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As The Cavalier Daily enters its 126th term, among myriad ambitions, we have one overarching aim: to serve the students of the University in whatever capacity is needed.
We came into this term with a set of goals for the year ahead. As the term comes to a close, it would be customary to use this time and this space to reflect on how well we achieved those goals.
Almost one year ago, we endorsed five candidates for College Honor representatives, basing our decisions on who most closely adhered to the ideology that Honor truly belongs to the student body.
As the trial of two former Vanderbilt football players charged with rape is underway, a long-dormant discussion surrounding universities’ football recruitment has begun again.
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow recently wrote in a column that his son, a third-year at Yale University, was questioned at gunpoint as he was leaving the library, because he resembled a burglary suspect. The university did confirm that a man was briefly detained and released Saturday night, but nothing more about the nature of the encounter.
Fifteen community colleges in California will become the state’s first to offer limited four-year degrees, pending final approval by the system’s Board of Governors. This seven-year pilot program was prompted mainly by workplace demands. For instance, entry-level nursing positions are moving toward requiring a four-year degree rather than a two-year degree. If approved, California will be the 20th state which has community colleges that offer bachelor’s degrees.
Presidents of national and international sorority organizations have distributed letters to presidents of University sorority chapters requesting they not participate in this year’s Boys' Bid Night. Safety issues were at the forefront of the decision.
The White House recently unveiled a proposal called America’s College Promise, which aims to make two years of community college free for eligible students. The proposal, much like a plan created by Tennessee Governor William E. Haslam last year, will make higher education more accessible to low-income students and, according to the White House, could save full-time community college students an average of $3,800 in tuition per year. However, the proposal currently excludes undocumented students from these benefits.
Duke University recently canceled its plan to have Muslim students voice a weekly call to prayer from the Duke Chapel bell tower after public outcry condemned it. Most notable was the response of Christian evangelist Franklin Graham, who called on university donors and alumni to withhold financial support. Graham wrote on his Facebook page: “followers of Islam are raping, butchering, and beheading Christians, Jews, and anyone who doesn’t submit to their Sharia Islamic law.” Duke subsequently moved the call to prayer outside the chapel. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations at Duke, said, “what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect,” and also cited security concerns.
An anonymous newsletter at Stanford University called the Fountain Hopper recently uncovered a process through which college students can gain access to the comments written on their applications. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a 1974 federal law, requires schools to show enrolled students their educational records. Under FERPA, the Fountain Hopper has encouraged Stanford students to request their admission records by sending the school a legalese-filled FERPA request. Schools have within 45 days to respond to students’ requests, or face legal consequences — including, according to the Fountain Hopper, a loss in federal funding.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is officially ending its confidential informant program, which enlisted students to help the campus police in order to avoid drug charges. Amherst chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy suspended the program in September when the Boston Globe revealed one of the student informants had died of a heroin overdose in 2013. A university-appointed panel has since concluded that the police force has not used any informants since the student, “Logan,” passed away, and recommended the program be permanently eliminated.
A University of Kansas student group called Students for a Sustainable Future (SSF) issued an Open Records Act request in April 2014, calling for records of all donations and associated restrictions issued by “Koch family foundations,” as well as documents regarding the hiring process for Professor Art Hall and any professional communications between Hall and those who have contributed to funding his work. Hall is the director and sole full-time faculty member of the university’s Center for Applied Economics, which was launched in 2004 using money from the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation.
Quinnipiac University recently agreed to a settlement in a case involving a former student who was placed on mandatory medical leave when she sought help for depression. The university will pay the student the tuition money she lost for the semester she was forced to leave, and an additional $17,000 for distress.
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity became the first to sign a new Fraternal Organization Agreement Jan. 8, after the Charlottesville police department concluded there was no substantive evidence to corroborate the allegations of a gang rape at the fraternity two years ago.
The product of a month-and-a-half long ban on Greek social activities is a host of new safety regulations for every Greek organization. Of particular focus are the requirements for fraternities under the purview of the Inter-Fraternity Council, which have borne the brunt of the criticism in the aftermath of Rolling Stone’s story about the gang rape of a first-year student.
The University has confronted an identity crisis of sorts in the past few weeks, wondering how such a horrendous crime as described in Rolling Stone could occur in our community. We now face more questions than answers in an even more unsettling development. Now that Rolling Stone has retracted their support of an article which left the sanctity of the University community in ruins, how do we continue? The report shook our trust in the administration. Now new information shatters our trust in the report. How do we find a solid ground to stand on?
17,727 - number of votes Mark Warner won by in the Virginia Senate race against Ed Gillespie
President Barack Obama’s Nov. 20 executive order will allow approximately 5 million undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States without fear of deportation for a period of three years. The executive order extends the protections of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to a much larger population. DACA originally applied only to people under the age of 30 who came to the United States before they turned 16. The new rules will remove the age cap.
A recent report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found access to child care for college students has decreased in the past decade, particularly at community colleges. The percentage of public four-year universities offering child care declined from 54 percent in 2002 to 51 percent in 2013, while the percentage of two-year colleges offering such services declined from 53 percent in 2004 to 46 percent in 2013.
University President Teresa Sullivan delivered an address to students Monday about the issue of sexual assault at the University. In her address, Sullivan broke down the problem into a series of questions, exploring each individually.