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3: Cavalier victories in the ACC
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3: Cavalier victories in the ACC
To apply or not to apply: Unfortunately for many students considering applying to live on the Lawn, that is not the only question. Where will you live if you're rejected? If you're accepted, what will you do with the lease you already signed? Should you sign a lease anyway, or wait to hear from the committee? Every year these questions haunt hundreds of students for whom the Lawn represents yet another plunge into application purgatory. Moving the Lawn selection process earlier to coincide with other on-Grounds housing applications could help alleviate many of these problems.
College should be a time when you can make mistakes without beingelectrocuted. While University Police consider equipping officerswith tasers, most students are still watching the YouTube video of a University of Florida student writhing in agony as police send 50,000 volts of electricity through his body, eliciting bloodcurdling shrieks and the now-infamous plea, "Don't tase me, bro!" The recent rise in tasings at university campuses should give pause to proponents who say that tasers fill a critical gap in law enforcement capability.
When it comes to soccer fans, I like mine loud and scarved. A shot of European aggression never hurts either.
If one common thought united the president of Columbia Universityand the president of Iran yesterday, it was that they both belongedon the same stage. Before an audience ranging from students to journalists to community leaders, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad answered hostile questions and delivered one of the most controversial speeches of this year. And despite the cries of angry protesters and the threats of Jewish leaders, it was a speech that needed to be delivered. By inviting and allowing Ahmadinejad to speak, Columbia reaffirmed the role of the university as the guardian not only of freedom of speech, but of the freedom to listen.
The winningest volleyball coach at Virginia, Melissa Aldrich Shelton, has led the team to its only two NCAA Tournament appearances, 1998 and 1999, and a 23-8 record in 2006. Last season, Shelton led Virginia to a second-place ACC finish with 16 league victories, the most in program history. The Cavalier Daily talkedwith Shelton to discuss the highlights and challenges of her time with the Cavaliers.
If professors spent as much time on course descriptions as they do on the blurbs adorning their published research, students would be much better off. Many classes listed in the online Course Offering Directory feature no course description at all, and many of those that attempt to provide a description only manage one or two terse sentences that tell the student nothing about the content of the course. Considering the effort most professors dedicate to planning a course, informative, detailed descriptions are not too much to ask.
Contracted Independent Organizations should not need to spend the bulk of their annual budgets on advertising. To help alleviate the burden, a new partnership between Student Council and The Cavalier Daily will benefit the University community and CIOs, which as of last Monday will enjoy discounted advertising rates.
Field Hockey: Cavaliers repeat "Boston Massacre"
The Virginia State Board of Elections is reviewing recent voter-registration applications because of confusion among applicants, some of whom mistakenly identified themselves as non-citizens.
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, chair of the University department of orthopaedic surgery, recently received the Commissioner's Healthcare Workforce Recognition Award from the Virginia Department of Health. Laurencin was one of five recipients of the award and was honored for his work with students of all academic levels.
In yesterday's article, "City defers $21M bond over Beta House concerns," the quote "ties to the past" was misattributed to Prof. Daniel Blustone. The quote was actually from an e-mail that Garth Anderson, vice-chair of the Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee, sent to the County Board.
Rarely is a decision by the University met with near universal praise. The decision to outsource student e-mail accounts to Google and Microsoft might be the exception. By the end of the semester the sluggish, problematic WebMail system will be a relic of the past, and University Information Technology and Communication will recover much needed resources -- a win-win situation for students and the University.
Remember when protesters used to chain themselves to buildings or trees they couldn't bear to see demolished? Something about Monday's City Council meeting, at which residents debated the Jefferson Scholars Foundation's potential plans to raze the aged Beta House, sapped all the excitement and danger out of the entire process. Nevertheless, despite community concerns that tearing down Beta House would deprive Charlottesville of a historical landmark, the Foundation purchased the house fairly and it ought to be able to demolish it.