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(02/29/16 8:06am)
Last week, students voted on an amendment to the Honor Committee’s constitution which contained two options concerning the single sanction system. A majority of voters supported the second option, which would allow the committee to “impose lesser sanctions” on students who commit honor offenses. However, the Honor Committee requires a 60 percent supermajority for an amendment to pass, and just under 59 percent of students voted for Option 2. Although the constitutional change will not be put into effect, the fact that a majority of students supported this change suggests committee representatives should continue to closely examine the possibility of a multiple sanction system.
(02/25/16 5:54am)
The president of California State University, Los Angeles recently cancelled an event on campus called “When Diversity Becomes a Problem,” at which conservative author and political commentator Ben Shapiro was, quite ironically, scheduled to speak about freedom of speech at colleges. In particular, Shapiro intended to argue that trigger warnings, diversity, microaggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, safe spaces and the #ConcernedStudent1950 hashtag are threats to free expression on campuses.
(02/23/16 5:24am)
Amid growing national concerns about police misconduct, the Virginia Senate passed a bill which “provides that the names and training records of law-enforcement officers… shall be considered personnel records and excluded from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act,” or FOIA. In particular, the bill would exempt police departments from open records requests about officer names, positions and other “personal identifying information.” This bill, passed Monday, will now move to the House of Delegates for further consideration. In order to prevent police corruption and keep law enforcement transparent, the House should not pass the bill.
(02/22/16 6:02am)
The University Board of Elections, or UBE, has the logistical responsibility to set the elections calendar each semester and to maintain the online voting system — tasks that are critical to ensuring student elections run smoothly. This year, by releasing multiple inaccurate candidate lists and doing so after the start of campaigning, UBE faltered in adequately facilitating elections.
(02/18/16 5:21am)
The editorial board endorses third-year students Katie Deal, Chad Hogan, VJ Jenkins, Matt West and Sarah Wyckoff as College representatives to the Honor Committee. Hogan, Jenkins, West and Wyckoff each expressed support for Option 1 of the upcoming amendment to the Honor Committee constitution, which would essentially preserve the single sanction. Deal was unique in her support of Option 2, which would allow for the possibility of a multi-sanction system by granting the committee the power to “impose lesser sanctions.” The endorsed candidates were able to defend their stances on the amendments that will appear on the ballot.
(02/16/16 5:08am)
We have decided to endorse third-year College student Mason Brannon and third-year College student Mitch Wellman as UJC College representatives.
(02/15/16 6:55am)
After careful consideration, we have decided to endorse third-year Batten student Emily Lodge for Student Council president. We were impressed by her past experience as the Vice President for Organizations, a role in which she committed significant time to building relationships with CIOs around Grounds. In this position, she has developed a keen sensitivity to and understanding of the wide variety of student concerns in the University community. She has a vision for the direction of Student Council — one guided by her background in creating connections with student groups — that will best ensure its future as an organization responsive to constituents’ concerns.
(02/11/16 6:18am)
This spring, students will vote on two amendments to the Honor Committee’s constitution. One of them pertains to the single sanction and contains two options, one which affirms the single sanction and another which grants the committee the power to “impose lesser sanctions,” allowing for the establishment of a multiple sanction system. Although we as an editorial board are divided in our views of the single sanction, we share the belief that Option 2, which would allow for the possibility of such a system, is the right choice for students.
(02/09/16 5:46am)
In recent years, the University has introduced several initiatives to make the academical village more accessible to its students. Renovations to the Rotunda will increase the role it plays in student life, with increased study space that will hopefully make it a building students enter rather than just walk past. The Lawn selection process has also changed with the intention of making the Lawn community more representative of the student population, with a new calibration committee that will ensure selections reflect the broader University. Given that the University has sought ways to make the academical village more accessible to students, the administration should offer the ground floors of pavilions as general student space that will draw more students to the Lawn.
(02/08/16 5:05am)
To better assess the performance of our professors, the University should revamp course evaluations. As voluntary, typically anonymous forms, course evaluations do not adequately assist professors with teaching improvement. In order to better its system of pedagogical evaluations, the University should consider implementing compulsory, non-anonymous course evaluation forms complemented by peer review from other professors each semester.
(02/04/16 5:12am)
In the latest misguided attempt to grapple with the campus sexual assault crisis, lawmakers are pushing to arm women on college campuses. State Del. Nicholas Freitas (R-Culpeper) recently sponsored House Bill 761, a piece of legislation which “prohibits public institutions of higher education from adopting or enforcing any rules prohibiting a female who possess [sic] a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit from carrying a concealed handgun on campus.” The bill comes amid several other Republican proposals to support gun ownership in Virginia, including a bill which would allow faculty members to carry guns on college campuses with a concealed weapons permit.
(02/02/16 5:01am)
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, or CARS, is among the busiest rescue squads in the nation with nearly 8,000 yearly responses. Due to lack of sufficient space, the agency submitted a building modification request to Charlottesville’s Board of Zoning Appeals last May. Although the board granted some of the requested changes — even those that required exceptions to zoning laws — it did not grant the total amount of requested space. Despite the rescue squad’s location in a residentially zoned area intended primarily for single-family use, the city should approve the agency’s building modifications as requested in order to support the growing base of volunteers and available emergency vehicles. The number of CARS volunteers has doubled to approximately 200 in recent years, according to CARS Chief Dayton Haugh.
(02/01/16 5:10am)
The academic program of Women, Gender and Sexuality studies has made progress in pursuit of achieving department status at the University. Executive Vice President and Provost Thomas Katsouleas recently approved a proposal to offer this academic designation to WGS. Some institutions have already departmentalized their gender studies programs, such as the University of California-Berkeley and Washington University in St. Louis; however, many peer institutions have not. This provides the University with a unique opportunity to be a leader in the legitimization of this academic discipline.
(01/28/16 5:23am)
Earlier this month Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam announced Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s proposed program to provide women who have little or no health insurance with free, long-lasting birth control. Under the proposal, a $9 million federal grant would cover intrauterine devices, or IUDs, and skin implants.
(01/26/16 5:05am)
The University recently announced a hoverboard ban on Grounds. Safety professionals at the University created the policy “to protect the University community from the individual safety and fire hazards associated with these devices,” per University Spokesperson Matthew Charles.
(01/25/16 5:05am)
The 127th term of The Cavalier Daily ushers in new faces and new roles for our staffers. You may notice that this editorial is different from previous editorials in that it is published by an editorial board rather than the managing board. Last semester, our staff elected to establish an editorial board in an effort to further distinguish our objective coverage from our subjective content. Our hope is that the paper’s 127th term will be characterized by stricter separation between the objective and the subjective within The Cavalier Daily’s product.