This is the first time I have written for The Cavalier Daily during my three-and-a-half years serving the paper.
When I signed up to become a news writer during The Cavalier Daily open house my first week at the University, I never imagined that I would one day join the Managing Board to become the executive editor, nor did I expect the substantial contribution it would make toward shaping me into the individual I am today.
It feels good to be back in the driver's seat. My time as a journalist began three years ago as an opinion columnist for this very paper; a year later, I moved on to become the executive editor and a member of the Managing Board, the governing body which oversees daily operations of The Cavalier Daily.
Well, we'll be damned - turns out President Obama "wants to remake you in his image," or so Rick Santorum preached from his bully pulpit last weekend in Michigan.
Sam Novack's Tuesday column on the burning of Qurans in Afghanistan (Feb. 28, "Apology unaccepted") highlights the problem with how so many of us view the U.S.
I am really not opposed to
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.
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