Competition is not just a part of education, it is a part of life, and if college is meant to prepare us as best as possible, then monitoring it could result in the University less effectively fulfilling that purpose (especially given today’s tougher job market as compared to many years ago).
For years, U.C. Berkeley Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy made headlines with his extraordinary ability to hunt exoplanets. This month, though, he’s making headlines for a different reason: violating U.C. Berkeley’s sexual harassment policies.
Having a presence in Shea House would give the American Sign Language community the opportunity to hold a wider range of cultural events. To be clear, the program directors already do so.
While liberal arts degrees have inherent value for many students, they are not proving particularly useful for all who hold a bachelor of arts degree. Some students are discovering that, in order to gain employment, they need to supplement their BA with a skills-based education.
The University should minimize academic requirements for fourth-year students in order to alleviate stress and allot students more time to pursue job opportunities. Of course, the most fundamental purpose of school is to provide an education, and this pillar must remain, but the system can be tweaked to accommodate both education and transitional (post-graduation) help.
Our obsession with productivity is exacerbated by the advent of digital technology and the mechanization of menial labor, which ostensibly allows for more time to produce important things but really just makes products of human labor intangible and therefore unsatisfying.
Making necessary standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT more accessible may encourage high schoolers who may not otherwise apply to college to do so.
The school has had eight suicides in the last five years and four suicides within this last year alone. This rate is well above the national average for suicides in colleges and has led William and Mary to face stigmatization as a depressing school.
Despite the seldom appearance of a nuanced argument, the debate is most often predicated upon the notion of black superiority or inferiority based on the decision to attend either an HBCU or a PWI. Beyond the core argument the most important issue is why do we, as black people, engage in such a debate?
Western nations should not choose to ban the veil in all public places, as this implies a defined set of legally enforced “national morals” that go against the fundamental Western ideas of judicial impartiality and constitutional liberalism. Rather, we should discourage its wearing, without making the veil illegal.
The project of the liberal arts is less about gaining skills necessary for the workplace but rather integrating lessons from all disciplines into a positive, balanced mindset. As students, our success can’t be found in the next thing — getting into that major or getting that job — but from daily actions which form the foundation of a life well-lived, a life of happiness and excellence.
To make the most of its digital platforms and to justify the decision to focus on them, The Cavalier Daily should be offering online content that cannot exist in print. Undoubtedly, something is lost when paper is abandoned.
A simple alternative can be employed to mitigate the problems arising from “grade points” representing a range of values: the 100-point scale, which eliminates the unnecessary process of converting number grades to letter grades to “grade points.”
As October comes to an end, the Managing Board recounts some notable numbers.
The FCC has acknowledged the often unheard voices of inmates burdened by an old and manipulative system. As FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn notes, no one should pay “$500 a month for a voice-only service where calls are dropped for seemingly no reason, where fees and commissions could be as high as 60 percent per call and, if we are not careful, where a four-minute call could cost a whopping $54.”
In its relationship with Puerto Rico, the United States has had a tendency to address the issues that are of concern to the Puerto Rican people — but only when these issues are certain to draw the attention of the international community.
This piece grasps at these uncertainties by exploring what the CPP entails for the University and Virginia at large, addressing obstacles the state faces in fulfilling its federal requirements. Of equal importance is the role our University can play in the state compliance process. And finally — as stakeholders in a cleaner, more efficient energy economy, University students ought to be attuned to this discussion moving forward.
The emergency room’s position as the nation’s healthcare safety net makes it more vulnerable to mistakes, and the high-stakes, high-speed nature of the care it provides makes these mistakes more dangerous to patients.
The Republican Party has recently fought amongst itself to the detriment of the American people on two crucial issues: the House Select Committee on Benghazi and the upcoming selection of a Speaker of the House to replace Rep. John Boehner.
If the pro-life movement wants to reduce the over 300,000 abortions Planned Parenthood performs each year, they should start by eroding Planned Parenthood’s popular support by loudly and consistently rebuking the 3 percent and mammogram myths.
