Former first-year College student Alan Yuan Chang has been charged with one count of first-degree murder for the killing of his father, 47-year-old Jian Zhang, Chang’s attorney said. Police found Zhang’s body inside the family’s home.
Yesterday, Henrico County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court officials set a preliminary hearing for March 22. Chang is currently being held without bond.
University spokesperson Carol Wood said Chang was enrolled as a first-year student last semester but is no longer enrolled.
—compiled by Tom Christensen
Compare and contrast the coverage the cav daily will give this story as compared to the coverage they gave the handicapped black man who said “hey baby” to a woman in Alderman..
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This killing didn’t happen in Charlottesville. This person was no longer a student here. This hardly affects students in Charlottesville as much as some creep harassing students late at night in University libraries. So, I’m not sure what your point is.
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Notice you use the term “creep” to describe the guy in Alderman a few months back, but will refer to the guy charged with the murder of his father – the one who was your UVA fellow student just weeks ago – as “this person.” Thanks for confirming just how far elitism and arrogance has gone at UVA, and to what lengths people will go to cover up and/or ignore crimes committed by UVA students. The point is that the Cav Daily is an obedient arm of the UVA administration in making sure any and all negative news regarding any UVA student gets as little or no coverage as possible in local media. They strong arm and intimidate the other local papers in town also. And yes, that includes hiding information about what was a missing person’s investigation – now turned murder investigation.
You’re not going to read in the Cav Daily about the police canvassing 15th. street because they apparently found Morgan Harrington’s shirt in the bushes there. Instead, you can pick up today’s edition and read that “this marks the end of his tenure as respected head of our university. We’re sad to see you go Casteen.”
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Sean, I would like to invite you be my Watson. You are quite clearly an amateur sleuth with impressive credentials and much inside information that could easily bring down the University and the petulant students who attend. Come Sean, stop wasting hours a day on the Cav Daily message board when you could be out with me, on the streets! Bringing down the corrupt administration! Unearthing cover ups perpetuated by the Cav Daily! You can even wear a cape! Publishing underground newspapers that nobody will read!
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Sherlock Cover Up,
I spent about ten minutes today merely restating facts that were all publicly printed (eventually) in other media in town. I have no inside info. But I do know that the Cav Daily’s coverage of the Harrington story was unconscionable for a missing person’s case. From the beginning, the local and national reputation of UVA and its students were placed way before any concern for a missing young woman in danger.
Perhaps Mrs. Harrington’s own final pleas in the days before she knew her daughter was dead might snap you out from under your dutiful defense of “The University” no matter how horrid the circumstances.
“A bad event happened in Charlottesville – be known as the place where this act was NOT tolerated, not dismissed, be relentless, be clever, be resourceful, and find Morgan. Protect people rather than reputations, they are infinitely more precious.”
Note the last sentence in particular. We have no idea who is and is not responsible for Morgan’s death. And I for one am not routing for it to be anyone local – be they UVA, PVCC, Monticello High School, Harris Teeter employees – or whomever. I guess we’d all like to think that it will turn out to be someone from far away – and that they catch him asap.
I don’t hate all UVA students. I live with one, and I have several good friends who are or recently were attending UVA. But to pretend that arrogance and elitism don’t exist around here, and that the administration did NOT keep sightings, theories, and news involving its students that other outlets covered out of the Cav Daily (where it may just have jogged some memories from that night), is just you sticking your head in the sand and hoping in vain that it never happened.
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I agree with Sean. The story published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/HOMI20_20100119-220803/318736/) is ten times as long as the coverage given by the Cavalier Daily, and even hints towards the crucial question of how a “scholar” who was “good at everything” (as quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch article) could have committed such a heinous crime, as well as Chang’s apparent difficulties with adjusting at life at U.Va. Why didn’t the Cavalier Daily ask these same crucial questions? The effectiveness of CAPS as well as the multitude of student services geared towards new and transfer students is implicated in the RT-D article, but anything close to that is absent here.
On the other hand, we don’t seem to have a problem with maintaining the status quo image of our University as a hub for “enlightened, worldly, intellectually-hungry” students, as evidenced in today’s front page article entitled “June Bug,” which is about a presumably privileged, Western student trip to South Africa and experiencing the harmony of what she deems “African Magic”–whatever the hell that means.
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Any negative news regarding a UVA student is kept from public view as much a big money and pressure can make possible in all the local media – although the Cav Daily is especially adept at it. It’s Casteen doing what he does. The image of the happy, sober, studious, and friendly UVA as presented on their website is all that should ever be seen by anyone.
Psychological and emotional help at UVA is geared entirely toward females. Men need not apply. They made sure they was a large, well staffed (and well paid) Women’s Center alright. There is no Mens Center. The suicide of Will Barrow – a great and popular student athlete in 2008 – was covered with a brief story inside the paper for one day with no cause of death. Then it was buried with him.
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Wow, Major cover-ups going on at UVA: There was a murder here today. A female UVA lacrosse student, 22 was killed by another male UVA Lacrosse student. There have been several murders at UVA this year….not much is reported….Do you know who owns this town????
Here is a link to a what these murders mean to our beloved university: “Tragedies involving students present delicate communication challenges for the University” I think the subtitle in this article pretty much sums it up!!! So, murder’s cause ‘a delicate communication challenge’ for UVA. um sorry. People are dead. Murdered for God’s sake. Question is: How come the newpaper delivery woman that said she saw Morgan Harrington on the lawn @ 3:45 that night was never asked to give a description of the students she was with???? Are UVA students not allowed to be questioned?? http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2010/04/27/rock-and-a-hard-place/#comment-7335
Don’t even get me started on the Will Barrow suicide cover up!! C’mon, do you really think a gentlemen that successful, with that bright a future kills himself on the very first try?
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