For the sake of students — and the Governor — his state administration should rethink its stance on this meeting and its approach to interacting with students more broadly.
Do substandard Congressional candidates in Charlottesville and across the nation deserve our vote whilst delegitimizing the voting system?
We must, as the students of Jewish and Muslim communities, ensure that humanization, not hate, is the focal point of our interactions.
As an institution responsible to University students and Virginia voters, the main qualification standard for Board appointment ought to be some personal connection to both these stakeholders.
When antisemitism is increasingly prevalent on Grounds and when Jewish students feel unsafe and unprotected, it is clear that the University must take active action to safeguard Jewish students.
To remove Alderman’s name and remembrance would be to bury the shameful aspects of our past, which we should instead recognize and learn from.
Since the appointment of a City Manager is a step away from representative democracy, we risk our governance becoming both ignorant to the issues of the voters and unaccountable to their sentiments.
School is not just for those already studious and successful, and dedication is not just for those hard-working and helpful.
When corporation contributions are permitted to proceed without limit, the importance and rights of Virginia voters to Virginia politics are ceded to towering corporations, preventing this representative democracy from being truly legitimate.
Having made this commitment to Charlottesville, we have a responsibility as an institution to follow through
