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(04/15/11 5:36am)
TODAY, as we inaugurate our first female president, we can be proud of the progress this university has made toward overcoming its history of exclusion. However, as much as things have changed, the date April 15 also should remind us that some calls for justice have gone unanswered for far too long.
(02/24/11 6:36am)
O UR students, administrators, peer institutions and community all agree that paying workers a living wage is the right thing to do. Last time the issue was up for a referendum, 77 percent of the University student body supported a living wage. President Teresa A. Sullivan, a published labor sociologist, has written, "Being paid a living wage for one's work is a necessary condition for self-actualization." Nearly every other top-25 school in the country - as well as the London School of Economics - pays a living wage. The Charlottesville City Council unanimously passed a resolution urging the University to do the same. The painfully sharp disconnect between the undeniable mandate of the stakeholders and actual University policy is deeply unsettling.
(10/18/10 6:04am)
Irresponsible, filthy, obsolete, negligent, short-sighted - probably not words we would want to use to describe ourselves. We nevertheless insist on running our lives on a power source that is all of the above. Coal is born into the world of energy-production by the unholy act of mountaintop removal - the utter demolition of mountains to extract the coal within. At the point of combustion, emission of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide exacerbates acid rain which defaces local structures, aggravates asthma and spoils the water supply. Burning coal poisons the entire planet by emitting greenhouse gases and hydrocarbons that have cataclysmic cumulative global effects.