Beta Bridge bigotry
I CANNOT express the disappointment that I felt as I read the front-page headline of The Cavalier Daily on Sept. 12, 2005, which read, "Beta Bridge vandals issue apology letter: Three students come forward after the FBI concludes graffiti is not racially motivated in letter to Casteen, Lampkin." I felt this disappointment not necessarily because there had been a supposed "end" and a "conclusion" in this one incident but because I felt as if the headline, along with the article which followed, opened up a new set of problems and realities which I, as a female African-American student, would have to face and deal with on Grounds each day. The main reality that I felt I had to face was one which said even the University of Virginia, my University, was leading the students on Grounds to believe that what is clear to me as a racial incident was not that because the FBI said so.