ARNOLD: Partisanship is killing redistricting reform
By Jordan Arnold | February 21, 2017The push for redistricting reform has come to a close for the 2017 session of the Virginia General Assembly.
The push for redistricting reform has come to a close for the 2017 session of the Virginia General Assembly.
Beginning today, you will have the opportunity to assert your ownership of the Honor System by voting, many of you for the first time.
The Cavalier Daily Focus section recently wrote an excellent piece on apathy in student election voting.
In 2005, the Consensus Clause amendment to the Honor Committee’s constitution narrowly failed to pass ratification by the student body, garnering 59.5 percent of the popular vote.
Instead of requiring students to request waivers, the University should adopt an automatic application-fee-waiver policy for first-generation and low-income applicants.
Any reforms to the Honor system will require a multi-faceted approach and should consider all avenues available.
The senatorial drama that ensued this past week is detrimental to our country’s political unity because it will serve to empower far-left populism and distort the messages of our two major political parties.
Gorman believes that parents would volunteer to be a part of a social experiment of this nature but it would likely be a hard sell.
The benefits of promoting civics education are threefold: increased community participation, higher voting turnout and greater civic action in both national and local politics.
When tackling a topic as important and vast as high arrest rates and criminal justice reform it is necessary to provide context.
There is little contention about whether there should be diversity, and I am sure it was an aim of the selection committee, but they seem to have ignored academic diversity.
University students have two starkly different Student Council presidential candidates to choose from this election year.
This year, nine candidates running to be Honor representatives for the University sought endorsements from the Cavalier Daily.
In an uncontested race, the Editorial Board endorses Malcolm Stewart for fourth-year trustee president.
To decrease substance abuse, the DEA needs to adopt a more positive approach to drug education.
The Honor Committee should respect the democratic tradition of student self governance and hold a vote on endorsing the democratization amendment.
Whisnant’s article is a microcosm of why Trump won and why he’ll win again in 2020 if liberals keep it up this way.
For the first time in recent memory, liberals have started to take the power of state government seriously.
The proposal they bring before the student body is misguided as it stands and would be detrimental to the careful maintenance of the community of trust if implemented.
The environmental impacts of natural gas outweigh the economic justifications for building a large-scale pipeline through Virginia.