Opinion

Shell game

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.

Small steps and a leap

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.

Regulation roulette

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.

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Credit-worthy scheduling

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.

Occupancy limit

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.

Financial enlightenment

COLLEGE education in the United States is very costly, more so than in many other countries. Yet as U.S.

Getting the whole picture

I want to express my disappointment in The Cavalier Daily concerning Joseph Liss' Nov. 14 article, "Protestors face internal conflict."

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Good aim

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.

Coming clean

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.

System of a letdown

THE SCANDAL at Penn State has taken up a lot of space in The Cavalier Daily - the dead tree version, as well as online - and in a lot of other media.

Data mining for solutions

IN HIS Nov. 9 opinion piece, "Data mining from clean sources," Sam Novack critiques the Sierra Student Coalition's Beyond Coal campaign as not being realistic and not taking into account the financial costs of the transition to clean and renewable energy. The concerns raised about the directions and goals of Beyond Coal suggest that we are not getting our message across in the manner that we had hoped.

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Gaining steam

Throughout the fall semester, the Sierra Student Coalition's Beyond Coal campaign has picked up momentum in its quest to shut down the University's coal-fired power plant within a decade and replace it with renewable sources of energy.

Justified outrage

I appreciate what Fritz Metzinger is trying to do when he asks us to "Beware the Paterno witch-hunt" (Nov.

Missing the extra points

I refer to the Nov. 10 column, "Beware the Paterno witch-hunt," in which Fritz Metzinger says he is not defending Joe Paterno, but rather questioning the ferocity of public judgment.

If we can

AS USUAL, the Virginia Film Festival has come and gone with only one possible complaint: It was physically impossible to make all of its features, and although this annual proceeding brought certain disappointments, it also provided a number of pleasant surprises.

The best you can is good enough

DURING a weekend of shot gun shooting, fishing from a canoe and miscellaneous brotherhood mayhem, I pondered why, from a utilitarian perspective, my priority at school is studying rather than doing the things I love, such as enjoying camaraderie.

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