From Monroe Hall, where student election results were announced last Friday, it at first looked too close to call whether more Dunkin' Donuts or people were in attendance.
I am the School of Continuing and Professional Studies representative on Student Council, but let me emphasize that I do not speak for that body; rather, I speak to you as a full-time University employee, probably the only primary stakeholder in this entire discussion of a living wage. Jared Brown, in an email which I gladly will forward, calls us on Council apathetic and too ignorant to even read a local, let alone national newspaper.
Media General is a media conglomerate whose holdings and debts have piled up for years. The company owns newspapers including The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Daily Progress and prints and delivers The Cavalier Daily.
"Has there ever been a case of a student committing murder for the sake of robbery?" asked G.Z. Yeliseyev, a critic who could not believe Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment." The jury in the murder trial of George Huguely gave an answer last night, finding the former University student guilty of grand larceny and the second-degree murder of Yeardley Love.
In a move not rash, but calculated we will literally say, "Stop the presses," this afternoon to halt any issues of The Cavalier Daily from being printed tomorrow and Fridays for the foreseeable future.
Education is a business, especially in the Commerce School. Or is it vice-versa? The bottom-line is: Commerce students pay $3,000 above standard undergraduate University tuition.
The Living Wage protesters are now entering day five of their hunger strike. These protesters are demanding equitable pay for our least paid workers.
Some might say climbing the steps to the president's office requires turning your back on the Living Wage Campaign, which starves and strikes on steps across the street at the Rotunda.
