The Virginia football team will take the field for its first game of the year Saturday. The start of a new season always draws predictions from fans and a degree of suspense about how the team will fare, but the uncertainty is particularly high this year.
This past week, The Cavalier Daily launched the newest edition of its website. In the coming months, we will be exploring ways to integrate new features and include more opportunities for interaction with our readers. Soon after our previous website launched last year, we published an editorial outlining a relatively laissez-faire approach to regulating user comments for the online edition.
At this age, an artisan apprentice would leave the master's studio to live and craft works in solitude.
In a move sure to draw the ire of students at two of the state's largest universities, administrators at both Virginia Tech and James Madison University recently enacted policies to notify parents about their child's first alcohol offense - even for students older than 18 years of age. In an open letter to JMU students, President Linwood Rose cited his concern for "the abuse and underage use of alcohol by some of our students" and indicated that new drinking policies are aimed at changing perceptions of a "negative drinking culture" at JMU.
One of the most fascinating recent phenomena in merican politics has been the rise to national prominence of the right-wing conservative force known as the Tea Party.
Today, The Cavalier Daily features a Focus piece about the University's authority over its online network as it relates to student privacy concerns.
America. The land of the free. Freedom of speech. Freedom of press. Freedom of assembly. Freedom of petition.
Despite dwindling financial resources, the University remained tied for the second-best public school in America when U.S.
Every now and again I find myself dumbfounded by trends. Trends that have appeared on my questionable-trends list include Furbies, Tickle Me Elmos, Beanie Babies and most recently, Silly Bandz.
Following the murder of Yeardley Love in the spring of 2010, the University acted swiftly to implement changes in school policy regarding notification of student arrests.
Sometime within the next two weeks, students will be prompted for more than their passwords when logging into NetBadge.
If the old saying that "money talks" is true, then what is the University using its cash to tell us?
In yesterday's edition of The Cavalier Daily, the managing board set out to explain broadly what it is we do and what we aim to be.
Congressman Tom Perriello's stepping-in-cow-pie ad claims "no one will work harder" to bring jobs to the fifth district.
In 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law arguably the most sweeping changes to United States tax policy in American history.
The University community reacted sharply to the bias incident that took place on Thursday, April 15, when two female fourth-year University students became the victims of repeated racial slurs by a drunk, white male student.
I have never been quite comfortable with the argument that free speech necessarily entails the acceptance that some will overstep the societal boundaries and indulge in hateful, racist and otherwise hurtful speech against others.
