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Lawn residents are now permitted to post signs of up to 11 inches by 17 inches on their doors, a change from the contentious policy that went into effect this fall that restricted posters to those that fit within message boards provided by Housing and Residence Life.
The Democracy Initiative hosted a virtual event Tuesday afternoon to discuss the “Lost Cause” myth of the Civil War. The event was part of the Democracy Initiative’s Memory Project, which aims to take an active role in examining the past as it relates to the legacy of enslavement.
Student Council introduced FR21-16, a resolution to support the Blackburn Takeover at Howard University and FR21-17, a proposal for a modest tuition increase to provide health insurance loan relief to low-income students at the University at Tuesday’s general body meeting. The former resolution was passed and the latter was tabled.
Student Council passed its fall budget, a resolution supporting Divest U.Va. and a bill to create the University Networks of Care Ad-Hoc Committee during its general body meeting Tuesday night.
Student Council discussed revisions to its budget and heard from the chair of the Academic Affairs Committee during its meeting Tuesday night. Since last week's meeting, the budget was increased from $194,495 to $226,855.
The Office of the Dean of Students hosted a reception Thursday to celebrate the grand opening of the Veteran Student Center. The center is meant to be a space for student veterans and active-duty ROTC students. It is located in the former home of the LGBTQ Center on the lower level of Newcomb, before the LGBTQ Center was relocated to the third floor of Newcomb last year.
Students are voicing concerns about COVID-19 and breakthrough cases in the University community, including communication from the University and what appeared to be a lack of available testing.
Residents of the Lawn are criticizing the University’s new signage restrictions for limiting and censoring the ability of Lawn residents to freely express themselves on their doors.
Provost Liz Magill hosted a virtual town hall Monday alongside Mitchell Rosner, chair of the department of medicine, and infectious diseases expert Costi Sifri to discuss the Delta variant, which is currently the most prevalent strain of the coronavirus present in the Charlottesville community. Rosner and Sifri also provided insight as to why mandated asymptomatic testing is no longer part of the University’s COVID-19 guidelines.
The University’s COVID-19 dashboard reported ten positive cases since last Monday, with zero cases reported over Saturday and Sunday. These low numbers come a week after Dean of Students Allen Groves announced an increase in the indoor and outdoor gathering limits from six to 25 indoors and 25 to 75 outdoors, respectively.
The University’s COVID-19 tracker recorded a total of 31 cases throughout the past week since Monday. Only one new case of COVID-19 was found over the weekend — one on Saturday and zero on Sunday — which is three cases fewer than the previous weekend. The only case from this weekend came from a faculty or staff member. There are currently 42 active cases in the community, 33 being students and nine being faculty and staff members.
The University’s COVID-19 tracker reported a total of four cases over Saturday and Sunday, with three being faculty and staff members and one being a student. Last weekend, zero cases were reported among faculty and staff.
The University’s COVID-19 dashboard reported zero new cases on Saturday and one new case on Sunday. There are currently 48 active cases in the community, including 37 students and 11 faculty and staff members. These cases bring the total number of cases in the University community during the spring semester to 1,829.
The University’s COVID-19 dashboard reported two new cases over the weekend with one case Saturday and another Sunday. Both of the new cases were students. These numbers show a slight decrease compared to the previous weekend when three total cases were reported Saturday and Sunday.
Despite initial disappointment concerning the cancellation of Final Exercises as planned for the Class of 2021, some fourth years expressed optimism given University President Ryan’s recent announcement that the University is reevaluating its plans thanks to the relaxation of statewide guidelines related to graduation ceremonies.
The Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy extended acceptances to 95 undergraduate candidates out of a pool of 210 students for the Class of 2023 on Monday. The overall admission rate was 46 percent compared to 42 percent last year.
The University’s Law school launched Slavery and the U.Va. School of Law — a new website and digital archive that explores the law school's historical connections to slavery — on Feb 1. At the core of this project are digitized versions of law students’ notebooks from the antebellum time period, when slavery was taught as a social good.
The Board of Visitors will hold an educational workshop followed by a public comment period at 12 p.m. on Wednesday to discuss its proposed increase of undergraduate tuition for the 2021-2022 school year.
DivestUVA — a grassroots campaign demanding that the University remove its investments from the fossil fuel industry — published a second open letter to University President Ryan and the Board of Visitors on Jan. 22 advocating for the divestment of endowment funds from fossil fuel-based companies and other unsustainable ventures, including prison labor.