Rogue officers like Derek Chauvin probably won’t be deterred by good law, but excessively vague law encourages bad behavior. As Sgt. Jody Stiger, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department called by prosecutors in the Chauvin trial, testified, most police departments derive their policies governing the use of force from Graham v. Connor.

(Commentary by Bart Epstein, research associate professor at the School of Education & Human Development) The ongoing progress of COVID-19 vaccinations suggests we may finally have a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, and that soon all of our 56 million K-12 students, as well as teachers and administrators, can return to school.

The University of Virginia is honoring the thousands of enslaved people who built the institution in stone. 

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, said that since the ’60s Republicans had sought to covertly appeal to the racist fears of white voters, but also broaden their appeal. It’s a balancing act Fox News hosts have also long performed, he said.

University of Virginia: “The constructed environment is a continuously evolving realm that: 1. Encompasses the material, socio-economic, and political systems of the human mediated physical world. 2. Spans a wide range of temporal-spatial scales, from plants and species to building elements, assemblages, sites, neighborhoods, cities, and global infrastructures, across historical narratives, present conditions, and future projections. 3.

On April 5, the Human Rights Commission, along with a number of other local aid and advocacy groups, implored the City Council to fully fund a $460,000 right to counsel program that would provide attorneys to tenants – specifically low-income tenants – in eviction proceedings to reduce the overall number of evictions in the city and the resulting trauma caused to individuals and the community. The April 5 letter presented to the council is cosigned by several local entities, including the University of Virginia Equity Center.

In each episode of this reboot of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning College Bowl quizzer that for decades has been part of campus life at colleges and universities around the world, teams of three representing some of the nation’s top schools will battle it out in a bracketed tournament over four rounds. The top two schools advance to the final where they compete head-to-head for the Capital One College Bowl trophy and a scholarship to put toward their education. (UVA is among the participating schools.)

Biden has insisted he is open to talks on infrastructure and will meet Democrats and Republicans. But if Republicans attempt to play the national debt card, they are likely to be given short shrift. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: “Nobody even takes it seriously. When I see it, and I think there are millions of people like me, I just laugh. Do they really think our memories are that short?”

(Commentary) On April 13, as the University of Virginia observes the 278th anniversary of the birth of the school’s father, Thomas Jefferson, it is interesting to consider the man who arguably could be called UVA’s “grandfather,” George Wythe.