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Opinion

Options for athletes

THERE is no denying the vast difference between student athletes - particularly those in the big money sports - and the rest of the student body.


Opinion

Sell-out Kings

THE FAMILY of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sells his image, speeches and name to the highest corporate bidder.


Opinion

Foreign transfer credit follies

ALL COLLEGE students should spend at least one semester in another part of the world. Most students who study abroad find their experience an unparalleled opportunity to become immersed in another culture and rediscover their own.


Opinion

Too much puppy love

IN A TERRIBLE tragedy, a six-day search for a dog left aboard a crippled ship in the Pacific Ocean has been called off - the tragedy being that the rescue operation cost an astounding $50,000.


Opinion

How I learned to love free speech

ON THE Friday following my little-noticed March 20 column, "Phantoms of Racism," some anonymous fliers went up on the colonnades outside Bryan Hall that took issue with my stance on race relations at the University.


Opinion

Read first, then criticize

I DON'T expect all of you to like all my columns. What makes me mad is when people criticize me without bothering to understand my arguments. Being a columnist has taught me to actually read or listen to people's arguments before criticizing, even if I know we have different perspectives.


Opinion

Prejudice and pom-poms

WE'VE ALL seen it. We've all stood in the stands and watched as athletic trainers knelt by the side of a 250-pound lineman who had been reduced to a scared boy who can't move or feel his legs.


Opinion

Porn point and click

BY MAY, circuit court judges in Philadelphia will have made a decision on the federalgovernment's newest attempt to restrict Internet pornography available to the public.


Opinion

Fliers' fairness

IF THIS University is subjected to yet another Cavalier Daily column that points out the "unfairness" of some of the fliers posted around Grounds, I may just be sick.


Opinion

Book critics' overreaction

SEX SELLS. In the case of Judith Levine's new book "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex," sex is not so much selling as it is surrounding the book with scandal. Levine's book argues that America's youth isn't receiving proper sex education and that parents and educators alike are striving to present an unrealistic view of the horrors of having a sex life.


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Latest Podcast

All University students are required to live on Grounds in their first year, but they have many on and off-Grounds housing options going into their second year. Students face immense pressure to decide on housing as soon as possible, and this high demand has strained the capacities of both on and off-Grounds accommodations. Lauren Seeliger and Brandon Kile, two third-year Cavalier Daily News writers, discuss the impact of the student housing frenzy on both University students and the Charlottesville community.