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(11/19/10 7:02am)
"I have been involved in recent months with a national task force on low-income students, and there is little doubt that early admission programs put low-income students at a significant disadvantage in the process. This runs counter to our goal of increasing the diversity of our student body." - the late John Blackburn, former Dean of Undergraduate Admissions.
(04/28/10 5:32am)
In the weeks following the bias incident on the Corner, many students have gained some awareness of what happened. Surely thousands of us have received an e-mail of some sort, many have had informal discussions with fellow students, others have organized formal dialogues. Throughout the University community's processing of this bias incident, there has also been an undercurrent of backlash; some ask "why is this made to be such a big deal?" This event, along with every act of intolerance at the University, poses a serious threat to our community of trust. It is a big deal, and we must care about this event and others like it.
(02/26/10 5:13am)
I was confused to learn that the Honor Committee is discussing how to prevent students from talking about exams after they have taken them ("Honor reviews exam discussion policies," Feb. 22). The Committee is right to observe that this is a social norm at our University, and that most students don't intend to give unfair advantage by making comments about exams. However, there are other social norms the Committee chooses to totally ignore. Fake IDs, for instance. Presenting a fake ID is essentially claiming to be someone you are not - a lie - though these are trivial cases in the eyes of the Committee. I'm not suggesting that the Committee take up a crusade against fake IDs, but it's interesting to see which social norms they choose to go after and which ones they leave alone. Is it because most students feel personally wronged if others get a higher exam score (an uncontroversial topic), but some also feel that they have something to personally gain by using fake IDs (a controversial topic)?
(02/17/10 8:03am)
The editors of The Cavalier Daily have done a disservice to their readers, as well as their writers, by publishing such poor journalism as "June Bug" (Feb. 9) and "Love is Propaganda." I do not suggest that Cavalier Daily writers avoid controversial topics; however, recent writers have gone to press with ignorantly-written columns. With "June Bug," either the editors are equally as uninformed as their writer, or they read the prejudiced column and decided to run it for the sake of creating a controversy. A similar issue arose with "Love is Propaganda;" I struggle to follow the writer's logic, and by the time an analogy is made to Communist propaganda I am totally lost in empty rhetoric. In both of these cases, I question what Cavalier Daily editors were thinking - frankly, I doubt they believed their writers were making compelling arguments. Nonetheless, they went forward with printing, resulting in a swell of negative (at times virulent) feedback.
(02/26/08 5:00am)
LAST MARCH, our University officially decided not to sign the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), a multi-institutional agreement on issues of environmental sustainability and climate change. At the time, there were over a hundred signatories to the document, including private Ivy League schools and small Virginia schools, as well as other large public institutions.