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(11/25/14 6:06am)
Emanuel Brown, a contracted University employee, died in a men’s restroom in the basement of New Cabell Hall two weeks ago. If you’re like me, you probably missed this event — and there have been only two short mentions in this newspaper since. We certainly do not need the burden of another tragedy at this point in the semester, but Mr. Brown’s death — one quite literally at the center of our University — deserves more attention. In light of recent events, we confront the question: who is included in our University community, and why hasn’t Mr. Brown’s death been given more attention?
(11/11/14 5:33am)
Earlier this semester, this newspaper announced the University’s plans to renovate Alderman Library over the next several years. This initiative, estimated to cost $120 million, would be the library’s first major renovation since its founding in 1938. Amidst significant electrical, mechanical and architectural work, the library will reconsider the role of print and electronic media. As these renovation plans continue to take shape and move forward, it’s important for us to keep track of the core of any traditional library — the books.
(10/28/14 4:22am)
As I write, news is just breaking that New York City diagnosed its first (and hopefully only) case of Ebola. It’s a scary thought: in one of America’s most densely populated metropolitan centers, someone on the verge of becoming infectious roamed the city just last night.
(09/17/14 3:15am)
To promote last week’s National Suicide Prevention Week, the student mental health group To Write Love On Her Arms hosted State Senator Creigh Deeds last Monday.
(09/09/14 3:22am)
Last year, I argued that the University needs gender-neutral housing options. With about 140 other colleges — including George Washington University, New York University and the University of Maryland — offering such options, the University lags far behind others in these inclusive policies. It’s now one year later, and we still lack the option. The recent controversy over whether women’s colleges should admit male-to-female transgender applicants (people born into the male sex but who identify with the female gender) underscores the growing presence of transgender persons in college communities. We need to accommodate such University students, and a gender-neutral housing option is one of the best ways to do so.
(09/02/14 4:51am)
Watching Teresa Sullivan take the podium at Convocation on August 24, I expected the standard welcome to our incoming first year and transfer students: a few class statistics, some reflections on the special responsibility of attending the University and encouragement to find ways to serve the University and the surrounding community. I was surprised, then, when she began speaking about sexual assault.
(09/02/14 4:49am)
Watching Teresa Sullivan take the podium at Convocation on August 24, I expected the standard welcome to our incoming first year and transfer students: a few class statistics, some reflections on the special responsibility of attending the University and encouragement to find ways to serve the University and the surrounding community. I was surprised, then, when she began speaking about sexual assault.
(08/26/14 3:55am)
Last weekend, I was having dinner at the downtown mall when my waitress handed me a plate of food and said, “We’re all about to do the ice bucket challenge if you all want to watch me get drenched.” Call me out of touch with social media these past few weeks, but I had no idea what she meant. Suddenly, it seemed the phenomenon was everywhere. Walking by Monroe Hall yesterday, I saw my College deans spread in a line across the main entrance — buckets of water in hand, nervous laughter in the air, and iPhones held ready. I watched each of them succumb to the same icy fate.
(04/29/14 4:53am)
The University of Virginia Emergency Department, I have found, is an appropriate place to think about some of the most pressing issues in health care. Through my work as an ER scribe, I have been able to observe the relationship that undergirds much of health care: the connection (or lack thereof) between doctor and patient.
(04/08/14 4:39am)
If you are a University student, chances are you couldn’t help but notice the recent #WeAreAllUVa social media campaign. Inspired by the #ITooAmHarvard project at Harvard University, this campaign aims to challenge and extend how diversity is viewed by posting pictures of students as they share their opinions or personal experiences.
(04/02/14 5:55am)
Tennessee Governor William E. Haslam recently proposed a bold new policy: to provide two years of free community or technical college for all the state’s high-school graduates. A February 4 editorial expressed support for this policy and described the plan as a “step towards alleviating the cycle of poverty that low-income Americans face.” To take the argument a step further, I believe Tennessee’s progressive new education policy should represent a step towards a free public four-year college. There are several arguments — economic as well as ideological — for this “radical” policy.
