AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL at UVA: Why we still need International Women’s Day
By Amnesty International at UVA | March 8, 2021We must join women’s rights activists in continuing the conversation and demanding further action towards gender equality.
We must join women’s rights activists in continuing the conversation and demanding further action towards gender equality.
Despite the unprecedented context and dire issues at hand, Virginia's government sprinted toward the end of the session Feb. 27 — just 46 days after it began.
Not long after I officially entered the quarantine, I was emailed by a member of the University’s Isolation and Quarantine Care Team who offered their personal support during my quarantine period.
Autistic people need access to support, accommodation and acceptance, not the eradication of their disability.
The legacy set forth by generations of medical mistreatment of Black Americans has casted an enormous shadow over their minds when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine.
If patriotism is loving one’s country, then caring about one’s country enough to try to improve it is the most patriotic thing one can do.
It is incumbent upon President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. to demonstrate to the global community that the United States still values human rights.
The only reasonable — and moral — decision for the University is to freeze tuition.
A third-year College student responds to an Opinion Columnist's argument that college leftists are "gaining an authoritarian streak" in regards to their interpretation of the First Amendment.
The atmosphere and habits created by college life have made colleges campuses a breeding ground for the development of eating disorders.
University leadership must reassert its commitment to combating widespread prejudice and systemic inequity in and beyond the University community.
Every student should have full reign over what path of study they partake in.
While the weekly testing certainly provides peace of mind for many vigilant students, it is necessary that students do not use them as a reason to disregard current guidelines and regulations.
To some of these students who spent their weekends disregarding COVID guidelines, the pandemic is a joke. To the 40 patients currently in-house at U.Va. Hospital, this is a matter of life or death.
The First Amendment protects racist speech, bigoted speech and other hate speech — however, this is not a flaw in our free-speech laws, but a deep strength.
Our focus as a nation, particularly amongst liberals, must now shift from giving attention to conservatism to holding liberalism accountable.
At a time when our democracy has been tested and strained like never before, it is more important than ever that President Biden refrain from expanding the imperial presidency.
This victory should be viewed as a hard-earned outcome by the Black organizers and voters of Georgia.
Those who continue to party and gather in large crowds are willfully ignorant, putting both the University and Charlottesville communities in danger.
Students must avoid activities that would potentially spread COVID-19 and professors should organize their courses in a manner that genuinely allows students to have a break.