By telling the stories of enslaved individuals, UGS promotes student and community engagement in conversation about our history of slavery, a subject to which we have turned a blind eye for so long.
There is a new sickness in American journalism that harkens back to the days of yellow journalism, but instead of scandalous local news, we get poorly reported prophecies through speculative one-liners.
By boycotting all Israeli academic institutions, we don’t hear the opinions of those who otherwise might be voices of reason within this conflict.
What should be asked of science fiction films is not consistency with our reality, but consistency with their own realities.
Setting empirical research aside, reading also comes with many unquantifiable benefits.
It also appears the majority of Honor’s focus this year has been on creating programs or policies which extend off-Grounds, such as those to deal with Corner merchants and rent disputes.
However, anonymous posting, even for apparently trivial reasons, is still useful because it allows opinions that would have not otherwise been made public to be made public.
If University students fear for their personal well-being, certainly safe sex, protection from assault, and responsible alcohol consumption take precedence over the remote threat of Ebola.
Beyond the fact that minorities and the poor face disproportionate difficulties in obtaining such identification, in practice voter ID laws are rarely — if ever — about fraud.
Everybody knew. The football coach knew. The football team’s lead academic counselor knew. A senior associate dean knew.
Our current definitions of rape and sexual assault are not controversial; it is the lack of response to those acts that is.
That said, there were too many knee-jerk responses published that were based on hypothetical musing in the midst of a specific tragedy or that simply lacked basic information.
Too many young people are being forced to put off decisions about starting a family, launching a startup business or buying a home because of the burden of student debt.
As engineering reaches its maximum potential, design and aesthetics become more important for both consumers and manufacturers.
This emphasis on sheer productive output would hinder students’ appreciation of learning for its own sake — the very appreciation teachers aspire to foster.
In de-recognizing InterVarsity, California State University’s administration is guilty of excluding members of a religious faith from the student life experience they seek.
I have never planned my wedding, largely because I have never gone to a wedding. My uncle never sealed the deal, even though my mom once tried to get me to call him an ask about it.
Another’s use of Adderall doesn’t make me worse at math or biology, but another’s use of Adderall can make me look worse at math or biology, and that’s nearly as bad.
Perhaps more importantly, it will serve as a reminder that the honor system exists to benefit the community rather than to act as a strictly disciplinary force.
I would argue that the lack of diversity on The Cavalier Daily Life section staff impedes its efforts to present a full range of student life experiences to its readership.
