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(08/26/15 4:01am)
Of recent controversies surrounding the Republican presidential primary, one in particular stands out as particularly troublesome: the debate regarding birthright citizenship. Multiple candidates have argued birthright citizenship is being abused to the point where it should be done away with. Rather than celebrating the complex relationship between hardworking and undervalued illegal immigrants, these candidates would seek to take away hope for a better future for illegal immigrants and their children by removing birthright citizenship.
(04/28/15 4:46am)
In a recent piece entitled “Merit scholars don’t need more money,” Emily McDuff makes the argument that Jefferson Scholars who apply for and receive other scholarships are doing so just to add to their resume while simultaneously detracting from the opportunities available to other students. In the piece she points out the large number of applicants for the Sky Alland and the Gray-Carrington scholarships, two prestigious awards given to fourth-year students at the University, who were already Jefferson Scholars. The Jefferson Scholarship covers tuition, room, board and expenses for four years and the other two cover tuition and room and board for the fourth year.
(04/22/15 4:10am)
Forgive me; I am about to express an unpopular opinion. Rather than liberally handing out credit to incoming first-years, there should be a ban on substituting high school credit for required classes in the college. Most students at the University come in with credits upon credits in a vast variety of fields. Having a large number of credits is a result of the goal of high school — to introduce as many fields of learning as possible to the student. There is a problem with skipping out on requirements with high school credits; they don’t often match up in both quality of teaching and difficulty of testing.
(04/07/15 4:10am)
The first year experience can vary drastically based on which dorm you are placed in. Gooch-Dillard has singles, Old Dorms have a convenient location and New Dorms have luxury. There are a couple dorms that are forgotten, however. They are tucked away between Gooch-Dillard and New Dorms and directly across from the stadium. I am referring to, in fact, Courtenay, Dunglison and Fitzhugh, colloquially known as CDF. These are the worst dorms on Grounds and in the spirit of egalitarianism, students living here should receive a discount or at least not be disturbed by the creation of a useless bridge.
(04/01/15 4:57am)
Save your anger. The way toward meaningful social change in America is not dialogue and it is definitely not demonstration. Recent anger over the brutal actions of the agents of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is being misdirected. I am as outraged as the next guy, but I am also much more cynical about the chance for change than the next guy. I am this way because of the large number of examples of anger leading to meaningful action that doesn’t produce meaningful change.
(03/24/15 4:07am)
For me, the intimidation factor involved in coming to the University from high school was huge. The size of this school is daunting. I remember initially feeling disconnected from everything — as if I wasn’t really there. I remember feeling as if my professors weren’t real people and their lectures weren’t meaningful. Professors seemed as if they were on another level from me and I felt insignificant. I felt they didn’t care about me. A large factor in this was that I never went to office hours; I wasn’t having trouble so I thought that I didn’t need to go. I thought going without a real problem was unnecessary and I know I wasn’t the only one. I, like many other students fresh from high school, had not yet realized the intrinsic advantages of going to office hours.
(03/17/15 4:01am)
The State of the Union this year was what it usually is: rhetoric for viewers at home and political warnings and threats for those lucky enough to attend. However, the preponderance of politically active and politically important attendees this year was apparent. The only people on the guest list were those with money or those who were brought in to make some sort of political point.
(03/03/15 5:45am)
In a recent Opinion piece entitled “Legalize sports betting,” my fellow columnist Jared Fogel advocates for the legalization of sports betting. (That may seem like a shocker, but trust me, it’s true.) But sports betting is wrong and immoral. Gambling on such events creates a moral hazard for those involved and even the spectators.
(02/24/15 5:04am)
Your whole schedule is all planned out: no classes on Friday or before 11 a.m. or with that teacher with terrible reviews. Then, your time to pick classes rolls around and you excitedly open up SIS. Hurriedly, you go to the classes you want, enroll in all of them — and get them all.
