Christianity is less about negative morality (what we shouldn’t do) and more about what we should do: love each other, protect our natural environment and help the poor. Unfortunately, the Republican Party focuses far less on the evils of poverty than it does about the perceived dangers of gay marriage.
I am glad our police officers regard student safety with such great importance, but I am troubled by what appears to be an inequitable enforcement of laws in Charlottesville.
Herein lies the problem: research has proven American citizens are not treated equally by medical practitioners. The body of research on this issue is immense and covers the disparities in health treatment across a variety of different demographics, including ethnic groups that are sometimes overlooked by civil rights activists.
As I was completing it, I found the majority of the videos were easy to skip entirely, and most sections could be clicked through quickly without actually reading or listening to any information.
The Chinese model, though deserving of criticism, has substantial strengths that have fueled its rise politically, economically and militarily without the prescribed democratic liberalization. China’s success can be attributed to the ability of its leaders to work without scrutiny and plan for China’s future without pressure from forthcoming elections.
To assert a broken community of trust is to neglect the agents seeking to promote other facets of the kaleidoscopic “University culture”: the cultures of empathy, of curiosity, of art and burgeoning social consciousness. The efforts of these individuals may be obscured by the overwhelming tendency at this University to reject the fluid and multidimensional in favor of the concrete and absolute, which is easier to comprehend.
Right now students can only purchase set meal plans that have little customization to them. This drives many people away from buying a meal plan altogether.
Administrators at New York University have devised a unique solution to the issue of collecting criminal record information on university applications. In May, NYU updated its admissions policy, postponing admissions reviewers’ ability to view applicants’ criminal records.
Personally, I find it much easier to stay alert during lectures in Rice Hall than in Thornton, and I’m willing to attribute that fact directly to the facilities. Put generally, it’s not quite fitting to study the forefront of science and technology in a building that feels incredibly dated.
The fundamental problem with this convoluted system is clear: because FWS students are given significant preferential treatment by university employers, students who need the additional income but choose not to accept the award face the risk of not being hired at all, especially at institutions like the University of Virginia, which has nearly monopolized the job market within walking distance of Central Grounds.
Nearly every fourth-year experiences the undue pressure of having to justify four years of costly education by securing some notable next step: law, medicine, high finance. The problem is the latter of the three has flooded the job market with millions of opportunities to make money by helping others make more money.
Moreover, in disregarding Sandra’s issues with depression, her family may be unwittingly absolving the police of a lesser but still significant offense. If, as the department states, Sandra indicated her issues with depression and suicide, then why was she not put on a suicide watch?
It is strange that students, who are supposed to be intimately involved with self-governance, have no input in a system as integral to the functioning of the academic and social structures as the Internet and email systems are.
Many conservatives bash liberals for their attempt to ‘infringe on one’s freedom of speech,’ yet they often neglect their own political sensitivities.
A government in which the regulators and regulated interact so closely is not intuitively how citizens want their government to operate. That said, that close relationship can create workable regulations and encourage skilled people to become government employees.
Sanders’ vision for a nation governed by democratic socialism is — at its core — an expression of a desire for every American citizen to have the right to live a fulfilling and comfortable life, regardless of his circumstance.
Yet how much of a ‘learning curve’ should we allow our politicians? Clinton has come under fire, during both her 2008 and her current campaign, for — as Obama put it in 2007 — “triangulation and poll-driven politics,” i.e., altering policy platforms according to shifts in constituent opinion and refusing to make definitive policy statements.
The irony of Cruz’s insistence that the government stop persecuting its citizens is that the citizens in question were all caught persecuting others. It is an irony he does not seem to notice, but it also raises an interesting question: what do we do when one American exercising his right impedes the right of another?
The backlash against birthright citizenship for all demonstrates a resurgence of xenophobia that is startling to many. Birthright citizenship for all people is one of the great things about America, not a detriment.
The prevalence of bars and drinking institutions as well as the history of exclusion and instances of injustice make it clear that there is a need for a cultural shift on the Corner. Our first step in fostering this change should be the creation of a sober socializing space, open to all University students, on the Corner.
