A court battle could stretch out for months or years, but Trump is already determined to tell his supporters he is moving full speed ahead on building the border wall. “He fashions his own reality,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center. “It’s like John Kennedy going out after the Bay of Pigs and saying, ‘What a great victory.’ But for [Trump’s] base, I’m just not sure that it matters to them.”
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, communications director and senior researcher at UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) Larry Sabato, who directs the UVA Center for Politics, said that what comes out of Northam’s tour "is anybody’s guess. If his poorly handled blackface scandal costs Democrats their chance to control the legislature, he needn’t bother with any grandiose program of reconciliation.”
Kelly O'Keefe, a marketing professor at the University of Virginia, notes that there is significant diversity in the 75 million millennials who reside in the United States. "Some voted for Trump. Some for Clinton. Some drink craft beer. Some Pabst. Some only buy organic foods, but Millennials are also among the largest consumers of processed foods," O'Keefe said.
Although the program would be limited in its scope, it would signal an important tryout of automated enforcement in Virginia after years of opposition to plans for widespread deployment of speed cameras. “It’s a good start. It at least gets people used to notion of cameras recording their license plates, but it is only a baby step,” said Paul F. Reynolds, a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Virginia, who has studied speeding in the Charlottesville area and has advocated for the use of speed cameras in the state.
“I think when you’re sort of more of an outside candidate as Braun probably was when he won the primary, it may be helpful to try to figure out ways to maintain your kind of outsider image through what you propose,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of University of Virginia's Sabato's Crystal Ball. But, Kondik said, “It’s one thing to talk about doing legislation, it’s another thing to actually get it passed.”
Created in 2012 by “Survivor” fan Austin Trupp, “Survivor Maryland” was the first college version, but many more have followed. Now, college students around the country – from University of Virginia to Ohio State University – are remaking the show in between classes and homework.
UVA is four years into an ambitious pilot program that is trying to reshape how students embark on their education and how faculty teach and interact with one another.
Latin Grammy Award winner Susana Baca performed at UVA on Sunday. Several UVA departments worked together to bring Baca to Grounds in honor of Black History Month.
The UVA Health System is launching a telemedicine program to help primary care providers in remote Appalachia treat patients living with lung disease.
(Commentary by Richard Neel, editor-in-chief of the Cavalier Daily in 1979-80) Four years before Mark R. Herring and his friends “put on wigs and brown makeup” to dress as black rappers for a party at the University of Virginia in 1980, the university’s president, Frank L. Hereford Jr., resigned his membership in a local country club that excluded black members and guests. Hereford sought to steer UVA cautiously through its transformation from a venerable institution of the Old South to a modern, diverse, international university.
Kirt von Daacke, an assistant dean and history professor at the University of Virginia, is reviewing student and alumni publications dating back to 1865 as co-chairman of a commission examining the university’s history during segregation. The commission was created last year. He said he has found a few instances from the 1970s and 1980s of students darkening their skin for Tahitian and Arabian Nights-themed parties in yearbooks but hasn’t completed his review of publications from more recent years.
“We’re going to see more of this – these pictures are probably lurking in people’s yearbooks everywhere,” Kirt von Daacke, a history professor at the University of Virginia who has been studying yearbooks, told the Washington Post. “No one stopped to think about what’s in them – and what story does that tell.”
It wasn’t just a bunch of Queens lawmakers who sent Amazon running for the hills Thursday. The Big Apple may see itself as the center of the universe, but political observers say Northern Virginia and Nashville had a lot more going for them when the online giant came a-knocking. “Privately, the [Virginia] governor kept the key legislators fully informed. You didn’t have leaks,” said Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics. “New York politics is just byzantine. There are so many more power centers there than there are in Virginia.”
(Commentary by Lisa Woolfork, associate professor of English) dream hampton’s highly praised documentary series, “Surviving R. Kelly,” which recently debuted on Lifetime, has shone a spotlight on the popular singer as an alleged sexual predator and statutory rapist. The series on the accusations against Kelly – which he denies – has arrived at a peak moment for #MeToo, a movement started by an African-American woman but boosted (in both senses of the word: amplified and hijacked) by white celebrity culture. The fallout from the Kelly docuseries, including rigorous defenses of the man known as ...
According to new figures from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, our commonwealth’s population has grown by about 6.5 percent in the past nine years – but our region’s population has only grown by 3.8 percent. That’s barely a trickle compared to the growth in Richmond (7.5 percent) and Northern Virginia (12.4) – the other metropolitan areas considered part of Virginia’s “big three” population centers.
Starting this month, the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia – building upon a history of commitments on sustainability and climate action – will be embarking on a collaborative community outreach effort as each entity begins to update their greenhouse gas reduction targets and develop climate action plans. The results of these efforts will serve to guide climate action in the Charlottesville area for the next 10 to 30 years.
(Podcast) Bloomberg’s June Grasso speaks with UVA law professor George Yin, who testified in front of the House Ways and Means Oversight Committee to advise its members on how a legal struggle might play out if Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin blocked the release of President Trump’s tax returns.
Charlottesville, Albemarle County and UVA are requesting public comment and planning to hold public meetings as each institution updates their climate action plans. Each organization is coordinating their outreach efforts across sustainability offices.
There’ve been efforts to build coalitions that cross political aisles and bridge ideological divides for at least two decades, said Cale Jaffe, a UVA environmental law professor. They’ve largely failed.
(Commentary) Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego School of Law and Saikrishna Prakash of the University of Virginia School of Law have argued that a law cannot properly give to the president discretion to “make rules for the governance of society,” which is legislating.