I went through a two-year dry spell in college. For longer than a root canal procedure but less than the time it takes to adequately learn Japanese, collective reality pitched a no-hitter.
A year ago, I observed that Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University, had taken the absurd position that, although the Warren Commission had bungled its investigation, it had arrived at the right result: Lee Oswald was the lone assassin of our 35th president.
But it is becoming increasingly clear that restricting the definition of “woman” is a discriminatory practice, and it is not worth uplifting one minority group if another is oppressed in the process.
Connor’s suicide cannot be another off-limits topic that is swept under the rug; this has to be a discussion the administration is willing to have with the students.
The Ambassador makes it clear that lagom is the secret to tackling the challenge of balancing the protection of vulnerable populations and ecological systems with economic development.
There is no contradiction, however, between loathing the horrors of abduction, disease and terrorism and refusing to be scared in our daily interactions with each other.
Current long periods of service mean that, while the rest of America is changing, the makeup of the bench is not.
Just because the University’s mission statement stresses its commitment to diversity, the institution does not get a free pass from actively fostering and financing a racially and socioeconomically diverse student body.
Requiring colleges to report these different types of incidents rightly responds to statistics which reveal other ways college women are often victimized.
The administration’s goal of defending national security through increased secrecy measures has crippled press freedom and reporters’ incentives to investigate disconcerting or failing features of U.S. defense policy.
Criminalizing this type of drug use could act as a deterrent for pregnant women who abuse illegal substances from seeking medical advice from their doctors, if they believe they could be prosecuted.
If Honor were to get the Corner merchants on board with this policy, it likely wouldn’t have an impact on a large number of students.
The amount of credits required to fulfill such majors and minors cuts down on students’ abilities to experience the plethora of other interesting courses that the University offers.
The Occupy Central movement in China is a courageous act against the prerogative of Beijing and a justifiable expression of frustration over economic inequality, but it is not making any progress.
With a digital platform, The Cavalier Daily staff has the ability to have as many photographs or graphics as it likes without worrying about the confines of newsprint.
The college’s decision was obviously uninformed and insensitive, but perhaps we ought to be thinking about how these prejudices might manifest in cases where there is not an epidemic.
The fact of the matter is: Adderall only presents a serious threat when it is abused, just like any other drug.
A smoker’s right to smoke should end where a nonsmoker’s right to clean air begins.
If a university is to serve as a platform for the dissemination of ideas, it must assure people do not feel unsafe expressing them.
Most of us at the University are interested in more than one thing, and don’t need general area requirements to force them to take classes across disciplines.
