The Ad Hoc Group University Climate and Culture held its second meeting on Monday, Dec. 22. The committee, founded and chaired by President Sullivan, was created in early December in order to maintain public safety at the University.
Smith graduated from Blacksburg High School in 2011 and was on track to graduate from the University in May 2015. He was a mathematics major and environmental sciences minor, but also had a talent for learning languages. Smith’s close friends said he will be remembered for his creative energy, spontaneity and selfless attitude.
Rolling Stone has tasked the Columbia Journalism School with reviewing the internal editing process behind the article the magazine published last month detailing an alleged gang rape of a University student at a fraternity party in Sept.
Student leaders sent a report listing 23 policy suggestions and proposals to the Board of Visitors before its special meeting on sexual assault Friday. “Students sit at the center of the sexual assault storm," the document's opening paragraph reads.
Now a month since the article's publication — the page boasting 179,000 Facebook likes and nearly 7,500 comments — questions about the article's central story have turned the ensuing discussion from one of horror to one of doubt and confusion, with an overwhelming desire to unearth new clues which might shed light on that nagging question: What really happened to Jackie that night?
The Board of Visitors convened in a special meeting Friday to discuss the University’s ongoing efforts to combat sexual assault. Rector George Martin set the meeting’s tone early, acknowledging the tumultuous semester the University community has experienced.
Fourth-year College student Hunter Smith died Wednesday, the Office of the Dean of Students has announced.
Atthar Mirza and Elizabeth Ballou — second and third-year College students, respectively — released a self-made video Thursday evening thanking Jackie for telling her story and offering support for sexual assault survivors in the University community.
Monday evening, Charlottesville Police arrested Gene Everett Washington, age 30, and charged him with two counts of first degree murder in connection with the Friday deaths of Robin Christine Aldridge and her daughter, Mani Viktoria Aldridge, ages 58 and 17. He will be held at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail with no bond.
University President Teresa Sullivan announced the formation of an ad hoc committee on public safety Monday. The committee, formally titled the Ad Hoc Group on University Climate and Culture, is chaired by Sullivan and includes two members of the Board of Visitors, two faculty, four students, one staff member, one dean and four alumni and parent representatives.
Charlottesville Police are labeling the deaths of two women found inside their Rugby Avenue home after a reported house fire around midnight Friday as homicides. Though an autopsy is not yet completed, the two victims appear to have “suffered severe blunt force trauma,” according to a media release. Police report the fire “appears to have been purposely set.”
Members of the University community came together with the family of Peter D’Agostino on Friday to celebrate the life of the late second-year College student.
Students responded in force to reports Friday which alleged that some claims in last month’s Rolling Stone article, detailing a gang rape at the University in 2012, may be false.
Student leaders responded to a statement issued Friday by Rolling Stone magazine, in which managing editor Will Dana apologized to readers for "discrepancies" in an article published last month detailing the alleged gang rape in Sept.
Even as administrators and advocates work to promote a dialogue around policy and cultural change moving forward, questions linger about the accuracy of the Rolling Stone account. As Jackie's narrative is dissected, the extent of these "inconsistencies," and the status of the ongoing police investigation, are murky.
The University chapter of Phi Kappa Psi released a statement Friday saying an internal investigation has found several inconsistencies in the report of an alleged gang rape at the fraternity house in Sept.
Rolling Stone Magazine today issued a retraction to readers, apologizing for what it cites as “inconsistencies” in the article published last month detailing an alleged gang rape of a then-first year, identified as Jackie, at a party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in Sept. 2012.
Three Virginia delegates proposed a bill to revise existing college safety laws regarding sexual assault, the latest in a sea of local and national responses to address the prevalence of sexual assault — most recently brought to the forefront of public attention after a Rolling Stone article detailed several cases of sexual assault at the University.
University President Teresa Sullivan hosted a reception Thursday in the Special Collections Library to discuss the issue of sexual violence at the University. The reception covered a variety of issues, including the implementation of mandatory campus safety classes for students, how to better support survivors of sexual violence as a community, and the issue of alcohol and partying.
Economics professor John James died suddenly last Friday, Nov. 28 of an unexpected cardiac event. Professor James taught economic history in both the Economics Department and the History Department.
