LICHTENSTEIN: Explore new academic areas through course registration
By Jake Lichtenstein | November 9, 2017Students should use course registration to step outside comfort zones and explore new academic areas.
Students should use course registration to step outside comfort zones and explore new academic areas.
We should hold political leaders — especially those who have been monumentally influential in Modern politics — to a higher standard.
Voting not only gives you the power to determine your representatives and the policies that they enact, but it also gives you the liberty to voice your concerns with the government and its policies.
We rightly place little faith in the ethical intentions of our elected representatives, and we should never forget to take into account who exactly gains from manipulating immigration policies.
Last month, Virginia Tech and Radford University provided the personal information of about 40,000 students to progressive political group NextGen Virginia.
If the tech industry is truly serious about establishing some self-regulatory organization to prevent Russian interference (or some similar event) from occurring again, it could learn from the ESRB’s history and its policies.
As students, we have the leverage to open a conversation about the origins of our food and the political ramifications of eating it, certainly more so than prisoners.
Future studies on focused ultrasound deserve increased funding.
If anything, the 2016 election actually serves as a perfect example of why many liberal voters’ purity tests will lead to electoral failure for Democrats.
Northam is the better choice on education policy, both at the K-12 and collegiate level.
The new Cavalier Daily website boasts a similar section under a new name — Sponsored Content.
As members of the Charlottesville community, students need to be continuously informed about local issues and political figures.
Were Bharadwaj’s policy proposal to become reality, there is little concrete evidence to believe that allowing firearms on college campuses — a practice generally allowed in 10 states — would reduce sexual assault rates.
The implicit bias module and larger conversations that promote diversity, inclusion and a countering of bias are not mutually exclusive, as Ferguson implies.
The real key of protesting, of rallies, of political disobedience, is not to replace civil discourse, but to bolster and humanize it.
By preparing students for self-governance before they arrive on Grounds, the University would ensure that more students become cognizant of the role of these organizations and take the power that they have to make change seriously.
University life should be dominated by academics with the goal of earning a degree. While sporting events offer a nice refuge from the academic rigor of college life, students shouldn’t have to be used as blank checks for an extracurricular pastime.
Ultimately, the people of Catalonia have the human right of self-determination, which is key in protecting the freedoms of underrepresented, often minority groups.
As it stands, the current system allows fraternal organizations to exploit the good intentions of educational courses. These organizations can fulfill their requirements without ever engaging seriously with this important material.
Without black history and present, American history is incomplete.