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Opinion

Grounded in reality

The Board of Visitors recently approved updated enrollment projections through the year 2020. The plan is for the undergraduate student body to increase by about 1300 students while maintaining the current in-state to out-of-state ratio.


Opinion

Testing out

I recall the days when I was studying for the SAT (yes, I actually studied for the SAT). I remember memorizing random vocabulary and wondering if colleges really expected us to use those words.


Opinion

Bad samaritan

A disturbing account of inaction has recently come to light. Even more disturbing is the fact that the inaction was during a life-or-death situation.


Opinion

Learning to fly

How many times have you found yourself stuck in the class-transition time crowd, moving slower than students leaving the Corner at 2 a.m.


Opinion

Print culture

A recent article in USA Today discusses the propensity for college newspapers to switch to a predominantly digital medium of publication.


Opinion

Blown out of proportion

After receiving a graded test back in class last week, I wondered how many of the students swarming the professor at the end of class to discuss their grades would complain about being marked too high.


Opinion

A house divided

With the budget sequestration looming Friday, threatening the nation with across-the-board spending cuts that would fail to address the long-term debt problem, political pundits abound who are castigating Congress for its inability to compromise.


Opinion

Skin care

The Food and Drug Administration exists to regulate products and protect consumers from ingesting dangerous substances.


Opinion

Fighting a trend

This semester has brought to light, for me, a topic that was never really talked about during my first year — suicide.


Opinion

Pulling out the weeds

Weed-out classes are familiar territory for most college students. Many have taken at least one such course either to fulfill major requirements or graduation requirements.


Opinion

Jury duty

As a former student juror for an honor trial, I would like to respond to the recent article in The Cavalier Daily regarding the attendance of jurors (“Four jurors miss hearing,” Feb.


Opinion

Reforming a perspective

In the last few weeks the Honor Committee’s Restore the Ideal proposal has sparked an unprecedented wave of conversation about the University’s honor system.


Opinion

Honoring our ideals

Fair warning: This column is about honor. By the time this article runs, voting on the proposed reforms of the honor system will be under way and The Cavalier Daily’s incessant coverage on honor will likely be winding down.


Opinion

The right path?

A few short years ago, I left the house I had grown up in and moved my familiar belongings into an unfamiliar room at the school of my dreams.


Opinion

Dressing up the problem

In recent weeks, the United States Postal Service has found itself short on profit. To compensate for its losses, the agency plans to launch a new clothing line, ready for wear in 2014. The USPS has been struggling since the beginning of 2006, when it cut annual costs by about $15 billion and reduced the size of its workforce by 28 percent.


Opinion

Highs and lows

This is my last column for The Cavalier Daily. I’ve been the paper’s ombudsman for more than four years, offering critiques and advice to the staff and trying to explain journalism to readers.


Opinion

Home improvement

Although I have been involved with the honor system since my first semester at the University, until this year I have never supported the concept of an all-Honor Committee jury panel.


Opinion

The people themselves

I was disappointed by the Managing Board’s lead editorial endorsing the Honor Committee’s proposal (“An ideal worth restoring,” Feb.


Opinion

It is ‘Up to Us’

In the wake of the Living Wage campaign and the Sullivan Ouster Debacle, U.Va.’s new bout of student activism takes a more measured and varied approach.

Puzzles
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Latest Podcast

TEDxUVA is an entirely student-run organization, hosting TED-style events under official TEDx licensing. Reeya Verma, former president and fourth-year College student, describes her experience leading the organization when its ability to host TEDx events was challenged, working to regain official TEDx licensure and the True North conference, which prominently featured University alumni.