Punitive measures like expulsion may serve as negative reinforcement for students not to cheat — but that doesn’t have to be the only measure in place to stop cheating. Promoting a community of trust shouldn’t preclude us from taking small, preventative steps.
Changing the name from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day or a similar name wouldn't radically change life for most Americans but would be beneficial for Native Americans who would then gain more recognition.
With few organizations dedicated to black queer students or the presence of black queer students in executive positions, it’s hard to believe these spaces can be considered safe for all black students.
Academic creativity is stifled in many University classes. As midterms continue, students are stressing about papers and projects. Adding to this stress is an emphasis on conformity rather than creativity.
“Black” in reference to people should be capitalized because it brings to mind an image, a “common” people, a common history which in capitalizing “B” makes it a noun, structured with certain properties. The nounification of “black” calls to attention the construction of “the Black experience in America.”
Running a newspaper, even in the Internet age, is not just a race; The Cavalier Daily shouldn’t sit a story out just because it doesn’t get there first. There are surely U.Va. students whose sole source of University news is The Cavalier Daily; they shouldn’t have to turn elsewhere to see important headlines about their school.
Regardless of whether you side with the profit-maximizing corporations or the privacy-minded consumers, fear not, for there is a compromise: the acceptable ads manifesto. At its core, the idea acknowledges consumers want to continue absorbing the Internet’s free, enjoyable content without flashy and irritating advertisements.
First of all, to characterize the Diversity Initiative Award as enforcing conformity is a stretch. It is a scholarship intended to foster engagement between minority communities at the University and the Honor system, and to allow these individuals to provide unique perspectives to an organization that does not have strong ties with them.
Health treatment disparities cause hospitals that treat disadvantaged people to be far more likely to readmit patients within the post-discharge 30 day period, as people who receive lower quality treatment are naturally more likely to experience illness more frequently.
Education is a process, and it should be treated as such. There will always be numerous factors in play when talking about a student’s academic performance and intellectual development.
Despite cost and familial obstacles, students appear to get STI screenings in significant numbers.
Current high school curricula fail to adequately incorporate this critical component of U.S history into class discourse, which is a disservice to students and certainly to the hundreds of thousands of individuals whose lives were forever altered by United States foreign policy in Latin America.
With a three-party election involving a party (the NDP) whose views could have a major impact on our relations with Canada less than a week away, this election warrants more attention than it is currently receiving.
Our existing methods of projecting power abroad to achieve the policy results we want — international sanctions, military intervention when in our interests and advocacy of democratic capitalism — are failing.
The unfortunate truth is there is no quick fix to this problem. Implying there is — and that politicians are simply being bribed into not supporting it — obscures the complexity behind the issue. . .
In its current layout, the Downtown Mall — which is undeniably the social hub of Charlottesville, though University students may not always frequent it — is not particularly open.
The argument that professors play no role in our lives other than an educational one is problematic because it treats education as something that only occurs within the confines of the classroom. It is the responsibility of professors to acknowledge and engage with the experiences of their students both inside and outside the classroom.
University students may begin their college careers with anything in-between a comprehensive sex education or none at all. And this should certainly trouble us, as colleges are understood to be sexually active places where students may have multiple partners.
While polls might not be accurate enough to predict a winner this early on in the race, they can create losers and end up turning the race into a media grabbing circus. Candidates can easily be forced out of the race as their polling numbers drop and public confidence in them vanishes.
In the same vein as the University's veneration of Thomas Jefferson, our observance and laudation of Columbus and his holiday testifies to the majority culture's disregard for the values and experiences of various minority groups.
