Editorials

Opinion

By the numbers

By Managing Board | December 5, 2014

17,727 – number of votes Mark Warner won by in the Virginia Senate race against Ed Gillespie 35 – number of days Beta Bridge was painted with the message “Bring Hannah Home” 2 – number of years Sage Smith has been missing 10 – percentage of College students who went into consulting in 2013 89 – percentage of students in the Commerce School who have accepted full time employment, as of the November release of University Career Service’s “First Destinations’ Report” 2 million – amount of money, in dollars, Gov.

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Opinion

Extending the dream

By Managing Board | December 4, 2014

Access to higher education for immigrants has been increasing, but many barriers remain.

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Opinion

Family values

By Managing Board | December 3, 2014

The decrease in child care access, though small, could in turn decrease access to higher education, particularly for women with young children.

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Opinion

Great expectations

By Managing Board | December 2, 2014

Monday’s address indicates Sullivan has no intention of remaining passive, that she has already started to work on this issue, and that she is taking care to consult the major stakeholders in the process of making changes.

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Opinion

Zero-tolerance, 100 percent support

By Managing Board | December 1, 2014

The best policy the Board of Visitors can adopt is twofold: zero-tolerance against offenders, and 100 percent commitment to helping the survivors regain their strength.

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Opinion

The traditions we change

By Managing Board | November 25, 2014

But mandating expulsion as the only punishment at the University is not a logical solution. Such a system may make survivors even less likely to come forward.

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Opinion

The devil is in the details

By Managing Board | November 24, 2014

Because we want change immediately, it is tempting to pinpoint a single figure as the cause of violence and fight to tear it down. But such an approach is self-defeating.

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Opinion

Patience, persistence

By Managing Board | November 21, 2014

We want to reshape this community into one we can be proud of again, but this will not be possible if people are resorting to vandalism as a response to this incident.

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Opinion

Struggle today, strength tomorrow

By Managing Board | November 20, 2014

A survivor's decision not to report must always be respected, but we hope a survivor is not discouraged from reporting because of any mistrust and demonization of the University which results from sweeping negative portrayals such as this one.

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Opinion

In two years’ time

By Managing Board | November 19, 2014

We cannot help asking the question: would Sage Smith still be missing if she were a white cis-gendered University student?

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Opinion

We all scream for green

By Managing Board | November 18, 2014

Many of us personally experience the impacts of economic hardship or identity-based discrimination, but we do not see, first hand, the consequences when another plastic water bottle is thrown into a landfill.

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Opinion

One dot at a time

By Managing Board | November 16, 2014

The majority of people in a community do not commit acts of violence, but merely being non-violent is not enough to counteract all of the acts of violence — all the red dots.

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Opinion

Home safe home

By Managing Board | November 13, 2014

The advantage to having students rather than administrators lead the initiative for greater safety is that students can more easily view their peers as models for how they should be living in this community.

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Opinion

Educating our heroes

By Managing Board | November 13, 2014

The problem, it seems, is that many veterans remain completely unaware of the resources available to them, and elite universities seem more like a pipe dream than an achievable goal.

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Opinion

An imperfect union

By Managing Board | November 12, 2014

So it may seem as though disallowing fraternity parties would reduce the number of sexual assaults, but this approach only attacks the venues, rather than the roots of the problem.

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Opinion

More helping hands

By Managing Board | November 11, 2014

One possible role could be assisting in University-wide education efforts, both about the procedures of sexual misconduct cases at the University and what it means to abide by the 12 standards of conduct.

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Opinion

Caught on camera

By Managing Board | November 10, 2014

If students had been notified that class attendance would be recorded, such knowledge may have influenced their behavior, and the researchers would not have gotten a baseline idea of lecture attendance under normal circumstances.

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Opinion

As time goes by

By Managing Board | November 7, 2014

The east side of Beta Bridge was painted white in the early hours of Thursday morning, covering the message that had remained there for over a month: Bring Hannah Home.

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Opinion

Act, knowledge, insignificance

By Managing Board | November 6, 2014

Some acts are severe enough to conclude we do not want the student in our community anymore, but there should be a middle ground in which discipline is warranted, but so is a second chance.

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Opinion

Risk management

By Managing Board | November 4, 2014

Presumably, students who are expelled for sexual misconduct can just go on to attend other universities — no matter if they are athletes who get recruited to play for teams, or if they just apply and are accepted based on academic credentials.