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(10/30/20 10:31pm)
Before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Virginia Magazine published on its cover a story touting the $13.9 million renovation of Carr’s Hill, University President Jim Ryan’s residence on Grounds. Completed in 1909, the house is a veritable mansion, boasting 13,700 square feet, seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms. Before the pandemic, Ryan’s mansion was excessive. At a time when college is increasingly unaffordable, it is indefensible.
(09/25/20 10:18pm)
Twenty years ago, an article in The Cavalier Daily examined how Jefferson Scholars can profit from their time at the University. Between photos of Alumni Hall and a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the article described the phenomenon of Jefferson Scholars receiving multiple merit-based scholarships, which can together exceed the cost of being a student. In the article, Jefferson Scholars Foundation President James H. Wright shamelessly defended merit-based aid — “anybody should be allowed to compete.” But financial aid belongs with students who need it.
(09/04/20 4:28pm)
At the unveiling of the statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Rotunda, former University President Edwin Alderman praised sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel for being a “soldier of Lee” and heralded Jefferson for his “self-sacrifice.” Left unmentioned by President Alderman was slavery. Indeed, of the four men to speak at the statue’s 1910 unveiling, only one — Board of Visitors member Daniel Harmon — made even a passing reference to slavery, calling it “the thraldom of those ancient laws.”
(04/02/20 7:03pm)
The Honor Committee passed bylaw changes in 2018 allowing the Informed Retraction to cover multiple unrelated Honor offenses. According to then-Honor Chair Devin Rossin, it was “a huge expansion” of the right of reported students to file an IR, which allows students who admit guilt prior to a full investigation to remain at the University after a two-semester leave of absence.
(03/05/20 5:32am)
Since its founding in 1842, the Honor Committee has expelled hundreds of students. Those expelled for honor violations make up a small fraction of the University population, but the continued expulsion of students raises the question — why do honor convictions merit expulsion?
(02/17/20 8:07pm)
In 1970, amid student discontent with President Richard Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia, University President Edgar Shannon stood before the Lawn to rebuke American military policy in Southeast Asia, according to a March 1970 Cavalier Daily report. The speech followed earlier reluctance from Shannon to publicly condemn the administration, but it was nevertheless a moment of political courage — that month, Shannon came within one vote of dismissal by the Board of Visitors.
(09/11/19 11:57pm)
On “A Day in the Life,” the epic closing track on The Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” four tracks of a 42-piece orchestra combine for a crescendoing glissando, followed by a dramatic E-major chord from three overdubbed pianos. These are the kinds of effects that epitomize the album — the first since The Beatles stopped touring in 1966 — and the ones that resist live performance.
(06/21/19 9:56pm)
In February, producer Salaam Remi released his third collaboration with singer Amy Winehouse and rapper Nas, called “Find My Love.” Like the two previous collaborations between Remi, Nas and Winehouse — 2011’s “Like Smoke,” and “Cherry Wine,” (2012) — “Find My Love” combines recent vocals from Nas with archival vocals from Winehouse.
(04/26/19 8:38pm)
It took 46 years for two nights of performances by Aretha Franklin to earn a theatrical release. Director Sydney Pollack initially failed to sync audio to video, and by 2011 the footage faced legal turmoil. The music in the film — released in part on the 1972 album “Amazing Grace” — is familiar. The visuals — left unreleased in 1972 — are not. That Franklin still stuns is a testament to her genius.
(03/11/19 3:04am)
Six months before child molestation allegations ravaged his career, Michael Jackson sat in a theater at Neverland Ranch — his residence in Santa Barbara County, California — for an interview with Oprah Winfrey. The event, watched by an estimated 90 million people, was a fluffy promotional vehicle for the music video of “Give In to Me,” a song from Jackson’s eighth studio album, “Dangerous.”
(02/25/19 4:01am)
The Suffers’ sophomore album “Everything Here” — released July 13, 2018 — found the Houston-based band implementing spoken word segments and musical features for the first time. Once a band whose recordings translated seamlessly to live performance, The Suffers have now complicated live renditions of the album by embracing the accouterments of the recording studio — producers, a string section and a range of other collaborators.
(02/18/19 3:53am)
The previous album from Chaka Khan — 2007’s “Funk This” — found the singer reminiscing on the past, set to a mostly analog musical backing. Her new album “Hello Happiness” — released on Feb. 15 — inverts this formula, with little room for lyrical recollection but with music that recalls the synths of her acclaimed early work with producer Arif Mardin. On “Hello Happiness,” after a bout of prescription drug addiction, Khan shuns a personal past and embraces a musical one, in the title track saying an anodyne “goodbye” to silence and “hello” to the happiness of music. The album is an act of escapism from professional neglect and personal crisis — seeking a path to contemporary viability as Khan approaches her fifth decade as a recording artist.
(12/27/18 1:42pm)
In his 20 years as a recording artist, Rufus Wainwright has moved from pop singer-songwriter to operatist, critic of former President George W. Bush to critic of President Donald Trump and enfant terrible to self-proclaimed “tyrant.” Six years since the release of his last studio album as a singer-songwriter, “Out of the Game,” Wainwright finds himself at a transitional moment in his career, preparing for his next studio album following the premiere of his second opera, “Hadrian.” Amid these other projects, Wainwright, who has said he must tour to sustain himself financially, has embarked on a series of shows to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his 1998 debut.
(11/19/18 3:24am)
When Lil Peep died last year at the age of 21, he left behind a burgeoning musical legacy. At the vanguard of a generation of SoundCloud rappers, the rapper fused punk with hip-hop and lyrical vulnerability with a lo-fi aesthetic. Unlike his contemporaries, he took more inspiration from alternative than rap, more from Good Charlotte and Green Day than Biggie and 2Pac.
(10/31/18 1:39am)
It’s been eight years since Robyn released her last studio album, 2010’s “Body Talk.” The intervening period witnessed the profligacy of Miley Cyrus, the genre-hopping of Taylor Swift, the ascendance of The Weeknd and the global dominance of Adele. Ariana Grande, then a Nickelodeon star, is now a tabloid fixture; Lady Gaga, then an insurgent pop star, is now an Academy Award contender. The void Robyn left — sophisticated synth-pop — was never filled, although Gaga’s failed “ARTPOP” and Lorde’s underestimated “Melodrama” tried.
(10/25/18 12:38am)
When Yoko Ono first recorded “Warzone,” the first track from her new album of the same name, she painted a bleak picture — one where towns burn, throats choke, skin peels and bones melt. The only indication these lyrics referred to her own experience came with their inclusion in Ono’s 1994 autobiographical off-Broadway musical, “New York Rock.”