Providing accepted students with a recent University graduate as a “buddy” would not only help guide prospective students with their college search but also increase young alumni involvement with University affairs after graduation.
Since college students don’t have the same needs as non-college students, including them in poverty rate calculations may result in misplaced anti-poverty initiatives.
The University offers a wide range of educational experiences because students have a wide range of needs.
The University Board of Elections, or UBE, should consider making voting mandatory for students.
The Honor Committee should feel obliged to respond to the student body endorsement of a multiple sanction system.
A university is a place where students and thinkers should be able to freely exchange ideas.
FOIA allows citizens to keep public officials accountable for their actions; police officers should not be exempt from this.
This year, by releasing multiple inaccurate candidate lists and doing so after the start of campaigning, UBE faltered in adequately facilitating elections.
We are confident these candidates will be able to represent students on the issues they will face heading into the next term of committee leadership.
We have decided to endorse third-year College student Mason Brannon and third-year College student Mitch Wellman as UJC College representatives.
Her vision of leadership demonstrates an acute appreciation for the collaborative process that we believe should form the basis of Student Council’s affairs.
Although we as an editorial board are divided in our views of the single sanction, we share the belief that Option 2 is the right choice for students.
Given that the University has sought ways to make the academical village more accessible to students, the administration should offer the ground floors of pavilions as general student space that will draw more students to the Lawn.
In order to better its system of pedagogical evaluations, the University should consider implementing compulsory, non-anonymous course evaluation forms complemented by peer review from other professors each semester.
Sexual assault is an issue that demands more serious analysis than our lawmakers are giving it. Guns won’t solve the sexual assault epidemic — the sooner our legislators realize this, the better.
While CARS has yet to see its lack of sufficient space produce noteworthy impediments to incident responses, it is in the best interest of the city to be proactive maintaining high-quality emergency services.
Changing its status from that of a program to a department would legitimize the study for those who view it as less academically rigorous than other traditional liberal arts subjects — something that may also benefit other academic programs at the University.
Preventing teen pregnancy should be an apolitical issue: the fewer teenagers become pregnant, the fewer abortions become necessary — a goal pro-life and pro-choice advocates likely share.
What might appear to be a hasty administrative reaction to a novel behavior among students is actually in line with the way safety professionals have responded to other hazardous devices on Grounds.
Our mission to inform our readers with objective coverage persists, but the structure by which we achieve that mission evolves. We expect our establishment of an editorial board will allow us to approach objectivity in our reporting as well as possible.
