By the numbers
68-44: The final score of the Virginia men’s basketball team’s Wednesday night victory against Wake Forest, which moved the Cavaliers to 6-3 in the conference, keeping them in the top 25 overall 71-28: The tally of votes for House Bill 189 in the House of Delegates, which allows state-funded private adoption agencies to discriminate against [...]
Read moreAfraid new world
Those dystopias imagined by Plato or Huxley wherein the beliefs of children were assigned and dictated at birth were never realized. But a similarly tyrannical proposal, having flown through the House of Delegates, will come up for a vote today in the Virginia Senate. Justified with the noble lie of adding a “conscience clause” to [...]
Read moreA word to our sponsors
In a report issued Monday on domestic donations given last year, The Chronicle of Philanthropy found that approximately half of the largest U.S. donations, and 19 of the 50 highest donors, went all in on higher education. It would appear without argument that this is worth celebrating. But, interrupting the toast here, such praise is [...]
Read moreBid letters adieu
Who knows what Tyler Molander was thinking — probably not that he was pushing envelopes, as he slid letters stamped with smiley faces under dorm rooms doors at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The same doors have since slammed into his not-so-smiling face. Molander was asked to withdraw from his school last week after [...]
Read moreHuguely in Charlottesville
Already, it is a spectacle. The Commonwealth of Virginia v. George Huguely will begin today, attracting media and loved ones, who park or exit trolleys, or walk to attend the jury selection for a case summoning all the speculation and pageantry a showcase trial still carries in the South. Not a person is excited to [...]
Read moreCalifornia dreamin’
Ambition has always traveled upwind in this country, and so in each generation with a westward breeze California goes against the current. Not satisfied with armchair editorials, the board of the Highlander, the University of California, Riverside student newspaper, took a stand by drafting a financial proposal for the future of the University of California [...]
Read moreNone of the above are correct
Admissions offices are pamphleteers of the prospective class struggle which hand out their literature to uninformed students who know little about what they are getting into besides heaps of debt. Such offices provide tours which walk the party line, and ask only for an applicant’s submission. Admissions offices have also learned the marketing lesson that [...]
Read moreNo signature required
Not with a ring but a pen, prospective college football players end their courtships with all schools but one today, signing letters of intent which bind them to a particular institution, in turn guaranteeing them one year’s worth of financial aid. National Signing Day is the first day football players become eligible to sign such [...]
Read moreA sentimental education
Not to be confused with one of the largest political groups on Grounds, Udemy is rather a San Francisco-based company entering that most unprofitable business: providing services for free online. The website, which also hosts monetized courses, last Thursday announced The Faculty Project, a new program which it will use to partner with select university [...]
Read moreDay for night
Instead of a mission statement, it would be more helpful if an organization were to articulate the goals it would not be able to achieve. The Cavalier Daily is aware of the challenges facing “student journalism,” a phrase which, like all self-definitions, informs our expectations even while delimiting them. Picking up new positions, as well [...]
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