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Find Your Voice, a new arts organization on Grounds, is aiming to encapsulate the student experience in performance — putting on monthly showcases which highlight students' real-life stories to promote awareness about a prevalent issue around Grounds.
Jacqueline Akunda, on behalf of the African Studies Initiative at the University, wrote one piece that caught my eye in the past week about an email sent to the University community from the Medical Center via the Office of the President in regard to a patient at the Medical Center who had tested negative for Ebola. Akunda raises several topics that I would like to see explored more in the pages of The Cavalier Daily: homogenization of different parts of the world, othering of those different from us and the domination of the Western viewpoint in discussions. Commentary on recent news items would be a great thing for the editors of The Cavalier Daily to seek out. In this particular case, Akunda’s concerns are that the email was carelessly worded and demonstrated that the University administration is disengaged and unaware. Akunda may well be correct that the University administration is all of those things about issues having to do with Africa. This email, though, had at least one other significant consideration involved that trumped the rest: patient privacy and confidentiality. When releasing information to the public about an individual patient there must be a balance between informing the public and protecting the patient’s right to privacy and to have their medical information kept confidential. The email gave the least amount of information necessary to inform the public in response to public queries. More specific information would have increased the likelihood that the person in question could be identified. The irony that this construction of privacy is a Western one is not lost on me.
In light of the recent disappearance of second-year College student Hannah Graham and several sexual assaults on and around Grounds, Student Council is promoting six mobile apps for student safety: Circle of 6, Kitestring, Tag - You're It, Hollaback, One Love My Plan, and First Aid by Red Cross.
The University Police Department released its Annual Security Report Monday. The release shows there were no reports of murder, non-negligent manslaughter, robbery or arson on or around Grounds in the 2011-13 reporting period.
Over the years, the United States and many other countries have developed certain social traditions for dating. In old-fashioned but still very prominent traditions, men held doors, made the first call, drove the woman and paid for dinner. However, women do not play the same naïve, helpless role in society now that they did in the past. A lot of these actions are now seen as “anti-feminist,” as women do not want to be perceived as passive and dependent, but strong, robust people with the same capabilities are men. In short, women today are finally beginning to be recognized as independent members of the workforce who are very capable of doing each of these things themselves. From 1960 to 2011 in the United States, the proportion of households in which the mother earned all or most of the income roughly quadrupled , changing from 10 to 40 percent of all households. Despite that, men are still expected to pay for all dates as they were in earlier years. This begs the question: is it considered anti-feminist for men to pay for dates?
Students hope to soon officially launch a University chapter of Help Save the Next Girl, a national organization founded by Gil and Dan Harrington to raise awareness for missing persons and violence against women. They founded the organization in memory of their daughter, Morgan Harrington, a Virginia Tech student who was abducted and killed in Charlottesville in 2009.
A new survey of human resource officers in higher education released by Inside Higher Education found 61 percent of public institution officials and 36 percent of private school officials are at least moderately concerned about filling positions of non-academic retired employees. Additionally, more than 60 percent of all officials are concerned that faculty were working past traditional retirement age.
Virginia State Police released a statement Monday confirming a forensic link between second-year College student Hannah Graham’s recent disappearance and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington’s death in 2009. Police say forensic evidence taken from suspect Jesse Matthew in the Graham case match evidence found in connection to the Harrington case.
With the ongoing investigation into Hannah Graham’s disappearance, we have had to process a lot of information and a lot of emotion. The speculation whirling around what information we have is overwhelming, and the unanswered questions agonizing. And in these difficult times, we desperately look for someone to blame.
A corrupt argument has circulated since the disappearance of our young student, Hannah Graham. The argument is that Graham might have averted the sad fate that we now presume, if only she’d behaved differently. Those who make this argument have their own characteristically narrow notion of how a young person should behave. If a student should take one step — even briefly or unintentionally — beyond that notion of appropriate behavior, then they must accept responsibility for what befalls them.
With the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Hannah Graham, students, administrators and faculty have all become increasingly worried about the relative safety of our Grounds and of the greater Charlottesville area. As reasonable a concern as this is — and as terrifying as Hannah’s disappearance has been — some have unfairly placed blame for a perceived unsafe environment on the University.
Students and members of the Charlottesville community gathered at the Rotunda Friday to rally against gender-based violence at the University and in the greater Charlottesville area.
With midterm elections a little more than a month away, the Senate campaigns of Democrat Mark Warner, Republican Ed Gillespie and Libertarian Robert Sarvis are in full swing.
New this semester, the Hoos Got Your Back campaign is working to improve bystander intervention for gender-based violence both on and off Grounds — and, with the help of Corner employees, its message is already being heard.
An air of solidarity and compassion filled the room as University student poets and singers shared their perspectives in the Voices For Empowerment open mic night Tuesday.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced his appointments to a task force Monday which will work to combat sexual violence on Virginia campuses. University Dean of Students Allen Groves and Emily Renda, a 2013 University graduate and project coordinator in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, are among 30 appointed members from throughout the commonwealth who will serve on the task force.
As a female student that frequents the Downtown Mall, I consider the disappearance of Hannah Graham to be particularly unnerving. I’ve spent this past week contemplating — as I am sure many women on Grounds have — how safe I am in Charlottesville. Honestly, I’m surprised at how little The Cavalier Daily has published on the subject of student safety in the areas of Charlottesville surrounding the University.
This past week has shaken our community to the core.
The United States has a number of frightening statistics. One in four Americans are obese; one in five Americans’ deaths are related to tobacco; one in four American children live below the poverty line; and the most frightening of all to a teenage girl — one in four American women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus. Because sexual assault is such a touchy subject, for many years this was information that was not publicly discussed and that girls were too embarrassed to admit. Things have changed, however, through a recent outburst of support for women speaking up for their rights. Social media such as Tumblr, Twitter and other various sites have become increasingly tolerant and supportive of women speaking out against the insecurity they felt throughout their time in college. Celebrities have even participated in the outcry for fair treatment of women across the United States. It has taken some time, but colleges all across the nation are beginning to follow suit.
Wesleyan University recently announced that all of its all-male residential fraternities must become co-ed within the next three years. The university’s president and the chairman of its Board of Trustees wrote an email to the student body saying “Our residential Greek organizations inspire loyalty, community, and independence. That’s why all our students should be eligible to join them.”