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Questioning the charter

AS THE University community struggles with a disturbing lack of socioeconomic diversity within the student body, the administration is pursuing two very different policies that could have conflicting effects on UVa affordability.


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An alcoholic society

THE UNIVERSITY has a drinking problem. The impact of unhealthy attitudes toward alcohol usage affect every University student, whether or not they abuse the substance.The implications of the University's problems with violence and alcohol abuse were the subject of a discussion which kicked off Substance Abuse Awareness Week this past Monday.


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Prescribing ethics

IMAGINE walking into your local pharmacy one afternoon, expecting to pick up a prescription that your doctor had called in for you the night before.


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Holding Student Council accountable

ADD ONE to the list of secret societies on Grounds. Shrouded in a sea of contradictions, Student Council continues to operate with the opacity of a black hole. As students may know, Council voted down a measure this week that would have recorded members' votes, along with members' own explanations of those votes, on its public Web site.


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Hope is on the way

ALMOST all of us Democrats watched faithfully on that fateful Tueday night, and as the hours passed, a noticeable strain developed in our eyes and, more importantly, in our hearts.


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The United States of Morality

DO YOU hear that? It's the sound of thousands of liberals across America scratching their heads, wondering where they went wrong. Last Tuesday's re-election of President Bush clearly came as a shock to many liberals, as indicated by the waves of still-stunned Democratic commentators in both print and on television -- not to mention the collection of angry away messages posted by nearly every liberal student at the University in the past week. NBC conducted a survey during exit polls that asked voters to identify the most important issue, to them, in this election.The economy, terrorism, Iraq and health care all followed behind the number one issue: "moral values." Moral Values?


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Senate superiority

FOR THE past three years the U.S. Senate has been a black hole for President Bush and Senate Republicans, gobbling up everything from judicial nominees to comprehensive energy legislation.


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Winning the campaign game

IT HAS now been a week since the debacle that was Election Day. As Democrats sit back and try to figure out just what went wrong and where to go from here, many have begun saying it's time for a "blood bath" within the Democratic Party.


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Marriage's mandate

IN ADDITION to giving President Bush a strong mandate to rule for a second term last Tuesday, voters in 11 states affirmed their belief in traditional marriage values.


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Unsustainable double standards

ON OCT. 30, a black student showed up at a Halloween party with his face painted white. Hewas wearing khaki pants, a sweater tied around his shoulders and a pink polo shirt with its collar popped up.


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Inflating the problem

IT HAS become fashionable to decry "grade inflation" as an evil of our times. Supposedly, this phenomenon represents a softening of our academic standards and a tendency to coddle students in their academic work.


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America's self-inflicted doomsday

THIS IS one of those doomsday columns at which we scoff. Hang it on your wall, and in four years check to see if I'm right. In four years, the Bush administration will have privatized Social Security and ended Medicaid.

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Latest Podcast

The Organization of Young Filipino Americans is one of many cultural Contracted Independent Organizations at the University, and their mission is to create a supportive community for Filipino students. Danella Romera, the current president of OYFA and fourth-year College student, discusses the importance of OYFA as a cultural organization and how OYFA plans for this year’s Culturefest, an annual multicultural showcase. 

Listen to the episode here.