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(04/17/17 5:45am)
My grandparents were expert storytellers. I must have heard some of their anecdotes thousands of times and even now I still want to hear them over again. Part of this was because they knew how to capture an audience, how to make you feel like you had lived the moments they were describing with them. And part of it was because their stories were inherently interesting; they lived through nearly 100 years of world history and naturally had a lot to say.
(11/02/16 7:58am)
“We only conclude — Mrs. Khan and I — that we were blessed to have him for 27 years,” Khizr Khan said of his son, late Army Capt. Humayun Khan, in an interview with The Cavalier Daily.
(10/07/16 11:15pm)
Douglas Muir, an executive lecturer in the Engineering School and the Darden School who recently commented on Facebook that the Black Lives Matter movement “is the biggest rasist organisation [sic] since the clan [sic],” has “agreed to take leave” from the Engineering School, according to a letter from Engineering Dean Craig H. Benson and Engineering associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion John Gates.
(10/07/16 2:43am)
Douglas Muir, an executive lecturer in the Engineering School and the Darden School, as well as the owner of the restaurant Bella’s, compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan in a recent Facebook post.
(10/01/16 7:45am)
This is a developing story and will continue to be updated with the latest information available.
(09/13/16 4:01am)
The University of Virginia was named the No. 2 public university in the country — up one spot from last year’s No. 3 ranking — in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 college rankings. Last month, Business Insider ranked the University the top public university in the nation, while the Princeton Review named the University among its 381 best colleges in a list that does not rank colleges numerically.
(03/22/16 7:43am)
Third-year Commerce student Otto Warmbier was detained by the North Korean government Jan. 2 for stealing a banner featuring propaganda promoting former leader Kim Jong-il at the Yanggakdo International Hotel. He was sentenced to 15 years of “hard labor” March 16, similar to many other American detainees in North Korea, who were all subsequently released.
(03/02/16 9:02pm)
Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. pleaded guilty to the murders of University student Hannah Graham and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington at the Albemarle Circuit County Court Wednesday. He was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences.
(02/29/16 7:54am)
Third-year Commerce student Otto Warmbier’s family released a statement regarding Warmbier’s confession to a “hostile act” against the North Korean government Sunday.
(08/27/15 4:05am)
Jesse Matthew’s jury trial for murder charges against second-year College student Hannah Graham has been set for July 5, 2016 — just under a full year from now. For some, his trial, should he be found guilty, may serve as a form of closure: the removal of a serial offender from our streets, while it cannot bring Hannah back, will protect other potential victims. But though this trial seeks to answer questions, it brings up even more, because in this case the prosecution has decided to seek the death penalty — a possible result we should not support.
(01/26/15 6:20am)
At the start of this semester, all University fraternities agreed to a new Fraternal Organization Agreement enhancing safety measures and creating other changes (though, notably, two fraternities signed “reluctantly” given a threat of suspension). Following the Rolling Stone fiasco and the conclusion that the gang rape alleged in that article did not occur at Phi Kappa Psi, Greek organizations and even my fellow columnist Nate Menninger are suggesting the administration treated fraternities unfairly by suspending them last semester — and by requiring new FOAs now.
(01/20/15 5:32am)
I suspect most of us at the University undergo routine medical procedures without much thought. In my household, vaccines have always been an expectation. But in our secular society, there are times when medicinal practices and religious values conflict. These moments are rare and often extreme, but they present difficult questions.
(01/12/15 5:14am)
During our much-needed break, new legislation passed around the country in time for the new year. In Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation that will implement a drug-testing program for adult welfare recipients suspected of drug use.
(12/01/14 5:09am)
In 1987, the University’s Task Force on Afro-American Affairs issued a report called “An Audacious Faith.” Among many issues, the report noted a need to improve the then-Afro-American Studies program; the need to hire more black faculty; the need for a better allocation of resources to the Office of African-American Affairs (OAAA); and a need to improve relations between the University and the black community in Charlottesville. In 2007, University students and organizations compiled “An Audacious Faith II.” The issues in the first report and second differ very little, and now, in 2014, those issues seem highly relevant still. Taken together, the lack of administrative response to these ongoing issues is problematic.
(11/25/14 6:02am)
A common way to entice talented students to come to a university is to offer them an honors program, and with that several benefits. In the case of the University, which calls its honors college students Echols Scholars (other honors groups exist as well, such as Rodman Scholars for the Engineering School), such benefits include early class registration, no core requirements and a first-year, honors-only living community. While taken together these benefits may prove to be a good admissions strategy, the existence of an honors-only dorm can have negative effects on all University students.
(11/20/14 6:30am)
Rolling Stone’s recent article about sexual assault at the University has already invoked a wide range of emotions from the student body. For some, the piece is an unfounded attack on our school; for others, it is a recognition of a harsh reality; and for what I suspect is a large majority of us, it falls somewhere in between. It is now our task as students to determine how to respond to that article — not to the magazine, but within our own community.
(11/10/14 6:39am)
Last week, we experienced the joy of voting and, for many of us, complete depression at the results of those votes. Tuesday was certainly a sad day to be a Democrat.
(11/03/14 6:07am)
As part of an ongoing renovation project, Housing and Residence Life will erect a new building — currently called “Building 6” — in the Alderman Road residence area. The building will serve as a first-year student dorm and should be completed by this summer. However, one element of the building’s completion that has not yet been determined is what the building will be named.
(10/27/14 4:48am)
California recently enacted a “Yes Means Yes” law, creating an affirmative consent standard at state-funded colleges and universities. With this standard, sexual partners must verbally give their consent to sexual activity; anything less is sexual assault. While this policy may offer better boundaries for what qualifies as sexual assault — and those boundaries can at times be unclear — it does so at significant costs.
(10/06/14 5:09am)
Violent action between international states seems to permeate our news: war, use of military force, terrorism and international conflicts are constant occurrences. With this in mind, it is increasingly difficult to understand why Japan, a country that has had a peaceful existence post-World War II, is now poised to build an aggressive army.