Opinion

Opinion

Changing channels on shock television

By Brandon Almond | February 23, 2000

THE DAY after Valentine's Day, love was still in the air. Last Tuesday night, before 23 million engrossed viewers, two lovebirds married each other in a beautiful Las Vegas ceremony, and they didn't even know each other's last names. I hate to admit it, but I was one of the viewers who watched Fox's "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" In a blend of the hit game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and the Miss America pageant, 50 gold-digging women vied for a chance to spend the rest of their lives - pending the inevitable divorce - with one Mr. Rick Rockwell.

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Opinion

Creating ideal college experiences

By Bryan Maxwell | February 23, 2000

WHAT AM I doing here? What are my reasons for being here, what am I here to do, and why? This is not something I think about every day, but it is something that deserves being thought about from time to time. The University's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC) thinks now is a good time.

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Opinion

Voter burnout persists despite turnout

By Sparky Clarkson | February 22, 2000

RECENT NUMBERS from polling stations have offered some hope that the trend of decreasing voter turnout will reverse itself.

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Stomachs growling for all-hours eatery

By Diya Gullapalli | February 22, 2000

IT'S SUNDAY at 2 a.m. After shakin' your moneymaker for hours at a party, you find yourself standing outside the venue as abruptly as Cinderella at midnight.

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Opinion

Fatal cost of gene therapy study should give rise to regulations

February 22, 2000

LAST SEPTEMBER, Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year old volunteer in a gene therapy study at the University of Pennsylvania, died suddenly, apparently as a result of a complication of the experiment.

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Opinion

Features fresh, fraternity focus faulty

By Kelly Jolley | February 21, 2000

KUDOS TO the new Managing Board and staff for a successful transition during the past two weeks.

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Opinion

Free speech breaches burst bubble law

By Masha Herbst | February 21, 2000

The thing about the First Amendment is that it doesn't always work in our favor. We trumpet freedom of speech when it allows us to voice our views and lends credence to our causes.

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Bush wins fight with swing to far right

By Peter Brownfeld | February 21, 2000

COLUMBIA, SC - Election day began with bustling activity at the campaign headquarters of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Cars honked incessantly in response to the "Honk for McCain" signs.

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Opinion

Student juries crippled without clause

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | February 21, 2000

Any number of impulses stimulate us every second. Some of our decisions are coldly calculated. Others are capricious.

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Bush's chameleon strategy can't hide true colors

By Timothy Duboff | February 18, 2000

WE ALL HAD one of those toys when we were little. You remember: that circular toy where you point the arrow in the middle, pull the string, and the toy would play back a brief sound clip from a nursery rhyme or children's song.

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Opinion

Underpaid TAs inspire lifetime learning

By Katie Dodd | February 17, 2000

IF WE'VE heard it once, we've heard it a thousand times -- as undergraduates at Mr. Jefferson's University, we should be scholars, rather than just students.

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Opinion

Dean's racist remarks damage diversity

By Sam Waxman | February 17, 2000

DEAN OF African-American Affairs M. Rick Turner is out of control. His prejudiced stereotyping of white Americans last week has no place at the University. At a panel on diversity and affirmative action, Turner told the audience "White parents from the right believe their children have a God-given right to everything." ("Panel discusses views on race and admissions policies," The Cavalier Daily, Feb.

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Opinion

Reform loses Trump, self-destructs

By Rob Walker | February 17, 2000

Americans like having lots of things to choose from. When they go out to eat, Americans want a restaurant that has a great variety of different items on the menu.

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Opinion

Streaking dangers only skin deep

By Bryan Maxwell | February 16, 2000

ALL I REALLY could see in the darkness was that they were naked. A few obviously were male; a few obviously were female.

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Opinion

Day of love elevates attention to student depression

By Brandon Almond | February 16, 2000

VALENTINE'S Day has come and gone, leaving behind piles of chocolates and acres of roses. Many people enjoyed romantic dates with their college sweethearts, exchanged gifts and had a great day.

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Opinion

Symposium no fix for self-segregation

By Diya Gullapalli | February 15, 2000

LONG AGO, a University admissions officer decided that some trees, some buildings and some kids pretty much can sum up the college experience.

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Opinion

Multiplying sanctions, subtracting seriousness clause

By Sparky Clarkson | February 15, 2000

The Messages on the Bryan Hall walkway this week have displayed some anger over Honor Committee Education School representative Jim Haley's proposal to eliminate the seriousness standard when an honor violation includes academic cheating.

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Opinion

Mark my words: It's friggin' over

By Daniel Cooper | February 14, 2000

Life is like a Cranberry Farms turkey dinner, or at least working at The Cavalier Daily is.

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A perfect fit

By Sonia Karim | February 14, 2000

Well, here it is: my first, last and only time writing for The Cavalier Daily. It's frightening considering in the three years I've given to the paper, I've designed boxes, put in layouts, rolled flats, never once have I written, until now.

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Opinion

Layin' the smack down

By Michael Greenwald | February 14, 2000

Every good beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Now that the bell has tolled on my collegiate journalism career, I stand out of breath, but wiser, knowing that when 160 people come together and try their best, great things can and will happen, even when no money changes hands.