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Preparing for the real world

FOR MOST university students today, single-sex colleges seem like a remnant of their grandparents' time -- an era when men wore coats and ties to class, women were referred to as "ladies" and Detroit actually made quality cars.


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Cristal with class

IN THE 1950's, a young man from Tennessee fused black and white music styles to create a sound never heard before.


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The meaning of free speech

IN CASE your attention recently strayed from Fox News, last Wednesday, University students Amber VerValin and Grayson Lambert joined puerile pundit Bill O'Reilly on his show to discuss the decidedly controversial cartoon fiasco.


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Renewing diplomacy with Syria

THE U.S. government has never tolerated attacks on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. Pearl Harbor precipitated our joining World War II, and 9/11 drew swift attacks in Afghanistan.


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All fired out

THE PROCESS of preparing for fire marshal inspections each school year has become something of an annual ritual: The fire marshal announces that he's coming, students wait until the last possible minute to stuff their offending decorations in the closet, the inspections pass and students restore their rooms to their former supposedly treacherous states.


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Hammurabi's Code for a new age

IN 1842, the story goes, the honor system was created in response to the murder of a professor, but today's system is more concerned about form signatures and frog labs.


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Protesting progress in Iran

"DO WE LISTEN to those that we disagree with, and vigorously challenge them, or do we close our ears completely?" asked David Ellwood of Harvard University when defending his decision to invite former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to speak.


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Defending Khatami

AS AN IRANIAN refugee, I am probably the last that person would stand up and defend anyone in the Iranian government, past or present.


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Policing ourselves

OFFENSIVE speech is a difficult thing to discuss in America. In most parts of the world -- even Europe -- the right to free speech has significantly less protection than in our own country.


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Lessons on freedom

"DEMOCRACY is a process,not a project." Mohammed Khatami, former president of Iran, spoke these words last Thursday in a speech at the National Cathedral.


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Securing social security

LIKE SO many students, and indeed, like so many Americans, I got a job this summer. I was paid by direct deposit, and every two weeks I watched a significant portion of my salary disappear into the gaping maw of Social Security and income taxes.


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Living in the present

MUCH OF the talk about reform at the United Nations leaves out two key players that are not even part of the Security Council: Germany and Japan.


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A manipulative media

WE KNEW it would only be a matter of time before movies portraying the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were eventually placed on big and little screens alike.


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Critiquing the critique

I am shocked and saddened by the opinions offered Monday by two readers who condemn Stephanie Garrison and her successful appeal of her honor conviction ("Honor's self-enforced silence" and "An appropriate sanction," Sept.


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Finding equilibrium

IF THERE is one term that pops up again and again in college courses, it's equilibrium. From economics to physics, there is always some natural point of stability and balance.


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Comic controversy

THE COMICS page, maybe the most controversial section of The Cavalier Daily last year, has caused another flare-up, giving me plenty to write about as I start my second year as the paper's ombudsman.

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