DUREGGER: What’s wrong with the meat industry?
By Grace Duregger | March 29, 2022The meat industry must be regulated in order to turn toward more ethical and sustainable practices.
The meat industry must be regulated in order to turn toward more ethical and sustainable practices.
The traditional book publishing industry may need to embrace the very phenomenon that has threatened its existence for years — self-publishing.
Our Founding Fathers did not create the First Amendment to safeguard the consensus of the majority, but to protect those minority opinions that are deemed so odious and repugnant that they are placed at constant risk of repression.
No one has the jurisdiction to critique — and restrict — an individual’s gender identity except for that individual themself.
Are application-based majors not restricting the free exchange of ideas and prohibiting the students who aren’t accepted from reaching their full potential?
But the reality is we can never create a community where no one is going to lie, steal or cheat by simply banishing those who we catch lying, stealing or cheating.
The University has more than enough resources to make the transition smoother for mid-year transfers — it just needs to implement them.
What is the point of reclaiming a word if the very group of people in which you want to verbally disarm have not been disarmed?
Children must be allowed to learn from hard truths and painful histories, and adults must be taught not to overstep their bounds, especially when they verge into censorship.
The American government should reinvigorate and incentivize trade schools to remedy the labor shortage in our renewable energy sector.
As I scroll through social media and read the posts and articles incessantly repeating this notion, I cannot help but to look back in history and think that these times could not be more “precedented.”
Recorded lectures would greatly increase the ability of students to prioritize their mental health without jeopardizing their ability to succeed in class.
While no masterpiece will ever outweigh the loss that we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re already beginning to see the literary outcome of this difficult time.
Not only does this difficult and convoluted class and major system cause stress and difficulty when taking necessary classes, but it also removes passion based learning.
These rising costs will not dissipate, nor does it seem that Russia intends to call its troops out of Ukraine and end its senseless slaughter of civilians.
I love this University, and I am proud to be a part of it — not despite its flaws, but because I know there are students relentlessly working to change them.
This desire to find the perfect product — or even that we are obligated to purchase in order to appease loved ones — does nothing but hurt the way we love.
We may associate Zoom courses with the loss of a normal college experience, but I believe we should embrace the convenience and integrate virtual meetings into University life.
I sincerely hope the Youngkin administration reevaluates its early decisions and changes course.
An effective solution to the issue of Veoride scooters scattered across the streets of Charlottesville would be to install proper docks — doubling as recharging stations — for the scooters.