Opinion

Opinion

Become one of the cool kids

By Michael Slaven | July 19, 2004

WHEN MY editors asked me to write an advice column, I drew blanks for days. This article comes mostly from that void, which itself emerges from the fact that I have little wisdom to contribute to your success in college. If you learn nothing else from this column, learn that surviving your first year is an art that no one can teach you to master. Therefore, you'll probably be fine if you don't read any more of this paper.

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Opinion

Staff and student bonding

By Todd Rosenbaum | July 19, 2004

We've all heard the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Respect ought to be returned when it is received, but in the University environment, it often feels like respect is only given when it is demanded.

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Opinion

Maintaining honor

By Meghan Sullivan | July 19, 2004

COLLEGES and universities around the country wonder how we do it. A strong, completely student-run honor system at a large international university exists nowhere else in the United States.

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The wrongs of the far left's 'rights'

By Anthony Dick | July 19, 2004

IF YOU have the inclination (and more importantly, the patience) to pay attention to politics during your tenure at the University, you'll notice that both sides of most debates tend to frame their arguments in terms of rights.

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Opinion

Butt out at the University

By Sam Leven | July 15, 2004

ON A particularly hot day in late August of last year, I was sitting in my room on my computer getting acquainted with the high speeds of the U.Va.

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Opinion

Developing contingency plans

By Daniel Bagley | July 15, 2004

THE NOVEMBER elections are rapidly approaching and as the candidates are preparing to accept their respective party's nominations and the media coverage is gearing up, few people would like to concentrate on the subject of terrorist attacks in this country.

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Opinion

A mistaken liberal media

By Kristin Brown | July 8, 2004

AS I boarded the local train to Philadelphia a few weeks ago, a headline of The New York Times, being read by a man across from me, grabbed my attention.

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Opinion

In the face of a 'general' dilemma

By Michael Slaven | July 8, 2004

July 1, the day House Bill 751 (an amendment to 1997's Affirmation of Marriage Act) became effective in Virginia, stands as the latest chapter in a regrettable trend.

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Opinion

It's the hypocrisy, stupid

By Katie Cristol | July 8, 2004

JACK RYAN'S star has fallen. The handsome millionaire Illinois Senate candidate is a candidate no longer, the Republican Party's great white hope in the liberal Midwest state undone by a public release of his sordid divorce records.

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Opinion

Unfair criticism of Moore's '9/11'

By Sina Kian | July 1, 2004

JUST AS the days get warmer with the coming of summer, political rhetoric heats up with the coming of elections.

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Fahrenheit's folly

By Whitney Blake | July 1, 2004

"FAHRENHEIT 9/11,"opening weekend. Where do I begin? After hearing all of the media hype about this documentary, I decided I should go witness the commotion for myself.

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Opinion

Individuality for equality

By Nick Chapin | June 24, 2004

FOLLOWING a federal judge's certification this week of a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, it appears likely the American public will soon witness the largest ever employment discrimination lawsuit against a corporation.

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Opinion

Collectivism's massive failure

By Anthony Dick | June 24, 2004

IN THE wake of President Ronald Reagan's recent death, the Cold War has re-emerged as a talking point on broadsheets and network newscasts around the country.

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Opinion

A sequel to the Gipper?

By Jim Prosser | June 24, 2004

THE passing of Ronald Reagan invited lots of comparisons between the late leader and President George W.

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Opinion

No room for affirmative action at TJ

By Joe Schilling | June 24, 2004

THOMAS Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJ as it's affectionately known to both current students and the 400-plus alumni who populate the University, has a problem.

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Opinion

Lives over politics

By Katie Cristol | June 24, 2004

AS AMERICA laid Ronald Reagan to rest, President George W.Bush spoke a eulogy on behalf of the former president, an actor whose final role was his most painful, one of 4.5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's.

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Opinion

A partisan lens for history

By Nick Chapin | June 17, 2004

JUST WHEN you thought your next history lesson was not until September, the powers that be have conspired to keep life academic.

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Opinion

More lessons from the Greatest Generation

By Sam Leven | June 17, 2004

WITH THE May 29 dedication of the World War II Memorial, and June 6 marking 60 years since the start of World War II's decisive battle, D-Day, the time has been ripe lately for World War II nostalgia.

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Opinion

A mainstream media no longer

By Daniel Bagley | June 10, 2004

EVERY NOW and then a liberal apologist will come along and try to convince the public that the mainstream American media does not present a liberal bias.

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Rising above the quagmire of wartime politics

By Anthony Dick | June 10, 2004

IN THE turbulent wake of the Iraq invasion, America's left-leaning squawk boxes have been hemming and hawing exuberantly over the failures -- real and imagined -- of the Bush administration's flashy foreign policy adventures in the Middle East.