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.
Fair warning: This column is about honor. By the time this article runs, voting on the proposed reforms of the honor system will be under way and The Cavalier Daily’s incessant coverage on honor will likely be winding down.
A few short years ago, I left the house I had grown up in and moved my familiar belongings into an unfamiliar room at the school of my dreams.
In recent weeks, the United States Postal Service has found itself short on profit. To compensate for its losses, the agency plans to launch a new clothing line, ready for wear in 2014. The USPS has been struggling since the beginning of 2006, when it cut annual costs by about $15 billion and reduced the size of its workforce by 28 percent.
Monday we published Tim Thornton’s last column (“Highs and lows,” Feb. 24). Thornton was our ombudsman for more than four years.
Today, students will begin voting on a proposal to reform the honor system. As is proper given the ideal of student self-governance, the choice belongs to students and students alone.
This is my last column for The Cavalier Daily. I’ve been the paper’s ombudsman for more than four years, offering critiques and advice to the staff and trying to explain journalism to readers.
Although I have been involved with the honor system since my first semester at the University, until this year I have never supported the concept of an all-Honor Committee jury panel.
I was disappointed by the Managing Board’s lead editorial endorsing the Honor Committee’s proposal (“An ideal worth restoring,” Feb.
Voting is among the few things that, at least in the U.S., can’t be done well online. Election Day was onerous.
Though he’s no Ed Jenkins — who drained nearly $3,000 into a failed campaign for Student Council president last year — for second-year Engineering student Steven Harris, running to be an Honor Committee representative has proven expensive.
The impulse to stereotype is sometimes an unfortunate byproduct of the desire to understand. We’ve been rolling out endorsements all week, and in our efforts to vet candidates we’ve drawn some categorizations.
As the coming University elections have drawn closer, the Honor Committee’s Restore the Ideal Act has been widely discussed.
In the wake of the Living Wage campaign and the Sullivan Ouster Debacle, U.Va.’s new bout of student activism takes a more measured and varied approach.
Among the many problems President Barack Obama promised to tackle during his State of the Union address, immigration reform was high on the list.
The founder of a revolutionary educational movement is speaking at the University Wednesday. Daphne Koller, a Stanford professor and the co-founder of online-learning company Coursera, will be giving a lecture at 3 p.m.
Earlier this month, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican candidate for governor, spoke in an introductory politics class at the University.
Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me that writing this article is like when the Chinese publication People’s Daily picked up a satirical Onion piece about Kim Jong Un being named 2012’s “Sexiest Man Alive” and took it seriously.
The Virginia Senate passed legislation last week that would allow student organizations to exclude individuals from becoming members if they do not seem committed to the organization’s mission.
