MOUSAVI: Push the boundaries of student journalism
By Sasan Mousavi | February 5, 2016The Cavalier Daily covers myriad issues in various shapes, sections and sizes. Why not explore some newer and longer forms?
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.
Rather than making students safer, guns transform potentially non-violent situations into violent ones because of their ease of use.
While CARS has yet to see its lack of sufficient space produce noteworthy impediments to incident responses, it is in the best interest of the city to be proactive maintaining high-quality emergency services.
Divestment is tangible and moral — now is the time.
Changing its status from that of a program to a department would legitimize the study for those who view it as less academically rigorous than other traditional liberal arts subjects — something that may also benefit other academic programs at the University.
In order to be eligible to vote in a Republican primary, you ought to be a registered Republican.
As dangerous and often false as historical comparisons are, candidates will continue to make them. Instead of seeing them as a continuing problem with our political system they should be seen as opportunities.
We have organized a World Hijab Day dialogue program on Feb. 5 in which speakers with a diverse range of experiences with Islam and the Hijab will challenge preconceived notions surrounding the Hijab and the modern Muslim.
While The Cavalier Daily has sections for less serious topics, it should take the ones that need serious coverage seriously.
Preventing teen pregnancy should be an apolitical issue: the fewer teenagers become pregnant, the fewer abortions become necessary — a goal pro-life and pro-choice advocates likely share.
It’s becoming increasingly evident in modern society that a technological revolution has created a vastly different world, shifting from the in-depth and explanatory to the quick and astonishing.
Instead of spreading taxpayer money throughout all students, policies addressing this crisis should be centered on aiming those resources towards those who actually need them the most and give them the power to choose the educational option, either public or private, that is best for them.
Let us be the generation that celebrates diversity of people for all their unique colors and textures. Heteronormativity is out. Acceptance is in.