Letters To The Editor

Opinion

A baffling continuance

By Reed Arnold | October 21, 2011

The University Judiciary Committee/Honor Committee/Cavalier Daily debacle came to an end Tuesday night when the UJC ruled that it did not have jurisdiction with respect to a writer who published an article that mentioned a pending honor trial, potentially breaching confidentiality. This was something The Cavalier Daily had been arguing since the outset, but both days since the decision its leadership has continued to lambast the UJC despite the fact that the two groups are, for all intents and purposes, in agreement.

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Opinion

Protect college women

By Saha Khaterzai | October 20, 2011

Women between the ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rates of domestic violence. Approximately 32 percent of college students are victims of dating violence.

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Opinion

A positive energy

By Sara Bakrow | October 18, 2011

The University is one of the nation's finest institutions, and graduate students and undergraduates alike are lucky to be here.

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Opinion

In memoriam

By Sofia Economopoulos | October 17, 2011

A great loss to the University community was felt upon the passing of Gregory Colomb of the English department on Tuesday, October 11.

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Opinion

Burying people

By Joseph Artrip | October 17, 2011

Coal, the black diamond, is as its alias suggests a treasure to those who make a living off of it. The coal burned at the University's steam plant comes from one of the poorest areas of the nation.

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Opinion

Legally bound

By Bradley D. Williams | October 14, 2011

I am the coordinator of Montanans Against Assisted Suicide & For Living with Dignity. I disagree with Alex Yahanda that assisted suicide is legal in Montana ("The grateful dead," Oct.

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Opinion

Law, not choice

By Margaret Dore | October 14, 2011

I am an attorney in Washington state, where assisted suicide is legal. I am also president of Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation opposed to assisted suicide.

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Opinion

A PSA for PSAs

By Bill Turner | October 14, 2011

As a retired urologist having practiced 35 years in Richmond, I am gravely concerned by the new recommendations of the U.S.

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Opinion

Mining our minors

By Brian Fitzsimmons | October 13, 2011

Younger generations have led the fight in every major social issue for the past century. Their voices have collectively determined the outcomes of national and international events such as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, thus solidifying their position as a dominant social force. Today, the young people of the world have brought the fight to the dirtiest form of energy: coal.

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Opinion

A clean coal-lective

By Allen Chen | October 13, 2011

Usage of the worst carbon dioxide emitter and overall polluter - coal - is still prevalent in our society in surprising forms.

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Opinion

A political trap for women

By Lizzy Ramey | October 6, 2011

I am writing to you in order to call attention to an all-out assault that has been launched against women's reproductive health in our state.

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Opinion

Giving credit

By Gerald Warburg | September 29, 2011

Thanks to The Cavalier Daily for your coverage of discussions on Grounds regarding local, national and international policymaking issues. In particular, we in Garrett Hall appreciated having The Cavalier Daily's Monday front-page story about the recent visit to the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy by Rudy deLeon.

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Opinion

A bounced fact check

By Joel Taubman | September 29, 2011

It is outrageously difficult to get a Jewish engineering student with unfinished problem sets to write something on the eve of one of the holiest days of Jewish calendar.

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Opinion

Pedophilia is not humor

By Johnathan Bryan | September 27, 2011

On Sept. 26, The Cavalier Daily ran a comic titled "Whoa" by Tiffany Chu. The comic featured two bears, one of them holding a heart-shaped box of what appeared to be candies, and another the so-called "Pedobear" with a caption saying "Sorry!

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Opinion

In the right

By Michael J. Smith | September 22, 2011

As a faculty member who has tried consistently to support the honor system, I find the charges brought against The Cavalier Daily to be both mystifying and counterproductive.

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Opinion

The rights of individuals vs. freedom of the press

By Reed Arnold | September 22, 2011

Members of The Cavalier Daily potentially face University Judiciary Committee charges for breaching the confidentiality clause of the Honor Committee, part of the rights of the accused in an honor trial.

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Opinion

Understanding bias

By Omer Shaukat | September 21, 2011

The recent Beta Bridge incident has provoked some discussion within the University community.

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Opinion

The actual motive

By William Cumbie | September 20, 2011

The Cavalier Daily article on the Virginia abortion debacle ("Board approves abortion clinic regulations," Sept.

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Opinion

Political speech is not bias

By Emma Bennett | September 19, 2011

I was fairly disturbed by your article titled "Students file bias report" in the Sept.

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Opinion

Fluoride-effects include...

By Joshua Pritikin | September 19, 2011

I was admitted as a graduate student in the quantitative psychology doctoral program at University of Virginia starting fall 2011.