Opinion

Opinion

Rate my MOOC

By Managing Board | February 28, 2013

Anonymous forums are among the Internet’s grimmest landscapes. Academically oriented websites like ratemyprofessors.com are pitched at a more sophisticated level than their non-academic counterparts — such as gossip forum Collegiate ACB, a dark younger cousin of Rate My Professors — but students still post with venom, often to the exasperation of professors who dare to give grades below a B-minus.

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Opinion

Skin care

By Alex Yahanda | February 26, 2013

The Food and Drug Administration exists to regulate products and protect consumers from ingesting dangerous substances.

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Opinion

A simple misunderstanding

By Kyle Schnoebelen | February 26, 2013

In an op-ed published Monday, second-year honor advisor Nick Hine writes that “anti-honor rhetoric has its roots in common misunderstandings … Kyle Schnoebelen’s denigration of the Honor Committee represents a larger problem in the overall honor debate” (“Reforming a perspective,” Feb.

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Opinion

Fighting a trend

By Sam Novack | February 26, 2013

This semester has brought to light, for me, a topic that was never really talked about during my first year — suicide.

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Opinion

Pulling out the weeds

By Fariha Kabir | February 26, 2013

Weed-out classes are familiar territory for most college students. Many have taken at least one such course either to fulfill major requirements or graduation requirements.

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Opinion

Jury duty

By Chris Collins | February 26, 2013

As a former student juror for an honor trial, I would like to respond to the recent article in The Cavalier Daily regarding the attendance of jurors (“Four jurors miss hearing,” Feb.

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Opinion

An unwelcome editor

By Managing Board | February 26, 2013

The University Board of Elections’ decision to alter the text of a proposed amendment to the Honor Committee’s constitution before voting started Monday raises questions of fairness.

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Opinion

Reforming a perspective

By Nick Hine | February 25, 2013

In the last few weeks the Honor Committee’s Restore the Ideal proposal has sparked an unprecedented wave of conversation about the University’s honor system.

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Opinion

Honoring our ideals

By Ashley Spinks | February 25, 2013

Fair warning: This column is about honor. By the time this article runs, voting on the proposed reforms of the honor system will be under way and The Cavalier Daily’s incessant coverage on honor will likely be winding down.

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Opinion

The right path?

By David Aramony | February 25, 2013

A few short years ago, I left the house I had grown up in and moved my familiar belongings into an unfamiliar room at the school of my dreams.

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Dressing up the problem

By Meredith Berger | February 25, 2013

In recent weeks, the United States Postal Service has found itself short on profit. To compensate for its losses, the agency plans to launch a new clothing line, ready for wear in 2014. The USPS has been struggling since the beginning of 2006, when it cut annual costs by about $15 billion and reduced the size of its workforce by 28 percent.

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Opinion

A student voice

By Managing Board | February 25, 2013

Monday we published Tim Thornton’s last column (“Highs and lows,” Feb. 24). Thornton was our ombudsman for more than four years.

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Opinion

When one door opens

By Stewart Ackerly | February 24, 2013

Today, students will begin voting on a proposal to reform the honor system. As is proper given the ideal of student self-governance, the choice belongs to students and students alone.

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Highs and lows

By Tim Thornton | February 24, 2013

This is my last column for The Cavalier Daily. I’ve been the paper’s ombudsman for more than four years, offering critiques and advice to the staff and trying to explain journalism to readers.

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Opinion

Home improvement

By Stephen Nash | February 24, 2013

Although I have been involved with the honor system since my first semester at the University, until this year I have never supported the concept of an all-Honor Committee jury panel.

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The people themselves

By George Wang | February 24, 2013

I was disappointed by the Managing Board’s lead editorial endorsing the Honor Committee’s proposal (“An ideal worth restoring,” Feb.

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Opinion

The other half

By Managing Board | February 24, 2013

Voting is among the few things that, at least in the U.S., can’t be done well online. Election Day was onerous.

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Opinion

Moneyball

By Managing Board | February 21, 2013

Though he’s no Ed Jenkins — who drained nearly $3,000 into a failed campaign for Student Council president last year — for second-year Engineering student Steven Harris, running to be an Honor Committee representative has proven expensive.

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Vice versa

By Managing Board | February 20, 2013

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.

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Opinion

Take a chance on choice

By Forrest Brown | February 20, 2013

As the coming University elections have drawn closer, the Honor Committee’s Restore the Ideal Act has been widely discussed.