The Cavalier Daily
Serving the University Community Since 1890

Opinion


Opinion

Watching the watchers

IN AN editorial appearing in The Washington Post on Sunday, Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) called for an independent board of inquiry to determine what went wrong with American intelligence that allowed the Sept.


Opinion

Sleep

IT'S ABOUT that time of the year that first years receive the shock treatment. After the first semester of college, one learns the hard way that work and play must be balanced.


Opinion

'Better' legislation

SPORTS are no stranger to scandals, many of them reading like a Hollywood script. Some actually have been immortalized on films, such as the 1919 fix of the World Series - known infamously as the Black Sox Scandal.


Opinion

Freedom from religious coercion

IN THE Virginia General Assembly, constitutionality has just flown out the window. In an attempt to levy their own religious beliefs on Virginians during the past weeks, many of the Commonwealth's lawmakers have forgotten the freedoms a non-secular state guarantees to its residents. On Feb.


Opinion

Budget

UNTIL recently, I have thought of the University as a collection of intelligent, hard-working people - students, faculty and staff - who care about one another and the world at large.


Opinion

Online on-target

SOMETIMES coming up with a topic for this column can be difficult, but this week it was easy, thanks to an e-mail I received Wednesday.


Opinion

The tuition tax

DESPITE the tendency of the "U.Va. Bubble" to cut students off from the outside world, most of us at the University are, at the very least, vaguely aware that Virginia is in some financial trouble.


Opinion

Any one of us

APREVENTABLE tragedy hit me hard this week: A high school friend is hours away from being put into the ground. I'm sorry to ruin everyone's Friday on a sad note, but I am glad to reach you before you go out this weekend. My friend, Dan, a University of Maryland-College Park student, was found unconscious inside a fraternity house after a rush event last Saturday.


Opinion

More than a voice

A BILL is before the Virginia House of Delegates that would add a non-voting faculty member to the Board of Visitors of each of the public colleges in Virginia.


Opinion

Facade of tolerance

UNLESS you've been living in a hole or buried in the Alderman stacks for the last few weeks, it isn't news to you that ten black Charlottesville school children have been arrested for attacks around the University.

Puzzles
Hoos Spelling

Latest Podcast

In this episode of On Record, we hear from Dr. Amanda Lloyd, director of the Virginia Prison Education Program, which offers Virginia’s first bachelor’s degrees to incarcerated individuals. Dr. Lloyd discusses how and why the University chose her to lead this historic initiative.