The humanities use its tools to pop the bubbles, to take apart the shed and put it back together — occupy it, learn its every panel and stand outside of it — from an outside perspective it doesn’t seem like anything is being done, but anyone in the humanities will smile because there is no instruction manual to what we do.
Things like love, hate, the despair that comes when your laptop won’t work right before you’re supposed to submit an article for The Cavalier Daily — these are things we don’t understand from observing; we understand these things from being.
Tía Ysa did not have beautiful hands. They were scarred and sliced from the sharp crack of machete against sugar cane. I turned her hand over in mine, poked and prodded the raised, white scars that were like spider legs crawling in her palm and asked again what would happen if you found a set of eyes while cutting.
Choosing a tentative list of courses with Lou’s List based on intellectual interests, before whittling it down with the Course Forum and Rate My Professors, is a better option than relying only on the possibly unreliable and outdated grade distributions put forward by the Course Forum.
Why should the stupidity of a few isolated groups make vaccines mandatory? Because their stupidity does not put only them at risk. Many people cannot get vaccines without risking major health complications because of specific conditions, medical treatments or age. The prevalence of vaccines in the general population is the best defense these people have against many diseases to which they would otherwise be susceptible.
With so much festive spirit in the air, it’s time to resurface that perennial debate: which holiday is the best? Is it the raucous debauchery of Halloween? The joy of Thanksgiving? The timelessness of Christmas?
We’re mostly just glad that the gubernatorial race — one of the most toxic and intellectually unproductive in recent memory — is over. But unpleasant as the race was, the results point to some interesting developments in Virginia politics. They also confirm some traditional wisdom.
Overall, however, I take the most issue with the idea that losing a holiday’s religious sentimentality automatically detracts from the holiday itself. I would argue that, in cases where the holiday promotes messages beyond simply religious sentiments, ignoring a holiday’s religious base does little to diminish the good that the holiday may promote.
Progressives on Election Day should engage in a collective act of nose-holding, go to the ballot box, and counteract reactionary voters who will always turn out no matter what. To say there are no differences between the candidates, as Brand suggests, is disingenuous and ignores the consequences of those differences for regular people.
More U.S. college students die from suicide than from alcohol, according to a 2011 study commissioned by James Turner, executive director of Student Health at the University of Virginia. And one in 12 college students makes a suicide plan, a 2002 report co-sponsored by the National Mental Health Association found.
To promote hazing as a desirable form of bonding might go against anecdotes from those who have emerged from the other side of the process, but it directly contradicts empirical and clinical evidence.
Our federal government’s increasing reliance upon the Internet and technology for the implementation of legislation, reflected in the Affordable Care Act, calls for a corresponding development in our nation’s bureaucracy.
If you see a drunk student stumbling home, do you have a moral obligation to help him or her, or are you just particularly virtuous for doing so? It’s clear that, though these issues might seem broad, they are actually relevant to us here and now, and having students discuss them in an academic setting will ultimately compel them to question their own systems of belief and everyday actions.
We write first and foremost to urge students to vote.
The Cuccinelli that the Democrats have crafted is heartless, extreme, unacceptable and unelectable. The real Cuccinelli, however, is none of these things. He is passionate about policy and about people, he is experienced and he is by far Virginia’s best candidate.
As a student at the University of Virginia, education affordability is important to me. It’s important to many other students as well. Terry McAuliffe believes that in order to combat the large increase in tuition at colleges and universities in Virginia, these colleges and universities need to be given tools to keep tuition low and financial aid high.
So, I can’t say Terry McAuliffe will be good for U.Va. or good for Virginia. But I know Ken Cuccinelli won’t be — he’s already proven that. Like most people, I’m going to the polls to vote against a gubernatorial candidate. But this can’t be the way we do things next time. There must be some candidate we can vote for, not against.
With two college-aged kids, Mark Obenshain understands the needs of college students in today’s ever-changing society. He’s worked hard to make their lives safer and will continue to do so once elected as Virginia’s next attorney general.
I urge the University to bring back the band. Alumni would return in droves to the games and the students would love it.
