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The No. 9 Virginia women’s lacrosse team extended its winning streak to five games with a 12-6 victory over Harvard on Monday (April 2) at Klöckner Stadium. Virginia finished its regular-season home schedule with a 7-1 record on its home field. Overall, UVa improved to 9-4, matching its win total from the 2011 season. The…
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James Madison battled to the end but came up a little short in a 75-68 loss at Oklahoma State in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament championship game Saturday afternoon at Gallagher-Iba Arena. The Dukes, who trailed by 17 points with under 13 minutes to play, cut the margin to four with 28 seconds left but…
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The Virginia General Assembly is not having a very good year. After making the national evening news shows and late-night comedy programs for weeks about which ultrasound to require of women, the Assembly joined many other states in passing voter suppression bills that might affect the outcome of the presidential election.
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James Madison beat Syracuse 74-71 in the National Women’s Invitation Tournament semifinals Wednesday evening at the JMU Convocation Center. JMU advances to the WNIT championship game at Oklahoma State at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 31. The Cowgirls beat San Diego 73-57 in the other semifinal Wednesday. JMU, which won its school-record 29th game, improved to…
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia today announced that it has hired Claire Guthrie Gastañaga to succeed executive director Kent Willis, who last week announced he was leaving after 25 years with the organization. Gastañaga is scheduled to start at the beginning of June. “Claire brings to the ACLU a huge network of people…
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The Virginia women’s basketball team will play on the road at James Madison for its quarterfinal Women’s National Invitation Tournament contest on Sunday (March 25) at 2 p.m. Virginia (25-10) is playing in the WNIT quarterfinals for the fifth time in school history (1980, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012). The Cavaliers advanced to the semifinals in…
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Think back all the way to the spring of 2010. The world was such a different place. Democrats were still riding high, relatively, anyway. Sure, the Tea Party protests of the summer and fall of 2009 were a jolt, but Dems still had enough political capital at their disposal to pass historic health-care reform. Ah,…
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The health-care reform law that has come to define the first term of President Barack Obama is marking its second anniversary today, and as might be expected, the occasion is serving as fodder for political posturing from the two sides of the political aisle. “Today, two years after we passed health care reform, more young…
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If a single word or phrase can describe a General Assembly session, the 2012 meeting of the state legislature would be known for “overreach.” Governor McDonnell and Lieutenant Governor Bolling warned the Republican majority before the session got underway that there was a need for legislators to be careful to not overreach with their new-found…
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The eighth-ranked Virginia women’s lacrosse team dropped a 14-9 contest to second-ranked North Carolina on Saturday (March 10) at Klöckner Stadium. Seniors Charlie Finnigan (Twickenham, Middlesex, England) and Ainsley Baker (Corning, N.Y.) each had two goals while classmate Josie Owen (Gibson Island, Md.) added a goal and two assists to lead Virginia. The loss dropped…
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