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University President Jim Ryan was officially inaugurated as U.Va.’s ninth president Friday afternoon. The ceremony took place on the South Lawn in front of Old Cabell Hall and was attended by University staff, delegates from other universities and colleges and state officials. Ryan took office Aug. 1, succeeding former president Teresa Sullivan.
Third-year College student Kristen Barrett, the first black director in student theater group Shakespeare on the Lawn’s history, will be directing SOTL’s upcoming production of “Romeo and Juliet” this semester. Reimagined as an interracial love story set in the era of the Rodney King riots, Barrett hopes to contribute a fresh perspective on race relations through the use of such a well-known and powerful play.
From almost the moment they stepped onto Grounds, the Class of 2018 has been faced with adversity. During their past four years at the University, they have encountered tragedy and trauma to the extent that many college students never will. The unsettling events of 2014 and 2015 marked the class’s first year as one of the University’s most difficult in recent memory, and the lingering effects of Aug.11 and 12 cast a shadow over their fourth year.
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.
Below are excerpts from interviews The Cavalier Daily conducted with this year’s Student Council Vice President for Administration candidates — third-year Curry student Al Ahmed and third-year College student Sydney Bradley. You can find their full interviews below. The excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.
Excerpts from interviews with the Student Council presidential candidates
The University’s Office of the Architect held a community listening session at Newcomb Hall Thursday afternoon to allow for students, faculty and community members to voice their concerns on the proposed construction of a softball stadium at Lambeth Field. The meeting room was almost at full capacity.
The University’s Advisory Committee on the Future of the Historic Landscape will hold a public input session Friday morning to receive and discuss opinions on the significance of visible historic symbols around Grounds.
It is probably no coincidence that I should come to write this piece just as it is beginning to truly feel like fall. Fall, of course, being the most aesthetically pleasing of the four seasons, has a way of bringing out the University’s beauty most spectacularly. The bright leaves settle on the lawn, and the cool, cloudless skies contrast brilliantly against the Rotunda. Admiring such things, however, comes with quite a bit of self-imposed baggage nowadays. One cannot take a tour of the University without learning of the central role of slavery in its construction. One cannot walk past the serpentine walls without imagining the forced laborers who once tended to the gardens. One cannot walk past the statue of Jefferson on the north side of the Rotunda without recalling how recently it was lit by the fire of tiki torches, or how Jefferson’s hands remain stained by a vandal’s red paint, as they have been for weeks now. There is a phrase which that I think well summarizes the palpable discomfort permeating every aspect of our University — “the personal is political.”
In the past few months, Charlottesville has experienced jarring juxtapositions between political turmoil and massive artistic responses. The city was subjected to fatal white nationalist rallies — and weeks later, a larger-than-life, star-studded benefit concert was performed in retaliation, along with the Virginia Film Festival’s announcement that Spike Lee, one of the leading black voices in entertainment, would be visiting Charlottesville.
More than 100 students crammed into the University’s Newcomb South Meeting Hall last month for a Student Council meeting that quickly devolved into volleys of shouts and anger.
University President Teresa Sullivan sat down with The Cavalier Daily Tuesday morning in Madison Hall for a 45-minute interview to discuss the agenda for the upcoming Board of Visitors meeting and the University’s response to President Donald Trump’s repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
University President Teresa Sullivan sat down for 50-minute interview with The Cavalier Daily Tuesday morning to address questions and criticisms related to the University’s response to events in Charlottesville on Aug. 11 and 12.
On the evening of Aug. 21, the Black Student Alliance was joined by hundreds of students and community members in a peaceful march from the amphitheatre to the Thomas Jefferson statue north of the Rotunda to protest recent white nationalist events.
While students at the University have witnessed construction and restoration of the Academical Village in recent years, such projects have been occurring for the past two centuries. An 1826 letter, written by Edgar Allan Poe to his stepfather John Allan, is part of an online exhibit at the University called “Arise and Build!” and mentions the construction of the Rotunda.
Since lawn room selections came out last month, a debate has been raging in The Cavalier Daily Opinion section about the relative weight merit and representation should be given in the Lawn room selection process. The arguments have so far focused on the role of the calibration committee in the process, which was revamped for the 2016-17 school year with apparent success. In response to the criticisms leveled at his first piece by Alexander Adames, who argued that it is crucial for the selection committee to consider context and inequities, Matt Winesett retooled his justification of a meritocratic process to account for Adames’ arguments. Unfortunately, his reliance on a false choice between the Lawn as an award or a mirror presupposes a trade-off which rarely exists for competitive application processes and certainly does not exist for the Lawn. The calibration committee does not consist of a “relaxation of standards” because of the simple fact that there are far more qualified applicants than there are Lawn rooms. Furthermore, his emphasis on the Lawn’s prestige makes it seem like just a host of statistics and accolades. Rather, it is the living, breathing and historical center of the University, where excellence, inclusion, merit and representation should be mutually reinforcing. The calibration committee helps us achieve that vision.
To steal a phrase from a fellow columnist, the debate surrounding Lawn room selections is as much a tradition as the selection itself. In 2017, columnists of The Cavalier Daily’s Opinion section have been especially concerned with this issue, writing no less than four different columns on the topic. On one level, I appreciate the paper hosting a vigorous debate on University topics. However, the debate around Lawn rooms is ultimately meaningless. Creating change for the University by changing the composition of Lawn residents is not only a fruitless exercise, but also takes attention away from more fundamental changes needed at the University.
Jacob and Ariana met at Starbucks at 2 p.m. on Saturday to grab coffee and get to know each other.
Last month, I argued that the Lawn selection process should only consider an applicant’s merit, rather than an applicant’s race, socioeconomic background or area of study. Thus I oppose the creation and use of the calibration committee, which is designed to adjust the decisions of the blind selection process to ensure the Lawn more accurately reflects the University. I have received extensive feedback since then, so for the sake of clarification, allow me to restate my case and respond to the most common objections.
A few weeks ago, fellow writer Matt Winesett penned an op-ed arguing in favor of merit as being the sole determinant of Lawn room selections. As many others have written in favor of the consideration of diversity in these selections, I will refrain from such lines of argumentation. Instead, I will focus on the presumptions that underlie Winesett’s argument.