by Walter SmithLast week the University of Virginia Board of Visitors approved a statement produced by the Committee on Free Expression and Free Inquiry (See “UVa Affirms Commitment to Free Speech…. at Least in Theory.) This is what the statement should have said:Free speech has been the bedrock of the University of Virginia from its […]
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by James A. BaconThe 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 removing, relocating
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by James A. BaconThe 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 open inquiry
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by Walter SmithFor some time I have been beyond disappointed by the deafening silence from the University of Virginia Law School over its apparent lack of concern with basic abuses of civil liberties. Once upon a time, lawyers zealously defended American civil liberties such as free speech and the right to counsel. Once upon a
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by James C. SherlockUniversity of Virginia President Jim Ryan was kind enough to read my column detailing the unacceptable behavior of two Department of Religious Studies professors.There are two “counts” I charged against them: First, slander. All speakers trashed all white evangelicals as racists and “confederates” who are sorry the South lost the Civil War. Two
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TO: All UVA Alumni and Friends Who Care About Our UniversityFROM: The Jefferson CouncilRE: We Are Losing the Soul of Our UniversityDATE: May 20, 2021On the eve of Final Exercises at our University, we, the founding members and Board of the Jefferson Council, feel the need to send out this letter regarding very troubling developments
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by James C. SherlockThirty percent of Virginians identify as evangelical Christians. So, one can never say that the University of Virginia, in targeting them with school-sponsored hate speech, doesn’t swing for the fences.Members of UVa Department of Religious Studies faculty have unloaded on white evangelicals in as wide-ranging and comprehensive an example of collegial vitriol
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by Walter SmithNext weekend is Finals (graduation in University of Virginia speak). The Class of 2021 class arrived at the University just after the traumatizing Unite the Right rally, lived through the backlash against Donald Trump, suffered through the suppression of unpopular conservative views, was afflicted with the Engagements requirements of the new curriculum, and
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Your periodic review of topics deemed worthy of coverage by the administration’s house organ, UVA Today, by Ann Mclean.Class of 2021: With a Passion for Equity in Education, Graduate Makes Her MarkAfrican American education school graduate praised for her equity work with the Youth Action Lab and the UVA Equity CenterCasteen Awards Go to Engineering,
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