LETTER: Fear and lies, the new election platform
By Kenneth Jackson | November 15, 2017The saddest thing of all is that all parties proved they are not above using the same tactics of lies, deception and misinformation to win an election.
The saddest thing of all is that all parties proved they are not above using the same tactics of lies, deception and misinformation to win an election.
In failing to commit to your own health, you leave gaps of trust for the rest of the community.
The University has already made decent progress towards increasing the minority student population — we cannot let this progress go to waste.
The best RAs are those who are able to connect with residents on a frequent basis, and the size of the current meal plan hinders this ability.
With many of these educated voters becoming increasingly alienated by the Republican party, it would be crazy for the Democrats to not capitalize on their disaffection.
Students should use course registration to step outside comfort zones and explore new academic areas.
We should hold political leaders — especially those who have been monumentally influential in Modern politics — to a higher standard.
Voting not only gives you the power to determine your representatives and the policies that they enact, but it also gives you the liberty to voice your concerns with the government and its policies.
We rightly place little faith in the ethical intentions of our elected representatives, and we should never forget to take into account who exactly gains from manipulating immigration policies.
Last month, Virginia Tech and Radford University provided the personal information of about 40,000 students to progressive political group NextGen Virginia.
If the tech industry is truly serious about establishing some self-regulatory organization to prevent Russian interference (or some similar event) from occurring again, it could learn from the ESRB’s history and its policies.
As students, we have the leverage to open a conversation about the origins of our food and the political ramifications of eating it, certainly more so than prisoners.
Future studies on focused ultrasound deserve increased funding.
If anything, the 2016 election actually serves as a perfect example of why many liberal voters’ purity tests will lead to electoral failure for Democrats.
Northam is the better choice on education policy, both at the K-12 and collegiate level.
The new Cavalier Daily website boasts a similar section under a new name — Sponsored Content.
As members of the Charlottesville community, students need to be continuously informed about local issues and political figures.
Were Bharadwaj’s policy proposal to become reality, there is little concrete evidence to believe that allowing firearms on college campuses — a practice generally allowed in 10 states — would reduce sexual assault rates.
The implicit bias module and larger conversations that promote diversity, inclusion and a countering of bias are not mutually exclusive, as Ferguson implies.
The real key of protesting, of rallies, of political disobedience, is not to replace civil discourse, but to bolster and humanize it.