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Or providing needed athletic programs

IN 1989 the Intramural Recreational Sports Department embarked upon a Master Plan that was to address both current and future programs and facility needs as expressed by both students, faculty and staff within the University community.


Opinion

Scrutinize Senate candidates' practical differences, disregard past records

AS IN EVERY election, voters must put together a puzzle of issues, then choose the closest fit. This year's Virginia Senate race between Senator and former Governor Chuck Robb and former Governor George Allen is a particularly colorful puzzle giving voters clear choices in every issue except one: education. TV commercials shooting 30-second allegations back and forth are all over the airways; one suggests that the opponent took millions away from helpless little children, the other shoots back with a rebuttal and an even worse allegation of theft from the poor to feed the rich.


Opinion

Committee falls short as legislative liaison

THERE are too many groups on Grounds that claim to represent the University but don't actually do it. I'm not talking about CIOs, even though they branch off with such specificity they might as well have the Organization for People from Djibouti Who Like to Watch Alf Re-runs.


Opinion

Polls, focus groups blur issues

THERE'S A NAME for a person who tailors his personality to what others expect - a tool. If we're looking for a tool for president, commander-in-chief, for the big Kahuna, the leader of the free world, look no more.


Opinion

Church joke no laughing matter

LOCAL church gains favor with God, prays for heathen Jews." Yom Kippur Services, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 6:15 p.m. The preceding lines constituted the Oct.


Opinion

Honor lacks opportunity for truth

HOW DID we let our most sacred tradition become so irrelevant so fast? The honor system, where a meager seven students were found guilty in trials all of last year, continues along its death course, lifelessly plodding the winding road of indifference, fading into the sea of oblivion and good ideas forgotten.


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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.