In her column (?Pointless preservation,? Oct. 8), Amelia Meyer refers to the restoration of the Lawn and Range rooms as ?pointless preservation.? Public and private institutions in possession of historic structures must make difficult choices about how to balance the demands of preservation with other objectives.
I am writing in response to Brooke Howard?s piece (?Pride and assimilation,? Oct. 8). Howard falls into a trap of making specious claims about race and attempts to address the lack of black identity on Grounds as being a problem of ignorance and mass assimilation.
As a former University Guide, I feel I must respond to Amelia Meyer?s column (?Pointless preservation,? Oct.
The University community deserves a more informed perspective in response to several misguided assertions in Sam Leven?s guest viewpoint (?Single sanction truths,? Oct.
I am writing in response to Sarah Wade?s editorial cartoon published in the Oct. 6 issue of The Cavalier Daily.
I graduated from the University 10 years ago. I chose to stay here in Charlottesville to live and work.
I am writing in response to Michelle Lamont?s column (?Smokers have rights too,? Oct.
Annette Robertson claims in her column (?Reverse discrimination,? Oct.3) that Affirmative Action is a racist policy.
I write in response to Seth Ragosta?s letter to the editor (?Show a little respect,? Oct.
In response to both Amelia Meyer?s article (?Academic self-governance,? Oct. 1) as well as Seth Ragosta?s letter to the editor, (?Show a little respect, Oct.
I am glad to see that Amanda Nichols (?McCain provides relief,? Sept. 30) and Phil Sukys (?Obama encourages growth,? Sept.
Alexander Cohen?s paean to greed (?The G Word,? Oct. 2) asserts: ?The only way to determine what money a person deserves is to let him prove it in a free market.? As a professional economist, I have two observations.First: Presumably by ?free? you mean ?competitive.? I agree.
I write in response to Amelia Meyer?s article (?Academic self-governance,? Oct. 1). I take serious issue with Meyer?s characterization of self-governance as a marketing pitch of little value to the community and her sarcastic reference to the ?shining examples? of Honor and Student Council (according to her, the source of ever so many woes). Meyer not only ignored the entire point of student self-governance but failed to acknowlege the vast effect that our unique way of administering Grounds has in molding the academic and professional lives of her peers, not only in school but far after.
Today is September 29th. It was a beautiful day two years ago, both here and in the central Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
A recent Cavalier Daily news article (?Third parties compete for votes,? Sept. 23) missed the opportunity to give readers a better view of what third parties and independent candidates are all about and, heaven forbid, a probing assessment of the barriers and challenges these candidates face to get on the ballot, in the debates and on the news.Rather, it noted that these candidates exist, gave a bland synopsis of what they stood for and then rehashed the typical responses that one reads in the media about the prospects for these candidates during a general election.A more thoroughly researched article would have actually told readers how many ballots the candidates are on rather than rely on Center for Politics staff member Dan Keyserling to tell us that, ?In a lot of states they are not even on the ballot.? Ralph Nader is on 45 ballots, including Virginia, according to his Web site, and is a write-in candidate for the remainder.
I read Dan Stalcup?s column (?Craig for a day,? Sept. 24), and though I have never met him I would like to shake his hand.
The picture of a Tibetan nomadic family printed on the Nation & World page of Monday?s paper (Sept.
