While stay-at-home orders were originally adopted to slow the spread of the virus, these orders overlook their original purpose, and will ultimately cause more death and hardship than the virus itself.
Our community needs for us to search for our own words, and choose our own actions, here and now … and not merely apply historical prose, like balm, to a current wound.
Despite having some of the strongest alumni groups and endowments, and some of the most inequitable practices, the Honor Committee and University Judiciary Committee have yet to announce any meaningful action.
For years, the Republican Party has worked on a plot to undermine American democracy.
The presence of police at pride events, in any capacity, runs directly opposed to the very ethos of pride.
During this historic time, we recognize the power of journalism and the privilege we have to be able to use our platform to uplift Black voices and narratives.
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The dehumanization of black and brown people happens again and again and again and again and again and again … How many more unjust deaths must there be?
As it stands, the coalition may be committed to service, but it is not committed to workers.
The interests of the University in protecting its financial obligations runs counter to our interest as students, workers and community members.
Now is not a time for comfort. Now is a time for change.
The University must make concrete commitments to ensure that faculty are hired for the explicit purpose of teaching and researching Asian American studies, and that these hires happen in a timely fashion.
In light of the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the University would be doing a gross disservice to the entire student body if it does not adjust its exclusionary and unreasonable transfer-credit policies.
I fear the day we might wake up from this twilight sleep of indifference and the rights to which we’ve become accustomed simply cease to exist.
We know that the road to an equitable, sustainable food system requires many voices and it challenges us all to make different decisions.
Congratulations on the completion of awesome, worldchanging, law-writing, socially provocative and locally liberating work, that your class was able to be a part of while you all were students.
I loved my experience at the University, and because I loved it, I was a journalist who wrote about its achievements and its failures.
Being on this paper gave me opportunities I never would have dreamed of as a first year sitting in a crowded info session, debating if I should even apply.
We’ve managed to transform our newspaper into the digital era and provide news that the University and Charlottesville community deserve.
Our University might not be known chiefly for its creative side, but that’s something I sought to change through my journalism.
