Comments for The Cavalier Daily http://www.cavalierdaily.com Independent Student Newspaper of the University of Virginia Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on Huguely in Charlottesville by Seanhttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/06/huguely-in-charlottesville/#comment-170315 Sean Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:08 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/06/huguely-in-charlottesville/#comment-170315 The Cav Daily will tow the line. The administrations' line. They always do. When a student drops dead in a frat house, or in off campus housing - you'd think that would matter too (or nothing would). Well, let's face it, nothing that is going to my post referring to 4) above is going to be messed with. That's the way this place works. There are good people and even decent journalists who occasionally dance across a page in this newspaper. One even ran it a few years ago. But by and large the old guard remains in charge despite changes in the managing board. The ombudsman has always gone along for the ride also. The Cav Daily will tow the line. The administrations’ line. They always do. When a student drops dead in a frat house, or in off campus housing – you’d think that would matter too (or nothing would). Well, let’s face it, nothing that is going to my post referring to 4) above is going to be messed with. That’s the way this place works. There are good people and even decent journalists who occasionally dance across a page in this newspaper. One even ran it a few years ago. But by and large the old guard remains in charge despite changes in the managing board. The ombudsman has always gone along for the ride also.

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]]> Comment on Not forgetting about Alzheimer’s by Shawnhttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/08/not-forgetting-about-alzheimer%e2%80%99s/#comment-170313 Shawn Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:53:47 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/08/not-forgetting-about-alzheimer%e2%80%99s/#comment-170313 Sean, Thank you for your support. I believe we are likely from the same generation. But please do not lump Dr Childress into a liberal pile. He is the ONLY professor who I had at U Va who could argue coherently from both sides of an argument and I learned a great deal from that. Deontology and Utilitarianism are still the focal points of ALL ethical arguments for me and religion and or politics are but a side bar.David, We need your passion in Medicine. For the patients, for the research, for the future. If we let the Government relegate and regulate the future we are doomed. Truly doomed.Jennifer, your passion is unbridled and you stand up to those who challenge you without hesitation or fear. Keep it up,it will hold you well in the real world.To the collegiates out there, these are a special 4 years, I wish I had them back. You are protected, coddled, safe, and virtually unfettered by the scars of life. That is soon to end. Enjoy the time, relish your friends, learn much, laugh more and have a beer or bourbon on me. When you get out here, the serpentine walls protecting you will be but a memory, albeit a great one, and you will have to stand alone on what you have acquired during your years at The University. I can tell your from experience you will be ready, scared as hell but ready. I cannot encourage you enough to have a passion for something, anything, but be truly passionate about it. Mine is my patients. Sometimes to the detriment of family and friends, but my extended family gets bigger and better every year.We have beaten this topic like a dead horse and the scars aren't bleeding anymore. I'd be glad to join you on some new one. Any suggestions?? Sean,
Thank you for your support. I believe we are likely from the same generation. But please do not lump Dr Childress into a liberal pile. He is the ONLY professor who I had at U Va who could argue coherently from both sides of an argument and I learned a great deal from that. Deontology and Utilitarianism are still the focal points of ALL ethical arguments for me and religion and or politics are but a side bar.

David, We need your passion in Medicine. For the patients, for the research, for the future. If we let the Government relegate and regulate the future we are doomed. Truly doomed.

Jennifer, your passion is unbridled and you stand up to those who challenge you without hesitation or fear. Keep it up,it will hold you well in the real world.

To the collegiates out there, these are a special 4 years, I wish I had them back. You are protected, coddled, safe, and virtually unfettered by the scars of life. That is soon to end. Enjoy the time, relish your friends, learn much, laugh more and have a beer or bourbon on me. When you get out here, the serpentine walls protecting you will be but a memory, albeit a great one, and you will have to stand alone on what you have acquired during your years at The University. I can tell your from experience you will be ready, scared as hell but ready. I cannot encourage you enough to have a passion for something, anything, but be truly passionate about it. Mine is my patients. Sometimes to the detriment of family and friends, but my extended family gets bigger and better every year.

We have beaten this topic like a dead horse and the scars aren’t bleeding anymore. I’d be glad to join you on some new one. Any suggestions??

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]]> Comment on Huguely in Charlottesville by Wahoohttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/06/huguely-in-charlottesville/#comment-170301 Wahoo Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:31:30 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/06/huguely-in-charlottesville/#comment-170301 This article is really poorly written. I couldn't even focus on the information presented and it's supposedly written by the managing board? This article is really poorly written. I couldn’t even focus on the information presented and it’s supposedly written by the managing board?

