Opinion

Opinion

Don't deprive first years of rides

By Harris Freier | September 19, 2002

ON TUESDAY, Student Council discussed a proposed resolution to eliminate on-Grounds first-year parking privileges starting in the 2003-2004 school year. This is a bad idea and Council should vote against it. If the resolution passes, the Student Council Parking & Transportation Affairs Committee will send it along with recommendations from the University Transportation and Parking Advisory committee to Leonard W.

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Raise in-state students' fees...

By Laura Parcells | September 19, 2002

MY DAD is a teacher. My mom is a teacher. I have a little sister who is a senior in high school and getting ready to go off to college in a few short months, and I live in a part of the country where the cost of living is at nearly its peak.

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Or tighten belts on all sides?

By James R. Sofka | September 19, 2002

THE SEMESTER has begun on a seemingly depressing note. Classes are swollen, faculty are complaining and students have returned to find services that used to be taken for granted are now costing money.

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Coast-effective sexual assault prevention

By Megan Moyer | September 18, 2002

If you've spent anytime in a first year hall or suite bathroom recently, you may have noticed the helpful hints and thrilling reading known as the "Stall Seat Journal." If you're particularly lucky, you may also have received a rape whistle courtesy of the Parents Program.

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Leftist teach-in mars memory of September 11 heroes

By Josh Hess | September 18, 2002

The Idealistic ignorance of the liberal ideology has never been more offensive to me than it was on the eve of the anniversary of September 11.

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Open-door honor trials

By Alex Rosemblat | September 18, 2002

The October 19 open honor trial of Adam Boyd is the first in two years, and is considered a rarity for the honor system.

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Enlightenment and the DMV

By Anthony Dick | September 18, 2002

I am in the debt of the state of Virginia. This past Saturday morning, at 8:30 a.m., I had the exhilarating opportunity to attend a driver improvement clinic in a luxurious conference room of the Holiday Inn on Route 29.

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Opinion

Some options, please

By Seth Wood | September 18, 2002

Cavalier Computers, the University-affiliated computer store, presumably likes customers. Tragically, only one model of laptop is offered for law students.

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Venus and Mars in the classroom

By Stephanie Batten | September 17, 2002

BOYS ARE better at science and math. Girls' strengths lie in the humanities. Although many would immediately refute such blatant gender stereotypes, a growing number of single-sex classes in public schools are helping promote them.

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Opinion

Bush's empty rhetoric

By Amey Adkins | September 17, 2002

LESS THAN a week ago, we saw one of the most tragic anniversaries in our nation's history come and go quicker than many anticipated it would just one year ago.

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Kentucky school's gender blunder

By Kevin James Wong | September 17, 2002

SCHOOL, ALTHOUGH it is seen as a place of academic learning, also teaches students social skills that cannot be learned from books.

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Attention, attendance sliding away

By Alex Roosenburg | September 16, 2002

THERE IS a beautiful phrase that every college student longs to hear at the start of each semester: "You can find all of the class lecture slides online." The idea of having lecture notes easily accessible to students before and after class has both its positive and negative aspects.

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Opinion

Sex and the CD

By Masha Herbst | September 16, 2002

THE HBO hit "Sex and the City" has inspired more than one college column about the nude and the lewd, and last week, The Cavalier Daily proved it isn't immune to the trend.

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What's right with American pop culture

By Kimberly Liu | September 13, 2002

This summer, illions of Americans watched the progression of "American Idol," the latest attempt at "reality" television, with an almost religious zeal.

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Let professors hunt for bargain books

By Harris Freier | September 13, 2002

Now that the second full week of classes has ended, most people have their schedules set and have gotten the required books.

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More to war than meets the eye

By Preston Lloyd | September 12, 2002

BRING YOUR bloody flag out of the closet, everyone, and prepare to wave vigorously. Just in time for the first anniversary of September 11, the Bush administration has announced it is once again en vogue to patriotically rally against an enemy who purports to wreak imminent destruction on democracy, freedom and our American right to a second helping of apple pie.

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Opinion

The inequity of equity

By Megan Moyer | September 12, 2002

IN 1972 a total of 29,992 women participated in college sports. By 2001, the number of women athletes was more than five times that at 150,916, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education study ("Title IX at 30," June 21). No doubt such a dramatic increase in the number of athletes has had a positive effect on the quality of women's sports and, through also-growing scholarships, on the opportunities available to women in education.

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Looking beyond September 11

By Brad Cohen | September 12, 2002

IF YOU haven't watched one bit of news, watched one documentary, listened to any programs, read any newspapers or searched Internet news sites during the past week, you're better off than most people.

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The ugly American, to the rescue

By Anthony Dick | September 11, 2002

If you're looking for the correct way to pronounce "monsieur" inorder to impress a pretty girl the next time you order wine from the maitre'd, the French are the folks to ask.

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Library penny-pinching proves devastating

By Daniela Bell | September 11, 2002

The graduate Labor Union and graduate students as a whole at the University are very concerned about the recent budget cuts at the University's Library.