Though the Princeton Review last month named the University the No. 1 “best value” public institution, not all higher-education rankings are as celebratory of Virginia’s flagship school. In the 2012-13 Times Higher Education world university rankings, published October 2012, the University came in not first but 118th.
Mental illness transports loved ones away: sometimes temporarily, as we struggle to recognize a friend in the grips of a manic episode; and sometimes irrevocably — the recent death of first-year College student Jake Cusano, whose mental-health status was unknown, is one such irreversible loss.
One year after he founded the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson pronounced, “This institution of my native state, the hobby of my old age, will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind, to explore and to expose every subject susceptible of it’s contemplation.” With this quote in mind, I pose the following questions to my peers here at U.Va.: How many rocks have you left unturned?
One of the few upshots of not finding a job immediately after graduating last May — and there weren’t many — was that I was able to witness firsthand and take part in the community’s response in Charlottesville to the attempted ouster of University President Teresa Sullivan in June. As a graduate from the University’s politics and philosophy departments, I was inspired to see the droves of concerned students, faculty, alumni, and proponents of the public higher education system more broadly, who responded not only through powerful editorials and statements on social media and other outlets, but more impressively, through gathering in demonstrations and rallies on Grounds.
How many times have you found yourself stuck in the class-transition time crowd, moving slower than students leaving the Corner at 2 a.m.
After a contentious campaign season that culminated in one of the highest turnouts in recent memory, the student body of the University of Virginia has approved the most significant reforms to honor in several decades — albeit not the reforms the Honor Committee originally hoped would pass.
Donuts outnumbered people last February in Monroe Hall when the University Board of Elections announced student election results.
The bylaw changes Student Council unanimously passed Tuesday evening are a promising sign for the body’s next term. Council last updated its bylaws in September 2010.
I was shocked and horrified when I read of the indignities heaped upon Julia Horowitz by the thoughtless souls at UTS (“A busload of problems,” Feb.
A recent article in USA Today discusses the propensity for college newspapers to switch to a predominantly digital medium of publication.
After receiving a graded test back in class last week, I wondered how many of the students swarming the professor at the end of class to discuss their grades would complain about being marked too high.
With the budget sequestration looming Friday, threatening the nation with across-the-board spending cuts that would fail to address the long-term debt problem, political pundits abound who are castigating Congress for its inability to compromise.
Anonymous forums are among the Internet’s grimmest landscapes. Academically oriented websites like ratemyprofessors.com are pitched at a more sophisticated level than their non-academic counterparts — such as gossip forum Collegiate ACB, a dark younger cousin of Rate My Professors — but students still post with venom, often to the exasperation of professors who dare to give grades below a B-minus.
The Food and Drug Administration exists to regulate products and protect consumers from ingesting dangerous substances.
In an op-ed published Monday, second-year honor advisor Nick Hine writes that “anti-honor rhetoric has its roots in common misunderstandings … Kyle Schnoebelen’s denigration of the Honor Committee represents a larger problem in the overall honor debate” (“Reforming a perspective,” Feb.
This semester has brought to light, for me, a topic that was never really talked about during my first year — suicide.
Weed-out classes are familiar territory for most college students. Many have taken at least one such course either to fulfill major requirements or graduation requirements.
As a former student juror for an honor trial, I would like to respond to the recent article in The Cavalier Daily regarding the attendance of jurors (“Four jurors miss hearing,” Feb.
The University Board of Elections’ decision to alter the text of a proposed amendment to the Honor Committee’s constitution before voting started Monday raises questions of fairness.
In the last few weeks the Honor Committee’s Restore the Ideal proposal has sparked an unprecedented wave of conversation about the University’s honor system.
