Entrusting people with a criminal background to facilitate nonviolent intervention and providing in-depth training in crime prevention is possibly the best alternative to police funding or further, more costly initiatives.
Kneecapping the foundation of the country’s research enterprise just to follow nativist principles is an absurdly self-defeating, short-sighted strategy that is a threat to us all.
While this law does work to restrict the camera use, the data is still very loosely regulated, leaving it exposed to outside interference.
It is difficult to imagine how the University can universally take on such a widespread and continuously evolving problem. Thus, students must also be a part of the solution.
In a political climate where economic policies are mislabeled as a means of persuasion, it is becoming imperative to prioritize economics education.
So long as students’ power is limited to an advisory role in the administration, governance at the University will remain fragile.
The time has come for the Governor and Attorney General to stop abandoning their duty to defend Virginia.
For better or worse, a substantial number of students bring their cars to school every year. The University can either choose to ignore this fact, or they can accommodate their students.
The lessons from 1997, though brutal to learn, are clear — battling weight cutting requires systemic change. Yet, they are lessons that high schools have failed to grasp.
This University was built on student self-governance, and a University governed by alumni cannot stand.
It is time for our Board of Visitors to recognize the moment they in part created and still perpetuate with their general exclusion of students from the presidential search committee.
Departmental budgets, staff and course offerings in the humanities will be tightened, while curricular innovation moves elsewhere. This shift tilts the University’s identity away from its liberal arts foundations.
Virginia must remember that, in this new era of college athletics, success will depend not just on attracting talent, but on keeping it.
While gender-affirming care is one of the biggest ways U.Va. Health is falling short, it is not the only one.
With a new class of students arriving in August, Corner restaurants will face another test of their price discrimination and thus need to learn LittleJohn’s lesson quickly.
The sealing law is one step to help place Virginia back on this path of treating its felons as equal citizens but it cannot be the last step.
Specifically, the reduction of funds in public transportation may leave University students stranded without convenient means of transport. But more broadly, the environmental impacts which deregulation may have are long-lasting.
Instead of focusing on outward expansion, the University should focus on internal expansion, specifically by working to utilize existing classroom infrastructure as much as possible.
Hence, voters must make it their top priority to think critically and closely as they decide who their ballot will support this fall.
There’s a reason basketball has a color commentator in addition to play-by-play commentary — and it is the same reason why Opinion sections exist.
