"President Trump is very popular with Republicans nationally, and most polls suggest the same is true in Wisconsin," said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "This could be problematic for Vukmir."
(Commentary) So why did Taylor work so hard to get Shaun Brown on the ballot in November? “He’s seriously threatened,” Larry Sabato, prognosticator extraordinaire at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told me Friday
The poetry world would hardly seem a likely place for a “race row,” the phrase The Guardian applied in 2011 to a blunt exchange of literary verdicts. The celebrated (and white) critic Helen Vendler had disparaged the celebrated (and black) poet Rita Dove’s selections for the new Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Dove, Vendler wrote, had favored “multicultural inclusiveness” over quality. Dove took strong exception to a pattern she saw in the response of established white critics.
You can’t legally organize with others into battalions to fight those with whom you disagree. As University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who formerly directed the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision, has written, this provision “ensures the right of all citizens . . . to live free from the fear of an alien soldiery commanded by men who are not responsible to law and the political process” — an accurate description of the militant groups that invaded Charlottesville.
Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education who specializes in school bullying, said context is critical to determine if this is a case of bullying or simply “horseplay.” “Bullying usually involves a power imbalance, an intent to harm and a repetitive action,” he said. “If this was part of a pattern intentionally trying to cause distress, then it would constitute bullying.”
With law enforcement unable to tell the intoxicating kind of cannabis from the low-THC hemp, it was all treated the same. Other than a brief reprieve during WWII, when hemp was desperately needed for ropes, all cannabis has been outlawed since. “If the rest of the world can figure out the difference, why can’t we?” said Michael Timko, a University of Virginia professor who’s one of the lead researchers associated with the state’s hemp program. “Instead, we import $500 to $600 million worth of industrial hemp products into the country every year. It’s baffling.”
A demographer at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service last year did the math on what it would take to reverse the population trends in the coal counties. The answer was a baby boom of an unrealistic scale.
In the immediate weeks after the violence on August 12, 2017, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center for Politics discovered that the most people in the U.S. oppose white supremacists. The poll revealed that 89% of respondents believed "all races should be treated equally," and 70% “strongly agreed” that people of different races should be allowed to live wherever they choose. Both of those beliefs reject the core principles of the ideology on display in Charlottesville.
(Editorial) A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted this month in conjunction with the University of Virginia Center and released earlier this week also lends credence to the belief that racial attitudes have not improved over the past 12 months. It concluded that a 57-percent majority of Americans believe that race relations in the United States have worsened over the past 18 months of the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Thirty-nine percent say they’ve become “a lot worse.”
Includes reflections by UVA faculty members Siva Vaidhyanathan, Larry Sabato and Nicole Hemmer.
This month, a group of UVA faculty compiled a book of essays, “Charlottesville 2017,” published by the University of Virginia Press. Claudrena Harold, a professor of African-American and African studies and history, co-edited the volume. She spoke to The Chronicle about how the campus has felt different since white supremacists descended upon it — and how it remains very much the same.
A planned student protest at the University of Virginia quickly turned into a rolling rally that traversed the Grounds, part of Charlottesville and wound up at Market Street Park with minor skirmishes between marchers and police along the way.
The president of the University of Virginia offered the first apology from that office for the tiki-torch march that injured UVA students and supporters one year ago Saturday. “I am sorry,” he said, simply. Jim Ryan’s statement came amid an event intended to commemorate that anniversary and offer healing to a university that is still wrestling to recognize First Amendment issues and involvement with slavery and racism.
To mark the one-year anniversary of this tragedy, CNN Opinion reached out to a diverse group of residents and people directly affected by the events of August 11 and 12, 2017. Here, in their own words, women and men of many backgrounds, faiths, and ages – including several from the UVA community – answer the question: What were you doing on August 11 and 12, 2017 and what have you done since? Where do you think America stands when it comes to issues of race and justice?
Members of the University of Virginia and the Charlottesville community gathered Saturday morning for “The Hope that Summons Us: A Morning of Reflection and Renewal” at the Old Cabell Hall Auditorium. The event served as an opportunity to reflect on last year's violent demonstrations on the Lawn and to discuss how to move forward.
UVA’s Darden School of Business and Virginia Community Capital, along with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, have joined forces to offer the Resilience Award to companies in Virginia that are beating the odds in economically challenged communities.
The varied speakers at the NAACP forum – including state officials, candidates, the president of the University of Virginia, academics, activists and faith leaders – spent the bulk of their speeches on what needs to change if Charlottesville is to achieve racial equality.
Porter Wilkinson Wall, who clerked for Kavanaugh in 2007 and 2008, recalled how impressed she was that he spent so much time determining cases. “When I went to chambers as his young law clerk I was just struck by how humble he was in approaching his job. In law school, you study judicial opinions,” said Wall, a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, who is now working in private practice in Washington, D.C. “You read case after case after case and analyze and study them. So you come away with the impression that judges know all the answers and that their opinions are just impart...
For the second time in less than three weeks, a political handicapper has shifted its rating on the 17th Congressional District race to “leans Democratic,” giving more momentum to Democratic U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb’s campaign to oust Republican U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus. UVA political science professor Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter unveiled its latest rating on the race Wednesday. Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik on Thursday cited that poll and the 17th District’s weaker support for President Donald Trump in 2016 than the 18th District, where Lamb squeaked out a win against Saccone...
President Trump's endorsements at times have gone against state and local party leadership. According to Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Prime examples of this are playing out in gubernatorial races in Kansas and Florida. “You have a situation where the president is coming in to endorse someone like Chris Kobach in Kansas or Ron DeSantis in Florida -- those are not necessarily the candidates that I think establishment Republicans would want in those races," Kondik said.