Opinion

Opinion

Or seal tightly?

By Jay O'Brien | March 9, 2000

I INTRODUCED House Bill 1429 to the Virginia House of Dele-gates, which would limit the out-of-state enrollment at Virginia public colleges and universities to 33 percent of the incoming freshman class beginning in the fall of 2001. I believe that Virginia's residents (and taxpayers) should have the assurance that at least two-thirds of the enrollment at our public colleges and universities are reserved for their children.

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Stop forcing symbols on society

By Bryan Maxwell | March 8, 2000

PRIDE is powerful. It can make one blind and deaf to rationality, and oblivious to those with differing views.

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Taking vacation from break boredom

By Brandon Almond | March 8, 2000

THE LIFE of a college student is not easy. There are too many decisions that students have to make.

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Diagnosing Student Health's ailments

By Diya Gullapalli | March 7, 2000

I'D HEARD the rumors about kids who had gone into the Student Health Center and had come out sicker.

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Revealing real reactions to students' quirky e-mail inquiries

By Toni Wegner and Dan Wegner | March 7, 2000

YOU KNEW it. You knew professors were talking about you. What you didn't know is the latest thing they're talking about -- life in Student E-mail Hell. The two of us, for example, have been talking about odd e-mails from students.

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Potty posters dismiss alcohol myths

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | March 6, 2000

THEY CALL us Wahoos because, as this fish drinks water, we can drink our weight's worth of alcohol.

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Weeding out Lawn selection flaws

By Masha Herbst | March 6, 2000

BETWEEN fellow columnist Sam Waxman's musings on the exclusivity of selective organizations, and Morgan Guyton's Declaration piece about the Lawn selection process, the inner circles of the self-governance scene received a fair amount of press last Thursday.

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Opinion

Maverick McCain transcends party

By Peter Brownfeld | March 6, 2000

AS A NAVY pilot in Vietnam Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plane was shot down. He landed in a lake in Hanoi, badly injured, with both arms and one leg broken.

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Death penalty stirs sleepy legal system

By Chris DelGrosso | March 6, 2000

WHAT DO you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. What do you call a single lawyer that falls asleep during his client's capital murder case?

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Opinion

Comparing peer paper's print layouts, online editions

By Kelly Jolley | March 6, 2000

THERE IS a lot of talk at the University about our peer institutions and how we rank with our top academic and sports competitors.

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Conservative Bush campaign can't charm center

By Timothy Duboff | March 3, 2000

THEY'RE an interesting thing, these primaries. Above all, it's fascinating that in the age of television and the Internet, politicians still must go around the country, campaigning from state to state as if they were snake oil salesmen traveling on the carnival circuit.

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Pledge preserves primary's purity

By Emily Harding | March 3, 2000

PEOPLE swear to things all the time. They swear they will never drink again, never speed again, never smoke again, and even never date again.

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Pulling strings secures students' success

By Sam Waxman | March 2, 2000

THE INMATES run the asylum at the University. Self-governance is a source of institutional pride and provides invaluable experience to students.

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Fighting to fix faculty's gender gap

By Katie Dodd | March 2, 2000

IT'S ALL too common at this University -- on these pages, especially -- that the administration's actions are greeted with the question, "What's in it for me?" We all want to know what the administration has done for us lately.

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Florida ruling an affront to admissions

By Rob Walker | March 2, 2000

WE MAY HAVE won a victory, but we haven't won the war. This past fall, the Board of Visitors voted unanimously to uphold the University's current race-conscious admissions policy, despite outside pressure from right wing groups, specifically the ironically named Center for Equal Opportunity, to eliminate the policy.

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Press punch knocks Democrats out cold

By Brandon Almond | March 1, 2000

IMAGINE if a year consisted solely of autumn and winter. These two seasons would dominate the weather patterns, leaving spring and summer forgotten.

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Campaign blunders benefit Bush

By Diya Gullapalli | March 1, 2000

RICHMOND - The musty odor of sneakers in an elementary school gymnasium poll site. A whiff of cologne from a sharply dressed advisor at Texas Gov.

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Vote for ideas, not chalked-up names

By Amy Startt | March 1, 2000

THEY ONLY come out at night, but they're men and women on a mission. They bend over, crouch or kneel at intervals.

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McCain favors focused fight

By Bryan Maxwell | March 1, 2000

ALEXANDRIA - Campaigns require a lot of small choices. Unlike major policy stances, these individual decisions often go unnoticed by the general public.

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Puddle jumpers skip over key comforts

By Sparky Clarkson | February 29, 2000

AS PART OF THE process of applying to graduate schools, I'll have to make several visits to other universities over the next few weekends.