Although the University has an add/drop period, this differs from the shopping period in that it restricts the credits that can be taken at a time.
By exposing the gross overreaches of the NSA, including monitoring of private emails and phone messages of private citizens without warrants, Snowden was actually performing his duties as well as he possibly could.
The adage that nice guys finish last is hardly new. But at the University, we like to think that our peers who succeed do so honestly.
Rehabilitation isn’t an excuse to give inmates flat-screen TVs or make our penitentiaries luxury hotels. It’s a critical look at the ways in which prisons change those who enter them in profound and irreversible ways, generating anti-social behavior, minimizing dignity and doing little to correct the habits that locked the prisoners up in the first place. Where possible, we should fight these effects.
Today, around 47 million Americans live below the poverty line.
Cheating, or at least trying to gain an unfair advantage over opponents, has forever been an integral part of baseball, whether it comes in the form of stealing signs, physically altering baseballs, corking bats or changing home fields to throw off opponents.
It seems evident that a minimum wage increase may result in marginal improvement in economic growth.
Republicans are crying foul and claiming the ad strives to compare rapists to Republican politicians, which at best is an exaggeration and at worst completely made up.
Leftist politics is an exciting but flawed arena. Though it is essential to learn from the mistakes of the past, we must acknowledge Marx’s continuing relevance in thinking about current events.
The women who watch the show because they believe in the type of contrived, media-hyped romance it promotes are few, and they are as naive as the contestants who go on the show believing they will truly find love. Thankfully, those women are few, too.
We are sure to screw up, embarrass ourselves, get some bad grades, make questionable fashion choices, say things we regret or take classes we hate. The list goes on. But that’s all OK. It is important to remember that your failures are just as valuable as your successes.
Mandela was not who we thought he was; he wasn’t that violent figure that we’d seen in the papers. Nor was he the violent firebrand that some in the ANC wanted him to be. Nelson Mandela was a thoughtful, dignified man who spoke eloquently about reconciliation, peace and a better future … for everyone.
A fancy trade school, the McIntire School of Commerce is a drain on academia and the liberal arts undergraduate experience at the University.
Students who enter the University as “pre-Comm” and refuse to expand their intellectual horizons beyond the realm of accounting and business would do well to remember that this school was founded on the idea that learning is not a means to an end, but an end in itself.
Even if these tests were precise measures of writing ability — they probably do have some general predictive value — compelling more students to take the first writing requirement would still be an excellent idea.
The problem in U.S. education cannot be chalked up to the lack of a nationwide curriculum or too few charter schools or any number of the simple fixes that reformers sometimes champion.
Perhaps Amazon Prime Air is not just a publicity stunt, but a realistic step toward further improving the efficiency by which Amazon delivers its goods.
With these demographics, it should hardly be surprising that the Board is proposing policies that primarily benefit upper-income and business school students.
I’m here to tell whoever is reading this article that the issue of mental health is deeply important to me because I have dealt with depression and anxiety myself, and still do.
I’ll say it: Santa is a lie perpetuated by parents and society. At the risk of being called a “scrooge,” I assert we should not deceive children about the existence of Father Christmas.
