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(08/10/21 10:39pm)
I am so stubborn. I hate asking for help and I will exhaust every other option until I finally give in. This is a toxic trait of mine, and it is one that I am trying to fix. Recently, I took a big step in that journey by taking advantage of Career Center resources last semester. I truly wish I would have sought out their advice and help earlier, and I could not recommend the staff at the Career Center enough. They are so friendly and ready to assist with anything. Figuring out life at U.Va. can be scary, but the Career Center makes it much easier.
(01/07/21 5:53am)
Last semester, the University saw over 1,100 student COVID-19 cases and was forced to implement new restrictions. Several first-year dorms were put into temporary quarantine for testing and students began to think that U.Va. may send students home early before the end of the semester. By mid-October, the University had implemented saliva testing, allowing student testing capacity to be expanded greatly and soon after that thousands of students were being tested every week. The daily case count dropped dramatically and the University along with the Charlottesville-Albemarle area saw relatively low case numbers compared to the rest of Virginia and especially the rest of the nation.
(10/04/20 5:08am)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tragically passed away Sept. 18. After serving 27 years on the Supreme Court, her seat is open, giving President Donald Trump the opportunity to influence the court even further with his third nominee. Whoever his new nominee is would make six of the nine justices sitting on the Court Republican nominees, with one third of them being his own ultra-conservative justices. Not only will this potential nominee define the course of American politics for a generation, it directly violates a precedent set by Senate Republicans when they refused to hear or vote on President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court in 2016 — their reason being that it was only eight months before the general election. Now, it is less than two months before the 2020 election and Republicans are attempting to push through a nominee, directly contradicting their actions four years ago. So much power rests in the hands of the Supreme Court, and we cannot allow another bigoted Trump justice to fill the open seat.
(03/19/20 6:40am)
This past Tuesday, President Ryan sent out an email to the University community announcing that the University would move classes online for the rest of the semester and cancel Final Exercises as originally planned. While the safety measures are more than justified, canceling the graduation ceremony would take away the experience for students to walk across the Lawn and receive their diploma. The University must commit to finding a later and safer time frame to hold Final Exercises in order to properly recognize the hard work and dedication of graduating University students.
(02/25/20 6:59pm)
Virginia will cast its ballots March 3 for the several Democratic candidates seeking the presidential nomination and the Commonwealth will vote again for the candidates running for congressional nominations June 9. The approaching Democratic primaries, especially here in the fifth congressional district, could not be more important for voters, specifically student voters like all of us at the University. Voting for candidates we believe in and that we hope will secure the nomination is important and at the forefront of our minds when entering the voting booth. But a primary vote, with this year being no exception, is much more than just voting for one’s preferred candidate. A primary vote sends a message to the eventual candidate, the party and the entire nation. When that primary vote comes from a student, it means even more and challenges conventional American politics. Regardless of who wins the Democratic nomination, a strong youth turnout at the polls will impact the rest of the election cycle.
(01/29/20 6:50am)
In recent social mobility indexes compiled by U.S. News and World Report and CollegeNet, the University ranked in the bottom 15 percent of universities in the United States. This means that the University is not making itself easily accessible to students from all backgrounds, leaving student loans as the only options for lower income students — a common debt that haunts graduates for life. For wealthy students at the University, this ranking causes no concern — but it is disheartening to lower income and first-generation students that are working to better themselves and their future.
(01/15/20 7:29pm)
If you watched December’s Democratic debate, there is no way that you missed the phrase “wine cave”. The “cave” that was mentioned is alluding to an alleged closed-door meeting held by presidential candidate and former South Bend, Mayor Pete Buttigieg with billionaire donors. Fellow candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., took aim at Buttigieg, pointing out that his campaign financing structure is exactly what is wrong with politics in America — billionaires and corporations funding campaigns. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., later continued the discussion by comparing former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign structure to that of Buttigieg’s. This discussion illuminated the issue of the wine cave, and billionaire donors more specifically, as perhaps the biggest threat to our democracy. As Americans, we must resist the wine cave by halting the control big corporations and billionaire donors have over our government.
(12/04/19 4:19am)
Over the past two months, Police Chief Tommye S. Sutton and Gloria Graham, the Associate Vice President for Safety and Security, both resigned from their positions here at the University. Sutton was placed on paid-leave in mid-September and formally resigned about a week later. The University subsequently announced his resignation, providing no further information and instead highlighted the new interim police chief in a press release. In late October, the University issued a similar press release regarding Graham’s resignation. They announced that her resignation would go into effect in November and continued to focus on her interim replacement.
