Opinion

Opinion

Restricting writers

By Stephanie Batten | March 27, 2002

THE MARCH 20 lead editorial, "A declaration of policy," clarified The Cavalier Daily's "policy prohibiting its staffers to write for other news gathering publications on Grounds." The paper came under attack the week before Spring Break in The Declaration's letters to the editor section ("Writer wrong," March 7) when "Trudy Verdad" asked, "As a Cav Daily writer, can I write for the Dec too?" The Managing Board of The Cavalier Daily made the right move in addressing this issue in its proper lead editorial format.

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Opinion

Faith, healing and zero tolerance

By Seth Wood | March 27, 2002

CATHOLIC archdioceses throughout the country have faced mounting accusations that they ignored allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of their priests.

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Campaign finance reform's last hurdle

By Alex Rosemblat | March 27, 2002

LAST WEEK, the U.S. Senate passed the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill. The groundwork behind this bill was seven years in the making and President Bush is expected to sign it into law.

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Opinion

Trustees' poor timing

By Erin Perucci | March 26, 2002

I LOVE the Class of 2002, my class, at the University. I really do. But a phone call I received the other night made me think twice about supporting my class by giving to the class giving campaign, something I was most likely going to do.

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Opinion

Harmless ethnic pride

By Kevin James Wong | March 26, 2002

SELF-SEGREGATION. It's an interesting term, and it is even more interesting as of late at the University.

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Indignation over racist columns

By Adrian Holloway | March 26, 2002

ENRAGED. Perfectly and succinctly does that describe how I feel. In this day and age, being the angry black man is something maligned and demonized by popular culture.

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Opinion

Fliers' failings

By Becky Krystal | March 26, 2002

NONE OF us who spend our free time in the basement of Newcomb Hall at The Cavalier Daily office expect the rest of the student body to fully agree with our coverage and opinions.

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Opinion

Will the real Jesse please stand up?

By Pallavi Guniganti | March 26, 2002

JESSE Helms has gone and lost his mind. Thank God. The Republican senator from North Carolina and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, known for his opposition to foreign aid, wants to add half a billion dollars to the American contribution to a fund for fighting AIDS in the developing world. Perhaps AIDS activists should have seen it coming.

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Opinion

No steps forward, two steps back

By Laura Parcells | March 25, 2002

A FEW WEEKS ago, a handful of students from the Architecture School - who are no doubt regretting their actions right now - had a party.

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Opinion

Making advisors more than card-dealers

By Alex Roosenburg | March 25, 2002

WITH LESS than six weeks left in the semester, one worry springs directly to mind. No, it's not finals - we don't need to start worrying about those until reading days.

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Opinion

If I had a hammer ...

By Austen Givens | March 25, 2002

FOR THIS week's column, I've chosen not to address a typically opinion-friendly issue like race relations or budget cutbacks.

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Opinion

The amazing technicolor dream code

By Megan Moyer | March 22, 2002

LIFE in the so-called post-Sept. 11 world is beginning to resemble a bad spy movie. Our Army slinks through caves searching for a bearded villain.

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Opinion

Accolades, for a price

By Harris Freier | March 22, 2002

EVERY year University students are targeted by honor societies that offer membership based on supposed academic excellence in exchange for a fee.

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No.Va. does not a D.C. make

By Kimberly Liu | March 22, 2002

THIS IS what I'm sick of: I met a girl on the bus the other day who said, "Oh you're from D.C.? Me too." Where did you go to school, I asked her.

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Opinion

Supreme importance in redistricting

By Preston Lloyd | March 21, 2002

JUST when Virginia thought the debate over redistricting had finally simmered, a circuit court decision last week invalidated last year's organization of legislative seats throughout the Commonwealth.

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Opinion

Unfair out-of-state burden

By Brian Cook | March 21, 2002

GET READY, out-of-staters, here it comes again. Assuming they go along with the General Assembly, the administration will be going to the Board of Visitors April 5 to ask for a 5 percent increase in in-state tuition and an 8 percent increase in out-of-state tuition.

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Opinion

Grievous opportunism

By Brad Cohen | March 21, 2002

AMERICAN patriotism has never been more apparent than in the past few weeks. According to a March 11 Newsweek article entitled "For 9-11 Families, More Money on the Way", the families of Sept.

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Opinion

Reasonable tuition hike

By Becky Krystal | March 21, 2002

SOONER or later the Commonwealth was going to hit rock bottom and hit it hard. Little to anyone's shock, it came sooner.

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Opinion

Motto's benefits

By Matt West | March 21, 2002

VIRGINIA bill could become law pending Gov. Mark R. Warner's signature which would allow schools to post the motto "In God We Trust." Under this bill, posting the motto is mandatory with the provision that it is put into "historical context" ("VA Senate Approves Motto Bill," The Washington Post, Feb.

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Opinion

Phantoms of racism

By Anthony Dick | March 20, 2002

IT'S A SHAME that Tim Lovelace isn't as good at recognizing racism as he is at spewing nonsensical outrage over its alleged presence.