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Opinion

On the razor’s edge

By Managing Board | March 20, 2013

If you were to camp out by Minor Hall, a few times a semester you would see professors and students file in for lectures on liberal arts and the future of the university. Each time the group would look much the same: literary critics and classicists, historians and philosophers, eager students in square-rimmed glasses. Would they gather so frequently to discuss the state of higher education if there weren’t a danger that their world could collapse?

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Opinion

The past isn’t dead

By Managing Board | March 18, 2013

Like adults speaking with hushed voices at the dinner table, some University leaders have moved to bar what they euphemistically call “the summer’s unpleasantness” — the Board of Visitors’ attempted ouster of University President Teresa Sullivan — from polite conversation.

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Opinion

Not a firing range

By Managing Board | March 17, 2013

Gun violence in Charlottesville is not a new phenomenon. If shootings occur far enough from the University’s bubble, students may never hear about them.

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Opinion

By the numbers

By Managing Board | March 8, 2013

The managing board’s occasional survey of notable numerals

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Opinion

Snowed in

By Managing Board | March 6, 2013

Clumsy authors often use weather to bombastically set a scene’s mood or signify a character’s emotions.

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Opinion

A deserved omission

By Managing Board | March 5, 2013

Though the Princeton Review last month named the University the No. 1 “best value” public institution, not all higher-education rankings are as celebratory of Virginia’s flagship school. In the 2012-13 Times Higher Education world university rankings, published October 2012, the University came in not first but 118th.

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Opinion

CAPS and trade

By Managing Board | March 4, 2013

Mental illness transports loved ones away: sometimes temporarily, as we struggle to recognize a friend in the grips of a manic episode; and sometimes irrevocably — the recent death of first-year College student Jake Cusano, whose mental-health status was unknown, is one such irreversible loss.

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Opinion

Bored of elections

By Managing Board | March 3, 2013

Donuts outnumbered people last February in Monroe Hall when the University Board of Elections announced student election results.

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Opinion

Bracing for change

By Managing Board | February 28, 2013

The bylaw changes Student Council unanimously passed Tuesday evening are a promising sign for the body’s next term. Council last updated its bylaws in September 2010.

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Opinion

Rate my MOOC

By Managing Board | February 28, 2013

Anonymous forums are among the Internet’s grimmest landscapes. Academically oriented websites like ratemyprofessors.com are pitched at a more sophisticated level than their non-academic counterparts — such as gossip forum Collegiate ACB, a dark younger cousin of Rate My Professors — but students still post with venom, often to the exasperation of professors who dare to give grades below a B-minus.

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Opinion

An unwelcome editor

By Managing Board | February 26, 2013

The University Board of Elections’ decision to alter the text of a proposed amendment to the Honor Committee’s constitution before voting started Monday raises questions of fairness.

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Opinion

A student voice

By Managing Board | February 25, 2013

Monday we published Tim Thornton’s last column (“Highs and lows,” Feb. 24). Thornton was our ombudsman for more than four years.

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Opinion

The other half

By Managing Board | February 24, 2013

Voting is among the few things that, at least in the U.S., can’t be done well online. Election Day was onerous.

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Opinion

Moneyball

By Managing Board | February 21, 2013

Though he’s no Ed Jenkins — who drained nearly $3,000 into a failed campaign for Student Council president last year — for second-year Engineering student Steven Harris, running to be an Honor Committee representative has proven expensive.

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Opinion

Vice versa

By Managing Board | February 20, 2013

The impulse to stereotype is sometimes an unfortunate byproduct of the desire to understand. We’ve been rolling out endorsements all week, and in our efforts to vet candidates we’ve drawn some categorizations.

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Opinion

A representative sample

By Managing Board | February 19, 2013

To the best of our knowledge, Student Council’s representative body has never gone on strike. But looking at its past attendance records, it may as well have.

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Opinion

Honorable intentions

By Managing Board | February 18, 2013

The Cavalier Daily endorses third years Brittany Wengel, Conor O’Boyle, Josh Myers, Evan Behrle and Julie Yee.

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Opinion

Nothing to declare

By Managing Board | February 14, 2013

Declaring a major is both easy and agonizing. Formally, all it takes is trudging to Monroe Hall, completing a declaration-of-major form and soliciting a professor’s signature.

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Opinion

Logic and logistics

By Managing Board | February 14, 2013

People in certain corners of the business world might think of something tangible — phone calls, paperwork, red pens — when they hear the word “logistics.” For such people, improving logistics may be an art with its own delicate pleasures and frustrations.

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Opinion

Virginia is for lovers

By Managing Board | January 29, 2013

The Virginia Senate Friday voted 24-16 to approve a bill protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer state employees from workplace discrimination.