SOMERS: It’s time U.Va. and Charlottesville shed a light on crime
By Luke Somers | January 29, 2022Instead of focusing all our attention on police departments, we can focus on our living habitat as well.
Instead of focusing all our attention on police departments, we can focus on our living habitat as well.
If you support giving all students a voice in the Honor reform process, add your name to the sanctioning referendum and informed retraction referendum petitions.
Considering reluctance to take action this year, combined with an overt lack of action during last year, we call on IFC and ISC leadership to enforce their guidelines.
The most serious reason to extend point-to-point transportation is student safety.
Don’t get me wrong — it is immeasurably important to stay educated on issues of racial equity, but watching without breaks for months on end made me feel like I was in a warzone 24/7.
I encourage all students in Virginia public schools to wear masks regardless of your school board’s decision — or your parents’ beliefs, if you can safely defy them.
The absence of information about the appointment process suggests a troubling choice to prioritize expediency in filling a spot over an ambitious search for excellent leadership to advance the University’s important missions.
Between the omicron variant's transmissibility and last year's precedent for Greek life's negligence, one thing is for certain — in-person recruitment will harm our community.
By increasing the credit limit right off the bat, students would be able to sign up for a still entirely reasonable schedule immediately rather than having to wait until open enrollment starts a few weeks later with the risk that the courses they need will already be filled.
Divestment, while intuitive, is in fact counter-productive when one carefully examines its cascading effects in a market-based economy.
As it stands, the current Honor system hinders effective student self-governance.
It is time the University showed some semblance of care for those in the community who are not young and able-bodied.
The University should do its part in curbing this trend by working to reduce first and second hand smoke exposure and establishing a smoke-free Grounds.
Jefferson helped to found our country and our University, and we do not want to admit that his actions do not align with his values with which we identify.
Claims that political opinions are inherently violent needlessly sow a culture of division — something which has the potential to actually provoke real violence and extremism.
Author David Foster Wallace once wrote, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
As an Editorial Board, we have gathered key figures that define the past year.
The University’s current policy — only requiring prevalence testing of unvaccinated people — prevents us from having the full picture of COVID-19 cases on Grounds
The progressive changes made to the English language serve not to erase women, but to specify conversations pertaining to groups it may concern.
The University has made a 400 percent increase in area to commit to student health and wellness programs.