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(03/23/18 4:02am)
Last year, Student Council organized Diversity Week to celebrate the diversity present throughout the University. While it is nice to acknowledge diversity at the University, we should be focusing more on expanding it. The Council should consider having a Diversity Week which is refocused on not only celebrating diversity, but raising awareness about the lack thereof. The University is lacking in diversity relative to the diverse world in which we live. While the University has taken steps to try and increase diversity, more action is necessary.
(03/23/18 4:00am)
The No. 10 Virginia men’s lacrosse team and No. 9 Johns Hopkins are set to face off Saturday at Klöckner Stadium in a matchup of college lacrosse giants.
(03/23/18 4:14am)
Psych 1010 is a popular class. It fills up most semesters, and it can be hard to get into. As a potential psychology major, I knew I had to take it to see if the major was for me. I put it off all my first year and fall semester my second year. But this semester I decided it was time for me to finally enroll and take the class — you know, to see what I was missing. Well, turns out the class probably would have been better missed. Now, it’s not the professor or anything. He’s a great guy. Interestingly enough, it’s the students. However, they aren’t just any students — they are the most dreaded, bold and, most importantly, unpredictable kind. First-years. And now, I was on their turf. Something I should have considered in an intro class, but it was too late for me now. I’ll take you through my first day.
(03/23/18 4:44am)
Los ciudadanos de Charlottesville se reunieron para un debate entre los cuatro candidatos democráticos para la nominación del Quinto Distrito del Congreso, Roger Dean Huffstetler, Leslie Cockburn, Ben Cullop y Andrew Sneathern, en el auditorio de Buford Middle School Sábado por la tarde. Organizado por Indivisible Charlottesville, un grupo progresivo local, el evento fue una de varias reuniones públicas con los cuatro candidatos antes de que el candidato sea seleccionado por el Comité Democrático del Distrito Congressional de Virginia en una convención el 5 de mayo.
(03/22/18 5:06am)
Patrick D. Hogan, executive vice president and chief operating officer, announced the cancellation of classes in a mass email to the University community early Wednesday morning, following a night of snow showers.
(03/21/18 4:55am)
Coach Joanne Boyle, who led the Virginia women’s basketball team back to the NCAA Tournament this season for the first time since 2010, announced her retirement Tuesday afternoon, citing a family matter.
(03/23/18 4:17pm)
As a part of their April issue on race, National Geographic took a look at its archive and found that its past coverage was racist. University History Prof. John Edwin Mason, who specializes in African history and the history of photography, assisted in the examination. Mason found that, “until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color who lived in the United States, rarely acknowledging them . . . . Meanwhile it pictured ‘natives’ elsewhere as exotics . . . noble savages — every type of cliché.” He concluded that unlike other magazines like Life, National Geographic did not push readers to see outside the stereotypes prominent in white American culture.
(03/21/18 7:04am)
Seattle-based hip-hop duo Shabazz Palaces — made up of Ishmael Butler, also known as Palaceer Lazaro, and Tendai "Baba" Maraire — headlined a concert last Friday at the University Chapel presented by WXTJ. The unique venue became the ideal location for a night of experimental jams.
(03/19/18 6:02pm)
Cientos de estudiantes de la Universidad participaron en la retirada en el “Lawn” el miércoles para exigir acción contra la violencia de las armas un mes después del tiroteo el 14 de febrero en Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School en Parkland, FL.
(03/19/18 6:04pm)
En respuesta al tiroteo de la escuela del mes pasado en la escuela secundaria Marjory Stoneman Douglas en Parkland, Florida, que resultó en la muerte de 17 personas, la Coalición por los derechos de las minorías organizó una marcha para poner fin a la violencia armada comenzando en el anfiteatro de la Universidad de Virginia el miércoles por la noche. A pesar de las frías temperaturas, una multitud de más de cien se congregaba en el anfiteatro en solidaridad para escuchar discursos de estudiantes locales y universitarios.
