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By the numbers
By Managing Board | October 3, 2013The managing board recounts some notable numerals
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The managing board recounts some notable numerals
In many ways I think students in my high school and surrounding high schools thought they were too good for the University of Virginia. I too was guilty of this, but my opinion has changed since I visited during Days on the Lawn. Nevertheless, it should still be noted that the University is losing its edge of prestige, and we need it back.
Institutional racism is abstruse and often imperceptible; perhaps that’s why we don’t talk about it to the degree that we talk about individual acts of racism. But it’s a conversation we need to have.
Even if the noise concerns were valid, the way the Provost’s Office went about establishing the room-reservation policy was misguided. Administrators instituted the policy without seeking feedback from students who would be affected. For a University that prides itself on student self-governance, the failure to consult students marks a significant lapse in judgment.
For Peanut, death was probably a sweet relief, a final liberation from her glass prison.
We are here to seek and to thirst. Sleep and socializing are necessary and desirable aspects of our life at the University; however, their importance should not be codified so as to permanently exclude an entire cohort of courses, many of which are some of the best at the University.
How severe should consequences be? I would say the hospitalization of a student with life-threatening alcohol poisoning is worthy of a multi-year banishment of a fraternity from grounds.
The shutdown, taken as an isolated incident, will not harm the University’s research operations much, if at all. But taken as a marker of a broader trend of government dysfunction, it could strike a blow to research, especially basic research, at universities nationwide.
At this juncture between policy and implementation, Western companies can play an important role. They can apply pressure on factory owners to address the issue of workers’ conditions, and threaten to withdraw their business if certain standards are not met.
I am not put off by the idea that the fourth years will be graduating in less than eight months. Graduation, in my opinion, is coming at the proper time.
The myth of unbiased reporting is absurd. It represents an ideal, one that papers supposedly unaffiliated with partisan views must strive to maintain.
Correlation does not mean causation. But in light of the high proportion of Board members who gave to the governors who appointed them, the claim that political contributions have absolutely nothing to do with Board appointments is tough to swallow.
The fact of the matter is that when you graduate high school, you don’t automatically leave it behind; you still cling to its social structure and hierarchy, because that’s what you’re familiar with.
I suggest that in order for a health- or safety-related CIO to maximize its effectiveness, it should pair scientifically backed information with activities that directly engage the group with the student population.
I understand that it can be saddening to see people in dirty clothes sitting on the sidewalk, and I understand how bad we feel as privileged students to not always have money on us to give to them. But is avoiding eye contact really going to help?
Even if you like me as a person, you’ve probably never seen me sitting at my laptop at midnight, sobbing over the latest episode of “Parenthood.” It’s not pretty.
Bias in news reporting organizations is certainly something to be aware of and to consider as one reads. This piece, though, is an opinion column.
The disparity between how much energy the University invests in first-year housing and how much energy it invests in upper-class housing is undesirably large.
We can see that administrators are attempting to refashion the way the University understands itself. The school wants to be a public global university: which is not a contradiction in terms, but not a fully coherent concept either.
As it currently stands, the University can and does find ways to woo top talent. But give one class of competitor the ability to sweeten the pie with monthly paychecks and no recruit will settle for a Cavalier jersey until he’s exhausted every option to play-for-pay.