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]]> Comment on The trial begins by John Q. Publichttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/06/the-trial-begins/#comment-170230 John Q. Public Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:28:58 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/06/the-trial-begins/#comment-170230 We want Huguely sentenced to the Red Onion for Life !!!!!!!!From 8 long years of first hand experience in Virginia courts for criminal and civil lawsuits of a vicious attack, the attacker having drank alcohol for 18 hours straight prior to attack was not accepted as a mitigating factor for his actions.He told people he was going to get our son and he did. He absolutely did not previously choke my son or write an email that he wanted to kill my son as Huguely absolutely did.Our son survived. He has a lifelong brain injury that has rendered him permanently disabled, but he is alive.The attacker was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison, serving 4 before paroled. Although our son is only getting $310 per month, he won a $1.1M award with 6 1/2% interest on outstanding balance. Virginia has very low ceiling on civil lawsuits that the Huguely's will likely be able to write a check for and move on.We hope a jury in Charlottesville can render a 1st degree murder Guilty verdict comparable to a verdict that the conservative folks from Winchester, Staunton definitely would.Who gives a crap whether Huguely is penniless or comes from a privileged family. He murdered Ms. Love in cold blood.George Huguely is no better than Joran Vandersloot. Let's send George to the Red Onion State Prison. (the closest thing the U.S. has to a Chilean Prison !!!!!)If you haven't been a victim of a brutal, senseless fatal or life-altering crime, you are not fully aware of it's life shattering effects. We want Huguely sentenced to the Red Onion for Life !!!!!!!!

From 8 long years of first hand experience in Virginia courts for criminal and civil lawsuits of a vicious attack, the attacker having drank alcohol for 18 hours straight prior to attack was not accepted as a mitigating factor for his actions.

He told people he was going to get our son and he did.
He absolutely did not previously choke my son or write an email that he wanted to kill my son as Huguely absolutely did.

Our son survived. He has a lifelong brain injury that has rendered him permanently disabled, but he is alive.

The attacker was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison, serving 4 before paroled. Although our son is only getting $310 per month, he won a $1.1M award with 6 1/2% interest on outstanding balance. Virginia has very low ceiling on civil lawsuits that the Huguely’s will likely be able to write a check for and move on.

We hope a jury in Charlottesville can render a 1st degree murder Guilty verdict comparable to a verdict that the conservative folks from Winchester, Staunton definitely would.

Who gives a crap whether Huguely is penniless or comes from a privileged family. He murdered Ms. Love in cold blood.

George Huguely is no better than Joran Vandersloot.
Let’s send George to the Red Onion State Prison. (the closest thing the U.S. has to a Chilean Prison !!!!!)

If you haven’t been a victim of a brutal, senseless fatal or life-altering crime, you are not fully aware of it’s life shattering effects.

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]]> Comment on Adoption bill passes by Marvin Edwardshttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/07/adoption-bill-passes/#comment-170223 Marvin Edwards Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:12:30 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/07/adoption-bill-passes/#comment-170223 And I'm not the subject either. The question on the table is whether gay individuals and couples ought to be denied the right to adopt based solely on their handicap.If the state contracts with religious organization to provide adoption services, and the organization is so prejudiced against gay persons that they will indeed refuse to place any child with them, then they place an unwarranted barrier for gay parents seeking to adopt.The only valid reason to subcontract adoption services to private agencies is to expand the availability of adoption services to the public.To accomplish that goal, the agencies must not discriminate against any members of the public based on prejudices against race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other trait that does not relate to the welfare of the child and the ability of the parents to provide a good home.Therefore, this new legislation ought to be discarded. And if not discarded, it must be overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court.Don't you agree? And I’m not the subject either. The question on the table is whether gay individuals and couples ought to be denied the right to adopt based solely on their handicap.

If the state contracts with religious organization to provide adoption services, and the organization is so prejudiced against gay persons that they will indeed refuse to place any child with them, then they place an unwarranted barrier for gay parents seeking to adopt.

The only valid reason to subcontract adoption services to private agencies is to expand the availability of adoption services to the public.

To accomplish that goal, the agencies must not discriminate against any members of the public based on prejudices against race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other trait that does not relate to the welfare of the child and the ability of the parents to provide a good home.

Therefore, this new legislation ought to be discarded. And if not discarded, it must be overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court.

Don’t you agree?

