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(01/24/14 4:06pm)
The turnover of management is an annual fact at The Cavalier Daily, but as the 124th staff finishes its work, I find them particularly worth taking stock of. Do you all realize what they’ve accomplished? If not, let me help.
(06/26/12 8:54pm)
Like all University alumni I know, I was very happy on Tuesday to see the Board of Visitors reinstate President Teresa Sullivan. The Board showed good sense in limiting the damage of a disastrous decision that it carried out for baffling reasons.
(03/20/07 4:00am)
David Shreve spent years listening to Lyndon Johnson.
(02/02/07 5:00am)
A FEW MONTHS ago, a respected professor approached me and asked me to tell him the main editorial advocacy of our Managing Board. This question caught me off guard. When I first took the reins of The Cavalier Daily, my task seemed so daunting that I only focused on getting an issue on stands every day. Then our Managing Board discovered financial and organizational problems that immediately threatened the existence of The Cavalier Daily. We shifted our focus.
(11/09/05 5:00am)
RICHMOND
(08/20/05 4:00am)
WHEN THE class of 2008 moved into first-year dorms just a year ago, things at the University were different. New students had their first taste of ice milk at the old O-Hill. Most of them had never even heard of thefacebook. And the administration was focusing on one important legislative priority -- the Charter -- which would give the University more autonomy in exchange for less state funding and would revolutionize our community's relationship with the Commonwealth.
(07/25/05 4:00am)
I PROBABLY should not have to tell anyone that things are usally more complicated than they at first seem, but that is a lesson students should learn during their first year the University of Virginia. To most entering first years, the University's concentrated marketing, corporate "branding" and neat presentation aimed at attracting prospective students create an image of an institution as prim as the University's own line of orange-and-blue neckties.
(04/27/05 4:00am)
THE VIRGINIA governor's race has been called the country's most-watched election this year. But now is it becoming clear just what those watchers are starting to see: gay-baiting.
(01/20/05 5:00am)
ONE OF the more interesting fallouts from the recent election season barely concerns President Bush or the ambitious second-term agenda that is dominating Washington's pockets of power. Predictably for the new century, it involves a few guys sitting at a computer.
(12/08/04 5:00am)
THE EXODUS continues from the Bush administration. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announced Nov. 30 that he would be leaving his post as America's top security official after a mediocre two years on the job. Indeed, the Department of Homeland Security has not progressed far from the bureaucratic tangle that it was when Ridge became its first secretary in January 2003.
(12/01/04 5:00am)
A STUDY released on Nov. 17 by researchers at Santa Clara University and Stockholm University reiterated what most in academia had long known: that the left dominates the professoriate. The study of 1,000 American professors showed that Democrats outnumber Republicans in every academic field, ranging from a 3-to-1 ratio in economics to a proportion of over 30-to-1 in anthropology. Past surveys that have measured "liberal" and "conservative" self-labels instead of party affiliation have shown similar results.
(11/18/04 5:00am)
AS I have written before, the University community is at a turning point where it must re-conceive its notion of a public institution. The University has suffered from state mismanagement in the past decade, so it is proper that the University seeks a new relationship with the state -- in the Chartered University Initiative -- so it is better equipped to follow its public mission and provide a high-quality education to its students. The idea of a chartered university
(11/03/04 5:00am)
ONE DAY after the election, the presidency still hangs in the balance -- kind of. Thanks to Ohio, the election results are not entirely certain yet, but a Bush win looks likely. But as we slog through this bitterly close election, we cannot forget the original possibility of this is due to one institution: the Electoral College.
(10/28/04 4:00am)
THE PUBLIC mission of the University is its most important guiding principle, and today it faces danger. Virginia's General Assembly has mismanaged the University and subjugated our mission to partisan goals, and due to the persistence of unfair districting, the University's differences with Richmond will endure for a long time to come. It is reasonable, therefore, for the University to seek a new relationship with the Commonwealth. The Chartered University Initiative is necessary for the University's future as a public-minded institution.
(10/14/04 4:00am)
IN THIS year's first presidential debate, television shots from behind his podium showed a boxy bulge on the back of President Bush. Since the broadcast on Sept. 28, bloggers have suggested that during the debate, aides were wiring responses to Bush from offstage. The Bush-Cheney campaign has denied the accusations, without specifying what had made the bulge.
(10/07/04 4:00am)
WHEN JOHN Adams said that the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived," he was not talking about the same institution that Dick Cheney inhabits today. The current vice president is one of the most influential players in the Bush White House and has served as the principal motor behind many of this administration's most poorly advised, secretive and cronyistic policies.
(09/30/04 4:00am)
LAST WEEK, the University Judiciary Committee tried pro-Tibet activist Rich Felker for two violations of the Standards of Conduct that stemmed from his April 5, 2004 protest of Chinese Ambassador Yang Jiechi, who was visiting the University. In Felker's UJC trial, the University saw well-managed procedures that indicate a balanced, working justice system.
(09/23/04 4:00am)
ON DEC. 16, 2003, George W. Bush told an interviewer that he doesn't read newspapers. Instead, he relies on his aides to digest the news for him. Aides who have departed his office describe how Bush distances himself from the mundane function of government and has little taste for details. In the same interview, the president himself said, "I'm confident in my management style. I'm willing to delegate. That makes it easier to be president." This is the only way that George W. Bush knows how to govern. While governor of Texas (as his former chief of staff describes), Bush's management was so hands-off that his average workday included an hour and a half in the afternoon to play computer solitaire and video golf.
(09/16/04 4:00am)
THROUGHOUT his term, Gov. Mark R. Warner has confronted educational policy with an innovative approach that says making a better future for society means creatively rethinking policy and then aiming it at emerging needs. While many governments merely react to the changing world, Warner has recognized that change is actually an opportunity for Virginia and the nation to get ahead of the pack by actively moving policy in a creative, forward-thinking direction. These ideas were the principal engines behind Warner's "Education for a Lifetime" policies.
(09/09/04 4:00am)
AT THE Republican National Convention last week, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani explained President George W. Bush's policy on terror. "President Bush decided that we could no longer be just on defense against global terrorism, we must also be on offense," he said. In contrast to Sen. John Kerry, who would use the military on a smaller scale, Giuliani made clear that the president was willing to go on the "offense" by launching expansive wars like the one in Iraq and scattershooting the fight at the terrorists.