop healthier habits. Evie Liu, current Outreach Coordinator of PHE and fourth-year college student, discusses the role of PHE in promoting a “community of care” in the student body and expands on the organization’s various initiatives.