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Student Council partnered with Student Health and Wellness this semester to provide free testing for sexually transmitted infections for students from Feb.10 to April 29. Student Council was able to fund this testing as well as free pregnancy tests and sexual assault care to help students overcome financial and privacy barriers to seeking these medical treatments.
During the 2024-2025 academic year, more than five decades after coeducation at the University, all three major self-governance organizations — the University Judiciary Committee, the Honor Committee and Student Council — have been led by women this term. Harper Jones, Valentina Gonzalez and Laura Howard, heading the UJC, Student Council and the Honor Committee, respectively, credited their predecessors and mentors for influencing their leadership styles and said that this term’s all-female representation still has room for growth.
The Sexual Assault Resource Agency, a Charlottesville-based nonprofit, has worked to eliminate sexual violence for the past 51 years. Powered by a small staff of employees from Charlottesville and volunteers from the University, the agency aims to address sexual violence and its risk factors in Charlottesville and the nearby counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson.
At the University, there are a wealth of artistic groups in everything from dance to drama. Still, it is easy to become overwhelmed with the sheer number of shows, events and exhibits — particularly when one does not know where to look. Alongside a group of passionate arts students, third-year College student Jack Ireland is currently working to change that with the Great Big Arts Calendar.
The audience in McLeod was electric Saturday evening as the Virginia Women’s Chorus hosted their 9th annual Women Against Violence concert. Aptly titled “Lift Me Up,” the benefit concert consisted of nine different musical groups from the University and the greater Charlottesville area who performed in support of the Sexual Assault Resource Agency.
Charlottesville is unique for a few reasons. Obviously, it is the home of the University and Monticello. But there is another reason — one that may be unknown to most. The city is home to the original amateur female arm wrestling group.
Mairead Crotty, news writer during The Cavalier Daily’s 2014-15 term and Class of 2017 alumna, remembers reading the “horrifying” article in Clark library. The news made its way across Grounds, spreading between glowing screens as students passed the link to Facebook friends.
This spring, the Biden Administration announced changes to Title IX, the policy that protects students from sex-based discrimination in schools receiving federal financial assistance. Importantly, these new changes will expand protections for LGBTQ+ college students, as well as improve how colleges must respond to reports of sexual harassment and assault. In light of these changes, multiple states are filing lawsuits to stop this new version of Title IX from going into effect — including Virginia. Contrary to lawsuits which actively endanger the essential implementation of Title IX, the Biden administration’s changes better protect LGBTQ+ and female students from harassment at every school level. In short, legal challenges, like that of Virginia, are an affront to the rights of millions of students nationwide.
After a controversy regarding editorial oversight of the paper caused The Cavalier Daily to disaffiliate from the University, newspaper alumni continue to stress the importance of the paper’s independent reporting 45 years after the split. The disaffiliation was sparked by the newspaper’s long-term refusal to acknowledge the authority of the University’s Media Board of Directors, which was tasked with overseeing student publications, and codified The Cavalier Daily’s financial and editorial independence.
In 2015, the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released an investigation, in which they found that the University failed to adequately prevent a sexually hostile environment or respond promptly to cases of sexual violence. This prompted the University to begin community-wide education regarding sexual violence with a mandatory education module. Since then, before students matriculate, they are required to complete a module designed to prevent sexual harassment and violence on Grounds. The requirement of the module laudably demonstrates the University’s desire to take serious steps towards preventing violence within our community.
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Student Council passed a resolution that calls on the University to increase public access to information about dependency overrides — a process for students to annul any financial aid dependence on their parents — at its General Body meeting Tuesday. Student Council also voted to support a Virginia House bill mandating that sexual assault forensic examiners be available across universities in the Commonwealth and tabled a resolution that would establish bylaws for its new Endowment Advisory Council.
The University Judiciary Committee’s new hazing subcommittee aims to publicize its process for hazing cases by rolling out infographics on hazing, offering Fraternal Organization Agreement presentations and hosting a public hazing mock trial.
“Welcome to Miami.” Pitbull’s haunting voice echoes all around you, but you are not standing on South Beach. You are likely standing in a fraternity on Rugby Row. The presence of Greek Life on Grounds is huge whether or not you are a member, but it is also a polarizing topic as reflected by recent hazing scandals and a growing movement to ban Greek life. Regardless of how one feels about fraternities, studies reveal that their impact on students’ careers after graduation is undeniably positive. The socialization that occurs within a fraternity shows clear ties to better jobs and higher salaries after graduation. In many ways, Greek life disproves the myth of meritocracy. We live in a society that preaches the value of hard work, but all too often values networks more than actual merit. Given this reality, understanding how Greek life works to achieve a competitive edge can allow other clubs and organizations to help their own members advance in society too.
The University Judiciary Committee met Sunday for presentations on mandatory reporting relating to the Clery Act and Title IX incidents.
Chinchilla Café is not exactly a café, but they do have chinchillas — and so much more. A Google search for “Chinchilla Café, Charlottesville” will yield tour dates of bands, Reddit pages and local news articles, but none will deliver an address you can quickly plug into your GPS by itself. That’s because — unlike other popular music venues in Charlottesville — Chinchilla Café is a DIY venue run out of the living room of four activists’ shared home.
As any student here could attest to, we are all too familiar with the words “community alert” popping up on our phones, so much so that we learn to tune it out. It becomes just another notification, often the butt of jokes on Yik Yak. But the attempted abduction earlier this month — which left one student hospitalized — cut through all of that. To the victim, the Editorial Board offers our support and empathy. For the rest of the University’s community, this incident has added to an ever-growing list of horrific crimes near Grounds. The University is home to north of 20,000 young adults — it is not just where we learn, but also where we live, work and are meant to feel safe. And if this most recent alert exemplified anything, it is that for many of us, we just don’t feel safe in our homes anymore.
In a tight race for the 11th District State Senate seat, incumbent Creigh Deeds, who recently won the Democratic nomination, will run against paralegal and historian Phillip Hamilton when Virginians head to the polls Nov. 7. Here’s where the candidates stand on key issues in this election cycle, including gun control, reproductive healthcare and education policy.
The 2023 Fire Safety and Security Report — released in early September by the University — shows an increase in reported rapes, aggravated assaults and motor vehicle thefts in 2022 compared to in 2021.
A break-in was reported at the Kappa Delta House on Chancellor street early this morning. The suspect — 18 year-old Harry Benjamin Sedwick Jr. — has been arrested and charged with two counts of sexual battery and one count of burglary. He is currently being held without bond.