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.
What distinguishes U.Va. from those other schools? Is it only a matter of time before activists call for Jefferson’s throat here, too?
Most importantly, the policy of having class on Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving disproportionately hurts students who are out-of-state or international.
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.
Ultimately, the Islamic State does generate significant revenue from within its territories and the people it rules.
While it may not be evident to students at the University — a majority of whom grew up in a nurturing educational environments — 65 percent of fourth graders read at or below the most basic levels required to comprehend simple literature, meaning less than one-third of fourth graders in the United States can be labeled as “proficient” readers.
Changing travel plans is a result ISIS would look upon favorably, as it would disrupt Western way of life and the economy.
It seems to me our society often displays a cultural bias against mothers in the office and fathers in the home, despite 40 percent of women being the sole or primary breadwinner of households with children.
Unless we see a new, strong vision for our team, we shouldn’t expect too much to change.
Yet, for all of my stereotyping, I frequently fail to take their narratives a step further.
Attempts at increasing diversity have not maintained the moral high ground with which they began.
The University's obsession with the idea of "excellence" is hindering us from achieving the real thing.
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.
Blanket criticism of student activist groups for restricting freedom of speech is unfair in a society where it is already restricted in cases of necessity.
At the University, involving the police in situations in which people or music is too loud can not only frequently lead to unnecessary escalations, but also creates an inefficient outcome for everyone.
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.
Recently, protests have shifted from addressing more tangible instances of racial injustice toward a more abstract and distant illustration of racism: names.
The push to prevent the admission of refugees demonstrates embarrassingly xenophobic tendencies from U.S. and Virginia politicians.
The timing of Black Monologues coincides with a period of greater public scrutiny of race relations on college campuses.
