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Editor’s Note: The student responses below were collected via a Microsoft Form posted to The Cavalier Daily’s Instagram account Friday in the wake of University President Jim Ryan’s resignation. They have been edited for grammar, style and length. We have only included responses from current students. Some students requested to be anonymous, and in those cases, we have identified them by their school and year.
In a decisive result, Donald J. Trump was elected to serve a second term as president of the United States, defeating current Vice President Kamala Harris and becoming the second president ever to serve two nonconsecutive terms. Students across the country took to the polls and waited until early in the morning for an election result. Now, many have mixed reactions to Trump’s victory, with some optimistic about the next four years and others worried about the country’s future.
Millions of Americans cast their votes Tuesday in what has been labeled one of the most important elections in the country’s history, and students at the University were no exception. Charlottesville’s ballot had four races — including a Senate seat, a House of Representatives seat and a referendum that would amend the Commonwealth’s constitution, expanding tax relief status for families of deceased veterans.
Today is Election Day! Check below for live updates on the presidential, U.S. Senate and Virginia’s 5th congressional district races, as well as voter turnout at University-area polling locations.
At most colleges and universities, tour guides get paid. At the University, a group of students instead volunteer through the University Guide Service to lead hundreds of admission and historical tours each semester — that is, until this fall.
After sharing that the University suspended its admissions and historical tours, leaders of the University Guide Service said they are working closely with administrators to establish a proposal that would allow the organization to begin leading admissions tours as soon as the spring semester. The Guide Service first announced its suspension in a statement Aug. 28, where they said that the administration had concerns about the reliability and quality of their tours.
The University Guide Service announced Wednesday in a statement on Instagram that the University has suspended them from conducting both admissions and historical tours, citing concerns from the University over tour attendance and tour quality. According to the statement, the Guide Service will continue to work with the University to develop an agreement that would allow for future Guide Service-led tours, and the group will continue their recruitment operations for the semester.
Nearly four months after Virginia State Police cleared a pro-Palestine encampment on Grounds, University administrators have revised several policies that place restrictions on protests at the University and make it easier for them to disperse protests on Grounds. The University announced the new policies Monday morning in a U.Va. Today article, followed by an email from Kenyon Bonner, vice president and chief student affairs officer, to students reiterating the changes.
As incoming first year students and their families began moving into residences across Grounds, the Board of Visitors held a special meeting Aug. 22 that ran over an hour past its planned time. There was only one action item on the Board’s agenda — endorsing the recommendations provided by the Task Force on Religious Diversity and Belonging, which quietly released its report online about halfway through the meeting, after delivering its recommendations to the University in the past month.
Over 50 police officers, including state troopers in riot gear, cleared the pro-Palestinian encampment near the University chapel Saturday afternoon and detained at least 25 protesters. The removal of the encampment marked the end of a days-long protest that called on the University to disclose its investment portfolio and divest from institutions benefiting from Israeli occupation in Palestine, among other demands.
Students, faculty and Charlottesville community members gathered by the University Chapel Tuesday afternoon, forming an encampment to protest Israel’s actions in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The encampment — referred to as “Liberated Zone 4 Gaza” — comprised more than 100 people as of Wednesday afternoon, although the number of protestors fluctuated greatly as the day progressed. Several faculty were in attendance, with some holding a large sign reading “[Faculty for Justice in Palestine] at U.Va. stands with students.” Faculty also served as liaisons with University Police and Student Affairs, who have said they will let the protests continue as long as they comply with University policy.
Editor’s note: An initial version of this article was published without information about the number of people who attended this event. While no formal count is available, our reporters estimate that approximately 50 people were in attendance. The article has been updated to include this information.
The Jewish Leadership Advisory Board, an elected organization of Jewish student leaders, criticized the Board of Visitors for politicizing the experiences of Jewish students at the University in an April 3 letter acquired by The Cavalier Daily. The letter came after the March 1 meeting of the Board of Visitors, where Bert Ellis, Board member and College and Darden alumnus, criticized the University and Rector Robert Hardie for their responses to allegations of rising antisemitism on Grounds.
This morning, a small truck with LED screens on all sides calling for the resignation of Robert Hardie, rector for the Board of Visitors, parked in front of Gilmer Hall near the first-year dormitories on McCormick Road. The truck was outside of Gilmer Hall at 9:30 a.m., but was gone by 10:20 a.m. It was later seen on McCormick road around 12:30 p.m. and on the street outside the University Chapel around 2:40 p.m. One of the truck’s screens read “Rector Robert Hardie won’t confront antisemitism” while another said Hardie is “unfit to lead U.Va.”
Student Council President
University students can vote on a number of elected positions within student self-governance organizations, beginning Monday morning. The University Board of Elections organized and will hold the University-wide election, which also includes a referendum sponsored by seven student organizations. The referendum demands that the University audit its investment portfolio to identify any connections to companies engaging in or profiting from what the sponsors call “the State of Israel’s apartheid regime and acute violence against Palestinians.”
In an email to the student body, Christa Acampora, chair of the Task Force on Religious Diversity and Belonging and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, provided updates on the committee, which began collecting data and speaking with students in January.
Kenyon Bonner, newly appointed vice president and chief student affairs officer, announced that Cedric Rucker, interim senior associate vice president and dean of students, will remain in his position through the 2024-25 academic year. Bonner, who started his position as VPSA Jan. 16, said that Rucker’s continued presence will allow him to better understand students' needs and inform the University’s national search for a permanent dean of students.
Hundreds of students and community members gathered on South Lawn Friday evening for a vigil mourning the death of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. The vigil was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, and co-hosted with other student groups, including Young Democratic Socialists of America, Dissenters and many others who also helped to organize the Oct. 25 walkout.
Author André Aciman spoke about his identity as a Sephardic Jew and the unique challenges of Jewish identity around the world at the keynote opening presentation for the Inaugural Conference on Jewish Life in the Diaspora Sunday. The event was organized by the Jewish Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts and Sciences that offers both a major and a minor, as well as graduate degrees.