NEXT WEEK students are going to have the opportunity to vote to make a major change to the way our honor system operates.
TO SAY that the honor system is flawed would be an understatement. However, even the strongest proponents of reform should think twice about supporting the current referendum put forth by Hoos Against Single Sanction (HASS). Their proposed amendment to the honor constitution would do two things: 1) it would retain expulsion as the default punishment for honor offenses and 2) it would vastly expand the powers of the Honor Committee, by enabling them to sanction trivial honor offenses.Currently, the Committee operates in relative secrecy with little to no oversight, and is capable of making a number of significant errors that can greatly influence students? lives.
?SUNLIGHT is said to be the best of disinfectants.? These words were spoken by U.S.
IT?S A newspaper?s Holy Grail. And it?s not just about journalists? desire to be liked.
IN MY FIRST semester as editor-in-chief, I remarked on more than one occasion that I felt as if someone was driving a metaphorical Mack truck over my life, putting the truck in reverse and then running over me again.
AS A STUDENT at Cornell, Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite writers, worked for Cornell?s student newspaper, The Daily Sun.
THEY SAY it takes a village to raise a child, and the same concept applies to The Cavalier Daily.
I DON?T actually get this whole ?parting shot? business.
AS A PRELUDE to what will undoubtedly be an abysmal column, I will warn anyone reading this that I am a math major who has never written anything for The Cavalier Daily before.
Frigid and half-asleep, I nestled into my seat in Ruffner Hall last Wednesday, ardently awaiting another lecture by Melvyn Leffler, Edward Stettinius professor of history.
Election season may be over nationally but in Virginia it is just starting to heat up again as the 2009 statewide elections are nine months away.
With Student Council elections fast approaching, this is an ideal time to evaluate what the University Unity Project has accomplished over the past year and whether it is worth continuing in the future.
The Super Bowl has become iconic not so much for the
Our honor system isn?t perfect. But imagine it was far worse.
BACK IN THE fall, in the hectic heyday of the presidential campaign, Michelle Obama came to the University to speak outside of Newcomb Hall to a crowd of students and townspeople alike.
WE WALK past them every day on the way to class. They loom over us like giant white gods, their shadows encompassing our small figures as we enter a building or walk down the Lawn.
CURRENTLY the commonwealth of Virginia does not allow anyone to carry a firearm on school property, including university property.
RECENTLY, the process of the Honor system has come under intense scrutiny in these pages.
AS MY SWEATY pen scribbled ferociously at a Middle East Institute conference in Washington, D.C., the panel moderator Graeme Bannerman pursed his lips, furrowed his brow, and unleashed a stinging rebuke of U.S.
