Although we as an editorial board are divided in our views of the single sanction, we share the belief that Option 2 is the right choice for students.
Given that the University has sought ways to make the academical village more accessible to students, the administration should offer the ground floors of pavilions as general student space that will draw more students to the Lawn.
In order to better its system of pedagogical evaluations, the University should consider implementing compulsory, non-anonymous course evaluation forms complemented by peer review from other professors each semester.
Sexual assault is an issue that demands more serious analysis than our lawmakers are giving it. Guns won’t solve the sexual assault epidemic — the sooner our legislators realize this, the better.
While CARS has yet to see its lack of sufficient space produce noteworthy impediments to incident responses, it is in the best interest of the city to be proactive maintaining high-quality emergency services.
Changing its status from that of a program to a department would legitimize the study for those who view it as less academically rigorous than other traditional liberal arts subjects — something that may also benefit other academic programs at the University.
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.
What might appear to be a hasty administrative reaction to a novel behavior among students is actually in line with the way safety professionals have responded to other hazardous devices on Grounds.
Our mission to inform our readers with objective coverage persists, but the structure by which we achieve that mission evolves. We expect our establishment of an editorial board will allow us to approach objectivity in our reporting as well as possible.
Here at The Cavalier Daily, the 126th term is coming to a close, and the question of continuity — of preserving the progress we have made — matters deeply to us.
As the semester comes to a close, the Managing Board recounts some notable numbers.
There is no inherent issue with students subsidizing athletic programs; student fees cover a wide array of University resources, including services such as student health and University transit, as well as funding for Contracted Independent Organizations.
While the incident may appear isolated for U.Va. students, transportation safety — especially for interstate buses — is important for students since they frequently take low-budget buses. Inadequate regulation can cost lives.
Unless we see a new, strong vision for our team, we shouldn’t expect too much to change.
Under our current system, individuals in Charlottesville requiring emergency medical care do not need to worry about costs associated with transport to the emergency room.
As many other schools reconsider which figures they commemorate and how they do so, University students have not mobilized to question the commemoration of controversial figures at our school.
The push to prevent the admission of refugees demonstrates embarrassingly xenophobic tendencies from U.S. and Virginia politicians.
It would be much easier for survivors to record an assault through a program such as Callisto given its digital reach and limited uncertainty compared to an in-person report with a school official.
The college application process is by no means entirely meritocratic now, but the more personal it becomes, the less meritocratic it becomes, too. Admissions offices need better metrics with which to evaluate their applicants — but that doesn’t mean we should do away with metrics altogether.
Last year, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign revoked a job offer to Prof. Steven Salaita after he posted a string of anti-Israel comments on social media.
