Opinion

Opinion

Something's rotten in Denmark

By Dan Keyserling | February 15, 2006

DON'T LOOK now, but I think someone managed to offend Muslim extremists. As if the present incursion into Iraq, renewed military presence in the holiest of regions in Saudi Arabia, rampant pork eating, literature reading, dirty dancing, free speaking, music listening, alcohol drinking and general Western hedonism weren't enough, Muslim fundamentalists can now add cartoons to the list of things worthy of jihad.

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Opinion

Lessons from Katrina

By Matthew Warring | February 14, 2006

ACROSS the devastated Gulf Coast, recovery from Hurricane Katrina continues. The rebuilding process is meeting with slow but encouraging success, although donations have slowed to a trickle and the issue has long disappeared from the national news.

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Opinion

Taking the environmental lead

By Sina Kian | February 14, 2006

A SERIES of staggering statistics brought to light by the Environmental Quality Institute at the University of North Carolina at Asheville indicate that most states are facing considerable problems with the toxin mercury.

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Analyzing a scandal

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | February 14, 2006

WELCOME to reality according to the Bush administration, where scientific evidence is irrelevant, intelligent design is just as legitimate as evolution and credentials don't matter if you have the right politics.

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Opinion

A clash of civilizations

By Eric Wang | February 13, 2006

WHEN THE Cavalier Daily published a cartoon last semester that offended African-American students, the paper was met by vocal protests and demands for a discussion with the editor-in-chief.

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Opinion

Toothless tolerance

By AJ Kornblith | February 13, 2006

JUDGING BY the amount of space on the front page of this newspaper given to the article with the headline "Council calls for [domestic partner] benefits in resolution" (Feb.

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Opinion

A new plan for diversity

By Noah Peters | February 13, 2006

FOLLOWING a series of racially charged incidents reported in the fall, there was an outpouring of solidarity based on the belief that black students at the University should not be subject to bias or intimidation.

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Opinion

Encouraging diversity

By Lisa Fleisher | February 13, 2006

NOT EVERYTHING works out as planned. I planned to write last week's column on Friday and send it to the editors for Monday's paper.

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Opinion

Speaking of The Cav Daily

By Elizabeth Katz | February 10, 2006

MY FRIENDS never heard me breathe a word about The Cavalier Daily before my first article was published, but it is pretty much all they have heard from me since.

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Opinion

Open minds, open dialogue

By Elliot Haspel | February 10, 2006

IT'S STRANGE to think that these words are likely the last of mine to ever appear on The Cavalier Daily's Opinion pages.

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Opinion

Thanks for the hate mail

By Patrick Harvey | February 10, 2006

I WANTED more hate mail. As a lowly first-year Opinion columnist, I never felt I got my fair share of e-mails that ended with an expletive or an insult toward my mother.

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Opinion

Confessions of a Prod goddess

By Leah Nylen | February 10, 2006

MY FIRST year, I intended to give up journalism. I had spent so many nights in the past two years worrying whether I had enough stories and writers at the Lee High School Lance, that I promised myself once I got to U.Va., I would try something new and different.

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Opinion

All good things...

By Daniel Bagley | February 10, 2006

THREE AND a half years ago, before I was a part of The Cavalier Daily, I would get annoyed when the paper was not in production after holidays and during exam periods.

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Opinion

Budgeting honesty

By Matthew Warring | February 9, 2006

THIS WEEK, Congress and the American people got their first look at a much-anticipated document: President Bush's proposed federal budget for the fiscal year 2007.

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Opinion

Clarification

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 9, 2006

The lead editorial Feb. 7 ("For serious") described the honor trial standard of seriousness as "if 'open toleration of such an act impairs the community of trust enough to warrant permanent dismissal from the University.'" While that phrasing is sometimes cited, that is not how the standard is written in the Honor bylaws, which read, "An act is considered to be serious if open tolerance thereof would be inconsistent with the community of trust."

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Opinion

Committed to honor

By Matthew Miller | February 9, 2006

ADDING Honor Committee members to the jury would substantively improve our current system. That has been my belief since this summer, and that is why I formed an ad hoc committee on the issue last fall.

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Opinion

Accessing UVa

By Rajesh Jain | February 9, 2006

PUBLIC institutions of higher learning enroll only 12 percentof their students from the bottom quarter of income in the United States.

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Opinion

The paradox of racial affiliation

By Eric Wang | February 8, 2006

THE RECENT passing of Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks reminds us that collective action is as indispensable to social change as is the courageous leadership of a few.

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A political odd couple

By Whitney Blake | February 8, 2006

WHEN FACTIONS at the opposite ends of the political spectrum join forces to promote an issue, one can't help but take notice.

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Opinion

Cooperative coal

By Zack Fields | February 8, 2006

IN 1912 coal miners in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek fields of the Kanawha coal district went on strike for company recognition of the union.