(03/25/14 5:40am)
As Christopher Broom, public editor for this newspaper, noted in his article last month, columns before and after an event give readers a greater chance to participate. Last week, I wrote about an upcoming panel that would discuss mental health at the University, and why its interdisciplinary approach to the topic would prove so advantageous. In this column, I will focus on one particular idea of the panel — culturally-influenced mental illness — and discuss its importance in thinking about student mental health at the University.
(03/18/14 3:09am)
Discussing mental health, particularly its role in a community or culture, is difficult. Active Minds, the main student organization on Grounds dedicated to issues of mental well-being, is responding to this challenge with an interdisciplinary approach. On March 19 at 6PM in Monroe 124, the group will host a panel to discuss mental health at the University. The participants will include professors of biology, emergency medicine, clinical psychology and medical anthropology, as well as two deans and the director of the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Given the panel’s highly interdisciplinary nature, it is well suited to address this complex topic.
(03/04/14 5:56am)
As I watched a few clips from the closing ceremonies of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, I felt momentarily awed by the grandiose display. And then I felt a little sick. How much time, money and energy were spent on this display? This decadent ceremony was the culmination of a particularly controversial year of Olympics, and — with a price tag of over $51 billion — Sochi’s Games are by far the most expensive in history. Considered alongside Russia’s well-known (and ongoing) human rights violations and government corruption, it seems a great time to stop and wonder: Are the Olympics a tradition worth continuing?
(02/18/14 6:46am)
In Dean Meredith Woo’s recent “State of the College” address, she outlined the various challenges facing the College of Arts and Sciences. Halfway through her speech, she briefly commented on the relationship between faculty research and teaching. “Today there are too many obstacles that make it difficult for teachers to be teachers and scholars to be scholars,” she said. “The solution is restructuring the professoriate into different categories while still respecting teaching and research.”
(02/11/14 5:58am)
Examining the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) always proves to be a learning process. It’s an enormous, complex law, made more complicated by the emotionally charged, often misinformed debates which surround it. Yet for all the associated fear and confusion, the ACA could expand coverage to nearly 1 million nonelderly Virginians. As an emergency room employee who sees many uninsured, uninformed patients flounder in our healthcare system, I adopt a relatively apolitical viewpoint: if the public is to benefit from the ACA’s positive effects, education must play a crucial role in the rollout. And the Virginia government has a responsibility to lead this effort.
(02/04/14 5:56am)
Recently, The Cavalier Daily published an editorial discussing President Obama’s task force on college sexual assault, which he announced almost two weeks ago. The editorial argues that in order to address the roots of sexual misconduct, we need to focus on its complex causes, not just the appropriate methods of response. While the editorial offers a fair critique of the task force’s strengths and limitations, I suggest the solution is nearer to us than the managing board suspects. The University’s upcoming national conference on sexual misconduct exemplifies a new standard of dialogue on this complex issue.
(01/28/14 5:34am)
The University student group Legislators of Tomorrow has received some publicity lately for drafting a bill concerning mental health education at Virginia’s public colleges. The measure proposes the creation of a mandatory online module that would educate and test incoming students on mental health issues. It would also require each college to maintain a website that directs students to the institution’s mental health resources. House Bill 206 is receiving acclaim as a “bipartisan” solution and has the support of notable democrats and republicans in the Virginia legislature. Though the bill pushes college policy in a helpful direction, its meek provisions are out-of-touch given the changing politics of mental health.
(01/21/14 3:45am)
We are all familiar with Martin Luther King Jr.’s status as a national hero. With a federal holiday commemorating his birthday and celebrations each year praising his vision, King is as much a secular saint as any in our nation’s history. For many, he is inseparable from his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he dramatically calls for an end to racism in the United States. Simple and unthreatening, the phrase “I have a dream” has come to represent King’s thoroughly uncontroversial public legacy: the inspirational African American who peacefully led the charge against the evils of racism.
(01/14/14 4:04am)
A new year begins, and Karl Marx remains a relevant albeit controversial figure. Though “Marxist” is often used as a slur in our current political climate, his work offers a fresh perspective on history and economics, as well as a useful analytical tool for digesting current events. And thanks to a new generation of young leftist thinkers, Marx is getting a makeover.