Among the many problems President Barack Obama promised to tackle during his State of the Union address, immigration reform was high on the list.
The founder of a revolutionary educational movement is speaking at the University Wednesday. Daphne Koller, a Stanford professor and the co-founder of online-learning company Coursera, will be giving a lecture at 3 p.m.
Earlier this month, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican candidate for governor, spoke in an introductory politics class at the University.
Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me that writing this article is like when the Chinese publication People’s Daily picked up a satirical Onion piece about Kim Jong Un being named 2012’s “Sexiest Man Alive” and took it seriously.
The Virginia Senate passed legislation last week that would allow student organizations to exclude individuals from becoming members if they do not seem committed to the organization’s mission.
Sexual assault against women is all too common, and the University is no safety bubble — as the disturbingly frequent emails from University police regarding fondlings and other forms of assault against female students make clear.
Philadelphia has gained a reputation in the past few years as a hub of homicide. Hardly living up to its promise of brotherly love, the city has been grimly nicknamed “Kill”-adelphia, for it has one of the highest murder rates in the nation.
One of my other jobs, I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, is teaching freshman composition. When I’m doing that, I try to emphasize that the skills necessary to produce a decent essay — the ability to evaluate sources and information; to organize thought and argument; to make a point concisely -— are also useful outside an English classroom.
The United States agriculture industry has been stripped of one of its most beneficial cash-cow commodities.
In his Feb. 11 column “Yes, in your backyard,” Andrew Wells asserts that the solutions to climate change must start with individuals — that we must all do our part to recycle, reduce our energy usage and think about conservation in our daily behavior.
The Virginia legislature recently passed laws that would reduce the incidence of voter fraud by limiting the types of voter ID polling places deem acceptable.
Though many people were probably unaware, yesterday marked Charles Darwin’s birthday. Darwin, as hopefully everyone knows, solidified the theory of evolution with his explanation of descent with modification, the process by which adaptive changes take place.
The joke is an old one: When talking to an English major, you usually end the conversation with “Yes, I do want fries with that.” Studying Proust or Joyce is not exactly economically sound.
Carl Sagan once said, in reference to the famous photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft that shows the Earth as a pale blue dot, that humans have a responsibility to “preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” I urge you to read the transcript of this speech.
Last week, a group of fourth-year students revealed the lesson they learned from a two-month project they undertook for one of their classes.
Between classes and extracurricular activities, time spent searching for love is fairly limited at college.
It may be dead by now, but last week a bill in the Virginia General Assembly would have required the University’s Board of Visitors — and board of visitors at every four-year public university in the Commonwealth — to include a student member elected by students.
I have been proud to be a Wahoo lately. University Dining has recently been promoting vegetarianism through initiatives such as “Meatless Mondays” and “Vegan Love.” As a vegetarian, I’ve been particularly encouraged by these efforts.
Last week the University of Michigan de-recog nized the Asian chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship because the group’s constitution required leaders to sign a statement of faith, a violation of the university’s non-discrimination policy.
As President Barack Obama has begun his second term, he has been working toward reforming his cabinet after several first-term members have stepped down.
