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Opinion

Crossing over

THOUGH a variety of issues were brought forth following several racist incidents earlier this semester, one issue in particular did not receive the attention it deserves: self-segregation.


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Gaining career experience in class

"ARE YOU graduating this year?" "Yes." "What are you going to do with the rest of your life?" It is the dreaded question fourth years are faced with by peers, professors and those prying relatives we all saw over Thanksgiving break.


Opinion

No single reason for the sanction

IT IS A funny thing to see the retreat of the pro-single sanction camp. First, the single sanction was a grand deterrent that stopped lying, cheating and stealing dead in its tracks.


Opinion

Apology

The Nov. 29 comic Schizophrenic Bosnian depicted a character calling the crane the "gayest-looking of all birds." The Cavalier Daily regrets printing this comic and deeply apologizes to those who were offended.


Opinion

An insane gun policy

ON JAN. 2, 2004, a man named Farron Barksdale murdered two officers in Athens, Alabama. Barksdale legally purchased a gun, despite the fact that he had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution at least twice.


Opinion

A modest proposal to nationalize oil

IT IS OFTEN said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In that spirit, America should mend fences with Venezuela -- one of our largest oil suppliers -- by emulating its economic and political values.


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Trusting first, sanctioning second

NOBODY who earnestly cares about the tradition of honor at the University is excited that College third years Joe Schlingbaum and Lindsay McClung get to graduate with the rest of us and say "I have worn the honors of Honor, I graduated from Virginia." In last week's open trial, both were found to have committed an act of cheating by a jury of their peers.


Opinion

Hungry for a living wage

WHEN SOMEONE says they're hungry, you don't blink. When the statement is placed into the context of the 16 percent of Charlottesville residents living below the poverty line in 2002, one may reconsider what hunger really is.


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Admitting achievement

IN OUR 21st century "enlightened" society, we place more and more emphasis on the burdens of race, gender, class and ethnic background as potential obstacles on the road to success.


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Clarification

Matt Waring's Nov. 16 Opinion column, "The dishonor of apathy," claimed that because the jury in the open honor trial voted the accused students violated the honor code for act and intent, the jury believed they knowingly violated the honor code.


Opinion

Protecting America's senior citizens

OVERSHADOWED by SamuelAlito's nomination to the Supreme Court and continuing debate over the War in Iraq, few have been paying attention to one of the greatest expansions in government programs in recent history.


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