Opinion

Opinion

Clueless in Seattle? Protest overlooks details of world trade

By Emily Harding | December 3, 1999

WEDNESDAY'S Washington Post proved that America does have a culture. The story "Protests Delay WTO Opening" had many memorable images, but this was one of its best: "While the streets swirled, many businesses remained open; people sipped cappuccino behind the glass of gourmet coffee shops." The story referred to Monday's scene in Seattle, site of the World Trade Organization's 1999 conference.

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Opinion

Public prayer violates personal rights

By Rob Walker | December 3, 1999

LAST YEAR, I witnessed a crime being committed. It wasn't your typical crime, nor did it happen in your typical criminal setting.

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Opinion

Global growth

By Neil H. Snyder | December 2, 1999

AS THE 20th century draws to a close, there are a few things we know -- I mean really know. For example, you would have to be living on another planet not to know that technology is changing the way we live. The Internet is opening up opportunities that are as profound as those created after the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.

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Opinion

Tenure track turns blind eye to teaching

By Sam Waxman | December 2, 1999

TOO MANY professors view teaching as an unwanted distraction. Instead, professors would rather spend their time with pet graduate students and esoteric research.

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Or growing uniformity?

By Tom Bednar | December 2, 1999

WE ARE whimpering our way into a new millennium, and we'll be lucky if anyone hears. After the flurry of historic events of the last 1,000 years, we're going out not with a bang, but with a soft whisper. History records the loud events, the great epic occurrences that define a particular time.

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Opinion

Demanding dollars from dropouts

By Erin Perucci | December 2, 1999

IF YOU'RE not going to stay in school, I don't want to fund your college education -- not on my tax dollar, that is.

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Opinion

Bush is right Republican choice

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | December 1, 1999

POLITICAL pundits should have Texas Gov. George W. Bush's campaign committee trembling if they're right about their prognostications.

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Opinion

Don't let millennium jitters bug you

By Kiki Petrosino | December 1, 1999

A FEW MORNINGS ago, I was wolfing down a bowl of cereal when the truth suddenly hit me. It's the millennium and we're all gonna die.

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Opinion

Taking reflective angle in life

By Bryan Maxwell | December 1, 1999

WALLACE Stegner called it the "angle of repose." He was referring to the angle of an incline at which an object comes to rest without continuing to roll down.

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Shelving limited library hours

By Nick Lawler | December 1, 1999

I'M A CLOSET Clemons geek. I'll admit it. I'm also a first-floor addict. In Clemons, there are a few different breeds, all of which are easily identifiable.

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Coached college applications lose sight of true student

By Diya Gullapalli | December 1, 1999

THIS THANKSGIVING, I spent some time with my friend Emily, who is a freshman at Harvard. Looking through Emily's pictures of new college friends, they seemed to be regular kids.

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Opinion

Moronic millennium matters

By Sparky Clarkson | November 30, 1999

GET READY for the column of the millennium! That's right: Sparky Clarkson, longtime columnist for The Cavalier Daily, has assembled one last masterpiece to send out this dusty old millennium with a bang!

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Opinion

Literary courses improve academia

By George Klosko | November 30, 1999

I AM GOING to take this opportunity to defend the currently unfashionable view that core courses, consisting of definite lists of required texts, should be mandatory for all University undergraduates.

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Opinion

Timing makes housing choice tough

By Brandon Almond | November 30, 1999

A VALIANT knight stands at a fork in the trail. He's been on his current path a short time, but now there are two new trails veering off in opposite directions.

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Opinion

What are you thankful for?

November 22, 1999

We at the University have many blessings in life, things that we often take for granted. This Thanksgiving, The Cavalier Daily asked University students, faculty and administrators to write about the things for which they are thankful: I am grateful for the continued existence of books.

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Opinion

The Great Thank-You Note Project

By Tom Bednar | November 22, 1999

THERE comes a time in every young life when a man must clear his throat, glance casually over his shoulder to confirm that no one is looking, and admit that his mother was right. After many years, I have confirmed that my mother was right about several things, chief among them the issue of thank-you notes.

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Opinion

Calendar compromises engineers

By Chris DelGrosso | November 22, 1999

TO ANYONE who has compared Engineering School women to Rottweilers with graphing calculators: Watch out.

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Questioning depth, diversity of fraternity rush coverage

By Kelly Jolley | November 22, 1999

FIRST off, I'd like to recognize some of the neat features that appeared in last week's papers. Monday's in-depth book reviews were great -- if you missed The Cavalier Daily's "Book Review 1999," look around for an extra copy.

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Opinion

Beating around Bush on foreign policy

By Emily Harding | November 19, 1999

THE REPUBLICAN nomination is Texas Gov. George W. Bush's to lose. Those stakes are high, but some are still higher: Take, for example, the place of the United States in the world.

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Opinion

Or coerced support?

By Justin C. Pfeiffer | November 18, 1999

THE STUDENTS of the University pay numerous fees to the University. From the Comprehensive Fee to parking fees to the Student Activities Fee, the administration finds numerous ways to extract money from the students. The most odious is the SAF, which violates students' constitutional liberties and is inefficient to students' wishes.