WILKINS: GPA disincentives academic exploration
By Jack Wilkins | October 10, 2018We don’t like shying away from academic challenges, but we know that the course of our lives seems to hinge on the impersonal and arbitrary metric of GPA.
We don’t like shying away from academic challenges, but we know that the course of our lives seems to hinge on the impersonal and arbitrary metric of GPA.
Over and over again, our universities have ignored graduate students and post-doctorates from inclusion in these policies — these students should not have to choose between their child and job just the same.
If the University wants to protect the health of students during flu season, a program that is more accessible for students would surely help achieve this goal.
The University’s rate for housing for all first years is $6,240, regardless of which dorm you are assigned to, or if you are assigned to a single, double, or triple.
The University's foreign language requirement as it stands is overly burdensome for students and does not effectively take into account their previous experience with a language.
After experiencing a violating assault, survivors deserve to have their right to both bodily autonomy and agency reaffirmed.
When states underfund the public defense system they unfairly disparage the most vulnerable Americans.
The Charlottesville and University communities must understand the negative impacts of identity politics
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The Cavalier Daily’s Arts & Entertainment section has a specific ability that other sections don’t — its writers can tell deeply profound stories that come from the arts.
Under her direction, it is very likely that sexual assault violations will result in less justice for survivors.
Students must be taught to exercise their rights effectively and responsibly in order for them to best enact the change they wish to see in the world.
It is entirely possible that Judge Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court could end affirmative action as we know it.
We should foster existing relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical companies, instead of playing the blame game.
Considering the school's extensive endowment and Alumni Association the University should subsidize its housing options so that the financial burden of students may be reduced.
From the start of this campaign, Cockburn has been unfairly maligned by her detractors.
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Students are not looking for a hand-out from professors — they are looking for an ally in their fight to increase student civic engagement.
The Cavalier Daily's news staff should pursue the stories that highlight financial data to bolster claims and better hold the University accountable.