Morgan Bettinger was found guilty of violating UVA\’s Standards of Conduct after she was overheard speaking to a garbage truck driver and was accused of making a threat. The student judiciary instituted a punishment in the form of compelled speech to avoid expulsion.
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by Walter Smith The Washington Post recently featured an opinion piece, “Why the University of Virginia is becoming a battleground for speech,” which portrayed members of The Jefferson Council as a group of old white guys desiring to preserve their hegemony of white privilege while skirting around the actual facts of the free-speech debate. In
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by Walter Smith The Washington Post recently featured an opinion piece, “Why the University of Virginia is becoming a battleground for speech,” which portrayed members of The Jefferson Council as a group of old white guys desiring to preserve their hegemony of white privilege while skirting around the actual facts of the free-speech debate. In
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This essay about the evolution of the honor system at Washington & Lee University was published by The General\’s Redoubt and is republished here with permission. — JABby M. Neely YoungHonor systems in higher education are difficult to trace as they are usually unwritten and based upon tradition. The concept of honor, itself, is difficult
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Dishonesty is the root cause of all human evil. The Honor System at the University Of Virginia attempts to get to the very heart of our problem. Honor is your adherence to the truth.Dishonesty starts with your being dishonest with yourself about yourself, and your being dishonest with yourself about Reality. Living in a world
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by James A. BaconFormer Vice President Mike Pence came to the University of Virginia last night, attended two receptions, and delivered his speech, billed as \”How to Save America from the Woke Left,\” without a hitch.The Pence event created a national stir when the editorial board of The Cavalier Daily student newspaper said that Pence
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