When we criticize Thomas Jefferson, his eugenics, his use of enslaved laborers or his abuse of Sally Hemings and many others, we are contextualizing history, not erasing it.
But there is a huge difference between facilitating dialogues between people and working to address large-scale inequity, and lambasting individuals for wanting to be around those with whom they share common cultural or heritage-based traits.
Book banning is a form of censorship used purely to preserve certain notions of what people — most often, children and imprisoned people — should think.
While students of community colleges are as diverse as they come in respects to their race, ethnicity, income, and general experience, one main throughline unites them all — only about 300-400 of them will matriculate to the University of Virginia.
I do not want to live in a world nor attend a university where people throw away new concepts out of comfort for old ones or abandon acknowledgement for the sake of tranquility.
Like Spanish colonization, the historical 122 years of U.S. colonial oppression have been parasitic and painful for Puerto Rico.
Diversity is not division. If you think that including others who are different is divisive, then it is because what is being taught was only meant for one certain group of people.
Thus far, the University has failed to educate its students on its history of white supremacy and abuse of Black enslaved laborers.
In a world increasingly devoid of truthful reporting, the University is missing a golden opportunity to make its mark.
If the University eradicates all attendance mandates and policies from its teachers’ syllabi, students will feel less pressure to come to class with coughs, sniffles and sore throats, even if they aren’t caused by COVID-19.
It is time for the University’s administration, particularly President Jim Ryan and the Board of Visitors, to issue a public call for UVIMCO to disclose and divest.
The Downtown Mall's standing as the city's inclusive public square is diminished by its inconvenient lack of public benches.
A preventative ban on any University support will ensure our institution does its part to eliminate this dangerous research from ever again risking our public health.
The investigative journalist should be able to overcome a fear of clashing with the status quo.
U.Va. should move immediately to build a long-term infrastructure that will allow for a complete transition to open textbooks.
At its core, racism is a system in which a dominant race directly benefits from the oppression of others whether they want to or not or whether they are conscious of it or not.
The court must uphold the act and respect the sovereignty of Native American tribes to make decisions on behalf of their children.
These restrictions were defensively adopted in response to a series of highly publicized incidents and are a direct threat to students’ right to free speech and free expression.
When we raise someone onto a pedestal, we are effectively transforming them from a man into a myth.
In the spirit of striving toward the perfect union that Mayor Walker notes we are far from, some steps to grapple with the University’s role in Virginia’s eugenic program present themselves, such as renaming Alderman library.
