BERGER: Bring on the radical speakers
By Meredith Berger | April 23, 2014Universities should engage with those who hold bigoted or offensive views, rather than protect students from them
Universities should engage with those who hold bigoted or offensive views, rather than protect students from them
The University should make a greater effort to help disabled students find employment after graduation
Fundamental changes should be made to the Board of Visitors selection process
Because preferences of elites and average voters sometimes line up, the bias of the political process towards the rich is often masked, but given a divergence in opinion across the income distribution, elites win the debate with precious few exceptions.
Leadership roles in these organizations often become a sort of hand-me-down system: students who know other students in certain groups automatically have an advantage when applying.
The Cavalier Daily has done a good job synchronizing news reporting and opinion content
The healthcare system should place patients’ well-being above all else. Sadly, when it comes to drug manufacturers, trying to reap additional profits can often supersede patient interests.
The best option for Final Exercises is to keep all graduates together on the Lawn and limit everyone to two tickets
Holding two separate ceremonies on the Lawn for Final Exercises is the best available option
Option three solves the problems the other two options cannot by keeping the graduating class together while also retaining plentiful guest seating.
I propose that the University adopt a similar academic framework — a “second-year summer” in which students remain in Charlottesville for the summer after their second year and take a semester off in their second or third years.
The single sanction should be repealed. It is the principal reason for the Honor system’s most pressing problems — namely, staggeringly low reporting rates, wildly inconsistent verdicts and widespread distrust of the system from faculty.
Compared to liberal predecessors such as LBJ, Obama has had an unsuccessful presidency
For a group which is so isolated and extreme, the greatest victory is supposed martyrdom and the notion that we somehow care about what they do, and we gave them that victory.
The fact that I am still alive and able to write this is undeniable proof that the Google Diagnosis Method works.
Does it make sense that — at a University where this policy has led to the so-called “Community of Trust” that grants students the peace of mind to leave their laptops unwatched in our libraries — the Honor system does not extend to the personal safety of walking home alone after dark?
Given that it is highly unlikely repeat perpetrators of sexual violence are reachable through more outreach, raising awareness of rape culture must be coupled with policy changes that target perpetrators and effectively remove them from the community.
President Obama’s recent executive order should be lauded as a great step towards gender equity
In the absence of institutional reform to restore AccessUVa, students must continue to advocate for the program
Using texting or social media to convey emotions is detrimental to our relationships