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Opinion

Admissions debate lacks black leaders

AS THIS paper goes to print, I am the only black columnist on staff at the Cavalier Daily Opinion Department. Some may say this means I have more responsibility than my fellow columnists to discuss the racial issues that impact University life.


Opinion

Proposed course reaches beyond books

THIS WEEK, just like last week and next week, there are tons of things to do at the University. I could listen to speakers on the history of nursing, cohabitation and non-marital child bearing, the muse at war, and soft gamma ray repeaters.


Opinion

New lab adds life to foreign language

THROUGH me the way to the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, ... Abandon every hope, you who enter here. These words, from Canto III of "The Inferno," might well have hung above the entrance to the University's foreign language laboratory during its pre-renovation days.


Opinion

Paintings provide precise weather history

YOUR MISSION, should you accept it, is to visit 41 art museums in the United States and Europe, study 12,000 paintings for their meteorological revealings, and publish your results so that this fate of hitting museum marble in your Birkenstocks need not befall future generations.


Opinion

News stories need more focus, depth

THANK YOU to those who sent in comments and questions in response to last week's column. Most queries focused either on the news or the on-line edition of The Cavalier Daily. Since the online edition is being refurbished this week, I'll review the Web site and content in the next few weeks.


Opinion

Debate stalls on Hemings Street

EVERYONE needs a hero. Everyone wants someone to honor. Some members of the Fifeville Neighborhood Association have decided that for them, that person is Sally Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves.

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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.