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Opinion

Take a knee

Sanctions against schools who compromise the health of their athletes would provide stronger incentives to abide by the “best practices” that already exist.


Opinion

Last year’s rent

Not paying rent cannot necessarily be categorized as theft without consideration of all the circumstances of the relationship between the landlord and the tenant.


Opinion

Without a home

If having permanent housing will improve health, the homeless who are given apartments would be more likely to get back to work, and will eventually not need their rents subsidized.


Opinion

Caring for the community

Though the logistics of the student plan and the faculty/staff plan are different, principles of equality should apply to all members of the University community — and that includes professors and workers.


Opinion

A matter of choice

For a school to create policies which impose or prohibit certain habits like smoking is to assert too much authority to decide what personal practices students should and should not be doing.


Opinion

Finding the good

We are not going to see incidents of gender-based violence disappear overnight. We must remember that tangible change will take time.


Opinion

Don’t be too commercial

Involving students in advertising efforts may be the best way for an institution to distinguish itself, because the one asset a university has which no other has is its students — all of them with unique stories to tell and diverse perspectives to bring.


Opinion

Scale of one to ten

Though course evaluations are not a good measure of whether a professor deserves a tenured position, they still give students a sense of efficacy and give professors an opportunity to make valuable improvements to their courses.


Opinion

Interest rates

Though it does make sense to prioritize the students who most want to attend, this measure is impossible to objectively quantify.


Opinion

Ranting and raving

Rave venue owners should not be discouraged from distributing educational materials and preparing for emergency medical situations in order to make their events safer.


Opinion

An inclusion illusion

Admitting women to social fraternities is not a guaranteed remedy to the problems plaguing fraternity life — namely: sexual assault, alcohol abuse and hazing.


Opinion

Climate change

In developing such climate surveys, universities must maintain a balance between their obligation to assess their students’ safety and their obligations to protect student privacy.


Opinion

Justice for all

But we must also remember that there is a human element to this issue which is even more important than the financial element.


College student Hannah Graham has been missing since early Saturday morning.
Opinion

Hope sings

What is most remarkable about Hannah’s case is that even students who do not know her personally have made a concerted effort to disseminate information about her disappearance, and have expressed hope that she returns safely.


Opinion

Keep our police

If police departments had good records of consistently investigating rape cases and bringing them to trial, perhaps more student survivors would choose that option.


Opinion

Insult and injury

Ideas like these can encourage debate which enriches a student’s academic experience, but any valuable theories Salaita offers are tainted by the incendiary remarks he has made.


Opinion

Let them play ball

The state can take more effective action than the NCAA can in this situation, because the state has the authority to mandate a university change its policies and redirect its funds.


Opinion

Forgive, don’t forget

Debt forgiveness programs could form partnerships with universities that keep their tuition as low as possible, offer more grant aid to low-income students and limit the amount of debt students graduate with.

Latest Podcast

The University’s Associate Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admission, Greg Roberts, provides listeners with an insight into how the University conducts admissions and the legal subtleties regarding the possible end to the consideration of legacy status.



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