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COLLEGE years pass us by quickly. No one knows this better than the graduating Class of 2011. Therefore, as we enjoy our remaining days here, we should take time to reflect on the qualities that make the University truly distinct. One is the University's designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
This just in: Thomas Jefferson was not born on American soil. As his last name clearly indicates, he is an Englishman through and through.
IT IS NOT every day a teaching assistant tells you there is something you should not read
Nearly nine months after taking office, Teresa A. Sullivan officially was inaugurated as University president April 15.
THROUGHOUT history, we have seen our once narrowly defined gender roles progressively expand. Today, women serve in the armed forces, work as surgeons and participate in the highest levels of government.
Student Council last night formally created the Green Initiative Funding Tomorrow Committee, which will manage its namesake sustainability fund students approved in a 2010 referendum.
POLITICAL correctness is a social construction. Created in the mind of the collective, PC culture is used to chastise individuals who are considered to be acting offensively toward a protected group. There is a place for social protocol in influencing how individuals refer to one another in polite society.
Earlier this month, the faculty council at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill voted to enact revisions to the school's transcript format that are meant to counteract grade inflation.
WHEN SOMEONE tells me for the first time that he or she read one of my articles in the newspaper, I always have the same reaction.
University students who are tiring of the ubiquitous sights and sounds of construction on Grounds might not be thrilled that significant renovations will begin at a popular off-Grounds location, Barracks Road Shopping Center, next month.
FINALS. Papers. Projects. It is the season of evaluation. In that spirit, consider a few things that appeared in The Cavalier Daily last week. Teresa A.
UNIVERSITY students recently chose their classes for next semester. As usual, they were given a sign-up time and had to wait anxiously until SIS allowed them to enroll.
I sympathize wholeheartedly with the members of the Living Wage Campaign described in your April 21 article ("Protest targets salaries"), and applaud them for holding President Sullivan's administration to account.
948: Dollar amount by which in-state undergraduate students will see their tuition rise for the 2011-12 academic year after the Board of Visitors enacted an 8.9 percent hike last week 2,996: Dollar amount by which out-of-state undergraduate students will see their tuition rise for the 2011-12 academic year 5: Number of minutes late, on average, students arrive to class during the spring semester as a result of the hordes of incoming and prospective students clogging up pathways across Grounds 10: Number of victories Duke has tallied against the Virginia men's lacrosse team during the last 11 meetings between the two rivals 136,500: Average salary, in dollars, of full professors at the University 5: Percentage increase in the minimum wage that will be paid to University employees effective July 1, as announced this week by President Teresa A.
When we were marching around Madison Hall, with people at the head and the end of the troop chanting different slogans, a girl next to me commented, "It's so absurd," which is exactly what I felt at that moment. Why did I feel absurd in the rally for a living wage?
