Opinion

Opinion

Good intentions

By Alex Yahanda | April 16, 2013

The teacher, in an effort to improve her students’ persuasive writing skills, assigned a very controversial project. She instructed her students to envision themselves as Nazi military officers and write an essay arguing “that Jews are evil,” while using “solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!” A few students did not complete the assignment, and parents grew incensed about the topic. The teacher has been placed on leave with many calling for her to be fired.

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Opinion

Common knowledge

By Fariha Kabir | April 16, 2013

The University recently announced its plans to participate in the first national digital library, known as the Digital Public Library of America. This ambitious project, which gathers information from an array of scholarly organizations, will give students and scholars access to information available digitally at other universities as well as at the National Archives, the Smithsonian and other federal organizations. The University has decided to provide the Holsinger Studio Collection, which consists of information about Charlottesville from the 19th and 20th centuries. In the future, the University hopes to offer access to 16th-century French texts.

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Pill poppers

By Meredith Berger | April 16, 2013

While sitting in Clemons the other day, a friend of mine asked,“Do you have any Adderall?”

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Welcoming arms

By Sam Novack | April 16, 2013

The main point that the editorial attempts to drive home is based on nothing other than conjecture, and it paints an inaccurate picture of students swaggering into class with holsters on their hips.

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Running scared

By Managing Board | April 15, 2013

Multiple University students, faculty and staff participated in the Massachusetts race. Mark Hampton, the Curry School’s senior associate dean for administration, finished the marathon about an hour before the bombs went off. The handful of University students in Boston for the race, as well as other faculty and staff members, also escaped harm.

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Tradition over truncation

By Walter Keady | April 15, 2013

Because fraternities are so individualized, a mandatory initiation date not only damages fraternity tradition across the IFC but also damages the particular new member routines of each house.

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Silence and stigma

By George Knaysi | April 15, 2013

After first-year College student Jake Cusano took his life, I started seeing the telltale signs of discomfort with suicide. With two suicides in my family history, the reactions were familiar. Some reflexively lowered their voices at the word; others silently refrained from the topic. Even my Sustained Dialogue group – an irrepressibly vocal bunch – found themselves shy of conversation.

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Opinion

The good old network

By Mary Wang | April 15, 2013

Instead of trying to make meaningful relationships with people in the organization, I simply put in “face time,” and, as a result, I could not compete with the friendships and bonds that other people had formed with each other by being genuine.

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Other voices, other rooms

By Managing Board | April 14, 2013

UNC’s mixed-gender option will, at first, affect 32 students, a tiny fraction of the school’s total enrollment. A bill that aims squarely to prevent these students from living in gender-neutral accommodations reads as an instance of the kind of bullying the school’s housing policy sought to prevent.

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Moral fabric

By Jonah Dister and Caroline Harman | April 14, 2013

University of Virginia Bookstore director Jon Kates is taking a stand for garment workers’ rights, and beginning next semester, students, alumni, and fans will have the opportunity to join him. This coming fall, the bookstore will offer Alta Gracia Apparel, a company that is changing the collegiate garment industry by offering an alternative to sweatshop labor.

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Opinion

The clothespin vote

By Ashley Spinks | April 14, 2013

Not only do I have no idea who will be receiving my vote — because I’m not thrilled about either frontrunner — but I’m also lacking my normal level of inspiration when it comes to the possibilities of politics. Virginia’s gubernatorial election has caused me to reflect not only on the lack of effective bipartisan ideas in politics but also on the un-electability of strong independent candidates.

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In the eye of the electronic storm

By Ashley Stevenson | April 14, 2013

The ABC dorm search put The Cavalier Daily in a tough situation.

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Opinion

A comment on comments

By Managing Board | April 11, 2013

Searching for praise in a thread of online comments is a fool’s errand, and positivity is not a metric we use in determining which comments to delete. But we hold that obscenities, defamation and ad hominem attacks have no place in respectful public dialogue.

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A silent epidemic

By Saha Khaterzai | April 11, 2013

One in four college women have been sexually assaulted or have experienced attempted rape, according to a 2010 Department of Justice study. Women between the ages of 16 and 24 will experience sexual violence at a rate that is four times higher than the rate for all women. And approximately 32 percent of college students are victims of dating violence.

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Ordinary places

By Managing Board | April 10, 2013

Humanities Week, a celebration of the humanities that kicked off Sunday evening and runs through Friday, provides a compelling example of how an organization can empower students to make effective use of common space.

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More equal than others

By Russell Bogue | April 10, 2013

Proponents of large-scale income redistribution as an answer to our growing inequality run into a problem: if the rich don’t deserve their money, who does?

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A tailored solution

By Forrest Brown | April 10, 2013

So how could appropriate actions have been taken without blindly inflicting punishment? The first step has already begun — investigate any incidents of hazing aggressively and punish them severely.

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Pledging and preclearance

By Matt Menezes | April 10, 2013

Hazing is not a fact of life, not a necessary rite of manhood and not something we need idly accept.

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A loaded debate

By Managing Board | April 10, 2013

Mr. Falwell’s university has a notoriously strict campus code in many respects. The school prohibits students from kissing or from listening to music that is not “in harmony with God’s word.” But when it comes to firearms the school grants its students a bit too much liberty.

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All bark, no bite

By Fariha Kabir | April 9, 2013

I perceive North Korea’s threatening rhetoric as a mechanism for Kim Jong-un to consolidate power. He is only recently in a position to lead his nation and needs to secure his position. Military victory is generally a way to secure and legitimize power. Essentially, Kim Jong-un’s threats are empty.