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Rid country of electoral college

WHEN I was in the fourth grade, I ran for student council. The election process went something like this: Any student, with a recommendation from his or her teacher, could run for student council.


Opinion

Political parties provide balance, not bias

FEEL-GOOD politics really irritate me. Each time we have a major disagreement in this country, commentators come out of the woodwork, pleading for "bipartisanship," which in this context essentially means that nobody is allowed to disagree about anything, no matter how substantive the issue.


Opinion

Echols Scholars deserve registration privileges

THOSE who bemoan priority registra- tion for Echols Scholars and students with a truckload of Advanced Placement credits - there are plenty of you - should stop whining. It is insufficient simply to complain about this issue; if you care about resolving it, you'll offer a better alternative.


Opinion

Demanding QualChoice contraceptive coverage

THERE are some things in this world that just don't make sense: those crop circles in Iowa, supposedly made by aliens, the fact that the Spice Girls came out of two-hit-wonder oblivion long enough to put out a new album, and the fact that people actually are buying it.


Opinion

Equally enforce drug, alcohol laws

THE HEADLINE of The Cavalier Daily arrested me from my usual Grounds-walking haze. "University drug crackdown" - for a moment I wondered if those wacky kids at The Declaration had created a fake edition, but no, this was the real Cavalier Daily. Federal indictments!


Opinion

Elector defectors would redeem democracy

THE PEOPLE spoke. The Constitution ignored them. Our bizarre, antiquated, illogical and unfair Electoral College system appears, for the third time in history, to have deprived the American people of their choice for president.


Opinion

Stealing the White House

WATCHING the recent week's electoral morass on CNN in the same fascinated, near-amazed way workers at a sausage factory stare at their machines, I came to a conclusion on Sunday morning.


Opinion

Expel outdated Electoral College

YOU ARE enjoying a lazy afternoon watching television when you start to feel kind of hot. Even though it is mid November, you chalk it up to El Nino and return your attention to "The Real World" marathon.


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