We believe the single-sanction system fails to protect and promote honor at the University.
A public institution like the University should not cling to a policy whose time has passed.
Papers like The Cavalier Daily should do their utmost not to take sides in elections and political events.
We are confident these candidates will be able to represent students on the issues they will face heading into the next term of committee leadership.
Our current system is not perfect — no system ever can be — but the ideal of honor, our community of trust, our current system, is worth fighting for.
The right to vote is central to the preservation of a democratic republic. Our own country can be characterized simultaneously as a praiseworthy beacon for a representative system of government, yet also as an imperfect structure in need of desperate reform.
I wholeheartedly believe Option 2 will bring much needed fairness and reconsideration to our antiquated system.
I’m no stranger to being told what to do. Throughout my childhood, a variety of teachers and family members taught me to respect my elders, to treat others the way I want to be treated and to abide by a variety of other mantras from over a decade of operant conditioning — all of which successfully engineered my moral compass into that of a “proper” American citizen.
We need to step back and reorient the ways University counseling services and our student body think about and diagnose mental illness.
The foreign language requirement generally fails to equip students with sufficient practical knowledge, and so it should either be restructured to allow for more flexibility or to become more rigorous in material.
We have decided to endorse third-year College student Mason Brannon and third-year College student Mitch Wellman as UJC College representatives.
This is not an attack on Sanders in particular. It is a call to consider the reasons for which we vote for a candidate.
A perfect hero, a perfect person, does not exist, and to demand that shows how extreme and inflexible we have become.
Her vision of leadership demonstrates an acute appreciation for the collaborative process that we believe should form the basis of Student Council’s affairs.
The sharing economy needs to remain open and loosely regulated if it is going to continue to succeed in Virginia and across the country.
The honor system does not merely belong to us — in a certain sense, it also belongs to generations past and those who are to follow us. What a tragedy it will be if we destroy that patrimony entrusted to us.
I have rarely, if ever, seen a fellow University commuter toting a Cavalier Daily newspaper around Grounds before. I have, though, seen many a person on their smartphone, updating the software of their lives as they flit from place to place.
Although we as an editorial board are divided in our views of the single sanction, we share the belief that Option 2 is the right choice for students.
If we want fans to truly appreciate the beauty and value of football, while at the same time lowering the risks of brain damage to players, the NFL needs to take the necessary measures to ensure a safe, low-risk version of the sport.
The thought that torturing a prisoner repeatedly through savage and inhumane acts in order to obtain dubious information about a possible attack on the homeland is a skeptical proposition at best.
