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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t help that UVA (and that article) constantly refer to the school as THE University.  It’s all over that article.  They already have a huge chip on their shoulder.[/quote][/b]

because it is written by a student for the student newspaper.  That's all you are getting: one student's viewpoint in the student newspaper, so OF COURSE it is THE University because it's in the Cavalier Daily.[/quote]

Wrong. That’s how students and alum from UVA refer to the school.  It’s not UVA, or Virginia, or school, or college, it’s “the University”.  And it’s not campus, it’s “the grounds”.  They don’t have freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors, it’s first years, second years, third years, fourth years.    sounds like you don’t know much about the school if you don’t even know one of the basic reasons people find UVA to be pretentious and fratty.

[b]I find it highly comical that a school newspaper article is making the argument that UVA is becoming more like a private school but uses that vocabulary, which was already doing that job.  [/quote][/b]

It's not the opinion of the student newspaper.  That would be issued by the editorial board.  What you see here is called an "opinion editorial" or "op-Ed".   Students on the Cavalier Daily have to submit pieces for publication because it's a Daily Paper and they need pieces to publish.  DD worked on the paper last year and says the Op-Eds are trash and that the editors don't do their jobs, as you see here (editors are supposed to edit submitted opinion pieces - they don't).  So what you are reading is what some ignorant 19 year old drummed up fast so he could submit something for publication.  If he had even bothered to check he would know about AccessUVA, the increase in the amount of funding for low-income and rural students, as well as the fact that UVA's $8 billion endowment is a shadow compared to Yale's at 27B and Harvard's at 33B.[/quote]

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