If the University is to produce outstanding citizens, then its students should be able to properly respond to situations of mental health.
Most colleges, like U.Va., don’t have more than one daily newspaper. So while weeklies, magazines or other campus news outlets offer some competition, it’s clear which publication serves as the campus’ paper of record. At U.Va., that honor and responsibility falls to The Cavalier Daily.
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 United States’ decision on whether to help refugees should not be based on fear or misunderstanding, but rather in confidence, charity and compassion.
Through strict regulations and through the promotion of tuition-free community colleges as well as cheaper public institutions, Obama can effectively downsize the industry and provide new opportunities to aspiring students with increased transparency, lower costs and lower student debt.
Last Monday, a law came into effect in the state of Wisconsin mandating drug testing for recipients of the state’s welfare and food stamps programs.
What’s fascinating and strange is why people with little or no connection to France but for a brief sightseeing jaunt were so eager to somehow respond to the tragedy.
With tools such as the Course Forum and post-semester evaluations in place for this very purpose, the University has no excuse to offer classes that have received overwhelmingly negative reviews from students who have taken them in previous semesters.
This semester, two of my fellow Opinion columnists have written pieces concerning the presence of consulting on Grounds and its effects on the University’s community.
Allegedly liberal students are demonstrating worryingly illiberal tendencies at colleges across the nation, insisting professors retire for holding unpopular opinions and demanding administrators condemn flyers promoting the value of freedom of speech.
Instead of wavering on the future of particle physics in the country, the United States should invest in the future of high energy physics and build its own LHC-scale particle collider.
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.
The lack of substantive debate on this issue is severely limiting for the future of American and worldwide democracy. The inability to restrain modern governments to respect the same old freedoms of privacy through a new medium is scary because of the potential for abuse by those in power.
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.
Meat is so intertwined in our culture and daily lives people become downright defensive if access to it is threatened. It’s understandable — we’ve grown up in a country where bacon is practically worshipped and burgers rival George Washington in terms of American-ness.
Our freedom as students effectively comes from the safety net that the University provides, allowing us to make mistakes and bounce back. However, many students fail to use these “safety net” services even when they would benefit from them.
While creating limited safe spaces on college campuses deserves our support, expanding the definition of a safe space to encapsulate entire campuses is a dangerous idea that would have serious implications on freedom of speech.
With student protests gripping the University of Missouri, Yale and now other schools across the country, it’s hard not to ask what lessons to draw from all the turmoil.
The reason so many conversations about the Lawn end in frustration is that it is problematic to boil applicants and residents down to one or even a few factors.
It is important for journalists to exercise discretion over what material is private and what is newsworthy — and it is understandable for individuals who are not in the public eye to expect a reporter to respect requests for privacy.
