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Professor unable to teach, offers to work for free

It has come to the attention of The Virginia Informer that an adjunct professor with specialized knowledge of advanced financial derivatives has not been re-hired for the Spring 2009 semester, despite offering to work for free. Adjunct professors are paid per course taught, and typically do not have as heavy a course load as other professors.

Concerned students of Professor Sean Tarter contacted The Informer after finding closed doors around every corner. Members of the professor’s Fall 2008 class unanimously supported a petition delivered to President Reveley, the Economics Department, and The Flat Hat. Members of the course strongly expressed their interest in further pursuing their Fall course’s content with a follow-up course in the Spring.

Promote responsible alcohol consumption, not prohibition

It is important to note that under current laws drinking responsibly has been made more difficult.  If you are 18-20 years old you cannot legally have a glass of wine with your parents during dinner and you cannot go to a bar with friends for one beer in the afternoon.  The law is unreasonable in that it denies a right with little reason.  Since this law is disobeyed en mass by young adults, it undermines basic respect for the law.  Lowering the drinking age is the only reasonable remedy.

The drinking age needs to be lowered

Late one night my roommate and I were walking back to our dorm on campus. We had been at a party and had walked within eyesight of our room when a campus police officer turned on his sirens. I ducked into nearby bushes, the officer got out of his car and demanded an ID from my roommate, who was 19. We had not been vandalizing cars, or stealing stop signs, or attacking people, we had been walking home, at night.