President Barack Obama has decided to make immigration reform a priority for his second term. Illegal immigration has been tackled several times at the state level, but unsuccessfully.
WHEN it comes to reforming American schools, the debate rightly focuses most consistently on improving academics.
Chalk on the ground Tuesday morning announced the start of the University’s student election season.
The word falling constantly from the lips of higher-education experts, techies and digital-media junkies is a nonsensical-sounding acronym: MOOC.
In a month, students will have the opportunity to vote on a proposal that would drastically change the honor system.
Last fall, the club golf president submitted a budget proposal to Student Council. I do concede that such proposals often ask for more than what can be expected.
In these first few weeks of his second term, President Barack Obama is poised to make a terrible mistake: flawed immigration reform.
Call me a cynic, but I doubt anyone who says cutting back on something is going to make it better. So I was more than skeptical when I read about The Cavalier Daily’s “comprehensive plan to shift focus from the traditional daily newspaper to a digital-first newsroom,” that would replace the nearly daily newspaper “with a revamped biweekly newsmagazine and expand online and mobile content offerings.” The newsmagazine, we’re promised, will “offer extensive analysis, informative graphics and an increased focus on features, local entertainment and weekend previews.” Matt Cameron, in his last days as the paper’s editor-in-chief, said the newsmagazine will have “more of the in-depth, investigative journalism that our readers crave.” Meanwhile, the new digital emphasis will bring “mobile and tablet apps, a daily e-newsletter, high-quality multimedia content and an increased emphasis on social media and web graphics.” In a memo to the staff, the managing board declared itself “confident about the benefits this plan will produce.” Managing board members said of the restructuring: “It will expand our coverage opportunities by allowing us to afford sending reporters to out-of-state events.
The Super Bowl may be the most important football game of the year, but for some it is a day just to enjoy the commercials.
The bids are in. Fraternity and sorority rush is over. This year the revelry got out of hand after Inter-Sorority Council recruitment ended Jan.
IT’S EASY to disparage social media. Facebook can make us feel alienated and detached from our friends just as often as it can connect us to them.
Charlottesville in recent years has tried to confront its troubled racial history. Like many Southern towns, Charlottesville inherits a painful legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
Last Wednesday, Apple Inc. reported its quarterly results to investors, and though revenues and profits set new company records, the stock sunk nearly 12 percent during trading the next day.
IN THE current political discourse, one subject is often overlooked: America’s prison system. The U.S.
THE BOY Scouts of America are an iconic organization. For generations, young men have learned about leadership, the outdoors and public service by spending their time with the Scouts.
The Dragas denouement has arrived. Earlier this month The Cavalier Daily predicted University Rector Helen Dragas would survive her confirmation process to serve another four years on the Board of Visitors.
The Virginia Senate Friday voted 24-16 to approve a bill protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer state employees from workplace discrimination.
THE LATEST incarnation of the fight against illegal immigration is “self-deportation,” wherein laws make living conditions so intolerable to illegal immigrants that they leave the country of their own accord.
I REMEMBER, in elementary school, learning how to do a “lockdown drill.” I was told, along with my classmates, that when the principal’s voice came over the loudspeaker we would have to sit in the corner, away from the windows and the door.
Friday we shared our plans to cut printing to twice a week starting in August as part of our shift to a digital-first newsroom.
