Aside from being slightly older and on the opposite side of Grounds, I found new-school-year Charlottesville to be almost exactly as I left it: the people are charming, the architecture impressive and the weather predictably unpredictable.
The Board of Visitors must make an effort to clearly examine how the tumult of this summer occurred before sweeping it into the dust bin of history.
I am disheartened and disgusted that Ms. Dragas remains on the Board of Visitors. She has betrayed the trust of thousands and soiled the University’s reputation worse than anyone in recent memory, and perhaps, in the University’s history.
So this is history, is it; the tying of threads into narrative.
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Like all University alumni I know, I was very happy on Tuesday to see the Board of Visitors reinstate President Teresa Sullivan.
Note: This letter was submitted prior to the Board of Visitors' decision to reinstate President Teresa A.
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.
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.
“Because of an inept Board a growing number of disparate players…are now left in a moral checkmate.”
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.
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.
A Confused Hoo For the past two weeks, the development on presidency of the University of Virginia has surprised many of us.
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.
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.
The 1,500 students at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) are all ROTC cadets but there are not enough majors across disciplines.
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.
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.
When I say Iran is the most dangerous country in the world, many think I am trying to beat a war drum.
