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(04/28/24 1:55am)
Did you know that, according to the Americans with Disabilities Act, public universities are not required to make existing facilities accessible for individuals with disabilities? It is unsurprising, then, but also exceptionally disappointing that the University is concerningly inaccessible — the lay-out of certain dorms and paths to class engender a culture of ableism. Most able-bodied students are not affected by these challenges because these inaccessible structures do not actively impede their daily lives. However, disabled students are deeply and continually affected by this caveat in the ADA. By limiting students with disabilities' access to the entirety of Grounds, the University limits access to the student experience on Grounds. In the absence of comprehensive legislation, the University must take responsibility for the inaccessibility of Grounds and work to promote accessibility for all students despite misguided laws.
(03/14/24 7:16pm)
For years on end, graduate student workers at the University have long protested serious delays in the reception of their stipends. The United Campus Workers of Virginia, a local chapter of a union which represents higher education workers, regularly advocates for wage and stipend raises. But at our University, this union has not been able to advocate for raises because the more pressing problem is the all too-frequent absence of stipends. Stipend checks received weeks late and thousands of dollars short are particularly unacceptable for a university that regularly boasts about its financial accessibility. In this way, such systemic problems at the graduate level undermine the institution’s proclaimed support for diverse financial backgrounds. The University must restoratively respond to these failures, locating tangible solutions to a system that continues to mistreat and undervalue the graduate student community.
(03/25/24 1:32am)
Virginia remains an island amid treacherous seas — the only Southern state to not patently restrict access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Our neighbor to the South, North Carolina has blocked abortion access after 12 weeks’ gestation. Our neighbors to the west, Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky have all passed total bans to abortion at any stage of pregnancy. These states only encompass a fraction of all national abortion bans — it is estimated that 2 in 5 women in the United States now live in a state that restricts or bans their access to reproductive healthcare. Since Virginia inhabits a unique role as the only state in the Appalachian region to not restrict or ban abortion access, it is imperative that our legislators take action to enshrine and protect abortion rights — not only for the good of Virginians, but also for residents of states surrounding us.
(01/25/24 8:31pm)
The hecticness of post-holiday travel often forces one to reflect on transportation. This January, many University students, especially those who live in NOVA, took a train to return to Grounds. However, for students from Southeastern Virginia, driving is by far the preferable option. Currently, the only train route from Southeastern Virginia to Charlottesville necessitates a stop in Washington D.C. and takes at least eight hours to reach Grounds. This circuitous route is cumbersome and costly. Nevertheless, hope for a quicker train ride should not be lost — the Commonwealth Corridor project, overseen by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, is underway and will eventually expand existing train infrastructure with an east-west Amtrak route. Virginians should applaud this new project, recognizing the work done by policymakers to ensure greater transit equity and to improve Virginia’s overall train infrastructure.
(12/10/23 3:03am)
It’s official — Virginia State University will set the stage for the second general presidential debate in 2024. This choice sets a new precedent for political history at large. Never before has a Historically Black College or University hosted such an event — past debates have been held at a variety of predominantly white universities, and some have been held at conference halls. We should applaud the Commission on Presidential Debates for taking this first step toward adequate representation of HBCUs. Nevertheless, this is a largely symbolic step that begets a thousand more actionable ones from the candidates that will be present on that debate stage.
(11/19/23 1:00pm)
It will be exactly one decade Nov. 19 since Creigh Deeds, Charlottesville’s state senator, lost his son Gus Deeds to suicide. Gus Deeds was a victim of a critically overcrowded and underfunded health system, and his suicide was a shocking and tragic event that impelled significant and novel legislative changes to the Commonwealth’s mental health policies. For example, Senate Bill 260, spearheaded by Creigh Deeds, guaranteed that Virginians admitted to hospitals under temporary detention orders have the right to receive timely psychiatric consultation, even if the hospitals are at capacity. This was an exceptionally important bill. However, today, Virginia still remains severely behind other states in regards to the quality of mental health care provided to residents — 34th in the country for access to care and, more disturbingly, 48th in the prevalence of mental illness in young people. On the surface, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new Right Help Right Now plan — which laudably invests in community-based health initiatives — has the potential to serve as a salient solution to this ongoing crisis. Youngkin’s failure to legislate with an eye towards equity, however, only worsens Virginia’s mental health crisis for the marginalized communities who are most in need of the assistance offered by this plan.
(10/31/23 3:06am)
We are days away from one of Virginia’s most crucial elections of the year. No, it’s not for president, nor for governor — in less than two weeks, Albemarle County and Charlottesville will vote on the members of the local school board. Unfortunately, voters do not tend to view these elections as important — only 5 to 10 percent of Americans even show up for school board elections, compromising the degree of voter input in these crucial elections.