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UVA Dissenters Test Limits of the Permissible

<p>More than 60 employers showed up to UVA’s job fair — and so did The Dissenters, a militant pro-Palestinian student organization that targeted companies deemed complicit with Israel.</p>
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Cavalier Kabuki

<p>Once again, the UVA’s BOV is conducting the ritual of pretending to be involved in setting rates for tuition, fees, room and board — but the minutes record no comments or questions by any board member.</p>
Honor

UVA Faculty Have Seceded from the Honor System

<p>The Jefferson Council has received a letter from a senior University of Virginia faculty member who, for fear of retaliation, asks to remain anonymous. He outlines what he calls “generic” concerns of the UVA faculty. The first focuses on a critical  dysfunction of the Honor System.</p>
Intellectual diversity

Hat’s Off to UVA Student for Keeping His Hat On

<p>Ironically, the office in charge of protecting people from harassment on the basis of religion subjected this fourth-year UVA student to a twenty-minute Zoom call and applied mild pressure to stop expressing his Christian view. The double standards rankle.</p>

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Time To Scrutinize UVA’s Budget

<p>Past UVA boards have passively accepted whatever numbers the administration dished out to them. The Jefferson Council is hopeful that the new board, dominated 13-to-4 by appointees of Governor Glenn Youngkin, will take a more assertive approach to cost control and tuition increases.</p>

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