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For the past several weeks, substantial attention has been given to open records requests lodged in Wisconsin and Michigan that ask for the release of emails sent and received by public university professors pertaining to politically sensitive subjects.
NOT A LOT of people have heard of a baseball player named Charlie "Chuckles" Nagy. He was a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians in the 1990s, and despite having a productive career he is probably best known for giving up the winning run in extra innings of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, which resulted in the Florida Marlins becoming champions. I was in second grade at the time and was forced to endure this conflagration.
SUSTAINABILITY has been a part of the University's identity since the Academical Village's inception, when the gardens on the Lawn provided food and water for the students and faculty.
CAN'T SOMEONE else do it?" For "The Simpsons" aficionados, this slogan conjures up the episode in which Homer ran for sanitation commissioner and sang a parody of "The Candy Man" called "The Garbage Man." In many episodes, Homer represents mankind's flaws.
When the Board of Visitors approved an across-the-board 8.9 percent tuition and fees increase for undergraduates last week, it was the latest blow to University students and their parents who are struggling to cope with the rising costs of higher education.
In his open letter to Dean Groves, published March 28, fourth-year Keenan Davis expressed hope that students and faculty would respond in solidarity to the recent anti-Semitic actions on Grounds.
IN A FRIGHTENING study released last month, Newsweek magazine announced that 38 percent of Americans do not have enough knowledge about their own country to pass its citizenship test.
NINETY years ago, C. P. Scott celebrated his fiftieth year as editor of a British newspaper called the Guardian and the one hundredth anniversary of the Guardian itself with a commentary.
ON APRIL 8, the University's Human Resources Department circulated a "free speech" memo to all staff and faculty.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is a federal statute about which most students know very little, despite dealing with it on a regular basis.
"I SCORED in the 99th percentile on the ACT. I'm actually an Eagle Scout. I own and operate my own small business.
THERE are several epiphanies that have made me sit up from mental slumber in my modern physics class this semester, but I suppose the one I should talk about here is the fact that the neutron was discovered only in 1932.
TODAY, as we inaugurate our first female president, we can be proud of the progress this university has made toward overcoming its history of exclusion.
When Virginia legislators convened several weeks ago to redraw the lines of the state's House and Senate districts, there was hope the state finally would escape its endless cycle of partisan gerrymandering.
FOR THE Class of 2015, the University received 23,942 applications. This figure represents a 6 percent increase from the number of applications submitted for the Class of 2014.
