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Opposition to Board from students across the political spectrum

Below are letters from the College Republicans, University Democrats and the Burke Society, a prominent conservative group on Grounds, which condemn the Board of Visitors' handling of President Teresa Sullivan's forced resignation: College Republicans June 19 Dear Governor McDonnell, It is regrettable that we must contact you under these circumstances.


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Board member Glynn Key responds to editorial

Dear Cavalier Daily Editor: In your June 20th Editorial, "Midnight judges," you have taken an unfair liberty with an unexplained fact. In the editorial, you use the fact that I departed the Special BOV Meeting, to make the following condemnation: "Several Board members had little knowledge of Sullivan's removal and several would have wanted for her to return.


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All hands on deck

Professor Larry Sabato tweeted Monday that the current Board of Visitors "has done more damage to the University I love than the 1895 Rotunda fire." Buildings can be rebuilt, traditions can be restored, funding recouped and rankings reestablished.


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Rain down

All money comes with strings attached; the strings of money itself. You can feel the value of a dollar; not truth, or justice, whose values are known and seldom felt, perhaps not even by Jefferson.


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Without a trace

The University community departs in summer but returns for the fall � not, however, President Teresa Sullivan, who will resign August 15. The “mutually agreed” decision for Sullivan to resign was announced Sunday morning in a University-wide email distributed by the Board of Visitors.


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Sending out an SIS

Note: Due to an editorial error, this article was mistakenly printed in the Life Section of the April 25th Cavalier Daily under a different byline.


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Lockstep keydets

The 1,500 students at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) are all ROTC cadets but there are not enough majors across disciplines.


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The war wages on

Following the Living Wage Campaign's hunger strike, Michael Strine, University executive vice president and chief operative officer, emailed the University community making a number of promises.


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A mixed bag of tricks

Affirmative action is perhaps one of the strongest and most controversial measures taken by the government to fight discrimination and increase representation of minority groups in education and the workplace.


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An astronomical benefit

In a time when the federal budget is never far from the front page of the news, there is one federal agency which is far underappreciated, and often the object of entirely undeserved spite: NASA.


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Holy alliances

During an election, it can sometimes seem as if nothing is more important than the victory of one's preferred candidate.

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