PATEL: No guns on our Grounds
By Sawan Patel | February 2, 2016Rather than making students safer, guns transform potentially non-violent situations into violent ones because of their ease of use.
Rather than making students safer, guns transform potentially non-violent situations into violent ones because of their ease of use.
In order to be eligible to vote in a Republican primary, you ought to be a registered Republican.
As dangerous and often false as historical comparisons are, candidates will continue to make them. Instead of seeing them as a continuing problem with our political system they should be seen as opportunities.
While The Cavalier Daily has sections for less serious topics, it should take the ones that need serious coverage seriously.
Preventing teen pregnancy should be an apolitical issue: the fewer teenagers become pregnant, the fewer abortions become necessary — a goal pro-life and pro-choice advocates likely share.
It’s becoming increasingly evident in modern society that a technological revolution has created a vastly different world, shifting from the in-depth and explanatory to the quick and astonishing.
Instead of spreading taxpayer money throughout all students, policies addressing this crisis should be centered on aiming those resources towards those who actually need them the most and give them the power to choose the educational option, either public or private, that is best for them.
The world isn’t going to end due to Islamic terrorism. In fact, in spite of terrorism, it’s probably going to get better.
When examining an organization’s policies, we must look beyond the rhetoric used in each policy. We must look at the actual effects policies have on people. After all, good intentions do not always produce good results.
The Cavalier Daily has the task of vying for the common reader’s attention, competing with larger news sources that are much more capable of covering these sorts of stories and others more impactful to larger groups of people.
While this older, whiter group of individuals chose nominees whose demographics might raise some eyebrows, the Academy has nonetheless had a strong history of rewarding effort in film where it is due regardless of race.
It is my hope that if this issue ever does reach the Supreme Court, a natural-born citizen will be specified as someone who is born to a U.S. citizen, regardless of his place of birth.
One of the most impactful consequences of our world-leading tax rate is corporate inversion, in which businesses relocate to countries with lower corporate rates to maximize profits.
That is the weakness of divestment: It frames climate change as a moral crusade when it is in reality a scientific and public policy one. The world desperately needs energy in huge quantities that only fossil fuels can fully provide.
At first glance, it seems like a good sign that no one is taking the Oregon protesters seriously.
If we have already identified the terrorists in America, why are we not detaining and indicting them right now?
It says a lot about the distribution of political power and socioeconomic class in the United States when the city of Florence spends money to revitalize an area that then excludes many of the poorer residents from being able to shop, eat or live there.
It is very clear from looking around the University community that students are far from jaded.
As we evaluate the status of race relations at American colleges, we see two fundamental problems that have hindered progress: hypersensitive students who are too eager to protest every minor offense, and University administrations who are too eager to voice empty anti-racist rhetoric.
The word “terrorism” holds a rhetorical weight in current discourse that “mass shooting” or “gun violence” seems to lack, perhaps because of how weapons and violence are normalized in American culture, or due to the simple fact that they happen all the time.