Specifically, Imam neglects to take into account that the University’s size is vastly larger than the universities mentioned in her column, which is crucial because large schools need a more efficient means of predicting collegiate success amongst their thousands of applicants.
Clearly, attempting to restrict access to abortion is not the answer to limiting its presence. This means that in order for the pro-life movement to see true success in its efforts, it must somehow shift its focus to other factors contributing to abortions.
Programs like the Bard Prison Initiative say they might actually save the United States money in the long run. According to the initiative’s website, the United States spends over $200 billion on the criminal justice system each year, averaging almost $30,000 per prisoner.
In this election cycle alone Clinton has demonstrated she will say anything to get elected, and that her core values and principles stem more from public opinion polls than serious conviction.
Any discovery short of finding extraterrestrial life is not, by any means, disappointing. In fact, as popular scientists like Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson have argued, evidence of flowing water does point to life.
So far, the investigation has been kept relatively under wraps. It’s not even clear whether the bureau is pursuing the accrediting council or the colleges under its accreditation. If the bureau is pursuing the accreditor, this would be an unprecedented shift in the bureau’s watchdog activity.
Punitive measures like expulsion may serve as negative reinforcement for students not to cheat — but that doesn’t have to be the only measure in place to stop cheating. Promoting a community of trust shouldn’t preclude us from taking small, preventative steps.
Changing the name from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day or a similar name wouldn't radically change life for most Americans but would be beneficial for Native Americans who would then gain more recognition.
With few organizations dedicated to black queer students or the presence of black queer students in executive positions, it’s hard to believe these spaces can be considered safe for all black students.
Academic creativity is stifled in many University classes. As midterms continue, students are stressing about papers and projects. Adding to this stress is an emphasis on conformity rather than creativity.
“Black” in reference to people should be capitalized because it brings to mind an image, a “common” people, a common history which in capitalizing “B” makes it a noun, structured with certain properties. The nounification of “black” calls to attention the construction of “the Black experience in America.”
Running a newspaper, even in the Internet age, is not just a race; The Cavalier Daily shouldn’t sit a story out just because it doesn’t get there first. There are surely U.Va. students whose sole source of University news is The Cavalier Daily; they shouldn’t have to turn elsewhere to see important headlines about their school.
Regardless of whether you side with the profit-maximizing corporations or the privacy-minded consumers, fear not, for there is a compromise: the acceptable ads manifesto. At its core, the idea acknowledges consumers want to continue absorbing the Internet’s free, enjoyable content without flashy and irritating advertisements.
First of all, to characterize the Diversity Initiative Award as enforcing conformity is a stretch. It is a scholarship intended to foster engagement between minority communities at the University and the Honor system, and to allow these individuals to provide unique perspectives to an organization that does not have strong ties with them.
Health treatment disparities cause hospitals that treat disadvantaged people to be far more likely to readmit patients within the post-discharge 30 day period, as people who receive lower quality treatment are naturally more likely to experience illness more frequently.
Education is a process, and it should be treated as such. There will always be numerous factors in play when talking about a student’s academic performance and intellectual development.
Despite cost and familial obstacles, students appear to get STI screenings in significant numbers.
Current high school curricula fail to adequately incorporate this critical component of U.S history into class discourse, which is a disservice to students and certainly to the hundreds of thousands of individuals whose lives were forever altered by United States foreign policy in Latin America.
With a three-party election involving a party (the NDP) whose views could have a major impact on our relations with Canada less than a week away, this election warrants more attention than it is currently receiving.
Our existing methods of projecting power abroad to achieve the policy results we want — international sanctions, military intervention when in our interests and advocacy of democratic capitalism — are failing.
