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Opinion

Board room

A voting Board of Visitors member’s participation would enhance next week’s panels about the University community and its summer leadership crisis.


Opinion

Point and click

Online courses granting certificates for Virginia gun permits have lowered the standards of competency necessary for safe firearm use.


Opinion

Crimson handed

Harvard says it caught students cheating, but the school itself is guilty of giving a confusing policy regarding Internet usage on an exam


Opinion

Rank and file

Newsweek is among a coterie of media publications with a fascination for studying and grading the students at different universities. Yesterday the magazine released its annual list of the “Most Stressful Schools.” Although the University did not place, we are still embarrassed about this compilation, one indicative of a larger trend of list generation that wastes resources and could impact the decision-making process for many prospective students.


Opinion

Mic check

Although it would have required sacrifices, the University should have hosted President Obama on Grounds


Opinion

Make it new

You will see — free-floating columns, icons, a template of orange, white and blue print, and a linked edifice of pictures and Tweets, on this banner day for The Cavalier Daily.


Opinion

Without a trace

The University community departs in summer but returns for the fall � not, however, President Teresa Sullivan, who will resign August 15. The “mutually agreed” decision for Sullivan to resign was announced Sunday morning in a University-wide email distributed by the Board of Visitors.


Opinion

Fine print

Media General is a media conglomerate whose holdings and debts have piled up for years. The company owns newspapers including The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Daily Progress and prints and delivers The Cavalier Daily.


News

In defense of douchery

This University prides itself on rankings. The annual release of the “America’s Best Colleges” issue of U.S.

Puzzles
Hoos Spelling

Latest Podcast

On this episode of On Record, we sit down with Vera Abbate, director of the Summer Language Institute. Abbate discusses how the program builds fluency, confidence and community through intensive study and practice.