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The Living
The Living Wage Campaign
ON APRIL 8, the University's Human Resources Department circulated a "free speech" memo to all staff and faculty. The memo eloquently reaffirmed employees' First Amendment rights and restated the University's commitment to protect all members of our community from discrimination and harassment.
In 2003, a 19-year-old biracial U.Va. student named Daisy Lundy was attacked by a white man during her campaign for Student Council president. The response to this incident by the University community was outstanding. The administration called a mass meeting that packed the Newcomb ballroom, President John T. Casteen, III and Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer Patricia Lampkin issued formal statements of denunciation, students organized a candlelight vigil, officials created two new committees on diversity and the FBI launched a full investigation.\nA similar racially motivated attack took place last week, though without physical violence. But the response by the University community has been profoundly disappointing. Indeed, the reply by most seems to be in the mold of "It happens all the time; it's not a big deal; get over it." As I see it, though, the mundane ubiquity of this sort of racism is precisely the problem, and precisely the reason that incidents like this warrants our attention as a community.
During the past few days there has been a flurry of reporting about the campaign that Workers and Students United has spearheaded to encourage the University to guarantee its lowest paid workers an indexed living wage. We are thrilled by the excitement that this campaign has generated for a broader, more inclusive vision for our University community - one that values the roles of workers and staff just as much as those of students and faculty.