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]]> Comment on Adoption bill passes by Seanhttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/07/adoption-bill-passes/#comment-170165 Sean Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:46:27 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/07/adoption-bill-passes/#comment-170165 Marvin, the point was/is that:A) You cannot defend your own beliefs against simple challenges. S you just avoid them constantly.B) I'm guessing that your concern for/activism with helping children is not too impressive. Indeed, you're AOK with killing them in utero if they are deemed "unwanted," are poor, or might be handicapped. That is also prejudice, and injustice for the victims.C) I have not stated here or anywhere else that a child should never be placed in a gay home. Far from it. Only that people with faithful and honest objections to doing so should not be forced to do so.D) I don't have prejudice and don't discriminate against people who choose to spend erotic time with members of the same sex. My heterosexual friends don't differentiate themselves much in their behavior when it comes to responsibility/ethics either. With regard to "transgender" folks who decide they are in the wrong body, I think that is a mental illness that should be met with psychological help. I am against genital mutilation, and for segregated mens and womens bathrooms and showers. Marvin, the point was/is that:

A) You cannot defend your own beliefs against simple challenges. S you just avoid them constantly.

B) I’m guessing that your concern for/activism with helping children is not too impressive. Indeed, you’re AOK with killing them in utero if they are deemed “unwanted,” are poor, or might be handicapped. That is also prejudice, and injustice for the victims.

C) I have not stated here or anywhere else that a child should never be placed in a gay home. Far from it. Only that people with faithful and honest objections to doing so should not be forced to do so.

D) I don’t have prejudice and don’t discriminate against people who choose to spend erotic time with members of the same sex. My heterosexual friends don’t differentiate themselves much in their behavior when it comes to responsibility/ethics either. With regard to “transgender” folks who decide they are in the wrong body, I think that is a mental illness that should be met with psychological help. I am against genital mutilation, and for segregated mens and womens bathrooms and showers.

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]]> Comment on Not forgetting about Alzheimer’s by Seanhttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/08/not-forgetting-about-alzheimer%e2%80%99s/#comment-170146 Sean Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:32:12 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/08/not-forgetting-about-alzheimer%e2%80%99s/#comment-170146 Shawn is still right on this one, folks. First of all, the federal government is $16 trillion in debt. Second, you can't expect everyone to buy the age old college naivte sold at left wing universities like UVA that the government must provide all solutions, and that in this case it is the government's job to find a cure to a terrible disease. The idea that we must pass legislation to cure a disease is really off the deep end.As someone who recently spent the day at NIH getting swabbed and checked out to donate my marrow/stem cells to a tyke who needs my immune system to go into his or her body and whip some leukemia's ass, I can tell you that there are worse things than dying of Alzheimer's as an elderly person. This is all very personal to me as I lost a dear friend to leukemia when neither one of us had yet become teenagers yet. Should we take the mountains of money out of leukemia research and throw it at Alzheimer's research instead? Why? Because your grandfather (or my mother) can't always make much sense or take care of themselves after living rather fulfilling, long lives? If not from leukemia research, then how about from K-12 education? I know you have been taught to think this way at UVA, but you'll be in the real wold soon, David. This kind of stuff is not going to fly outside of the Ivy Tower. Again, I'm sorry for everyone's troubles, but death and suffering is a part of life. Don't I know it. Nobody, least of all Shawn, suggested that we "leave it be." Only that we identify stuff that is really making progress in the lab and spend the lion's share of research money on that. Don't forget that the lion's share of this money comes from the private sector - not the government. And government money is almost always politically motivated (embryonic and fetal stem cells).Although I agree with Shawn on THIS issue, I don't suggest you get yourself an indoctrination about medical ethics from someone who does not have any. People like Mr. Childress have abandoned Nuremberg, Geneva, and the UDHR and allowed themselves to become cheerleaders for UVA's enthusiastic in house abortion program in the "Religious Studies" program of all places! (As if a single religion defends infanticide). Here again, UVA is going to be on the losing side, as the tide is turning back towards the prosecutors at Nuremberg and away from the "ethics" of the defendants."I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity; I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity”Hippocratic Oath Declaration of Geneva Following the Nazi Doctor's Trial at Nuremberg Shawn is still right on this one, folks. First of all, the federal government is $16 trillion in debt. Second, you can’t expect everyone to buy the age old college naivte sold at left wing universities like UVA that the government must provide all solutions, and that in this case it is the government’s job to find a cure to a terrible disease. The idea that we must pass legislation to cure a disease is really off the deep end.

