IF YOU were attentive when walking to class last week, you may have seen the bearded strangers outside Clark Hall.
Charges were dropped yesterday against four members of the managing board who had been accused by Honor Committee Chair Ann Marie McKenzie of violating Standard of Conduct 11, which stipulates that students shall not engage in "intentional, reckless, or negligent conduct which obstructs the operations of the Honor or Judiciary Committee, or conduct that violates their rules of confidentiality." Although the board members whose names have been cleared - Matthew Cameron, Alyssa Juan, Andrew Seidman and Allie Vandivier - are pleased that the complainant has recognized that the charges brought against them were baseless, questions remain about whether the University Judiciary Committee overstepped it boundaries when it agreed to hear this case in the first place. Past controversy involving the UJC, as well as the body's own constitution suggest that it acted erroneously in accepting the charges that were filed against members of the managing board.
On Sept. 26, The Cavalier Daily ran a comic titled "Whoa" by Tiffany Chu. The comic featured two bears, one of them holding a heart-shaped box of what appeared to be candies, and another the so-called "Pedobear" with a caption saying "Sorry!
SURPRISE awaited me as I logged in to Facebook last Monday. A male "friend" of mine had referred to one of my female "friends" in his status update.
FIRST year at the University is exciting for a lot of reasons. Not only is it one's first taste of real academic and personal freedom, but also the sense of community one gets from arriving on Grounds as a full student is really something else.
"IF I HAD to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter." This statement by Thomas Jefferson at first seems characteristically radical.
ABOUT the only thing worse than writing a pair of five-page papers in a week and preparing for a test at the same time is doing all of that while you have a cold that is sucking the energy out of your body.
"IT IS ALWAYS bad business to try to explain yourself on paper - at least not all at once - but when you work as a journalist and sign your name in black ink on white paper above everything you write, that is the business you're in, good or bad... That is a thing you want to remember if you work in either journalism or politics - or both, like I do - and there is no way to duck it.
WHEN IT comes to courses of study, I am certainly as "liberal artsy" in my background as they come, having spread myself happily across history, government and classics courses as an undergraduate.
14: Number of teams that will be in the Atlantic Coast Conference once Syracuse and Pittsburgh officially join before the fall 2013 sports season 0: Number of teams likely to leave the ACC since the league's buyout fee was raised from $10-13 million to $20 million at a recent meeting of university presidents 25: The University's ranking in the U.S.
SINCE every email costs 44 cents to send, we as human beings with rational self-interest naturally should cram as much communication into each parcel as possible.
LAST FRIDAY'S Cavalier Daily helped bring attention to an act of vandalism that occurred on Beta Bridge.
DEAR PRESIDENT Sullivan: I am a graduate of the Law School. This fall, one of my sons enrolled in the College, following in the footsteps of his mother, who graduated from the Architecture School and resided on the Lawn.
As a faculty member who has tried consistently to support the honor system, I find the charges brought against The Cavalier Daily to be both mystifying and counterproductive.
Members of The Cavalier Daily potentially face University Judiciary Committee charges for breaching the confidentiality clause of the Honor Committee, part of the rights of the accused in an honor trial.
