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(12/31/20 6:52am)
During the Fall 2020 semester, The Cavalier Daily conducted an internal demographics survey to better understand the composition of our student staff and the barriers to access within our newsroom. As the journalism industry continues to reckon with a lack of representation, we recognize that The Cavalier Daily must also be held accountable for the diversity of our newsroom.
(01/21/16 5:15am)
Student groups at the University have notoriously quick turnover rates. Most only have the same leadership for one year — something that promotes innovation and creativity yet diminishes institutional memory. Here at The Cavalier Daily, the 126th term is coming to a close, and the question of continuity — of preserving the progress we have made — matters deeply to us.
(12/08/15 5:10am)
2.7 million: The number of dollars the University is paying Mike London to leave.
(12/07/15 5:05am)
The Washington Post recently revealed that the University’s athletics department is operating at a loss. The department receives funding from the University operating budget, including mandatory student fees that add to $657 per student per year.
(12/03/15 5:10am)
Earlier this week, a Home Ride bus with students from U.Va., Radford and Virginia Tech overturned outside of Richmond, injuring 34 of its 50 passengers. While the incident may appear isolated for U.Va. students, transportation safety — especially for interstate buses — is important for students since they frequently take low-budget buses. Inadequate regulation can cost lives.
(12/01/15 5:05am)
Head football coach Mike London resigned Sunday following Virginia’s 23-20 loss to Virginia Tech. His team went 15-33 over the past four seasons. Overall, London’s six season tenure was disappointing despite the fact that in 2011 he took the Cavaliers to the Chick-fil-A bowl and won ACC coach of the year. Now, Virginia fans are left to wonder: What’s next for our team?
(11/30/15 5:15am)
In the more than 50 years that the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, or CARS, has provided emergency medical transport and rescue services to local residents, the agency has not billed passengers for ambulance rides. This characteristic has distinguished our area's rescue squad — which is among the busiest in the nation with almost 8,000 yearly responses — from other agencies around the nation, including Albemarle County Fire and Rescue, which bills patients outside of the city.
(11/24/15 5:05am)
Protests on college campuses pertaining to race issues continue to make headlines. Most recently, a student group called the Black Justice League at Princeton University is demanding that the school acknowledge the segregationist and racist beliefs of a prized alumnus, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. After staging a walkout with about 200 students, about 15 students occupied the office of Princeton’s president. Among other requests, the group is asking that Wilson’s name be expunged from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs — Princeton’s public policy school — as well as a residential college.
(11/23/15 5:10am)
Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced last week that he would not seek to block the entry of Syrian refugees into Virginia, responding to calls from Republicans to prevent their entry following recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
(11/19/15 5:15am)
Today marks the one-year anniversary of “A Rape on Campus,” the now-debunked article by Sabrina Rubin Erdely claiming several members of Phi Kappa Psi gang raped a woman named Jackie. The article generated continuing discussion pertaining to sexual assault on Grounds, with the issue of low reporting rates remaining a focal point. Per a recent Association of American Universities study of 27 schools, about one in four female undergraduates at the University said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college. A majority of those students said that they did not report instances of sexual assault to school officials or support services.
(11/17/15 5:05am)
Forty-seven colleges and universities have announced test-optional policies for college admissions, bringing the total to more than 850, according to The New York Times. These include schools in Virginia; Virginia Commonwealth University recently became the fifth Virginia public school to adopt a test-optional approach. At some test-optional schools, if applicants don’t submit test scores they are required to submit additional written materials.
(11/16/15 5:10am)
Last year, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign revoked a job offer to Prof. Steven Salaita after he posted a string of anti-Israel comments on social media. Last week, the school and Salaita reached a settlement of $600,000 in exchange for the professor dropping two lawsuits against the university and agreeing he will never work there, according to the Chicago Tribune.
(11/12/15 5:44am)
Earlier this week, we commented on the ongoing events at Yale University and the University of Missouri, where students have protested administrators for their handling of race-related issues. At Missouri, President Timothy Wolfe stepped down Monday in the face of pushback against his response to a series of alleged racist incidents. In the midst of important discussions regarding race on Missouri’s campus, a new topic has come into the fold: press freedom.
(11/10/15 5:10am)
Yale University and the University of Missouri are seeing widespread protests over how their schools handle race-related issues. At Yale, Erika Christakis, associate master of a residential college, wrote an email responding to several administrators’ request for students to refrain from wearing Halloween costumes that appropriate other cultures. Following that, the school’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity allegedly turned women of color away from a party, claiming the event was for “white girls only.” At Missouri, President Timothy Wolfe resigned Monday after significant pushback against his response to a series of alleged racist incidents, including complaints of racial slurs against black students.
(11/09/15 5:15am)
As part of University President Teresa Sullivan’s Total Advising initiative (a part of her five-year Cornerstone Plan), the University will create a new advising center on the second floor of Clemons Library, which is scheduled for completion in January 2017.
(11/05/15 5:30am)
The Washington Post on Tuesday revealed the University and state officials attempted to influence the conclusions of a federal investigation into sexual violence at U.Va. According to the Post, Gov. Terry McAuliffe urged Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to allow the University to review the findings of the Education Department’s investigation before their release, while Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine followed up with a letter repeating McAuliffe’s request. University President Teresa Sullivan also wrote to the department following the release of the Office for Civil Rights’ initial 39-page report to U.Va. administrators. Her letter questioned the accuracy of the initial report, after which point a 26-page report was released to the public in September.
(11/03/15 5:45am)
While liberal arts degrees have inherent value for many students, they are not proving particularly useful for all who hold a bachelor of arts degree. Some students are discovering that, in order to gain employment, they need to supplement their BA with a skills-based education. According to U.S. News & World Report, one out of every 14 community college attendees has already earned a BA — and at some community colleges, this number is as high as one in five students.
(11/02/15 5:10am)
Last month, Carmen Fariña, schools chancellor for New York City, announced the city will begin offering the SAT for free to all public school juniors. The change, which will take effect in the spring of the 2016-17 school year, is intended to increase the number of students taking college entrance exams. According to The New York Times, Kentucky, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Connecticut have all implemented similar measures to ensure the same result.
(10/29/15 4:10am)
3 million: The number of dollars for which Martese Johnson is suing the Alcoholic Beverage Control, its director and the three agents involved in his arrest.
(10/27/15 5:40am)
One of the better University practices as it pertains to student safety is the requirement that resident advisors hold coverage. According to Emma Myers, a fourth-year College student and co-chair for first year areas for Housing and Residence Life, coverage constitutes a shift between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights during which time specific RAs are “on call” for issues that may arise for their residents.