The old culture war politics is dying but new culture wars are gathering force. The transformation of the battlefield will change our public life. The idea of a "culture war" was popularized by Pat Buchanan in his joyfully incendiary 1992 Republican National Convention speech, but it was introduced into the public argument a year earlier by James Davison Hunter, a thoughtful University of Virginia sociologist. In his 1991 book "Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America," Hunter described a raging battle between the orthodox, committed to "an external, definable and ...
Researchers at the University of Virginia say they may have found a way to keep cancer from spreading in the body. Stefan Bekiranov and Marty W. Mayo — who work in UVa’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics — recently published a study showing that inhibiting a particular protein may keep lung cancer cells from metastasizing, or spreading.
The Cavalier Daily at the University of Virginia has elected an all-female managing board for the first time in its 126-year history. Incoming editor-in-chief Julia Horowitz: “I want to make sure that when news breaks two months from now, five months from now, 12 months from now that we have an institution there that can react … and that comes from being financially sustainable.”
As Henrico County school officials work to find a way to drive down class sizes, the number of students they are charged with educating continues to grow. Next year, for the first time, the number of kindergartners through 12th graders is expected to top 50,000. The school division uses live birth data from the Department of Health and historical models to gauge how many students they should expect in lower grades. Figures from the University of Virginia and county data about development activity is taken into account as well, Hinton said.
Another influential voice on Wednesday joined the chorus in favor of a federal gas tax hike to meet a looming gap in transportation funding. The nonpartisan Miller Center at the University of Virginia, which had documented an urgent need for renewing critical infrastructure, said increasing the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax for the first time since 1993 was the best available option.
A new study at the University of Virginia is examining the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and why so many young women are opting out even though the state started mandating it in 2008. Healthcare professionals are working on ways to better approach patients about HPV. "One of the aspects of our research is looking at messaging; How do we, as providers, have those conversations with our patients?” said Emma Mitchell, assistant professor at the UVA School of Nursing.
Each year, about 19,000 women will develop cervical cancer, and about 8,000 men will be diagnosed with throat cancer. Both diseases are caused by the human papillomavirus. Nationally, about 35% of young women are getting the required series of three shots, but here in Virginia the number is even lower – just 28%. Jessica Keim-Malpass is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She says the way parents are informed about the vaccine by doctors and nurses may be part of the problem.
Students are taking advantage of the University of Virginia’s new UBike system on grounds. The program launched at the beginning of the spring term and has been doing pretty well. UBike is available at more than a dozen stations on grounds, and each bike can be monitored with via GPS. "People are taking the trips downtown to the downtown mall, we've seen trips to dormitory areas that are not within the station maps. It gives you that mid-day mobility,” said Rebecca White, UVa Parking and Transportation Director.
Bicycle sharing on the UVA Grounds. It’s a new way to get around called UBike. Members have an account number or a coded membership card to unlock a bicycle from a special rack. They can ride it anywhere and return it to a UBike rack. There’s an extra charge if the bicycle is not returned to a station or if the bicycle is kept beyond a 90-minute limit. UVA director of Parking and Transportation, Becca White says it’s not like a sharing program in the city several years ago where all the bicycles were stolen. White says the bikes have electronic locks and are equipped with GPS...
Although Virginia was one of the first states to pass legislation mandating the human papilloma virus vaccine for sixth-grade girls, the Commonwealth has fallen behind the national average of the number of girls actually getting vaccinated. Now researchers at the University of Virginia want to know why. The human papilloma virus (HVP) vaccine is three shots series that can prevent a deadly disease. "It's the only vaccine we have to prevent cases of cancer," said UVa assistant professor Jessica Keim-Malpass.
The University of Virginia issued a health warning to students about one confirmed case of the Mumps and four other suspected cases. As of right now the cause of those four other cases has not been confirmed. However, the director of General Medicine at the Student Health Center on grounds says it’s not uncommon to see cases of the Mumps on college campuses. Dr. Meredith Hayden also says Influenza A, this year’s flu, shares similar symptoms with the mumps, including swollen parotid glands and a high fever.
With the left-wing Syriza political party now leading a ruling coalition in Greece, there are concerns about whether Athens will continue to make good on its more than $260 billion economic bailout and austerity agreement with the so-called “troika” — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. “You’ve got this real tension in that nobody is really empowered to provide the safety net that allows a country to get through a recession — or in Greece’s case, a depression,” said William Antholis, a foreign p...
E.D. Hirsch was an educational conservative before educational conservatives were cool. Now a retired professor of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, Hirsch has been arguing for a back-to-basics approach since the 1980s. In a series of bestselling books that include "Cultural literacy: What every American needs to know" (1987) and "The schools we need and why we don't have them" (1996), Hirsch has called for grounding K-12 education in facts — in the history, literature, science, geography, art and knowledge of their own country and cultu...
Cavalier Daily Editor-in-Chief Julia Horowitz was one of three student panelists on the hourlong show, discussing recent news developments on American college campuses.
The number of students applying to Virginia’s law schools seems as scant as last year. Midway through the application season, school administrators are continuing to deal with a dramatic drop in applications and enrollment. An expansion of law schools and a contraction in legal jobs have contributed to fewer students viewing a career as a lawyer as a sure path to lucrative employment. “Our university does not use our law school as a cash cow. We are financially self-sufficient,” said Paul Mahoney, dean of the University of Virginia law school. The law school keeps its tuition...
The beheading of a Japanese journalist does not represent Islam. Saddam Hussein did not represent Islam. Bashar al-Assad does not represent Islam. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya did not represent Islam. The regular beheadings in Saudi Arabia for ‘crimes’ such as adultery do not represent Islam. Nevertheless, it is probably true that in the late 20th century a high percentage of the world’s violent conflicts took place inside the Muslim world or against non-Muslims. Today, Professor John Owen of the University of Virginia argues in his new book, Confronting Political Isl...
(By Shira Lurie, in the first year of her PhD in Early American History at the University of Virginia) The 80/20 rule is an economic principle that asserts 80% of outputs are the result of 20% of inputs. It is occasionally referred to as the Pareto Principle, named for an Italian economist who proposed that 80% of the country’s wealth was held by just 20% of the population (I like to think of him as the original Michael Moore). As a historian, percentages and words like “outputs” tend to confuse me, but the important thing to glean from the 80/20 rul...
The Super bowl broke records with amount of viewership for the game and the commercials. One University of Virginia student made it into one of those well watched commercials. Brad Jaeger is a racecar driver that made it into the Nissan commercial, the one that ran for just about 90 seconds during the Super bowl. He had a behind the scenes role in the shooting and just barely made it onto the screen.
After being thrown into the national spotlight on sexual assault issues, a University of Virginia graduate is driving home her organization’s campaign promoting “better conduct among college men.” The organization, called the “Network of enlightened Women (New),” was started 10 years ago by Karin Agness, a lawyer and graduate of U.Va.
A breakthrough at the University of Virginia School of Medicine could help save cancer patients' lives. Researchers at UVA discovered a specific protein that allows lung cancer cells to spread throughout the body. “We basically took lung cancer cells and manipulated them in a way that they showed metastatic properties,” said Marty Mayo, associate professor in biochemistry and molecular genetics.