Several professors on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against the inclusion of a Thomas Jefferson quote in her post-election email Nov. 9.
Student protesters were granted a meeting with University President Teresa Sullivan after storming a Board of Visitors meeting Friday, demanding the board work to make the University a safer place.
Approximately 25 students marched into a Board of Visitors meeting Friday with a list of verbal demands which centered on asking the University to do more to create a safe space for victims of hate crimes.
The commission recommended keeping statues of both Lee and Jackson if historic context can be added to the monuments.
The incident occurred around 1:50 a.m. Wednesday morning.
The 470,000-square-foot shopping district is located directly off Interstate 64 on Fifth Street and contains over twenty businesses.
“The Crystal Ball is shattered,” the post on Sabato's Crystal Ball read.
The event, which was organized in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s election Tuesday, was held in the Amphitheatre.
Garrett will begin his first term in Congress Jan. 3, 2017.
Several groups have released statements expressing distress at the news.
The stock market appears to be stabilizing after multiple indexes plunged last night following Donald Trump’s election. The Dow Futures Price — which is the price to buy or sell a standardized value of the Dow — had fallen over 800 points overnight, according to a report by CNBC. Standard and Poor’s 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures also decreased more than five percent last Tuesday night.
The Washington outsider notably won several swing states expected to go to Clinton.
Almost 80 percent of Virginia residents voted to pass an amendment to the state constitution that gives property tax breaks to spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty.
College Republicans chose to spend their time making calls for campaigns across the country, while the University Democrats kept their efforts focused primarily within the fifth district.
Following an increase of bias-motivated incidents on Grounds this semester, students received emails from University officials and student leaders.
University Democrats, College Republicans and Student Council collaborated to organize an Election Day shuttle from Observatory Hill Dining Hall to University Hall, a polling location for students in first-year dorms and select on-Grounds housing.
Phi Kappa Psi’s defamation suit is not scheduled for trial until October 2017.
State Sen. Tom Garrett (R-Buckingham) defeated Democratic candidate Jane Dittmar in the race for Virginia’s fifth Congressional District seat with 60 percent of the vote.
A panel of University and local school leaders convened Monday to discuss the future of education in Charlottesville.
The new campus is expected to host 30-50 faculty members in addition to research teams and medical students.
