Opinion

Opinion

LAGging behind in wage war

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | September 25, 2000

C OMPLEX ISSUES don't have 30-min ute solutions. Unfortunately, the Labor Action Group at the University has yet to learn this lesson. When you're discussing "fair" wages and benefits and "fair" labor practices, it pays to be intellectually honest, to offer facts grounded in serious research, and moreover to be truthful. LAG has been dishonest in two key areas -- their claim that the University uses sweatshop labor and their stake in the living wage debate. On Labor Day, a member of the student Labor Action Group, Roger Clarke, wrote and distributed a small flyer that claims that the University -- the University bookstore specifically -- uses sweatshop labor.

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Opinion

Rapper's violent persona proves 'real slim'

By Diya Gullapalli | September 25, 2000

THEN IN a couple of minutes that bottle of Guiness is finally finished. You now officially have the right to slap bi**hes.

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Opinion

Wahoos sink under nickname's stereotypes

By Laura Sahrama | September 22, 2000

"WAHOOS? What the heck is a wahoo?" Prospective University students ask this question every year during tours around Grounds.

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Opinion

National tests sustain high collegiate standards

By Brandon Almond | September 21, 2000

SUPERMARKETS sell different grades of eggs. Before they are shipped out to Giant, Safeway or Harris Teeter, they are inspected by the all-knowing egg inspector and given anywhere from one to three "As." This ensures that we consumers will know what quality we're paying for.

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Opinion

Restricted endowment keeps College from funding facilities facelift

By Emily Harding | September 21, 2000

THE CRY goes up in class: "Does everyone have a chair?" More often than not, the answer is no, and students are sent out into the hallways like daylight thieves.

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Opinion

Putting program to sleep ...

By Bryan Killian | September 21, 2000

LIKE IT or not, Napster will die. Don't get me wrong; mp3s are an integral facet of the music industry's future.

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Opinion

Parties' ideals prove separate, not equal

By Tim DuBoff | September 21, 2000

SOMETIMES we mean what we say. Other times we say things only for the reaction they cause. When the Ralph Nader campaign attempts to portray the two major parties as one and the same, it does not really mean it.

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Opinion

Or nursing Napster back to life

By Chris Husser | September 21, 2000

AS A FULL-TIME student at the University, I often find myself sheltered from news of the outside world.

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Opinion

Resist digital revolution, retain written word

By Bryan Maxwell | September 20, 2000

ANALYTICAL writing often involves searching for a common thread, a common theme that ties works or ideas together.

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Shedding light on implications of Senate fight

By Seth Wood | September 20, 2000

SELF-DIAGNOSED political junkies have focused on the obvious campaigns this fall, among them the tight presidential race and the high-profile New York Senate race, as indicators of the national political temperature.

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Opinion

Accommodating ARAmark with more than wages

By Elizabeth Managan | September 19, 2000

WHAT WAS your first summer job like? Like many people, mine was at a yogurt shop, the type of place that hires high school kids.

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Opinion

Dumbed-down debate reflects youth apathy

By Diya Gullapalli | September 18, 2000

"I think that the best way to explain pollution in Texas is to turn off the lights!" bursted Democrat Adam Green regarding Republican environmental policy.

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Opinion

Plan unfairly exempts Scholars

By Katherine Martini | September 18, 2000

AS KID Rock laments, there is a price you pay to be a big shot. When you're so visible, it's natural to come under greater scrutiny and perhaps even criticism.

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Opinion

Bush exhibits presidential idiocy

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | September 18, 2000

I'VE LONG been a George W. Bush enthusiast. Which is why it has taken me so long to come to terms with the stark fact that W is a moron. Bush apologists say that a slip up here and there isn't atypical for any politician.

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Opinion

Integrity requires evaluating research

By Brent Garland | September 18, 2000

AT THE risk of being accused of piling on, the Ombudsman is compelled to comment on the brouhaha concerning the opinion piece by Brett Ferrell and Sam Ross on sexual assault statistics.

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Opinion

Solving self-segregation by selecting varied activities

By Faraz Rana | September 15, 2000

THE STATE of Race Relations, an organization that promotes racial equality, recently released the results of a survey conducted earlier this year.

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Opinion

Rape stats stand up

By Cavalier Daily Staff | September 15, 2000

Brett Ferrell and Sam Ross's Viewpoint column ("Bogus one-in-four rape statistic," Sept. 12) represents the authors' ignorance and insensitivity, and its publishing did a disfavor to everyone at the University. I do not believe that the authors have any right to question the one-in-four statistic on the basis of the evidence gathered from the University Police Department.

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Opinion

Countering sexual assault statistic critics

By Laura Sahrama | September 15, 2000

IMAGINE that your house has been robbed. You are distraught because your house has been ravaged, and many of your personal possessions have been taken.

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Opinion

Shirking silent moment

By Cavalier Daily Staff | September 15, 2000

Bryan Maxwell's column ("Constitution speaks for moment of silence," Sept. 13) has convinced me that a moment of silence at the start of a school day isn't unconstitutional, but since when does that make it a good idea?

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Opinion

Marketing strategies miss target

By Timothy Duboff | September 14, 2000

MAN, THIS is one violent country we live in! From video games to movies to music, one can't help but encounter extreme violence in popular media at least once a day.