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[caption id="attachment_30917" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The premiere of the epilogue to "The Laramie Project" play debuted last night at McLeod Hall.
University President John T. Casteen, III will announce the 2009 recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Award - the University's highest honor - during the Fall Convocation ceremony Oct.
In light of a potential lawsuit, the Virginia Department of Corrections decided Tuesday to reinstate Charlottesville Quest Bookshop as part of the Books Behind Bars program, reversing a previous decision to cancel the shop's link to the program. Last week, officials, having found several undisclosed items stashed in books, forbade Quest Bookshop to participate in the program, which provides inmates with reading materials.
?Prison abolition? was the key phrase in black rights activist Angela Davis? speech last night in Newcomb Hall.Davis spoke before a large, impassioned crowd about the injustices of the American prison system in culmination of this week?s symposium, ?The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality, and Justice.? During her speech, Davis argued that the ?problem of punishment? is manifested in America?s flawed prison system, which, she said, ironically was originally intended to ?allow people to reform and transform themselves?. Davis sharply criticized the loss of prisoners? voting rights during incarceration as well as the cycle of violence created by the imprisonment of violent offenders and capital punishment.
The new $43 million Thomas Jefferson Visitors Center and Smith Education Center at Thomas Jefferson?s historic Monticello estate officially opened earlier this week.
