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As Paul J. Barreira, Director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling noted in an interview, providing treatment for suicidal students requires a huge commitment of resources that goes far beyond what most colleges are capable of. In addition, the roommates of mentally ill students are unfairly burdened with the stress...
Virginia legislators unanimously passed a bill prohibiting the state’s public universities from punishing or expelling students who attempt to commit suicide or seek treatment for suicidal tendencies. The legislation, approved on Friday, comes in the wake of a spate of suicides at Virginia universities. And it follows...
Yale ranked third in fundraising with just over $433 million, while fellow Ivy Leaguers including the University of Pennsylvania ($409 million) and Cornell ($406 million) filled out the top five, according to the results of the Voluntary Support of Education survey, issued annually by the Council for Aid to Education...
Take, for example, environmentalists who advocate mandatory caps on carbon emissions. In order to halt global warming, reductions would need to be universal and compulsory, not sporadic and voluntary. Yet environmentalists still make individual efforts to reduce their carbon emissions—by buying a Prius, recycling, or paying a...
The question of voluntary taxes gets to the heart of the problem of democracy: Majoritarian voting guarantees that minority views are often marginalized—in this case, producing a less progressive tax code. Someone’s conception of justice is left unrealized.