As a member of the Living Wage Campaign here at the University, I have had many conversations in the past several weeks with students expressing a wide range of questions, concerns and reactions to the campaign and to its ongoing hunger strike - now in its twelfth day.
Can anyone remember a time before Amazon? The company was founded in mid-90s Seattle which then delivered grunge, but is still here, having tracked us students from hometown holidays to our shipping out to college.
Early last week, U.S. troops at Bagram Airbase near Kabul literally sparked controversy when they burned several copies of the Qur'an along with garbage.
For some time now I have been following your campaign for a living wage at the University. I am a professor of American history at the University of Texas in Austin and an alumnus of the University of Virginia where I was an English major in the late sixties.
The Board of Visitors Finance Committee's proposal to reduce the amount of financial aid to out-of-state students would eliminate the minute specks of diversity already existing at the University.
From Monroe Hall, where student election results were announced last Friday, it at first looked too close to call whether more Dunkin' Donuts or people were in attendance.
I am the School of Continuing and Professional Studies representative on Student Council, but let me emphasize that I do not speak for that body; rather, I speak to you as a full-time University employee, probably the only primary stakeholder in this entire discussion of a living wage. Jared Brown, in an email which I gladly will forward, calls us on Council apathetic and too ignorant to even read a local, let alone national newspaper.
Media General is a media conglomerate whose holdings and debts have piled up for years. The company owns newspapers including The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Daily Progress and prints and delivers The Cavalier Daily.
"Has there ever been a case of a student committing murder for the sake of robbery?" asked G.Z. Yeliseyev, a critic who could not believe Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment." The jury in the murder trial of George Huguely gave an answer last night, finding the former University student guilty of grand larceny and the second-degree murder of Yeardley Love.
In a move not rash, but calculated we will literally say, "Stop the presses," this afternoon to halt any issues of The Cavalier Daily from being printed tomorrow and Fridays for the foreseeable future.
Education is a business, especially in the Commerce School. Or is it vice-versa? The bottom-line is: Commerce students pay $3,000 above standard undergraduate University tuition.
