The Virginia legislature recently passed laws that would reduce the incidence of voter fraud by limiting the types of voter ID polling places deem acceptable.
Though many people were probably unaware, yesterday marked Charles Darwin’s birthday. Darwin, as hopefully everyone knows, solidified the theory of evolution with his explanation of descent with modification, the process by which adaptive changes take place.
The joke is an old one: When talking to an English major, you usually end the conversation with “Yes, I do want fries with that.” Studying Proust or Joyce is not exactly economically sound.
A University of Maryland graduate student early Tuesday morning shot two housemates, killing one and injuring the other, before turning the gun on himself.
Carl Sagan once said, in reference to the famous photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft that shows the Earth as a pale blue dot, that humans have a responsibility to “preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” I urge you to read the transcript of this speech.
Last week, a group of fourth-year students revealed the lesson they learned from a two-month project they undertook for one of their classes.
Between classes and extracurricular activities, time spent searching for love is fairly limited at college.
PureMadi, a nonprofit group of University faculty and students that combats global water scarcity and contamination, unveiled an invention Friday.
Messages painted on Beta Bridge rarely last more than a few days. Most items are meant to be temporary.
It may be dead by now, but last week a bill in the Virginia General Assembly would have required the University’s Board of Visitors — and board of visitors at every four-year public university in the Commonwealth — to include a student member elected by students.
I have been proud to be a Wahoo lately. University Dining has recently been promoting vegetarianism through initiatives such as “Meatless Mondays” and “Vegan Love.” As a vegetarian, I’ve been particularly encouraged by these efforts.
1: Number of candidates running for Student Council president 5: Number of candidates running for Student Council vice president for administration 2: Number of times a week The Cavalier Daily will publish print issues starting in August 1: The University’s ranking on The Princeton Reviews’s list of best-value public institutions 6: Number of courses the University is offering through Coursera this spring 74-58: Final score of Virginia men’s basketball’s Jan.
As President Barack Obama has begun his second term, he has been working toward reforming his cabinet after several first-term members have stepped down.
Charlottesville City Council Monday evening approved a resolution, 3-2, against unmanned police spy drones.
If I asked you to picture a lecture in your head, it would probably look like this: 200 of your closest friends in a hall somewhere on Grounds, all listening — or, at least, pretending to listen — to a professor as he gesticulates wildly.
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.
