Emotions — grief, fear, shock, anger — will always be a part of understanding violence and should not be bracketed so much as enriched by contextualization and solution-oriented mindsets.
The University is more than just a place of learning, it is a home to north of 20,000 young adults — for many of us, we just don’t feel safe in our homes anymore.
We write this editorial not to minimize or disparage its efforts but rather to call on our representatives to adequately harness the wide range of opportunities this new system affords to them.
As we see the coronavirus step back into the limelight — for what feels like the one-thousandth time — the University must take the necessary steps to ensure that all students have access to the resources they need to succeed.
It isn’t bad enough that Gov. Youngkin is crafting meaningless mandates, he is also forcing the University to act as the enforcement arm of his intrusive, big-government regime.
It is incumbent upon our administrators to do everything in their power to ensure that the University continues to look and feel like the Commonwealth that it was designed to serve.
For better or for worse, AI is here. The University should utilize it to ensure that students are learning the most relevant skills in the most applicable way.
If we default on our responsibility to be careful stewards of the tradition of self-governance, we leave room for faculty and administrators to undercut the agency that students at the University have had for generations.
What was once a system steeped in the dogmatic pursuit of a narrowly conceived ideal will be a holistic process that confronts nuance to uplift a community, not punish individuals.
We are not fooled by these foundations’ attempts at misconstruing community reclamation into destruction as a means of preserving Confederate ideology.
The student body will not vote to ratify a constitution it had no hand in creating, and Honor has a lot of work to do to build trust and increase buy-in amongst students and relevant stakeholders.
Throneburg’s commitment to fixing the issues pertinent to District 5 are evident — and it is the reason he deserves our vote.
The University only has so much responsibility for your willing engagement in dangerous organizations.
Although it is crucial for citizens to research the candidates running in each election, it is also important to know the electoral processes specific to Virginia.
This is a blatant step backwards that overextends parental rights in public schools at the expense of transgender students’ rights.
Self-governance is something on which we pride ourselves, but it is an empty ideal without effort from both the institutions governing us and the students they represent.
In other words, the Committee’s advice fails to recognize that the Memorial as a whole — not just the inscription — continues to broadcast racist beliefs due to the circumstances of its original construction.
Mr. Youngkin, let us be perfectly clear — we will not be your political scapegoat.
Make this the first-year experience you never got — make new friends, new memories and probably a few new reasons to miss Grounds when you leave.
Future education about Charlottesville and University history should be two things — mandatory and continuous.
