President Obama, please tear down this wall. In the midst of your meteoric rise to become Harvard Law Review?s first black president in 1990, the Berlin Wall, which symbolized the Cold War, was reduced to rubble.
As I opened my inbox last week to read about the economics department?s new requirements, I hoped against hope the department had taken the step toward relevance I have long felt it needed.
I often spend my columns pointing out The Cavalier Daily?s shortcomings.
Today the wishes of students become reality. In a ceremony at 6 p.m., John Nelson will officially take up the mantle of Student Council president, accompanied by newly elected Vice President for Organizations Colin Hood and Vice President for Administration Nikhil Panda.
If the Commerce School is the number one undergraduate business school in the nation, as we are frequently reminded these days, why can?t they handle a providing an academic minor for College students?The answer, as it turns out, is much more nuanced than a cursory evaluation might provide.
On Tuesday, the Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) showed the PBS film Critical Condition, a documentary that follows the lives of a handful of people as they struggle without health insurance.
I'd like to give a shout out to all my Doyles and O?Brians out there.
Anytime a student submits work for evaluation, that student relies on the objectivity of the grader to receive a fair grade.
In Monday's Cavalier Daily a story highlighted recent research by a retired Duke professor Stuart Rojstaczer on the widespread grade inflation on college campuses around the country (?Research cites grade inflation as cause for national increase in GPA,? 3/16/2009). Recently, the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese here at the University shifted its grading policy to remove the A+ from its grading scale and making it more difficult to get an A in its language courses.
For the first time in eight semesters, the day of the release of the Course Offering Directory, now known as the Schedule of Courses, will have little to no impact on my academic life.
Juicy Campus is dead, but the desire to spout uninformed opinions anonymously on the Internet is alive and well.
For all the pretense of ?student self-governance? at the University, transparency continues to be unfulfilled by both administrators and students.
A problem undoubtedly exists when the Secretary of the Board of Visitors has to assure students that the commencement speaker for the 2009 graduation ceremony is in no way ?a racist or an ideologue.? Yet Secretary Alexander Gilliam and other members of the administration responsible for the selection of Judge J.
In recent times, there has been some anti-French sentiment and a few caustic remarks made regarding our neighbors across the pond.
?Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident,? said President Barack Obama on March 9, following his decision to overturn the Bush administration?s policy restricting funding on embryonic stem cell research.
Since this is my last semester at the University, I often find myself evaluating my overall experience at this institution.
?I don't want to get into detail about [contraception]...Everyone should be abstinent... but it?s not realistic at all,? Bristol Palin told Fox News back in February.
People around the world are suffering and dying needlessly. Ills ranging from preventable diseases to heinous human rights abuses are destroying the lives of millions.So why are we spilling so much ink squabbling over comparatively petty University issues like the University Board of Election?s botched ballot for next year?s University Unity Project?
This week, I?m going to complain and Cavalier Daily Managing Editor Tom Madrecki is going to respond.
Tick, tock, tick, tock: the clock moves forward. For most, Jack Bauer?s fictional world in the drama-series ?24? is an entertaining escape from the real word; however, for some, it is a reality.
