EDITORIAL: Carla Williams deserves her seat at the table
By Editorial Board | 6 days agoLooking beyond basketball and football reveals that Virginia Athletics is, in many ways, thriving.
Looking beyond basketball and football reveals that Virginia Athletics is, in many ways, thriving.
Investing in low-barrier shelters now will pay off in increased stability for the homeless, which will undoubtedly improve the safety of shelters and the community writ large.
After all, measuring the University’s worth in terms of accrued capital, operational efficiency and numerical rankings molds this space into just another cookie-cutter institution.
At the end of our term, we thought it fitting to share with you which of our 28 editorials have been our favorites.
The Batten School must allow professors to design grading systems tailored to the needs of their own students.
Religiously-oriented education is one of the most obvious manifestations of this regional specificity and one of the greatest drivers of censorship.
Until these bureaucracies have proven willing to commit to change outright, it is up to us, students and Charlottesville residents, to continue pushing for that change.
A large driver of this inequality comes in the form of collectives, the structures many schools use to organize their NIL payments.
To endorse, or not to endorse, that was the question.
The issue is that it seems as though the University cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.
The University succeeded where many other institutions fell short.
The administration’s recent suspension of the University Guide Services further demonstrates a willingness to dismiss the practice of bottom-up student self-governance.
While the second-year housing expansion may be well intentioned, the manner in which it is being undertaken belies its fundamental goals.
Given the success of ranked choice voting elsewhere in America and abroad, ranked choice voting will likely animate Charlottesville voters and improve our elections.
The University owes our community a thorough and substantiated explanation of their actions.
The Goldilocks ending — the solution that preserves students’ rights while upholding safety — lies in between August 2017 and May 2024.
Instead of retroactively responding to extreme hazing allegations, we, and especially the University, must begin asking more probing questions about the role of fraternal organizations on Grounds.
Our independence grants us the ability to ask the hard questions and to say what University representatives cannot.
Amid a national crisis of pedestrian safety, Charlottesville and the University are also struggling to properly maintain pedestrian safety.
Bootlicking is a time-honored tradition that stretches from Brutus to Henry A. Kissinger, encompassing very successful and famously cool individuals.