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Some have recently identified a “war on books” facing schools across America, as conservatives nationwide push to ban literature that could prompt classroom discussions on America’s racial history or that feature prominent LGBTQ+ characters. A key theater of that war is here in Virginia — for example, Virginia’s Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin ran his campaign on “school issues,” promising to ban “critical race theory” in schools and to guarantee “parents’ rights.”
In a July press statement, the State Department called on China to “abide by its obligations under international law” per the Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling against China’s sweeping South China Sea claims. The press statement rebuked China for shirking “the rules-based maritime order that respects the rights of all countries, big and small.”
In a recent interview, James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, made an important point regarding Charlottesville’s recently-removed Robert E. Lee statue — it was erected in 1924, decades after the fall of the Confederacy. Grossman describes this fact as a “hint” that the monument was not erected to commemorate benevolent southern traditions but rather to “legitimat[e] and perpetuat[e] ideas and structures of race that, in the 1920s, had burrowed themselves into Southern culture.”
A recent Washington Times article, promoted by the University’s Young Americans for Freedom Twitter account, decries “U.Va.’s culture of left-wing intolerance.” The gist of the argument is as follows — Mr. Jefferson’s University ironically shirks the “Jeffersonian tradition” of free expression because the administration, too “timid” when it comes to protecting conservative speech, allows a “militant minority” of leftist students to enforce “cancel culture” on Grounds.
Throughout my first year in Charlottesville, I enjoyed getting to know the Downtown Mall — a space described by the Daily Progress as “Charlottesville’s public square” and on the city’s website as “one of the finest urban parks in the country.” However, it has become evident to me, as it has to other mall-goers previously, that it lacks sufficient public seating. The Downtown Mall’s standing as the city’s inclusive public square is diminished by its inconvenient lack of public benches — a result of the enduring privatization of public space on the mall and the demonization of marginalized groups in the community.
March Madness is a lucrative period for schools, bettors, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and just about everybody involved — except the players themselves. As long as the NCAA continues to exploit college athletes under the pretense of amateurism, betting pools and brackets are actually, as sports columnist Dave Zirin notes, “the most economically above-board part of this entire operation.” We need to start recognizing that student-athletes are exploited workers who are currently compensated far below their market value, if at all.
The recent columns by Bryce Wyles and Emma Camp show that the left at the University is divided on free speech. An offensive demonstration by the right-wing Young America’s Foundation led Wyles to call on the University to “deny space to such repulsive displays.” Responding to Wyles, Camp made a liberal, Voltairean defense of the freedom of even detestable speech on Grounds. Camp characterized Wyles’s column as indicative of an “authoritarian streak” among college leftists, which, she argues, makes for bad optics — making them “appear volatile, dogmatic and anything but progressive.”