Universities should engage with those who hold bigoted or offensive views, rather than protect students from them
The University should make a greater effort to help disabled students find employment after graduation
Fundamental changes should be made to the Board of Visitors selection process
The Office of the Dean of Students was right to revoke FOAs for fraternities who conducted hazing activities
Because preferences of elites and average voters sometimes line up, the bias of the political process towards the rich is often masked, but given a divergence in opinion across the income distribution, elites win the debate with precious few exceptions.
The SMART Resolution is evidence that student leaders understand the problems of the community and can work to fix them
Leadership roles in these organizations often become a sort of hand-me-down system: students who know other students in certain groups automatically have an advantage when applying.
Graduate students, though, are a vital component of undergraduates’ education, and since their compensation, hours and working conditions greatly impact the undergraduate students whom they teach, unionization will improve the quality of that education.
The remarkable friends I made in the basement of Newcomb have been crucial parts of my education. With these people, with this paper, I was able to flourish.
I persist because even the worst failures of journalism cannot entirely kill the hope that Woodward, Bernstein, Sinclair and others instilled in an idealistic high-schooler — pick off the scab concealing a festering injustice, and the scourge will be washed clean.
The Cavalier Daily has done a good job synchronizing news reporting and opinion content
The healthcare system should place patients’ well-being above all else. Sadly, when it comes to drug manufacturers, trying to reap additional profits can often supersede patient interests.
What is our default image of a man? White, heterosexual, sexually experienced, able-bodied — when you account for all these different sections of identity, only a minority of the world’s men fall into all of those categories at once.
The best option for Final Exercises is to keep all graduates together on the Lawn and limit everyone to two tickets
Holding two separate ceremonies on the Lawn for Final Exercises is the best available option
Option three solves the problems the other two options cannot by keeping the graduating class together while also retaining plentiful guest seating.
I propose that the University adopt a similar academic framework — a “second-year summer” in which students remain in Charlottesville for the summer after their second year and take a semester off in their second or third years.
The single sanction should be repealed. It is the principal reason for the Honor system’s most pressing problems — namely, staggeringly low reporting rates, wildly inconsistent verdicts and widespread distrust of the system from faculty.
Compared to liberal predecessors such as LBJ, Obama has had an unsuccessful presidency
The Z Society is pleased to announce that Nicole Eramo, associate dean of students, has received the Pale Z Award.
