Students should be able to earn A+'s
If students receive lower credit for an A-, then they also need to be allowed to receive higher credit for an A+.
Opinions
Cancel culture is not an effective way to incite change
Cancel culture walks a fine line between activism and character assassination, and it is often easier to cancel first and ask questions later.
RA alcohol policies cause over-reporting and mistrust with residents
RAs should be able to use their judgement before reprimanding students for underage drinking – not every Thurston Hall party is worth involving officials.
Students should not pay GW tuition when they study abroad
Students should not be expected to pay for services they are no longer using. We should be paying for a GW education, not just a GW degree.
Officials need to take action to curb excessive fire alarms
The reality of the fire alarms is that something as simple as burnt popcorn can lead to a building-wide evacuation.
Elliott School internship credit requirements are excessive and unnecessary
GW prides itself on its internship culture, but officials expect too much extra work from students who are already working several hours on the job per week.
Counter-protesting gives protestors the attention they want
Students should not waste their time and energy inciting disagreements that go nowhere – it is not activism, it is a waste of their time and emotion.
Counter-protesting helps silence hateful rhetoric
Students should not feel that they gave protestors a platform but should be proud that they defended our campus from hate, and they should keep doing it.
The Daily should not have apologized for good coverage
The Daily should have stood by its coverage, but it is understandable why it gave into pressure from sources who may already dislike the newspaper.
The University should switch to an early action plan
The admissions process is meant to be a fair barometer of future college performance, not of a student’s ability to pay.