STUDENTS at the University are often quick to advocate and protest for those causes which affect our lives directly: Honor code reform and rape and assault victims' rights are two causes which have drawn a considerable amount of attention recently, and have also prompted students to take direct action to change their circumstances.
IF THERE is one thing University students are good at, it is rallying around a cause. From the recent upsurge of support for the living wage campaign to the slew of natural disasters in the past year both here and abroad, students have stepped up with the typical benefit concerts, fund raisers and care packages.
THOUGH a variety of issues were brought forth following several racist incidents earlier this semester, one issue in particular did not receive the attention it deserves: self-segregation.
THE MOST fundamental task of administrators and student government leaders should be to safeguard the security of the student body.
"ARE YOU graduating this year?" "Yes." "What are you going to do with the rest of your life?" It is the dreaded question fourth years are faced with by peers, professors and those prying relatives we all saw over Thanksgiving break.
TWO DAYS before Thanksgiving the University administration fired Dena Bowers, senior recruiter of Human Resources, based on an e-mail Bowers sent to one colleague of hers on Oct.
THE RECENT open honor trial was a great way for the University community to gain insight into the day-to-day process of the honor system.
IT IS A funny thing to see the retreat of the pro-single sanction camp. First, the single sanction was a grand deterrent that stopped lying, cheating and stealing dead in its tracks.
The Nov. 29 comic Schizophrenic Bosnian depicted a character calling the crane the "gayest-looking of all birds." The Cavalier Daily regrets printing this comic and deeply apologizes to those who were offended.
HERE IS the first sentence of the article, "Casteen names Bruner Darden School dean" (Nov. 17): "President John T.
ON JAN. 2, 2004, a man named Farron Barksdale murdered two officers in Athens, Alabama. Barksdale legally purchased a gun, despite the fact that he had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution at least twice.
IT IS OFTEN said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In that spirit, America should mend fences with Venezuela -- one of our largest oil suppliers -- by emulating its economic and political values.
ONCE AGAIN, the University of Virginia is leading the way towards academic freedom, though this time it is more for the freedom of academics.
NOBODY who earnestly cares about the tradition of honor at the University is excited that College third years Joe Schlingbaum and Lindsay McClung get to graduate with the rest of us and say "I have worn the honors of Honor, I graduated from Virginia." In last week's open trial, both were found to have committed an act of cheating by a jury of their peers.
THERE is a concept in economics called the law of diminishing returns, which states that at a certain level, each successive unit of input increases output at a decreasing rate.
A BEWILDERING message emerged from behind the ominous doors of the Honor Committee this past Sunday.
WHEN SOMEONE says they're hungry, you don't blink. When the statement is placed into the context of the 16 percent of Charlottesville residents living below the poverty line in 2002, one may reconsider what hunger really is.
IN OUR 21st century "enlightened" society, we place more and more emphasis on the burdens of race, gender, class and ethnic background as potential obstacles on the road to success.
WHEN WE consider special education programs for learning-disabled students, bureaucracy is not the first thing that comes to mind.
Matt Waring's Nov. 16 Opinion column, "The dishonor of apathy," claimed that because the jury in the open honor trial voted the accused students violated the honor code for act and intent, the jury believed they knowingly violated the honor code.
