As the dangers of binge drinking, hazing and sexual assault become more apparent, it appears colleges are opting to take on the in loco parentis role they held in the past. But restricting students’ independence rarely results in tangible benefits for schools or students.
The importance of MOOCs has been discussed before, but what makes this MOOC unique is that it is the Batten School’s first. Truly embodying its title, the Batten School is quite literally leading the way for Public Policy MOOCs.
Despite extensive discussion on the prevalence of sexual assault on American campuses, I’ve seen neither estimates of the number of possible sexual assaults on Grounds nor estimates on the number of male and female survivors of sexual violence among our students, staff and faculty.
This general movement towards reforming punishment standards instead of focusing on the changing character of individual students is wrong and wasteful. Instead, we should focus on improving the integrity of students and trying to make them understand the importance of honor with a lower case “h.”
Last semester proved the value of student journalism — not just for the news it provides, but for the initiative it spurs. With this in mind, we have defined a mission statement for this term: “to provide the University community with new, relevant and insightful information that inspires critical conversation and even action on Grounds.”
The Cavalier Daily reporters don’t always do a good job of explaining their sources and in many cases simply don’t use enough sources or the right kinds of sources to give readers a complete picture.
We have done our best to fulfill our responsibilities as your newspaper — to be your resource when you need us. As we hand over our responsibilities to our new leaders, we remain optimistic about the potential for healing in this community.
In order to effectively combat suicide and mental illness, the University as well as CAPS must reach out to the whole University community, not just faculty and staff. This could be in the form of suicide prevention sessions for students or other awareness events and dialogue.
While the grading system is admittedly a strong incentive for students to achieve academic excellence, if the policy undermines the liberal arts education essential to the University and leads to significant inconvenience for students, reforms are necessary.
The crux of Olson’s idea is that “selectively choosing” whom to care about is morally wrong. Such an argument, while true in a broad humanitarian sense, is simply impossible to internalize in the pragmatic sense.
And while it is important for members of our community to take a critical look at the institution that hangs so heavily over our history, we must be careful not to forget the hundred years between slavery and Civil Rights in addition to the decades that followed integration.
Though these two addenda seem redundant with the fundamental purpose of an elected body, they may serve as the catalyst for the change Honor so desperately needs.
Post-renovations, the University administration plans to “take down or demolish” Courtenay, Dunglison and Fitzhugh to make room for new dormitories in the vein of existing hall-style Alderman Road ones. After that, the last first year suite-style dorm on Grounds will be Gooch-Dillard. As a current Dunglison resident, I find this prospect disconcerting.
The only solution is to eliminate this stipulation and allow for members of the Hollywood community to apply and be judged based only on their body of work and experience rather than by whom they know.
The potential for sexualization of hostesses in the recruitment process is problematic. Presenting prospective student athletes with women in an objectifying context only enhances an imbalanced power dynamic between athletes and female students at many schools.
The problem with the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie is it implies that if one does not stand with this publication, then he or she does not support free speech. One can support freedom of speech and still not support a publication that sets out to offend people by disseminating oppressive ideas.
Campus police officers — or any police officers, for that matter — do not have to cease carrying guns altogether. Threats which can only be combated with firearms are still very real. But we cannot ignore the issue of pulling a weapon too quickly or too frequently.
By any straight reading of the clause in the Constitution relating to the State of the Union, the justices of the Supreme Court are not meant to play a role. All the same, six of the Court’s justices chose to attend last week’s State of the Union.
We are disheartened and confused by the actions taken by National Panhellenic Council and their constituent organizations to mandate zero participation in Boys’ Bid Night by members of all Inter-Sorority Council sororities. While we have many strong hesitations and objections to their mandates, we would like to specifically focus on the countless active bystanders left out of the equation.
Instead of clambering to institute pointed quick fixes, sorority and fraternity nationals should be joining together to create a national coalition that aims to educate individual chapters on college sexual assault.
