A report issued Tuesday by a subsidiary of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce concluded that a shocking 29.1 percent of the City's families either are living below the poverty line or are not earning enough money to be self-sufficient.
Thanks to The Cavalier Daily for your coverage of discussions on Grounds regarding local, national and international policymaking issues. In particular, we in Garrett Hall appreciated having The Cavalier Daily's Monday front-page story about the recent visit to the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy by Rudy deLeon.
It is outrageously difficult to get a Jewish engineering student with unfinished problem sets to write something on the eve of one of the holiest days of Jewish calendar.
AS THE economy deteriorates further and the stock market remains in constant fluctuation, more Americans are laying blame upon President Obama.
REPORTS of schools breaching National Collegiate Athletic Association rules have become quite commonplace.
I THINK it is fair to surmise that many of you are either subscribers to or have heard of Netflix, the DVD-by-mail and video streaming movie service.
WITHOUT question, access to a higher education is of the utmost value in this country. This is true not only for those students who choose to participate in it, but for the nation as a whole.
When the managing board wrote a Sept. 12 editorial titled "Taking action" that responded to the discovery of several instances of plagiarism by a former Cavalier Daily writer, its members were purposefully vague in providing details about the student involved in the situation.
ON WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) painted "Palestine Deserves a State" on Beta Bridge.
LAST THURSDAY, Sept. 22, a story out of Geneva, Switzerland threatened to turn the physics community on its head.
IF YOU were attentive when walking to class last week, you may have seen the bearded strangers outside Clark Hall.
Charges were dropped yesterday against four members of the managing board who had been accused by Honor Committee Chair Ann Marie McKenzie of violating Standard of Conduct 11, which stipulates that students shall not engage in "intentional, reckless, or negligent conduct which obstructs the operations of the Honor or Judiciary Committee, or conduct that violates their rules of confidentiality." Although the board members whose names have been cleared - Matthew Cameron, Alyssa Juan, Andrew Seidman and Allie Vandivier - are pleased that the complainant has recognized that the charges brought against them were baseless, questions remain about whether the University Judiciary Committee overstepped it boundaries when it agreed to hear this case in the first place. Past controversy involving the UJC, as well as the body's own constitution suggest that it acted erroneously in accepting the charges that were filed against members of the managing board.
On Sept. 26, The Cavalier Daily ran a comic titled "Whoa" by Tiffany Chu. The comic featured two bears, one of them holding a heart-shaped box of what appeared to be candies, and another the so-called "Pedobear" with a caption saying "Sorry!
SURPRISE awaited me as I logged in to Facebook last Monday. A male "friend" of mine had referred to one of my female "friends" in his status update.
FIRST year at the University is exciting for a lot of reasons. Not only is it one's first taste of real academic and personal freedom, but also the sense of community one gets from arriving on Grounds as a full student is really something else.
"IF I HAD to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter." This statement by Thomas Jefferson at first seems characteristically radical.