(10/31/19 1:01am)
Democrats in Virginia have the chance to flip both the House of Delegates and the State Senate this year. If the Democrats are able to gain control of both houses — which has not happened since the early ‘90s — they will have the chance to create real change by passing common sense gun reform, ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and redrawing the heavily gerrymandered districts in the Commonwealth, among other policies. Democrats must remain focused, committed and progressive on the issues they have been championing when the next legislative session comes around, but they cannot allow Gov. Ralph Northam to gracefully return to the limelight as a progressive leader. Democrats need to take a stand and re-energize the condemnation of Northam for the stain and disgrace that he is on the Commonwealth.
(10/16/19 2:17am)
Last semester, I wrote a column highlighting the issues of the New College Curriculum, a program that joins the Traditional and Forums Curriculums. Viewpoint Writer Noah Strike published a response in defense of the curriculum, and even called for its adoption across the College. While the curriculum may offer a new take on fulfilling general education requirements, it provides very few benefits to students. Instead, it causes scheduling issues and it forces students to enroll in unfulfilling engagements. The New College Curriculum is supposed to allow room for creativity and exploration in academics, but instead it hinders students from venturing outside of their comfort zones and trying new things.
(10/04/19 12:36pm)
Since President Donald Trump took office in 2017, people have been calling for his impeachment for a number of different reasons — his mental fitness, collaboration with a foreign power in order to win an election and his brash and inhumane actions in office have all been causes for concern. Yet the latest headlines are building up to be something more than an office affair — they carry similar weight and consequences that came along with the dark days that followed after the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. While the divided Congress agrees on almost nothing, they have the chance to prove to the United States and the world that our system of checks and balances is actually effective and that no one — not even the president — is above the law.
(09/06/19 6:35pm)
A week ago, I thought I wanted to continue studying Economics and potentially even double major in the field. I was enrolled in Introduction to Statistical Analysis, Survey of Calculus II and Principles of Macroeconomics in order to accomplish this goal. While I have never really considered myself a STEM person, I thought this is what I wanted to do. That all soon changed after the first week of classes. I found out I had to code in statistics, something that does not interest me at all, and, most importantly, I discovered that I do not truly have a passion for economics and would not enjoy studying it for the next three years.
(07/12/19 8:48pm)
Every year, Pride month serves as a time to celebrate love and the LGBTQ+ community, but it also serves as an important time to highlight the problems impacting LGBTQ+ people everywhere, which we should strive to address all year round. This past semester, I came out to the world. I received an overwhEvery year, Pride month serves as a time to celebrate love and the LGBTQ+ community, but it also serves as an important time to highlight the problems impacting LGBTQ+ people everywhere, which we should strive to address all year round. This past semester, I came out to the world. I received an overwhelming amount of love and support from all those around me and I was excited to find my place within the U.Va. LGBTQ+ community, but I really did not know where to start — and I still do not. It is easy to find queer students that are present and proud. And while some recent progress has been promising, organization across the University has been hard to find.
(07/23/19 11:48am)
As the current frontrunner in the Democratic primary, former Vice President Joe Biden continues to claim that his experience makes him the most qualified for the job, but it is precisely his experience and past that should disqualify him from the race. At every campaign stop, he seems to alienate himself from voters more and more. Biden is trying to appeal to a Democratic Party that he thinks he represents well, but the party has changed drastically, even since his last two failed presidential runs in 1988 and 2008. Biden is a figure of the past and he does not hold the vision nor the values that today’s party is looking for in a presidential candidate.
(05/21/19 1:50pm)
Biden, Bernie, Beto, Buttigieg — the four names that are constantly being thrown around the news channels. The current news cycle would lead one to believe that these are the only four viable candidates, but they are failing to give enough attention to the only candidate who is actually presenting a future for all Americans through specific policy proposals — Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) . Warren is one of the most progressive candidates in the field, with a long history to support her claims. Even with such critical and negative press, she is still making her case for why she should receive the nomination — and we should believe in her.
(04/25/19 12:03am)
The cost of higher education in the United States has been steadily increasing over the past few decades, and U.Va. is no exception. In fact, the University is the most expensive public school in the nation for out-of-state students — and its in-state price tag is one of the highest in the Commonwealth. When all is said and done, the total cost of attendance for students in the College comes out to be around $33,000 for in-state students and $64,000 for out-of-state students — both of which are significantly above the average national total cost.
(04/02/19 3:50am)
Every first-year entering the College is presented with the choice of what curriculum they will take part in the summer before they begin their first semester — the Forums, Traditional or New Curriculum. I, along with many others, decided to take part in the New Curriculum, which offers a new take on fulfilling general education requirements. The feature that sets the New Curriculum apart is the Engagements — four half-semester courses students take throughout their first year. Engagement courses are supposed to foster discussion-based, seminar-like environments that tackle complex issues taught by College Fellows. While the offerings of the Engagements and the New Curriculum may sound appealing, the actual effectiveness of these courses and the program’s worth to students is minimal at best.