TWO WEEKS ago, the Miller Center hosted a forum to evaluate the progress of the goals set forth by governors in the 1989 Education Summit convened by former President George H.
AS I have written before, the University community is at a turning point where it must re-conceive its notion of a public institution.
YOU KNOW someone who has been raped. Statistically, it's true: one in four college women have been subject to completed or attempted rape.
IT'S THAT time again -- time to register for classes. Which means, it's also time for another opinion column bemoaning priority registration for Echols scholars. This week many of my fellow fourth years have probably watched as that one class -- a seminar, perhaps, or a small, popular upper-level class or even a class needed for graduation -- was filled within the first few hours of registration.
AS THE only surviving feature from the honor system's inception in 1842, the single sanction remains today as an exceptionally high standard of academic integrity largely unique to the University.
HALF A century after the great Civil Rights Movement began breaking down barriers in American society, the struggle for racial equality and harmony has turned into a travesty.
BLUE STATE or red? Gay or straight? Black or white? Our culture is today more focused than ever on identity.
HE WAS responsible for and complicit in the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians over the past 40 years.
DIVERSITY. This word immediately emits a sound of exasperation and an accompanied eye roll with the comment, "Are we talking about this again?" Whether it is frustration due to the lack of progress, or whether it is an apathetic annoyance to this issue, diversity always generates some kind of response.
IT'S BECOME a matter of course for liberals, particularly unabashedly blue-state liberals, to lament one of the greatest ironies of this election: that in an election framed by the GOP to be about the dual threats of terrorism and gay marriage, those areas most threatened by both voted overwhelmingly against the president.
THIS YEAR, the University's Athletic Department has adopted a new policy for student attendance at basketball games.Under the new system, students can request seats at basketball games and have a spot guaranteed when they arrive.
THE SINGLE sanction inspires rhetoric. I have heard it referred to as the academic "deathpenalty," as the "fundamental cornerstone of UVA" and just about everything in between.
AS ISIS prepares to shepherd us through another exhilarating season of online course registration, many students find themselves preoccupied by the seemingly disparate issue of health insurance.
ONE STORY dominated the News section of The Cavalier Daily for the last week and a half. Every edition of the paper between Nov.
AS THE University community struggles with a disturbing lack of socioeconomic diversity within the student body, the administration is pursuing two very different policies that could have conflicting effects on UVa affordability.
IT WOULD seem that the media is happy to have something else to report besides the defeat of John Kerry.
IT IS not surprising that Democrats often look back sentimentally on the Kennedy years as a kinder, gentler time in American history.
THE UNIVERSITY has a drinking problem. The impact of unhealthy attitudes toward alcohol usage affect every University student, whether or not they abuse the substance.The implications of the University's problems with violence and alcohol abuse were the subject of a discussion which kicked off Substance Abuse Awareness Week this past Monday.
IMAGINE walking into your local pharmacy one afternoon, expecting to pick up a prescription that your doctor had called in for you the night before.
ADD ONE to the list of secret societies on Grounds. Shrouded in a sea of contradictions, Student Council continues to operate with the opacity of a black hole. As students may know, Council voted down a measure this week that would have recorded members' votes, along with members' own explanations of those votes, on its public Web site.