(02/17/15 6:43am)
It is the worst nightmare of fearmongers — nothing can be worse for someone’s credibility than for something they have spent years attacking and demonizing to succeed. This is the case for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. This is an act so ridiculed by right-wing media and politicians that their vitriol almost became the norm. Even democratic supporters turned their backs on an initiative that many thought was too politically toxic to take on, while placing the blame on President Obama. However, in the year since it was implemented, Obamacare has been an unqualified success.
(02/10/15 5:45am)
Vaccines are a wonder of modern times. They are the reason the United States has gone from an annual measles death rate of 530,217 to 61. Vaccines serve as protection on a massive scale, as has been recognized since 1796 when Edward Jenner inoculated a small child with cowpox, suspecting it would prevent him from contracting smallpox.
(02/03/15 4:38am)
A recent study conducted by graduate students from the Education school regarding student participation in and attitude toward the honor system revealed less than 2 percent of the 115 students who reported witnessing an Honor offense in their time here at the University reported said offense. Additionally, of the two students who witnessed an offense, only one reported it and not to the actual Honor Committee but rather to a professor. The resulting backlash has fueled the movement for change in the honor system and affirmed the fact that students rarely report honor offenses.
(01/20/15 3:56am)
Technology is irresistible as a force for change. It can be resisted in the short term but, eventually, due to its overwhelming efficiency, it will be accepted. There are, however, professors and greater institutions that refuse to give in to the power of progress and are stubbornly set in their ways.
(01/14/15 5:13am)
India is a land of contradictions. It is home to a huge high-tech labor force as well as a multitude of low-skill agricultural and industrial workers. It is a relatively liberal democracy, yet allies itself closely with the Russian Federation, an autocratic nation. It is the birthplace of three major world religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism — yet is constantly divided by religious violence and upheaval with a long history of censorship and strong religious forces: it was the first country to ban Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses.” Religious groups have long held great power in Indian politics and society. This is even considering the fact that the Indian constitution states the country is a secular republic.
(12/03/14 6:20am)
Recently, The Cavalier Daily published an editorial entitled the “Devil is in the details.” In it, the Managing Board criticizes the human tendency to find people and things to blame in times of crisis. It highlights this problem particularly in relation to the recent outrage over sexual assault in the aftermath of the recent Rolling Stone article.
(11/19/14 5:18am)
Students have always been key banner men in any great movement for change. University of Virginia Students United is a group that carries forward this banner of progress and change here at the University. More students should be getting involved and taking the initiative to build student power through this organization, starting with the fight for a greater voice at Board of Visitors meetings in the form of a public comment session.
(11/11/14 5:31am)
It is always easy to scapegoat — to cover up underlying issues that are difficult to solve. Yet scapegoating is exactly what Hasan Khan does in his recent piece, “Don’t trust the media” by placing the blame on the media for what he sees as a deliberate campaign of misinformation in the form of extreme sensationalism. He does this while completely ignoring underlying societal issues and the demand side of the media business.
(11/05/14 3:45am)
It’s hard to go more than a short time without hearing a stereotype. They are so ingrained into our brains and thoughts that most of the time we don’t even notice using them. Moreover, many people think they are not inherently harmful. But in reality, all stereotypes are bad; racial stereotypes in particular are especially toxic because of their prevalence at the University. Our racial history here at the University is too pernicious for racial stereotypes to be allowed to proliferate. We need to focus our attention now on these stereotypes because they are so visible and so widely accepted by many of the students here. As a result of our inaction, the Community of Trust suffers here at the University, and we lose a lot of what makes us special.
(10/28/14 4:24am)
In a recent column entitled “Having the Last Yak,” Brennan Edel decries the use of Yik Yak, a popular app used by people within a certain radius of a college campus to post anonymously. However, Yik Yak is what people make of it, and it is a symptom of — maybe even a potential cure for — the ills facing our university.
(10/22/14 7:04am)
Recent decisions have made it clear that the Supreme Court is an out-of-touch, archaic institution that frequently stands in the way of the people’s will in an attempt to protect an outdated Constitution.