EDITORIAL: Students cannot afford another tuition hike
By Editorial Board | February 28, 2021The only reasonable — and moral — decision for the University is to freeze tuition.
The only reasonable — and moral — decision for the University is to freeze tuition.
To some of these students who spent their weekends disregarding COVID guidelines, the pandemic is a joke. To the 40 patients currently in-house at U.Va. Hospital, this is a matter of life or death.
Those who continue to party and gather in large crowds are willfully ignorant, putting both the University and Charlottesville communities in danger.
This semester, with a tighter margin for error, we cannot grow complacent.
While the removal of unfit politicians from our government may not prevent further insurgence of extremism, it is a necessary step in the right direction.
The twists and turns of the fall’s horror movie are fading — we can’t let there be a sequel.
Your vote and your voice deserve to make a difference. Shout it from the rooftops until you know it was heard.
Webb’s campaign missions demonstrate a commitment to equity and justice.
We can't afford to sit this election out. And the University shouldn’t make us.
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We knew these outbreaks were coming, yet the University carried on. It was disingenuous for administration to pretend otherwise, and it is nothing short of overtly dangerous for them to keep up the facade.
Moving forward, we must hold the Board to this higher standard of committing to and fulfilling the values of accessibility and diversity on Grounds.
The University administration’s negligence is directly putting student workers’ lives at risk by actively ignoring the demands of residence staff, and not providing adequate protective gear, food allowances or financial security. A safe reopening cannot exist if the lives of countless student workers are being ignored.
The University has a moral obligation to do everything in its power to keep these outbreaks from spreading to the greater Charlottesville community.
Now is not a time for comfort. Now is a time for change.
Incorporating problematic histories into the emblems intended to represent and our athletic teams completely disregards the complexities of this past.
Altogether, in enacting the VCEA, the Commonwealth becomes the first southern state to provide a clear framework for how it would build a clean electrical grid – an accomplishment that can neither be overstated nor overlooked.
Normal release guidelines will not be sufficient due to the pandemic and the economic crisis it has caused.
The responsibility to fight for workers should entirely be the University’s.
The responsibility of ensuring affordable housing during a time of economic crisis has shifted to the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.