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(03/02/15 5:07am)
The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it would end contracts with five private collection agencies. While the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office handles student loans, it contracts out to debt collection agencies to collect payment on those loans. These agencies must adhere to federal debt collection laws — in particular the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
(02/27/15 6:38am)
Today, the University Board of Elections will release the results of student elections for the next academic year, including who will become the next Honor Committee representatives. With this transition in leadership, based on our conversations with candidates during endorsement interviews, Honor will likely take a stronger role in broader conversations happening around Grounds, aiming to serve as the collective moral compass of our school. We encourage the new Committee, instead, to first focus on strengthening its response to the moral precepts within its purview — lying, cheating and stealing.
(02/26/15 5:05am)
Friday, a federal judge ruled that panhandlers can legally approach people and cars anywhere on the Downtown Mall. This ruling struck down Charlottesville’s 2010 ordinance banning panhandling within 50 feet of the 2nd and 4th Street intersections of the Mall.
(02/25/15 5:24am)
Last week, as reported in The Cavalier Daily, the Virginia House General Laws Subcommittee tabled Senate Bill 785, which would have protected public employees who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender who do not work for the state from workplace discrimination. The bill passed the state Senate with bipartisan support before the House subcommittee tabled it, making it impossible for the bill to be considered for the remainder of the session. This order of events happened to this bill in the exact same way last year.
(02/24/15 5:06am)
With the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University, conversations abound about how to best recognize the use of enslaved labor in building and maintaining our school. Much of the focus is on how to create new memorials — perhaps as it should be. But equal attention should also be paid to smaller areas where the University could demonstrate its commitment to acknowledging this part of our school’s history.
(02/23/15 5:06am)
In the latest push for legalizing firearms on campus — something we have previously argued against — lawmakers in at least 10 states are arguing allowing students to carry firearms will protect them against the dangers of sexual assault. This is a veiled attempt at pushing a pro-gun agenda, and demonstrates a complete misunderstanding about sexual assault at colleges on the part of these representatives.
(02/20/15 8:00am)
Last week, the Virginia House of Delegates passed an ethics reform bill that sets a $100 cap on gifts for political campaigns and improves the independent advisory panel created in a 2014 ethics bill. The House and State Senate are now working on a compromise bill, which may have fewer changes than the House bill did. The Senate should not lessen the House’s changes but should strengthen them, since these changes are a small step in the right direction toward making Virginia politics more ethical.
(02/19/15 5:04am)
Faced with the first contested race for Student Council president since 2012, the student body is fortunate to have a choice between two excellent, qualified and incredibly different candidates in second-year College student Abraham Axler and third-year College student Locher Grove. In an immensely difficult decision, we have decided to endorse Axler in this election.
(02/18/15 6:16am)
This year, 10 students in the College are running to serve as Honor representatives for five spots, and four students in the McIntire School of Commerce are doing so for two spots. Honor elections in the other University schools are uncontested.
(02/17/15 6:47am)
While there are four candidates running for three positions as representatives for the College of Arts and Sciences, only three candidates chose to interview with us. We were enthusiastic about our interviews with Mackenzie Austin and Jahvonta Mason, both third-year students.
(02/16/15 6:27am)
On Dec. 7, 2014, a journalist released the full name of Jackie, the University student at the center of the Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus.” Following this, Jackie started receiving threats at her home address.
(02/13/15 8:27am)
Wednesday, our friends at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill learned of the homicides of their peer, Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. A man has since been arraigned on three counts of first-degree murder.
(02/12/15 5:17am)
“Hook-up culture” — that amorphous concept destined to destroy any lasting morality in our society — is often cited as a basis for gender inequality. The argument is that men are biologically predisposed to enjoy casual sex, while women are more inclined to become attached, leaving them emotionally damaged. The practice of hooking up, then, is inherently unbalanced in its power dynamic, since men appear to reap all the benefits.
(02/11/15 6:04am)
A bill that would allow the state to prevent public disclosure of information regarding lethal-injection executions has passed through the Senate Courts of Justice Committee and will now be considered by the state Senate.
(02/10/15 5:47am)
Currently, the Virginia state Senate is reviewing a bill that would require colleges and universities to list “consumer information” on their websites. Consumer information includes average tuition and fee increases over the past 10 years, as well as graduation and retention rates and budgeting information.
(02/09/15 5:56am)
Last Monday, the Virginia state Senate voted down Senate Bill 1132, a bill which would have allowed individuals — students included — to carry concealed handguns on school property after regular school hours.
(02/06/15 5:30am)
The Virginia state legislature is currently considering bills which would partially privatize the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control, a department of the Virginia state government that controls the possession, sale, transportation and delivery of alcoholic beverages in the state. This department has existed since the end of prohibition in 1934.
(02/05/15 5:15am)
Last month, University President Teresa Sullivan wrote a letter on behalf of former Gov. Bob McDonnell to the judge presiding over his public corruption case. Sullivan asked for leniency, pointing to the fact that McDonnell never pressured her to help him with his highly corrupt work for Star Scientific, even during one-on-one meetings. In the letter, she emphasized she was not writing in her capacity as president of the University.
(02/04/15 5:19am)
In response to Dartmouth’s recent ban on hard liquor, we have argued colleges should afford students more independence instead of implementing ineffective restrictions. But beyond crafting better policies, for the sake of their students and their own liability, colleges should take stances on legislative policies that affect their students. One way to do so would be to take an active role in campaigning for lowering the drinking age to 18.
(02/03/15 4:45am)
Recently, Dartmouth College made headlines with its president’s new plan to ban hard alcohol on campus. This initiative has prompted discussion on the extent of schools’ regulation of students, as colleges grapple with the fine line between treating students like the adults they are and still maintaining restrictions — which are absolutely necessary — on their activities.