The University's obsession with the idea of "excellence" is hindering us from achieving the real thing.
Under our current system, individuals in Charlottesville requiring emergency medical care do not need to worry about costs associated with transport to the emergency room.
Blanket criticism of student activist groups for restricting freedom of speech is unfair in a society where it is already restricted in cases of necessity.
At the University, involving the police in situations in which people or music is too loud can not only frequently lead to unnecessary escalations, but also creates an inefficient outcome for everyone.
As many other schools reconsider which figures they commemorate and how they do so, University students have not mobilized to question the commemoration of controversial figures at our school.
Recently, protests have shifted from addressing more tangible instances of racial injustice toward a more abstract and distant illustration of racism: names.
The push to prevent the admission of refugees demonstrates embarrassingly xenophobic tendencies from U.S. and Virginia politicians.
The timing of Black Monologues coincides with a period of greater public scrutiny of race relations on college campuses.
If the University is to produce outstanding citizens, then its students should be able to properly respond to situations of mental health.
Most colleges, like U.Va., don’t have more than one daily newspaper. So while weeklies, magazines or other campus news outlets offer some competition, it’s clear which publication serves as the campus’ paper of record. At U.Va., that honor and responsibility falls to The Cavalier Daily.
It would be much easier for survivors to record an assault through a program such as Callisto given its digital reach and limited uncertainty compared to an in-person report with a school official.
The United States’ decision on whether to help refugees should not be based on fear or misunderstanding, but rather in confidence, charity and compassion.
Through strict regulations and through the promotion of tuition-free community colleges as well as cheaper public institutions, Obama can effectively downsize the industry and provide new opportunities to aspiring students with increased transparency, lower costs and lower student debt.
Last Monday, a law came into effect in the state of Wisconsin mandating drug testing for recipients of the state’s welfare and food stamps programs.
What’s fascinating and strange is why people with little or no connection to France but for a brief sightseeing jaunt were so eager to somehow respond to the tragedy.
With tools such as the Course Forum and post-semester evaluations in place for this very purpose, the University has no excuse to offer classes that have received overwhelmingly negative reviews from students who have taken them in previous semesters.
This semester, two of my fellow Opinion columnists have written pieces concerning the presence of consulting on Grounds and its effects on the University’s community.
Allegedly liberal students are demonstrating worryingly illiberal tendencies at colleges across the nation, insisting professors retire for holding unpopular opinions and demanding administrators condemn flyers promoting the value of freedom of speech.
Instead of wavering on the future of particle physics in the country, the United States should invest in the future of high energy physics and build its own LHC-scale particle collider.
The college application process is by no means entirely meritocratic now, but the more personal it becomes, the less meritocratic it becomes, too. Admissions offices need better metrics with which to evaluate their applicants — but that doesn’t mean we should do away with metrics altogether.
