Opinion

Opinion

Asking all the right questions

By Lisa Fleisher | September 5, 2005

FORMER New York Times editor Howell Raines is often linked to a phrase used to describe the newsroom's approach to a big story: "flood the zone." What that means, in terms of coverage, is that certain stories deemed important enough are assigned to several of the best reporters to not only find out everything there is to know about the current situation, but also to deepen the reader's understanding of the issue -- to understand the why and the history. If it has really been "one hell of a week" at the University, as Editor-in-Chief Pat Harvey wrote to me in an e-mail, I wouldn't have known it from reading the news section.

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Awakening the pro-choice majority

By Katie Cristol | September 5, 2005

JOHN ROBERTS' Senate hearings begin tomorrow. The hearings of a nominee to replace Chief Justice William Rehnquist will be soon to follow.

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Sanctioning hate

By AJ Kornblith | September 2, 2005

FIRST YEARS had a bleak introduction to race relations at the University this past week, with a slew of racially charged incidents filling the front pages of this and other news publications.

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Bush's mad science

By Sophia Brumby | September 2, 2005

LAST WEEK'S decision by the Food and Drug Administration to once again delay expanded access to the morning-after pill shows the extent to which the Bush administration is willing to deny science for cheap political gain. Back in December 2003, an FDA advisory committee voted 23 to four to approve over-the-counter sales of the drug.

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MADDness

By Allan Cruickshanks | September 2, 2005

ALCOHOL Laws present a unique paradox within the United States and the University community: While there is a legal drinking age of 21, generally there seems to be an understanding allowing many people ages 18 to 21 to slip by the law should they want to, especially when in a college setting.

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Byrne's turn to lead

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | September 2, 2005

THANK God for the lieutenant governor's race. As we wind down another long summer of Virginia politicking, the most thrilling controversies in the gubernatorial smackdown have involved the third-party candidate and the logistics of setting up debates.

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Opinion

Prohibitive policing

By Sina Kian | September 1, 2005

THE FAMOUS actor Will Rogers, mocking Prohibition in the 1920s, wondered, "Why don't they pass an amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything?

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A community response to ignorance

By Aaron Blake and Jessica Childress | September 1, 2005

AS MEMBERS of the black student community at the University, we are frustrated and completely outraged by the plethora of vicious acts of hate and intolerance targeting our student community.

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Like a hurricane

By Todd Rosenbaum | September 1, 2005

FLASH floods. Walls of water. Tornados. These words may evoke the images of the damage wrought to parts of the southeastern United States by Hurricane Katrina during the course of the week.

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A religious litmus test

By Whitney Blake | August 31, 2005

"CHRISTIAN students need not apply" -- an apt title for the University of California school system application form.

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Constitution Day disadvantages

By Eric Wang | August 31, 2005

AFTER 218 years, 27 amendments and a war that almost tore the country apart, the U.S. Constitution has endured as the world's oldest written blueprint for government.

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Straightening out studying abroad

By Herb Ladley | August 30, 2005

LATE IN May I was on a train through Holland on my way to Germany when I happened upon two other American students from a nearby Virginia college.

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Activism, but no action

By Todd Aman | August 30, 2005

AH YES, it's the start of another year at the University of Virginia, complete with ISIS trouble, new furniture, popped collars, first years on Rugby Road and the requisite slew of racially motivated acts of violence and discrimination (not to mention the acts of violence and discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation, which certainly also occur). In the past week, five acts of racially-based hate were reported.

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Benching politics

By Noah Peters | August 29, 2005

THE BATTLE over the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court is heating up, as interest groups and politicians step up their rhetoric with hearings set to begin Sept.

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Partisanship over an Iraq policy

By Adam Keith | August 29, 2005

TWO YEARS and counting after the start of the war in Iraq, it seems that partisans on both sides are more concerned with tarring their political opponents than proposing constructive solutions.

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A textbook case of gouging

By Katie Cristol | August 29, 2005

THE REST of the nation is complaining about gas prices these days, but paying close to three dollars a gallon at the pump is nothing compared to what most of us have been shelling out at the bookstore in the past week.

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Hurry up and fail

By AJ Kornblith | August 26, 2005

IT WAS during the winter of 2004 that I had the chance to leave a deputy secretary of state speechless.

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Death to the death tax

By Allan Cruickshanks | August 26, 2005

AS THE old saying goes, the only things certain in life are death and taxes. Pretty much everything is taxed these days, starting from before you are even born with prenatal care, and believe it or not, the government has even found a way to get you after you die.

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Fixing education reform

By Sophia Brumby | August 26, 2005

WHILE many debate the legitimacy of the rigid and expensive mandates the No Child Left Behind Act imposes on states, the extent to which the initiative is failing at the most basic level became transparent last Monday, when Connecticut sued the federal government over provisions of NCLB.

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An army of none

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | August 26, 2005

YOU HAVE to feel for military recruiters, stuck patrolling parking lots and shopping malls in hopes of attracting America's youth to a life of discipline and early-morning exercise.