MENNINGER: Surmounting the obstacles
By Nate Menninger | November 16, 2014The question then remains: Do Nepal and Tibet really have jurisdiction over determining the age at which people can climb Mt. Everest, a natural wonder of the world?
The question then remains: Do Nepal and Tibet really have jurisdiction over determining the age at which people can climb Mt. Everest, a natural wonder of the world?
Even if one has kept a journal or a blog, it is a different level to work within a newspaper editorial structure and try to craft a column. The writers are finding and honing their voices.
Yet despite all these flaws, Model UN provides a worthwhile experience that forces delegates to adapt to uncomfortable situations which may conflict with their opinions.
Our current classification only makes us invisible to the rest of the population. It is not unreasonable for Arab Americans to seek a unique census category which better represents us.
There seems to be a view that international students are more likely to cheat than their American peers. However, this assumption is invalid and oversimplified, because these two groups are not examined under the same circumstances.
The laws restricting food sharing reflect a common feature of American political culture: bias against the disadvantaged and the struggling.
I can never bring myself to do my laundry, which means there is always a soft pile of clothing for my tired friends to sleep on when they don’t want to walk back home at night.
Even for rejected students who don’t pursue an economics major, those classes do not go to “waste."
Since music has become digital, bringing us so many options for how to listen to music, the choice to purchase music rather than find it somewhere else online has become a much more meaningful decision by the customer.
As collegiate newspapers begin to fulfill a larger role in the media landscape, financial solvency will continue to be the critical issue.
But for academic purposes, current e-readers, tablets and computer screens don’t have the same capabilities — to flip through pages, marking up a page for close reading, cross-referencing multiple works at the same time.
Basically, for a news station to maximize profit, it must — like all business — give people what they want.
While the current legislature’s record is not laudable, we are about to move from a snail’s pace on addressing climate change to having no legislative fixes at all.
The problem is that this pipeline will bring significantly more harm than benefit to Virginia communities.
Because The Cavalier Daily was able to have a lead writer for the story, her voice carried through and helped make it easier to follow the many developments.
Our organizations are often led by entirely new groups of people each year, and the result is that we end up with the same short-lived student initiatives year after year.
I believe student dismay about the project was not only because crossing the tracks is the logical choice, but also because crossing the tracks had become emotionally desirable.
The distinction between school spirit and degradation of peer institutions seems to have been blurred in our community.
As a consequence, rejected Comm School applicants funnel into majors that follow from the prerequisites, like Economics, regardless of whether or not that’s their interest.
Too often, Democrats put forth a proposal (raising the federal minimum wage, for instance), and Republicans oppose the proposal but fail to articulate a policy alternative.