As someone who recently spent the day at NIH getting swabbed and checked out to donate my marrow/stem cells to a tyke who needs my immune system to go into his or her body and whip some leukemia’s ass, I can tell you that there are worse things than dying of Alzheimer’s as an elderly person. This is all very personal to me as I lost a dear friend to leukemia when neither one of us had yet become teenagers yet. Should we take the mountains of money out of leukemia research and throw it at Alzheimer’s research instead? Why? Because your grandfather (or my mother) can’t always make much sense or take care of themselves after living rather fulfilling, long lives? If not from leukemia research, then how about from K-12 education? I know you have been taught to think this way at UVA, but you’ll be in the real wold soon, David. This kind of stuff is not going to fly outside of the Ivy Tower. Again, I’m sorry for everyone’s troubles, but death and suffering is a part of life. Don’t I know it. Nobody, least of all Shawn, suggested that we “leave it be.” Only that we identify stuff that is really making progress in the lab and spend the lion’s share of research money on that. Don’t forget that the lion’s share of this money comes from the private sector – not the government. And government money is almost always politically motivated (embryonic and fetal stem cells).

Although I agree with Shawn on THIS issue, I don’t suggest you get yourself an indoctrination about medical ethics from someone who does not have any. People like Mr. Childress have abandoned Nuremberg, Geneva, and the UDHR and allowed themselves to become cheerleaders for UVA’s enthusiastic in house abortion program in the “Religious Studies” program of all places! (As if a single religion defends infanticide). Here again, UVA is going to be on the losing side, as the tide is turning back towards the prosecutors at Nuremberg and away from the “ethics” of the defendants.

“I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity; I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity”

Hippocratic Oath
Declaration of Geneva
Following the Nazi Doctor’s Trial at Nuremberg

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]]> Comment on A hard bargain by Seanhttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/10/a-hard-bargain/#comment-170114 Sean Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:58:35 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/10/a-hard-bargain/#comment-170114 Not a word about the Day Care Center for UVA and PVCC students that UVA has refused to build despite being given free land on which to do so. Child care costs are a big part of the problem for many UVA staff. But, alas, this is a university that hates children. UVA students kill 900 or so of their own children every year, and are greatly assisted in that endeavor by UVA itself. Injustice indeed.I support the Living Wage Campaign at UVA, but it is interesting to ponder how many faculty would donate even 0.5% of their salary or students 15% of their weekly bar tabs to the cause. That would probably more than offset the increased costs, but I bet there would be only a handful of volunteers from both camps. No, I think the umpteenth pair of designer leather boots or the hotel reservations in Cancun for Spring Break will come long before that. It is always someone else's money they want to spend. Always. Not a word about the Day Care Center for UVA and PVCC students that UVA has refused to build despite being given free land on which to do so. Child care costs are a big part of the problem for many UVA staff. But, alas, this is a university that hates children. UVA students kill 900 or so of their own children every year, and are greatly assisted in that endeavor by UVA itself. Injustice indeed.

I support the Living Wage Campaign at UVA, but it is interesting to ponder how many faculty would donate even 0.5% of their salary or students 15% of their weekly bar tabs to the cause. That would probably more than offset the increased costs, but I bet there would be only a handful of volunteers from both camps. No, I think the umpteenth pair of designer leather boots or the hotel reservations in Cancun for Spring Break will come long before that. It is always someone else’s money they want to spend. Always.

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]]> Comment on A hard bargain by Loren Ludwighttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/10/a-hard-bargain/#comment-169946 Loren Ludwig Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:39:11 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/10/a-hard-bargain/#comment-169946 Another alum (GSAS '11) watching carefully. It is precisely these kinds of issues that will figure in which institutions receive my financial support down the road. Until the UVA Admin. gets its house in order on this issue (which is actually very straightforward and should have been 'fixed' years ago), I can't in good conscience consider directing donations towards an institution that I otherwise very much want to support.To the students, faculty, staff, and community members agitating for a living wage at UVA, BRING IT--Y'ALL ROCK! Another alum (GSAS ’11) watching carefully. It is precisely these kinds of issues that will figure in which institutions receive my financial support down the road. Until the UVA Admin. gets its house in order on this issue (which is actually very straightforward and should have been ‘fixed’ years ago), I can’t in good conscience consider directing donations towards an institution that I otherwise very much want to support.

To the students, faculty, staff, and community members agitating for a living wage at UVA, BRING IT–Y’ALL ROCK!

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]]> Comment on A hard bargain by Jan Cornellhttp://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/10/a-hard-bargain/#comment-169864 Jan Cornell Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:55:47 +0000 http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/02/10/a-hard-bargain/#comment-169864 Thank you Jason! As an old living wager I am inspired by your article. Disobedience indeed! When a campaign like this has been going on for so long it is time for some big, good old fashioned action.The time is now-not another 10 years from now. I urge students, faculty and staff to turn up the volume and not be afraid!Let's do this! Thank you Jason! As an old living wager I am inspired by your article.
Disobedience indeed! When a campaign like this has been going on for so long it is time for some big, good old fashioned action.

The time is now-not another 10 years from now. I urge students, faculty and staff to turn up the volume and not be afraid!

Let’s do this!

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