Tag: University of Virginia
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Why Mandate COVID Vaccinations for Low-Risk Populations?
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that it was extending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate from students to faculty and staff. The university will provide exemptions for religious and medical reasons, but non-vaccinated faculty and staff will be required to submit to weekly COVID-19 tests if they are to return to the…
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The Fascists Next Door
by Ann Mclean Want more evidence that the University of Virginia has become an impermeable thought bubble where people can say the craziest things without fear of contradiction? Consider this: Two University of Virginia professors —Manuela Achilles and Kyrill Kunakhovich — taught a history course this spring that portrays American conservatives as fascists. They weren’t being…
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Don’t Ask Questions. Just Do What We Tell You.
by James A. Bacon Walter Smith, a University of Virginia alumnus, was miffed when UVa leadership mandated that all students must be vaccinated if they are to return to the university in the fall. His daughter, a UVa student, had caught the COVID-19 virus, lived through 10 days of quarantine, acquired natural immunities, and was…
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A Volatile Mix: Sex, Obsession, Microaggressions and Mental Health at UVa
by James A. Bacon Kieran Bhattacharya, a University of Virginia School of Medicine student who claims he was expelled for challenging left-wing political orthodoxy at the school, has filed new papers expanding upon his allegations. Among the more explosive charges, he asserts that he was twice committed against his will to psychiatric facilities, given antipsychotic…
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A Spirited Defense of George Rogers Clark
I reproduce here a letter from state Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax, who attended the University of Virginia and lived across West Main Street from the statue of George Rogers Clark. He addressed the letter to UVa President Jim Ryan and the Board of Visitors. — JAB I want to write, firstly, to acknowledge and express…
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Can Free Speech Thrive in an Intellectual Monoculture?
by James A. Bacon My fellow members of The Jefferson Council and I are united in our determination to protect the Jeffersonian legacy at the University of Virginia, in particular to champion free speech and expression on the grounds. An internal debate we have is whether we should work with President James Ryan in advancing…
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Craven UVa Board Cancels More History
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia Board of Visitors took another big step in purging its “white supremacist” past by voting Friday to take down the statue to George Rogers Clark. The Clark statue, critics say, perpetuates “the myth of brave white men conquering a supposedly unknown and unclaimed land.” The cost of…
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UVa Affirms Commitment to Free Speech… at Least in Theory
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia Board of Trustees has voted to approve a statement affirming the university’s commitment to free expression and free inquiry. “All views, beliefs and perspective deserve to be articulated and heard free from interference,” states the Statement of the Committee on Free Expression and Free Inquiry. “Free and…
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No Vaccination Mandates for Community Colleges
by James A. Bacon In stark contrast to the University of Virginia, James Madison University, and the College of William & Mary, the Virginia Community College System board has decided not to require students to be vaccinated in order to attend classes in the fall. “I believe it is in the best interests of our…
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Would Someone Please Explain the “Science”?
by James A. Bacon Let me get this straight. The University of Virginia has just announced that all students returning to the university starting July 1 must be fully vaccinated, or they will be barred from entering the grounds. But employees, while urged to get vaccinated, are under no such mandate. Exemptions will be allowed…
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UVa’s Latest Lurch Toward Leftism
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia has bolstered its reputation as a Leftist intellectual monoculture with the announcement that Malo Andre Hutson, director of Columbia University’s Urban Community and Health Equity Lab, will become the new dean of the School of Architecture. At Columbia, Hutson belongs to both the Earth Institute and the…
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UVa’s Crying Game
by Jock Yell0tt “When Dean Goluboff took the stage to respond, she immediately started crying and was largely incoherent to the audience for much of the first part of her response … ” Risa Gobuloff, Esq., is Dean of the University of Virginia Law School. Dean Gobuloff’s crying spate occurred at a Town Hall meeting…
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Detached, Clueless, Pedantic and Non-Responsive
by James C. Sherlock A series of communications among Nickolaus Cabrera, a first year student at the University of Virginia, President James Ryan of the University and the University’s Rector, James Murray, has come into my possession. I have posted them here. I will offer here my assessment, but I urge each reader to access…
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Update: UVa Freezes Undergraduate Tuition One Year
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia is freezing undergraduate tuition in the next school year, but increases in student fees, room, and board will total about $392, or about a 1.1% increase in the cost of attendance in the College of Arts & Sciences. The board had considered boosting tuition as much as…
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Hate, Hostility and Harassment at UVa
by James A. Bacon Last fall Nickolaus “Nick” Cabrera ran for election as a first-year representative to student council at the University of Virginia. His platform was anodyne — showing unity in confronting COVID-19, getting Class of 2024 t-shirts delivered, that sort of thing. He didn’t run on an ideological or partisan political platform, but…