Category: UVA
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Title IX Remix: will new rules on sexual harassment & assault investigations serve justice?
Eight months ago I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the US Department of Education for information about a Title IX investigation that was opened at the University of Virginia on April 19, 2019, thinking it might provide information and insight about a process often shrouded in secrecy. Last week, I received…
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Video: “White silence is violence…”
Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was just sentenced to life in prison for killing Heather Heyer in a vehicular attack in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. In this video, the Charlottesville community reflects on its history and recovery since the August 2017 rally. pic.twitter.com/EaS3T6vxPs — HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 11, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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Why Charlottesville? How a Facebook comment, an unknown blogger, and some old tweets inflamed a debate about race and monuments
At the time, if you told people in Charlottesville that hundreds of angry white supremacists and neo-nazis would rally in a park just steps away from the theater the following summer, they’d have thought you were crazy.
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Wanna win $100 to dine at Rapture? Guess the score of the UVA vs UMD game this weekend.
In addition to simply watching the high-flying Hoos last regular season game, you could win a chance to feast at Rapture on the DTM!. Landmark Great Deals in Charlottesville is running a promotion you might want to participate in. Just 1) like them on Facebook, 2) enter your email at Landmark Great Deals in Charlottesville…
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Take Back the Night rally begins on the DTM
It’s Take Back the Night week at UVA, and there will be a rally/march this Thursday, April 19 starting at the DTM Pavilion, which will end at the UVA Amphitheater for a candlelight vigil. Rally 6pm to 7:30pm, March 7:30pm to 8pm, vigil at 8pm. More info.
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