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Changing our ways

LATE LAST weekend, the University community heard rumors of an alleged abduction of a student by individuals who pulled him into a vehicle, took his money and phone, and left him somewhere in Albemarle County.


Opinion

Debacle on the Lawn

YESTERDAY hordes of admitted high school seniors and their overly enthusiastic parents obstructed sidewalks, clogged dining halls dishing out artery-clogging food and formed tours that tormented anyone walking to class.


Opinion

Banish the sanction ad hoc committee

THE HONOR Committee is locked in an endless cycle of self-destruction. Governed by students, a large majority of those whom come to the Committee completely new for one-year terms, the Committee has virtually no institutional memory and is destined to make the same mistakes repeatedly.


Opinion

The plank in our own eye

IN ANCIENT Greece, the Oracle at Delphi was known for the ability to predict the future; at the entrance to the Delphic temple read a simple inscription: Know thyself.


Opinion

Science rules

AS SECOND semester begins to wind down, first-year engineering students enrolled in the Science, Technology, and Society 101 course are beginning work on "Katrinasim." Katrinasim is a culminating project that engages students with a real-world example of the effect of technology on society, and vice-versa.


Opinion

Thinking about the big picture

IN RECENT weeks, the University has exhibited a disturbing trend of measures and ideas that provide benefits to small numbers of students while curtailing or interfering with the rights of other students.


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The new face of disenfranchisement

VIRGINIA has a long history of denying its citizens the right to vote. Today, there are still more than 300,000 disenfranchised men and women in this state, whose entire adult population in the 2000 census was about 5.6 million.


Opinion

Not their choice

THE RESIDENCE Life Office recently announced that incoming first-year students will no longer be allowed to specify a preference between Alderman and McCormick Road residence halls.


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Latest Podcast

In this episode of On Record, we hear from Dr. Amanda Lloyd, director of the Virginia Prison Education Program, which offers Virginia’s first bachelor’s degrees to incarcerated individuals. Dr. Lloyd discusses how and why the University chose her to lead this historic initiative.