The impulse to stereotype is sometimes an unfortunate byproduct of the desire to understand. We’ve been rolling out endorsements all week, and in our efforts to vet candidates we’ve drawn some categorizations.
As the coming University elections have drawn closer, the Honor Committee’s Restore the Ideal Act has been widely discussed.
In the wake of the Living Wage campaign and the Sullivan Ouster Debacle, U.Va.’s new bout of student activism takes a more measured and varied approach.
Among the many problems President Barack Obama promised to tackle during his State of the Union address, immigration reform was high on the list.
The founder of a revolutionary educational movement is speaking at the University Wednesday. Daphne Koller, a Stanford professor and the co-founder of online-learning company Coursera, will be giving a lecture at 3 p.m.
Earlier this month, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican candidate for governor, spoke in an introductory politics class at the University.
Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me that writing this article is like when the Chinese publication People’s Daily picked up a satirical Onion piece about Kim Jong Un being named 2012’s “Sexiest Man Alive” and took it seriously.
The Virginia Senate passed legislation last week that would allow student organizations to exclude individuals from becoming members if they do not seem committed to the organization’s mission.
To the best of our knowledge, Student Council’s representative body has never gone on strike. But looking at its past attendance records, it may as well have.
Most student organizations aim to highlight their successes. Dollars raised and events held signify a group’s importance and make attractive additions to students’ LinkedIn profiles.
Growing up in the swamps of Louisiana, I learned a lot of words of wisdom — some wise, some not. You learn how to hunt, cook and be a Southern gentleman.
I am an international student at the University of Virginia who chose to pursue my undergraduate education here, from a 20-hour plane ride away on the other side of the world.
Sexual assault against women is all too common, and the University is no safety bubble — as the disturbingly frequent emails from University police regarding fondlings and other forms of assault against female students make clear.
Philadelphia has gained a reputation in the past few years as a hub of homicide. Hardly living up to its promise of brotherly love, the city has been grimly nicknamed “Kill”-adelphia, for it has one of the highest murder rates in the nation.
The Cavalier Daily endorses third years Brittany Wengel, Conor O’Boyle, Josh Myers, Evan Behrle and Julie Yee.
A former University student who was expelled for violating the honor code wrote an article recently in which he gave a moving description of how his life went way downhill after he admitted his guilt and “kept his honor.” He seems to make the point that his being honest, in the end, should count for something.
I have been skeptical of the University’s honor system since my first day on Grounds. Before coming to the University, I attended a residential boarding school with 200 other students from around the world.
Rolph Recto wrote a column on Wednesday that’s full of ironies on multiple levels. He takes a superficially relativistic approach to the value of different courses of study, but fails to see the overarching relativistic nature of the societal costs and benefits of different jobs. Governor Rick Scott did not say that the state of Florida has no need for any liberal arts majors — he made a case against a marginal increase in the rate at which Florida educates such majors.
One of my other jobs, I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, is teaching freshman composition. When I’m doing that, I try to emphasize that the skills necessary to produce a decent essay — the ability to evaluate sources and information; to organize thought and argument; to make a point concisely -— are also useful outside an English classroom.
Declaring a major is both easy and agonizing. Formally, all it takes is trudging to Monroe Hall, completing a declaration-of-major form and soliciting a professor’s signature.
