HELLER: Opinions are not violence
By Matt Heller | January 16, 2022Claims that political opinions are inherently violent needlessly sow a culture of division — something which has the potential to actually provoke real violence and extremism.
Claims that political opinions are inherently violent needlessly sow a culture of division — something which has the potential to actually provoke real violence and extremism.
Author David Foster Wallace once wrote, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
As an Editorial Board, we have gathered key figures that define the past year.
The University’s current policy — only requiring prevalence testing of unvaccinated people — prevents us from having the full picture of COVID-19 cases on Grounds
The progressive changes made to the English language serve not to erase women, but to specify conversations pertaining to groups it may concern.
The University has made a 400 percent increase in area to commit to student health and wellness programs.
During many key points in his political career, Youngkin voiced and supported transphobia.
Before basting the turkey, turning on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or posting on social media just how grateful one really is, seek to understand what is really being celebrated
To frame King and activists like him as accommodating to American society — polite and gentle, messianic yet docile — is to strip them of their intellect, their cunning and their radicalism.
We must at once condemn the actions of Liberty University and recognize that U.Va. is not free from criticism.
With the first glimmer of normalcy in almost two years, the University throws us another curveball and demands we re-learn how to use essential academic softwares.
Between navigating schoolwork, the lingering impact of COVID-19, and trying to make sense of adulthood, it is vital for the University to fully meet the mental health needs of students.
The ultimate goal of this center would be to provide a space for Asian and Asian American students at the University to organize and gather safely.
Before expecting community involvement, the University Police force must make an effort to dismantle its history of discrimination and to show its community that their voices have been heard.
Labeling someone simply because they disagree automatically invalidates their experience, and becoming defensive achieves nothing.
We don’t purport to have fixed any problems or really changed much at the University, but we hope that our small project might model what is possible.
Before elections, a proposal will either be ratified by a fully representative vote before the Honor Committee, a supermajority of which supports the proposal. Or it will be advanced by proponents independently.
Until Washington changes its stance on the Chagos sovereignty dispute, the U.S. will be complicit in the U.K.’s illegal administration of the archipelago.
If the Academical Village is to be more than just a location at the University and become a real practice that will aid the learning of students, then it is necessary to point out the historical failing and fight to be better.
Arguably the most frustrating piece of the increased violence in Charlottesville is not that it hasn’t stopped completely, but rather the seeming lack of care and urgency displayed by University administration.