The benefits of promoting civics education are threefold: increased community participation, higher voting turnout and greater civic action in both national and local politics.
When tackling a topic as important and vast as high arrest rates and criminal justice reform it is necessary to provide context.
There is little contention about whether there should be diversity, and I am sure it was an aim of the selection committee, but they seem to have ignored academic diversity.
University students have two starkly different Student Council presidential candidates to choose from this election year.
This year, nine candidates running to be Honor representatives for the University sought endorsements from the Cavalier Daily.
In an uncontested race, the Editorial Board endorses Malcolm Stewart for fourth-year trustee president.
To decrease substance abuse, the DEA needs to adopt a more positive approach to drug education.
The Honor Committee should respect the democratic tradition of student self governance and hold a vote on endorsing the democratization amendment.
Whisnant’s article is a microcosm of why Trump won and why he’ll win again in 2020 if liberals keep it up this way.
For the first time in recent memory, liberals have started to take the power of state government seriously.
The proposal they bring before the student body is misguided as it stands and would be detrimental to the careful maintenance of the community of trust if implemented.
The environmental impacts of natural gas outweigh the economic justifications for building a large-scale pipeline through Virginia.
The hesitancy on the part of service providers is reasonable since, often, the population density in rural areas is simply not high enough to justify expansion to those areas.
Cutting off funding for abortions is only going to make women’s lives harder without providing any solutions.
In American society, disadvantage (or the lack thereof) begins at birth.
In voting to defund the organization, legislators are endangering the health of thousands of Virginians.
We simply write this editorial to ensure that you, as you consider the arguments for and against the proposal, will do so fully aware of the relevant facts.
Student demand for mental health services is increasing around the nation and any new resources would be helpful to students in need.
The defining story in foreign affairs right now is the Syrian civil war. As the war drags on into its fifth year, there has been a death count of over 300,000.
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