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With a hundred points, Nader misses the point

WHILE YOU were watching Access Hollywood, I was watching Ralph Nader. Yes, that old warhorse of the left brought his act to Charlottesville last Thursday, delivering his new lecture, "While You Were Watching 'Big Brother,' Big Brother Was Watching You," to a full house at Old Cabell Hall.


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Searching for library solutions

WHEN THOMAS Jefferson designed the University, he placed a library at the very center. This symbolic move demonstrates the important place libraries have to the University as a whole.


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Sugarcoating sexual education

BOTH "STALLSMO" and "Max-um," the March 2007 gender-specific installments of the Stall Seat Journal, consist of 6-question sex quizzes along the lines of (obviously) Cosmopolitan and Maxim magazines.


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The living wage is far from dead

RECENT suggestions that the Living Wage Campaign is dying seem based upon the amount of coverage the Campaign has received in The Cavalier Daily, rather than upon the actual activities of the movement.


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Defending tradition on the Lawn

IT IS hard to remember a recent University decision that has galvanized such widespread student opposition as the recent news that Vice President for Development and Public Affairs Robert Sweeney might be chosen for residence in Pavilion VI.


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Stopping drunk driving

IF I were to write that drinking is a problem at the University, I would likely face an insurmountable flurry of replies detailing why the drinking age is ridiculous and how responsible drinking can be enjoyable and good for your health.


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A taxing deduction

THE WEATHER is getting nicer and the plants are starting to bloom. This can only mean two things: Miniskirts are coming out and April 15th is just around the corner.

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