Opinion
Don’t sit this one out
By Managing Board | November 4, 2013We write first and foremost to urge students to vote.
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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.
Rob Dickens and business partner Brad Scudder, the creators of the Great Bull Run, seem to not understand the religious context of San Fermin and have instead created a new, Americanized version of the running of the bulls.
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It is especially unacceptable for a school that prides itself on the liberal philosophies of Thomas Jefferson to have a legacy admissions policy. The Jeffersonian ideal of the “natural aristocracy” rooted in “virtue and talents” lies in direct opposition to the University’s practice of conferring privileges upon legacy applicants.
According to the Washington Post, McAuliffe is outspending Cuccinelli on TV ads by almost double. Given that the majority of McAuliffe’s ads seek to expose Cuccinelli’s faults and given that McAuliffe is currently leading in the most recent polls, I’d say there’s a relatively strong correlation between hurtful ads and candidate success.
4: Number of deans who are stepping down at the end of the academic year (Meredith Woo of the College, Harry Harding of the Batten School, Kim Tanzer of the Architecture School and Steven DeKosky of the Medical School)
So CSU has devised a plan: to build an on-campus football stadium that will lure better athletes, increase sports revenue and attract more out-of-state students. Or so administrators hope. This plan seems unconventional. But it is in line with a cynical philosophy that too many mid-tier schools have bought into: that the pathway up the U.S. News & World report rankings consists of fancy buildings and bigger stadiums.
I would argue that if a state were to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples that are equivalent in everything but name to straight marriage, this would be constitutional, and would not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Do we risk overwhelming students who come in with many AP credits and find themselves struggling in higher-level classes? Yes, of course we do. But that is a problem that can be remedied with higher standards for scoring on the AP tests. Perhaps a “5” should be more difficult to attain, or perhaps credit should only be granted for students who receive this top score. If the problem is lax standards, then the solution is to tighten those standards, not eliminate AP credit altogether.
With real estate scarce in downtown Charlottesville, developers hope that by accessing the public housing units they will be able to demolish them and build condominiums and apartment complexes for wealthier tenants. This will result in higher profits for landlords, but it will come at the expense of displacing of existing public housing residents no longer able to afford their rent.
“My Wednesdays are basically a wash ‘cause I have to go out Tuesdays in order to handle all this stress,” fourth-year psychology major Ryan Molhauen pointed out. “And don’t even get me started on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays,” he added. “ I can’t get anything done four out of the seven days of the week because I have so much stress. Something is wrong here.”
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Brown’s life differed from the lives that many students lead. He had a daughter, and had to contend with all the responsibility that comes with being a parent and holding down a job. But in other ways he was a peer as much as Schulman, Goldsmith or Gilliam was. He was a happy 22-year-old who drew smiley faces on Sbarro pizza boxes. He was like us. Our willingness to see Brown as someone alien, someone detached from our concerns, points to a failure of imagination.
Competent adults are free to make autonomous medical decisions regardless of how they justify those choices. But when children are concerned, the distinction between paternalism and autonomy becomes less clear.
So what is The Can Kicks Back? It’s an astroturf (fake grassroots) organization with close ties to an outfit called Fix The Debt. And what’s Fix The Debt? Glad you asked. It’s the pet project of a Wall Street billionaire named Pete Peterson, who’s spent recent decades pushing for cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Another Peterson-funded group is called “Up To Us.” It has similar goals — and a branch at U.Va.
