CHEBILI: Make the University more accessible
By Nicole Chebili | February 1, 2022The barriers that exist on Grounds make our University exclusive and designed for only certain students.
The barriers that exist on Grounds make our University exclusive and designed for only certain students.
Ideally, our post-pandemic society will become more accommodating of people’s health challenges and become more conscientious of barriers to success.
There's an absolutely beautiful phenomenon that happens when you read a good work of fiction — you find yourself getting sucked into the story entirely.
After compliance is reached, barriers are moot and all interested companies are available to bring the drug — via approved processes — to market, encouraging competition
The bottom line is that you cannot call yourself an activist or ally if you knowingly only do it when it is convenient.
This manages to turn critical race theory a legal concept used to explain racial disparity in law and justice into a hellish reincarnation of Jim Crow laws.
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.