Ideally, our post-pandemic society will become more accommodating of people’s health challenges and become more conscientious of barriers to success.
There's an absolutely beautiful phenomenon that happens when you read a good work of fiction — you find yourself getting sucked into the story entirely.
After compliance is reached, barriers are moot and all interested companies are available to bring the drug — via approved processes — to market, encouraging competition
The bottom line is that you cannot call yourself an activist or ally if you knowingly only do it when it is convenient.
This manages to turn critical race theory a legal concept used to explain racial disparity in law and justice into a hellish reincarnation of Jim Crow laws.
The most serious reason to extend point-to-point transportation is student safety.
By increasing the credit limit right off the bat, students would be able to sign up for a still entirely reasonable schedule immediately rather than having to wait until open enrollment starts a few weeks later with the risk that the courses they need will already be filled.
Jefferson helped to found our country and our University, and we do not want to admit that his actions do not align with his values with which we identify.
The University’s current policy — only requiring prevalence testing of unvaccinated people — prevents us from having the full picture of COVID-19 cases on Grounds
The progressive changes made to the English language serve not to erase women, but to specify conversations pertaining to groups it may concern.
To frame King and activists like him as accommodating to American society — polite and gentle, messianic yet docile — is to strip them of their intellect, their cunning and their radicalism.
Labeling someone simply because they disagree automatically invalidates their experience, and becoming defensive achieves nothing.
If the Academical Village is to be more than just a location at the University and become a real practice that will aid the learning of students, then it is necessary to point out the historical failing and fight to be better.
Arguably the most frustrating piece of the increased violence in Charlottesville is not that it hasn’t stopped completely, but rather the seeming lack of care and urgency displayed by University administration.
The University has a particularly engaged student body when it comes to political action, but unfortunately most of the engagement comes from the presidential elections.
When we criticize Thomas Jefferson, his eugenics, his use of enslaved laborers or his abuse of Sally Hemings and many others, we are contextualizing history, not erasing it.
But there is a huge difference between facilitating dialogues between people and working to address large-scale inequity, and lambasting individuals for wanting to be around those with whom they share common cultural or heritage-based traits.
Book banning is a form of censorship used purely to preserve certain notions of what people — most often, children and imprisoned people — should think.
While students of community colleges are as diverse as they come in respects to their race, ethnicity, income, and general experience, one main throughline unites them all — only about 300-400 of them will matriculate to the University of Virginia.
I do not want to live in a world nor attend a university where people throw away new concepts out of comfort for old ones or abandon acknowledgement for the sake of tranquility.
