The reason so many conversations about the Lawn end in frustration is that it is problematic to boil applicants and residents down to one or even a few factors.
It is important for journalists to exercise discretion over what material is private and what is newsworthy — and it is understandable for individuals who are not in the public eye to expect a reporter to respect requests for privacy.
The Hyperloop’s advantages allow it to be a far more economically and energy efficient mode of transportation than the alternatives.
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.
Catalonia keeps assuring the international community that, as a new country, it will be able to remain within the Eurozone. However, this isn’t necessarily true.
Students are constantly being cheated by this system because they are paying several dollars more per meal than they would be were the meal exchange option not in place.
The fact that other groups are not bound by similar restrictions is openly discriminatory. Fraternities cannot have kegs, liquor or any sort of mixed drink at a party and non-IFC fraternities and organizations can.
One of the main criticisms levied against MOOCs is the absence of any physical interaction between professors and students. This is a valid point. But we cannot really claim all of the large introductory courses at the University give students the opportunity to communicate well with their professors.
What distinguishes the events at Yale and Missouri is the severe disconnect between student protest and administrators’ responses to that protest.
I would expect people to applaud a politician’s commitment to his family, but instead Ryan received vitriol from reliably left-wing sites like Jezebel, Salon and Think Progress, and even more centrist publications like Time.
The current Israeli administration — and, arguably, every administration since Yitzhak Rabin’s prematurely curtailed administration in the mid-1990s — advocates on behalf of the former, i.e., the preeminence of Israel’s Jewish character above all other things.
The creation of an advising center in Clemons is a welcome change for an advising system that has long needed improvement.
More important than just taking on important issues, sentencing reform is the one change that can be made relatively quickly and unilaterally.
As Americans, in order to make sense of our realities, we have been telling ourselves the narrative “if you work hard, then you will succeed.” This aphorism is dishonest because it ignores the cumulative factors that result in a person’s success.
Policy changes have been implemented at the University, legislative changes were passed by the Virginia General Assembly and prevention education efforts have been created and increased. Have these changes made a difference?
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.
A desire to maintain — or perhaps, not further damage — U.Va.’s reputation likely fueled these attempts to intervene as well, especially in light of the three high-profile controversies of the last academic school year.
The University has not addressed a crucial factor for sexual assault victims: their post-attack emotional and psychological conditions within the learning environment.
By their nature, institutions of higher learning are incentivized to restrict the “free speech” rights of their students over the Internet, as negative or unfavorable posts can certainly tarnish their reputations.
The University has demonstrated its leadership on an issue that is not only just a few years old but also going through the legal chaos that comes with new initiatives.
