The thought that torturing a prisoner repeatedly through savage and inhumane acts in order to obtain dubious information about a possible attack on the homeland is a skeptical proposition at best.
Paid leave would be better for American mothers, fathers, children and businesses. If businesses will not implement it themselves, the government ought to intervene.
The world looks to the United States to maintain a prominent status in various arenas, and although that is what this country will do, it will not receive the same type of credit it received for its accomplishments in the 20th century.
The media is charged with the important purpose of informing people, but the sensationalism that too often sets in when covering public figures and on shows such as Nancy Grace is unfair to the accused.
Even if you do not consider ISIS to be the threat many conservatives do, should we not seek to eliminate the scourge on humanity that is this cult?
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.
We as consumers can pressure the NFL to be responsible to its athletes while simultaneously continuing to provide what I consider to be the best sporting league in the modern world.
In summary, you will see two amendments on the ballot this year: one will either affirm the single sanction or change the constitution to allow for a multiple-sanction system, and the other will slightly reword the language passed last year in order to make the Honor Committee more responsive to student opinion.
I hope my white peers are willing now to sit, listen and learn from the ongoing dialogue of their black peers about the proliferation of the word.
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.
While a Clinton (or Fiorina) election would symbolize a great step forward, it would most certainly neither indicate the death of sexism nor hint at its imminent demise.
Hopefully, the United States will recognize the need to shift its policies toward Cuba from solely market-based open policies to humanitarian, social and economic policies that will actually put Cuba in a path to modern success.
The Cavalier Daily covers myriad issues in various shapes, sections and sizes. Why not explore some newer and longer forms?
While the Crystal Ball has a strong record of picking election winners, we can’t promise we’ll always be right, particularly in primaries when polling is often unhelpful.
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.
France was the birthplace of modern democracy — let’s hope it doesn’t become the grave.
Even though the days of the nostalgic moon landing in NASA’s early history are behind us, we are still inventors and frontiersmen, explorers and pioneers.
Even if the Supreme Court rules against the EEOC’s position in Burrows, the struggle will continue.
Whatever the ultimate purpose of the prison system — punishment, deterrence, ensuring the safety of citizens — its root function should be reducing crime, which so far it has been unable to do.
I am skeptical as to whether this enforcement, as well as the rule itself, is an effective means of protecting sorority members and ensuring a safe community.