(03/21/18 6:58am)
One afternoon during my Women and Gender Studies class, we were instructed to go around the room stating our names and what we were passionate about. Many people said they were passionate about traveling, others said basketball, but few said anything even remotely related to their majors. The girl sitting next to me turned to me and asked, “I’m a fourth year, but am I supposed to know what I’m passionate about?”
(03/18/18 11:48pm)
Saturday was an absolutely critical game for the No. 7 Virginia men’s lacrosse team, as it traveled to South Bend, Ind. to take on the Fighting Irish on St. Patrick’s Day.
(03/16/18 1:59am)
The Virginia men’s lacrosse team (6-1, 0-1 ACC) will wrap up their three-game road trip with a return to ACC play, as they take on No. 4 Notre Dame (3-1, 0-0 ACC) in South Bend, Ind. on Saturday.
(03/15/18 12:23am)
Several hundred University students participated in a walkout on the Lawn Wednesday to demand action to end gun violence, one month after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
(03/14/18 3:41am)
University Dean of Admissions Gregory Roberts issued a statement Feb. 23, affirming that the University would not penalize applicants who participated in peaceful civic protests over gun violence. His announcement of support joins other universities who also reassured their prospective students that any disciplinary action taken against them wouldn’t ruin their chance for admission. On Feb. 14 there was a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where a gunman used an AR-15 assault rifle to kill 17 people. Soon afterward, a national conversation began about gun control, as it always does in the aftermath of such tragedies. In response to the shooting, the Women’s March Youth EMPOWER initiative organized a national school walkout for March 14. This is the demonstration that Gregory Roberts is referencing. His words, though encouraging, could mislead potential applicants that student activism is fully supported by University administration.
(03/12/18 4:31pm)
To the Minority Rights Coalition,
(03/09/18 8:57pm)
On March 4, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences presented the 90th Academy Awards. The ceremony, often referred to as the Oscars, was hosted this year by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. There were no shocking moments like last year’s Best Picture mix-up between “La La Land” and “Moonlight”. However, it is clear that the Academy remains in the shadow of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy of 2015. The hashtag started off as a joke on Twitter, but users also used it to discuss the serious lack of diversity in the awards’ nominations. The win for “Moonlight” last year was seen as a step in the right direction because it had a predominantly black cast and was the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. This year’s ceremony was not explicitly political. There were many nods to recent movements, including the women of the #MeToo initiative and Dreamers, throughout the night. These steps are important, but the very racial and gender makeup of the Academy remains the same, and that is what’s blocking true diversity.
(03/06/18 3:34am)
On Feb. 12, the Trump administration announced plans to redesign the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, by replacing food stamps with a food package. Currently, SNAP is sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service. Eligible low-income individuals and families are provided with the economic assistance to purchase nutritious food. The USDA is suggesting that SNAP be re-worked in a way that saves money and utilizes American-grown products, but these benefits do not outweigh the issues caused by the policy. The food package program would be more complicated for state offices and offers recipients less access to fresh food. Trump’s proposal is less of a redesign and more of a gutting — a result of larger proposed budget cuts across safety-net programs for the sake of higher spending on defense and border security.
(03/02/18 2:44am)
“Seven Seconds” begins like every other murder mystery in Netflix’s “Dark TV Drama” category — with a crime. And yet, as the camera pans across a snowy park in Jersey, the first face seen is not the victim’s, but the killer’s. What follows this precipitous beginning is the surprising and, at times, disconcerting characterization of all those impacted by the events of that day in the park. From the outset, “Seven Seconds” leans into the tensions between what it means to be victim or killer, black or white, right or wrong, leaving its plot in the murky gray of a reality in which an earnest man can turn to darkness just as easily as a lost woman can find the light.
(03/02/18 3:24am)
Four current trustees of the IDEA fund presented their plans for increasing diversity and inclusion in the University community at the Board of Visitors Advancement Committee meeting Thursday.