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(11/24/14 6:15am)
One thing is certain at the University of Virginia: the more things change, the more they stay the same. In the aftermath of the Rolling Stone Magazine article detailing the pervasiveness of sexual assault at the University, administrators have issued communications claiming “contradictions between the U.Va. portrayed in the article and the U.Va. that we know.”
(10/14/10 5:45am)
I was not surprised to hear that the Honor Committee is considering abolishing all-student juries ("Honor may rid of student juries," Oct. 4). After all, the Committee, its deep-pocketed endowment and the Purple Shadows have been using undemocratic means to wrest democratic power from the student body for years - from the endowment's financial support of pro-single sanction campaigns to the internalized power structure that always seems to elect a likeminded leadership. But the proposal to abolish all-student juries takes the cake for honor power grabs.
(04/07/08 4:00am)
FREEDOM of expression has played an important role throughout my University career and throughout those of my peers, and Juicy Campus now gives many more students the same opportunity we have had. Future generations no longer have to go to the trouble to plan an open forum to express their views; they will have one at their fingertips. Although I do not applaud the site, nor do I respect the members of the community that submit to it topics for discussion, I appreciate its presence. The site provides a forum that has long been missing on Grounds -- a forum that reveals the inner-voice of the average student.
(02/05/08 5:00am)
THE CALLS for "change" in the national political arena are so numerous that the word has lost virtually all meaning. Closer to home where tradition is the standard rallying cry it will serve us well to probe the connection between change and the tradition of "student self-governance": a tradition that, like "change," has become almost entirely bereft of meaning.
(04/23/07 4:00am)
AS ACTIVE proponents of education about historical inequities at the University, we have not come to the decision lightly to critique De-stereotype Day and Sustained Dialogue. We greatly support the effort of Sustained Dialogue to engage students in dialogue about race; however, we believe this dialogue has been gravely misappropriated.
(03/13/07 4:00am)
WASHINGTON POST columnist David Ignatius recently dubbed America a "Higher-Ed Superpower." In his column last week he cited the "education power" America possesses and has gained from the efforts of universities to internationalize. He envisions American higher education as an imperialistic beacon of world domination. But should our goal be to educate the world or to learn from it? Will we grasp a firm understanding of anti-Americanism abroad if we fail to appreciate the cultural constructs in which it is fomented? As long as we view our education system as superior to others we perpetuate a 19th century paradigm and will never discover the merits the rest of the world offers.
(10/03/06 4:00am)
The University is a haven for scholars, with a library system featuring thousands of books from around the globe and international students galore. The admissions office turns away hoards of students every year who yearn to be a part of the global community that is the University. But there's a glaring problem: we have the books in our libraries and the brilliant minds lusting to solve problems global in scope, but we don't have a curriculum that fully utilizes either.
(09/02/05 4:00am)
Iam no Ponce de Leon, but I think our time for revitalization has come. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
(08/26/05 4:00am)
You might question "What kind of perverted creep would write this column?" And rightly so. That's how you've been conditioned to think in America. In this country, the entertainment industry has taught us certain racial stereotypes, but our collective psyche is conflicted because it has been raised to believe that such racial stereotyping is offensive.
(04/29/05 4:00am)
After finals end, you're probably going to party for the following week without sleep. After that week of booze, sandy feet and agape ends, my one piece of advice to you is to re-regulate your body clocks. U.Va. students may be the fittest in the nation, but that doesn't protect those Lacoste shirts from the swelling stomach of sleepless nights.
(04/15/05 4:00am)
Years of treading on the Earth's surface beneath our feet has led the human race to take for granted the power that our rock holds. It is this disregard for the power of rocks that has caused a void in the study of extraterrestrial rocks approaching Earth, even though it is inevitable that the Earth will be transformed if another rock hurtles toward it.
(04/08/05 4:00am)
Some nights I fall asleep dreaming of the day when a piece of 70-million-year-old vasculature will arrive at my doorstep to allow me to clone my pet dinosaur. This same dream was realized by a group of paleontologists two weeks ago, although it arrived far from their doorstep. While scientists still remain skeptical about the development of an actual Jurassic Park, the discovery of a Tyrannosauraus rex beneath 1,000 cubic yards of sandstone along the Missouri River in northeastern Montana has brought cause for great "cell-ebration" in many realms of the scientific community.
(03/25/05 5:00am)
We are entering an age of introspection that requires all scientists to ponder, "Am I tomorrow's scrap metal? Will I be replaced by my creations? Is my university degree in quantum theory pointless?"
(03/18/05 5:00am)
Four months ago, the wild horses of the American West were doomed to a deadly fate from which it is unlikely that they will be rescued. In December 2004, Senator Conrad Burns (R-Montana) sneakily attached a rider to the 4,000-page Federal Consolidated Appropriations Bill, eviscerating years of federal protection for America's wild horses. Burns opened the backdoor for thousands of these horses to be sold for slaughter with the goal of freeing Western lands for uninhibited cattle grazing. An even greater cause for concern is that an appropriation bill could change, without debate and full public disclosure, the 33-year-old Wild Free-Roaming Horse & Burro Act of 1971 that had protected against such killings.