New Honor chair Ryan Keane said in an interview with The Cavalier Daily that Honor is currently working on policy changes to protect students facing Honor charges due to rent disputes.
“When there are no students at the University, there's no work for the Aramark employees,” one employee said.
This decision comes two weeks before the University was expected to determine if classes would return to Grounds and one day after an employee at the Maxine Platzer-Lynn Women’s Center was tested positive for the coronavirus.
The emergency declaration came one day after the University extended spring break through March 19 and cancelled in-person classes until at least April 5 amid coronavirus concerns.
The event kicked off a week of programming that celebrates Charlottesville’s first official annual Liberation and Freedom Day on March 3.
The vigil took place in the shadow of the auction block marker's theft by a local white activist.
Some argue that the former president’s ties to eugenics may be grounds for removing his name from one of the University’s most prominent libraries.
