KRISTIN Cooper was your average 20-year-old college student. She went to Baker College in Kansas, was in a sorority and had a great family and friends who loved and supported her.
It seems safe to say the University is more integrated and diverse today than it has been at any previous point in its history.
WHEN THE University eliminated its early decision option in 2007, there were undoubtedly some qualified high school applicants who were forced to wait until the spring to receive their admission decisions and so chose to go elsewhere.
There are few public policy goals that rank higher in Virginia than that of increasing citizens' educational achievement levels.
SINCE declaring my major, I have constantly been receiving emails about public speakers visiting the University.
LAST WEEK, amid accusations that he failed to respond adequately to cases of child sexual abuse that allegedly occurred within his own locker room, Joe Paterno was abruptly fired from his post as Penn State's head football coach, which he had held for 44 years.
THE UNIVERSITY recently announced the formation of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, which will be integrated as part of the College.
A University of Maryland commission charged with finding solutions to the abysmal financial situation of the school's athletic department issued a report Sunday that suggested eliminating at least eight teams. The report caused dismay among the 166 student-athletes who comprise those teams, but it should hardly have been unexpected given the department's projected $4.7 million deficit this year and its embarrassing inability to finance itself last year without borrowing $1.2 million from the university's auxiliary fund. Yet athletic departments should not have to resort to such drastic downsizing to bring their budgets into line.
MANY OF us who are familiar with the dance world realize the University traditionally is not known as the Mecca of professional dance; it is not a place for aspiring professional dance students looking for a well-rounded, established dance program.
THE UNIVERSITY adopted a new regulation concerning the use of concealed firearms last weekend, superseding the policies already in place and bringing the University legally up-to-speed with schools such as George Mason University.
WE HAVE all been there. You have your schedule for next semester perfectly planned out, and you are really excited about taking that extremely interesting class with that brilliant professor, but your course enrollment time is so late that all the spots are filled up by the time you log in to SIS.
At their general assembly meeting this past Saturday, members of Occupy Charlottesville voted to oust Evan Knappenberger, who has been heavily involved in handling the group's interactions with the City and the media since its inception last month.
COLLEGE education in the United States is very costly, more so than in many other countries. Yet as U.S.
I want to express my disappointment in The Cavalier Daily concerning Joseph Liss' Nov. 14 article, "Protestors face internal conflict."
Virginia Attorney General and University alumnus Ken Cuccinelli issued a written opinion last summer stating concealed carry permit holders were not bound by the University's policy prohibiting firearms from University facilities and events.
In her recent visit to the University's Law School, Carol Browner, former director of the Environmental Protection Agency, made clear that when it comes to combating global warming, the enemy is not carbon but our own apathy.
