In order to fix the honor system, I encourage students to vote for Option 2 in the upcoming referendum.
The overwhelming consensus, once students see the thoroughness of our process and the many opportunities students have to admit wrongdoing, is that the system is fair.
We believe the single-sanction system fails to protect and promote honor at the University.
Our current system is not perfect — no system ever can be — but the ideal of honor, our community of trust, our current system, is worth fighting for.
I wholeheartedly believe Option 2 will bring much needed fairness and reconsideration to our antiquated system.
The honor system does not merely belong to us — in a certain sense, it also belongs to generations past and those who are to follow us. What a tragedy it will be if we destroy that patrimony entrusted to us.
In summary, you will see two amendments on the ballot this year: one will either affirm the single sanction or change the constitution to allow for a multiple-sanction system, and the other will slightly reword the language passed last year in order to make the Honor Committee more responsive to student opinion.
I hope my white peers are willing now to sit, listen and learn from the ongoing dialogue of their black peers about the proliferation of the word.
Even if the Supreme Court rules against the EEOC’s position in Burrows, the struggle will continue.
Divestment is tangible and moral — now is the time.
We have organized a World Hijab Day dialogue program on Feb. 5 in which speakers with a diverse range of experiences with Islam and the Hijab will challenge preconceived notions surrounding the Hijab and the modern Muslim.
Let us be the generation that celebrates diversity of people for all their unique colors and textures. Heteronormativity is out. Acceptance is in.
Divestment signals to the world that the actions of companies that extract and combust fossil fuels do not reflect the values of our University, such as honorable conduct, data-driven science and the creation of a better future.
The fact that after so much conversation, years of action and an uphill battle to make the LGBTQ community feel comfortable at the University, our president has to release a statement on “not gay” after Lighting of the Lawn in 2015 is incomprehensible.
Yet, for all of my stereotyping, I frequently fail to take their narratives a step further.
Meat is so intertwined in our culture and daily lives people become downright defensive if access to it is threatened. It’s understandable — we’ve grown up in a country where bacon is practically worshipped and burgers rival George Washington in terms of American-ness.
As the violence become less frequent in the coming weeks, both Israel and the PA must look for a more permanent solution, not one that simply delays another round of violence.
Charlottesville has the unique potential to establish itself as a national hub for cultivating elite-caliber soccer talent and offer robust infrastructure for supporting the sport.
“Black” in reference to people should be capitalized because it brings to mind an image, a “common” people, a common history which in capitalizing “B” makes it a noun, structured with certain properties. The nounification of “black” calls to attention the construction of “the Black experience in America.”
Given that this outbreak of illness occurs every year, certain measures should be put in place to mitigate its effects. For example, greater sanitization techniques should be instituted by the administration and executed by the custodial staff.
