Could you pass the pie?
It required less than fifteen minutes for the Charlottesville City Council to pass its nearly $150 million budget Wednesday, and rightly so. The budget — the first passed during this Council’s term — covers the next fiscal year and offers University students both tangible benefits and a model for effective governance. The meeting took so [...]
Read moreAn appendix does little
A study released Friday by a team of three researchers, “Racial Attitude Change during the College Years,” examined how going to college impacted student attitudes about race. Starting in 2006, the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) asked a variety of questions in a survey of college students. The WNS asked these questions [...]
Read morePay-per-view package
The Cavalier Daily publishes the salaries of faculty and staff each April, to the disapproval of some. Releasing these numbers is traditionally accompanied by a justification of why we do so. We have a right to print these numbers, of course – employees of the University are public employees who are ultimately accountable to taxpayers. [...]
Read moreTurning down the volumes
Each year, University officials tell incoming students that this admissions class is the most competitive, and each year, they mean it. Such statements help build class solidarity and serve as well-deserved compliments. They also reflect the facts at hand — more students apply to the University at a rate outpacing its capacity for growth, causing [...]
Read moreAll roads lead to home
The PRODUCED program, which began in 2006 through the Engineering School and the Virginia Community College System, enables students from across the state to attend University classes from their work or at home, and at a lower price than their peers. The first class of PRODUCED students will finally graduate this May, and this is [...]
Read moreHouses in motion
Tonight in the Rotunda Dome Room, new Student Council leadership will be sworn in, 40 days after they were elected. And they have already broken Council’s constitution, which states terms of office “shall begin thirty days after the end of spring elections.” Council President Dan Morrison explained that having the ceremony in the Dome Room [...]
Read moreThis one’s optimistic
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released its “Job Outlook 2012 Spring Update” last month. The report included graphs showing hiring rates growing to pre-recession levels. NACE provides resources for students, information for companies and training for career service offices. Its survey asked employers what kind of students it would like to hire. [...]
Read moreA lack of Clerity
Seung-Hui Cho shot two students in a Virginia Tech dormitory at 7:15 a.m. April 16, 2007. The university communications office sent an email two hours later to warn students. But some of them were killed shortly thereafter, when the shooting resumed about 9:45 a.m in Norris Hall. That email had come too late, the Department [...]
Read moreDegrees of difference
Learning to be a teacher must be difficult, and recent reforms could exacerbate this problem. Harvard University was the first U.S. institution to offer the Doctorate of Education, Ed.D., and after nearly a century the school recently joined the ranks of deserters. Harvard was not the first to ditch the Ed.D., however, as our University [...]
Read moreThe yellow rose of journalism
The first reason The Daily Texan, the University of Texas student newspaper, should have withheld a cartoon published Tuesday is for misspelling: the subject’s name was Trayvon Martin not Treyvon [sic]. Thus the comic includes one typo as well as stereotypes. But by taking issue with an image so small people are not blowing things [...]
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